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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 36 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,999 1,273 1,248
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.07% 5.20% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.21% 33.24% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 920 933
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% -0.80% -6.67%
75th Percentile £614 £664 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 9
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.38 £43.65
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.25 £68.13 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.30 £78.58 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -12.50% -20.00%

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 5,520 3,830 4,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.00% 15.64% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,650 3,200
10th Percentile £314 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £407
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 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 35 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.89 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -50.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £52.88
90th Percentile £74.41 £78.22 £70.00
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 18 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 18 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 18 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 0 1,081 £525 -8.70% 281
North of England +13 385 £500 -4.76% 138
Yorkshire +13 214 £495 -5.71% 39
South East +1 156 £503 -4.29% 119
Midlands -6 137 £525 -4.72% 44
North West +11 134 £525 - 72
South West -13 116 £550 -10.57% 83
West Midlands -5 110 £525 -12.50% 30
North East -7 44 £481 -8.33% 27
East of England -21 34 £475 -9.52% 44
East Midlands -23 26 £449 -10.30% 14
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 87 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 81 (4.05%) Confluence
3 64 (3.20%) Apache
4 62 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.70%) nginx
6 20 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.80%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.30%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
13 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) 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 1,074 (53.73%) AWS
2 956 (47.82%) Azure
3 567 (28.36%) GitHub
4 398 (19.91%) GCP
5 371 (18.56%) Serverless
6 367 (18.36%) GitHub Actions
7 350 (17.51%) Azure DevOps
8 331 (16.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 277 (13.86%) Amazon S3
10 266 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
12 146 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (7.15%) Amazon ECS
14 142 (7.10%) Azure AKS
15 136 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 136 (6.80%) OpenShift
16 122 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 121 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
18 120 (6.00%) Entra ID
19 117 (5.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 182 (9.10%) Firewall
2 138 (6.90%) DNS
3 112 (5.60%) VPN
4 100 (5.00%) Network Security
5 45 (2.25%) WAN
6 36 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 35 (1.75%) BGP
8 27 (1.35%) DHCP
8 27 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.20%) OSPF
10 23 (1.15%) LAN
11 19 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
12 18 (0.90%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.65%) SAN
14 12 (0.60%) SSL
14 12 (0.60%) VLAN
15 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
17 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 9 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
3 87 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 78 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
5 76 (3.80%) Power BI
6 62 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.90%) BigQuery
8 55 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 55 (2.75%) NoSQL
9 54 (2.70%) DynamoDB
10 52 (2.60%) MongoDB
11 49 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 43 (2.15%) Delta Lake
14 37 (1.85%) Relational Database
15 33 (1.65%) Redis
16 31 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
17 30 (1.50%) Tableau
18 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 27 (1.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 372 (18.61%) Jenkins
2 318 (15.91%) GitLab
3 277 (13.86%) Git
4 114 (5.70%) JIRA
5 47 (2.35%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 28 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.30%) Maven
9 19 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) Gatling
11 16 (0.80%) Liquibase
11 16 (0.80%) MLflow
12 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.60%) Snyk
14 11 (0.55%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.45%) git-flow
15 9 (0.45%) JUnit
15 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
16 7 (0.35%) Gradle
16 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 368 (18.41%) Social Skills
2 291 (14.56%) Public Sector
3 214 (10.71%) Finance
4 104 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (4.30%) Banking
6 56 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.05%) Retail
10 15 (0.75%) Legal
10 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Law
11 12 (0.60%) Military
12 11 (0.55%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 5 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.25%) Front Office
16 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 429 (21.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 283 (14.16%) Senior
3 234 (11.71%) Architect
4 193 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
5 190 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 182 (9.10%) AWS Engineer
7 180 (9.00%) Developer
8 166 (8.30%) Data Engineer
9 164 (8.20%) Lead
10 158 (7.90%) Platform Engineer
11 112 (5.60%) GCP Engineer
12 103 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 102 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
14 93 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 89 (4.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 84 (4.20%) Site Engineer
16 84 (4.20%) Software Engineer
17 73 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 63 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.50%) Kafka
2 127 (6.35%) Node.js
3 111 (5.55%) React
4 105 (5.25%) REST
5 103 (5.15%) .NET
6 79 (3.95%) PySpark
7 75 (3.75%) ARM Templates
8 72 (3.60%) OAuth
9 68 (3.40%) RESTful
10 65 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
10 65 (3.25%) OpenTelemetry
10 65 (3.25%) Spring
11 58 (2.90%) Spring Boot
12 54 (2.70%) YAML
13 52 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 47 (2.35%) OpenID
15 39 (1.95%) AWS CDK
16 38 (1.90%) OAuth2
17 36 (1.80%) JSON
18 32 (1.60%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 396 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 90 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 72 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.65%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.50%) NHS
10 29 (1.45%) PKI
11 28 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.15%) Replication
14 21 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.95%) AI Agents
15 19 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (0.80%) Clustering
17 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
18 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 327 (16.36%) Linux
2 144 (7.20%) Windows
3 48 (2.40%) VMS
4 43 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.65%) Unix
6 15 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.45%) CentOS
8 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.10%) Debian
11 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.10%) 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 1,332 (66.63%) CI/CD
2 1,288 (64.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,180 (59.03%) DevOps
4 490 (24.51%) Containerisation
5 446 (22.31%) Agile
6 391 (19.56%) Observability
7 327 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
8 269 (13.46%) Migration
9 264 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
10 256 (12.81%) Analytics
11 237 (11.86%) AI
12 228 (11.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 221 (11.06%) Microservices
14 213 (10.66%) Software Engineering
15 204 (10.21%) Test Automation
16 199 (9.95%) Infrastructure Automation
17 194 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 183 (9.15%) Cloud Security
19 181 (9.05%) DevSecOps
20 170 (8.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 936 (46.82%) Python
2 331 (16.56%) SQL
3 284 (14.21%) Bash
4 268 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 231 (11.56%) Java
6 176 (8.80%) Bicep
7 122 (6.10%) JavaScript
8 114 (5.70%) TypeScript
9 112 (5.60%) C#
10 89 (4.45%) Go
11 49 (2.45%) Scala
12 43 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.75%) Ruby
14 28 (1.40%) Groovy
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) C
17 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.35%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 707 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 592 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 138 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 118 (5.90%) AWS Certification
5 112 (5.60%) DV Cleared
6 81 (4.05%) Degree
7 66 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.55%) CCNP
13 29 (1.45%) CISSP
14 18 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.80%) CCIE
15 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
16 14 (0.70%) OCP
17 13 (0.65%) CCNA
17 13 (0.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.80%) GDPR
3 66 (3.30%) QA
4 59 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (2.85%) NIST
6 38 (1.90%) NCSC
7 36 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 12 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.50%) GRC
13 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.25%) HL7
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 558 (27.91%) Docker
2 93 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 80 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 31 (1.55%) vSphere
8 30 (1.50%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.55%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
11 7 (0.35%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
13 5 (0.25%) Lustre
13 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.20%) GPFS
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.15%) Ceph
16 2 (0.10%) Corosync
16 2 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 797 (39.87%) Kubernetes
2 481 (24.06%) Ansible
3 265 (13.26%) Grafana
4 229 (11.46%) Prometheus
5 81 (4.05%) Argo
6 50 (2.50%) Istio
7 44 (2.20%) Puppet
8 37 (1.85%) Packer
9 35 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 28 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (1.35%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.15%) Kibana
13 22 (1.10%) Consul
14 17 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.85%) Rancher
15 16 (0.80%) FortiGate
16 12 (0.60%) Podman
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
18 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 322 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.20%) Google
3 148 (7.40%) Databricks
4 117 (5.85%) Splunk
5 115 (5.75%) VMware
6 90 (4.50%) Red Hat
7 59 (2.95%) Oracle
8 51 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 45 (2.25%) Dynatrace
10 44 (2.20%) Cisco
11 28 (1.40%) Pure Storage
12 27 (1.35%) Fortinet
13 24 (1.20%) IBM
13 24 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.00%) F5
14 20 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 20 (1.00%) SolarWinds
15 19 (0.95%) Atlassian
16 17 (0.85%) Citrix
17 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty