Terraform Contract Job Trends in England

Terraform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,010 1,289 1,273
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.14% 5.29% 3.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.23% 33.81% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 931 955
10th Percentile £400 £404 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +0.90% -7.08%
75th Percentile £614 £674 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 8
10th Percentile £40.91 £25.38 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £52.94
Median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.50 £68.13 £69.61
90th Percentile £83.60 £78.58 £75.36
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% -12.50% -23.08%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,548 3,812 4,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 15.65% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 2,630 3,264
10th Percentile £313 £319 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 39 124
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £33.83 £22.32 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £50.06
90th Percentile £75.15 £77.74 £68.44
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -47.83%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Terraform job vacancy trend in England

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in England

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in England

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the England region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +1 1,076 £525 -8.70% 284
North of England +13 391 £500 -4.76% 148
Yorkshire +6 211 £500 -4.76% 48
South East -4 164 £503 -6.51% 143
North West +18 142 £527 +0.31% 72
Midlands -6 139 £525 -2.78% 36
South West -8 122 £550 -10.57% 82
West Midlands -2 112 £525 -6.75% 25
North East -7 45 £471 -10.38% 29
East of England -31 28 £475 -9.95% 40
East Midlands -21 26 £449 -10.30% 11
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 79 (3.93%) Confluence
2 76 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 62 (3.08%) Apache
4 51 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.64%) nginx
6 19 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 19 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.30%) SAS
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.100%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.100%) Drupal
11 2 (0.100%) WordPress
12 1 (0.050%) CMS
12 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Maximo
2 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,087 (54.08%) AWS
2 958 (47.66%) Azure
3 567 (28.21%) GitHub
4 398 (19.80%) GCP
5 378 (18.81%) Serverless
6 361 (17.96%) GitHub Actions
7 354 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
8 341 (16.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 274 (13.63%) Amazon S3
10 266 (13.23%) AWS Lambda
11 199 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
12 157 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
13 144 (7.16%) OpenShift
14 143 (7.11%) Azure AKS
15 140 (6.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 136 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
17 129 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 127 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
19 126 (6.27%) Entra ID
20 112 (5.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 195 (9.70%) Firewall
2 144 (7.16%) DNS
3 114 (5.67%) VPN
4 100 (4.98%) Network Security
5 42 (2.09%) WAN
6 35 (1.74%) BGP
6 35 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.39%) DHCP
8 26 (1.29%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.19%) LAN
9 24 (1.19%) OSPF
10 19 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
11 18 (0.90%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.65%) SAN
12 13 (0.65%) VLAN
13 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
13 11 (0.55%) SSL
14 10 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
15 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (4.48%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.73%) Power BI
5 72 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
6 57 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 56 (2.79%) BigQuery
8 52 (2.59%) DynamoDB
9 51 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 51 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
10 48 (2.39%) NoSQL
11 47 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.29%) MongoDB
13 43 (2.14%) Delta Lake
14 35 (1.74%) Relational Database
15 32 (1.59%) Redis
16 28 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
16 28 (1.39%) Tableau
17 25 (1.24%) Metadata
18 23 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 377 (18.76%) Jenkins
2 325 (16.17%) GitLab
3 279 (13.88%) Git
4 110 (5.47%) JIRA
5 49 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.54%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.14%) Maven
9 18 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) Liquibase
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.65%) Gatling
13 10 (0.50%) Snyk
14 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.45%) git-flow
14 9 (0.45%) JUnit
14 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
15 7 (0.35%) JMeter
15 7 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 382 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 301 (14.98%) Public Sector
3 216 (10.75%) Finance
4 103 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (4.58%) Banking
6 53 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.00%) Retail
10 15 (0.75%) Legal
10 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (0.70%) Military
12 12 (0.60%) Law
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.40%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.25%) Front Office
17 5 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 426 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 275 (13.68%) Senior
3 240 (11.94%) Architect
4 196 (9.75%) Azure Engineer
5 188 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 179 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
7 172 (8.56%) Developer
8 167 (8.31%) Lead
9 165 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
10 155 (7.71%) Data Engineer
11 110 (5.47%) GCP Engineer
12 105 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 103 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
14 93 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 86 (4.28%) Site Engineer
15 86 (4.28%) Software Engineer
16 85 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 76 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 67 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 63 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (9.30%) Kafka
2 131 (6.52%) Node.js
3 110 (5.47%) React
4 106 (5.27%) REST
5 100 (4.98%) .NET
6 79 (3.93%) ARM Templates
7 76 (3.78%) PySpark
8 70 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
9 69 (3.43%) OAuth
9 69 (3.43%) RESTful
10 64 (3.18%) OpenTelemetry
11 62 (3.08%) Spring
12 55 (2.74%) Spring Boot
12 55 (2.74%) YAML
13 54 (2.69%) AngularJS
14 45 (2.24%) OpenID
15 39 (1.94%) AWS CDK
16 37 (1.84%) OAuth2
17 36 (1.79%) JSON
18 31 (1.54%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 385 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 102 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 94 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 62 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 42 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.59%) NHS
10 29 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 28 (1.39%) PKI
12 27 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.09%) Replication
14 21 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 20 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (0.90%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
18 15 (0.75%) Clustering
19 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 339 (16.87%) Linux
2 151 (7.51%) Windows
3 49 (2.44%) VMS
4 43 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.49%) Unix
6 14 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.40%) CentOS
8 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.100%) Debian
11 2 (0.100%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.100%) zOS
12 1 (0.050%) AIX
12 1 (0.050%) Android
12 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.050%) Rocky
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,355 (67.41%) CI/CD
2 1,288 (64.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,210 (60.20%) DevOps
4 500 (24.88%) Containerisation
5 440 (21.89%) Agile
6 391 (19.45%) Observability
7 327 (16.27%) Platform Engineering
8 275 (13.68%) Migration
9 272 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
10 260 (12.94%) Analytics
11 238 (11.84%) AI
12 231 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 225 (11.19%) Microservices
14 214 (10.65%) Software Engineering
15 210 (10.45%) Infrastructure Automation
16 197 (9.80%) Test Automation
17 195 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 189 (9.40%) Cloud Security
19 178 (8.86%) DevSecOps
20 170 (8.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 941 (46.82%) Python
2 317 (15.77%) SQL
3 303 (15.07%) Bash
4 279 (13.88%) PowerShell
5 218 (10.85%) Java
6 180 (8.96%) Bicep
7 116 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 113 (5.62%) TypeScript
9 111 (5.52%) C#
10 95 (4.73%) Go
11 45 (2.24%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.79%) Ruby
12 36 (1.79%) Scala
13 29 (1.44%) Groovy
14 15 (0.75%) Rust
15 9 (0.45%) C
16 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.35%) PHP
17 5 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 716 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 596 (29.65%) SC Cleared
3 137 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 124 (6.17%) AWS Certification
5 115 (5.72%) DV Cleared
6 80 (3.98%) Degree
7 60 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 54 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (1.49%) CCNP
13 29 (1.44%) CISSP
14 20 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 16 (0.80%) CCIE
16 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
17 15 (0.75%) CISM
18 14 (0.70%) OCP
19 13 (0.65%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.27%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.88%) GDPR
3 67 (3.33%) QA
4 62 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.94%) NIST
6 44 (2.19%) NCSC
7 35 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 10 (0.50%) GRC
12 9 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 570 (28.36%) Docker
2 101 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 86 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (2.14%) vSphere
6 41 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 37 (1.84%) Hyper-V
8 36 (1.79%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.50%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
11 7 (0.35%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
14 4 (0.20%) Lustre
14 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.15%) GPFS
15 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.100%) Ceph
16 2 (0.100%) HDFS
16 2 (0.100%) iptables
Systems Management
1 814 (40.50%) Kubernetes
2 492 (24.48%) Ansible
3 266 (13.23%) Grafana
4 235 (11.69%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.08%) Argo
6 49 (2.44%) Istio
7 42 (2.09%) Puppet
8 38 (1.89%) Packer
8 38 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 31 (1.54%) vCenter Server
10 30 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.04%) Consul
12 17 (0.85%) Kibana
12 17 (0.85%) Rancher
13 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (0.75%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.75%) Podman
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
16 9 (0.45%) logstash
16 9 (0.45%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 318 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 185 (9.20%) Google
3 153 (7.61%) Databricks
4 123 (6.12%) VMware
5 113 (5.62%) Splunk
6 94 (4.68%) Red Hat
7 58 (2.89%) Oracle
8 51 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 45 (2.24%) Dynatrace
10 42 (2.09%) Cisco
11 33 (1.64%) Pure Storage
12 27 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.24%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.24%) IBM
14 24 (1.19%) F5
15 20 (1.00%) SolarWinds
16 19 (0.95%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.95%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.80%) Citrix
17 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty