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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,523 1,477 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.39% 5.25% 4.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.24% 20.54% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,773 1,014 995
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.63% -4.26%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 5 9
10th Percentile £58.43 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £85.25 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,997 7,191 7,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.34% 25.54% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,576 4,855 5,186
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £53.90 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +6 1,365 £550 +4.76% 193
North of England -2 509 £500 - 84
Yorkshire -11 227 £500 - 23
South East +1 225 £575 +15.00% 89
South West +6 197 £550 - 66
North West +18 194 £563 +21.62% 46
Midlands -40 119 £479 -11.14% 24
North East -5 97 £425 -18.27% 15
West Midlands -44 93 £513 -6.82% 16
East of England -27 37 £550 +14.88% 13
East Midlands +1 25 £409 -13.95% 8
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
1 109 (4.32%) Confluence
2 100 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (3.84%) Apache
4 91 (3.61%) Apache Spark
5 50 (1.98%) Jupyter
6 42 (1.66%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.47%) nginx
8 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.52%) SAS
10 10 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.36%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.32%) CMS
13 7 (0.28%) IIS
14 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.079%) CloudStack
16 2 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.079%) PowerExchange
16 2 (0.079%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.079%) Endur
2 2 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.040%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.040%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,417 (56.16%) AWS
2 1,257 (49.82%) Azure
3 690 (27.35%) GitHub
4 531 (21.05%) GCP
5 478 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
6 458 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
7 349 (13.83%) Serverless
8 284 (11.26%) Amazon S3
9 263 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 253 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
11 251 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
12 248 (9.83%) Entra ID
13 214 (8.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 179 (7.09%) Azure AKS
14 179 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
15 163 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
16 154 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 139 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
17 139 (5.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 116 (4.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 286 (11.34%) Firewall
2 213 (8.44%) DNS
3 141 (5.59%) Network Security
4 137 (5.43%) VPN
5 97 (3.84%) TCP/IP
6 92 (3.65%) DHCP
7 76 (3.01%) WAN
8 68 (2.70%) BGP
9 48 (1.90%) OSPF
10 47 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 44 (1.74%) VLAN
12 32 (1.27%) VSAN
13 29 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.15%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.07%) SSH
14 27 (1.07%) SSL
15 25 (0.99%) BIG-IP
16 23 (0.91%) Internet
17 17 (0.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 81 (3.21%) SQL Server
6 74 (2.93%) MongoDB
7 70 (2.77%) BigQuery
7 70 (2.77%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 67 (2.66%) Power BI
10 65 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
11 61 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 57 (2.26%) Redis
13 55 (2.18%) Relational Database
14 54 (2.14%) Metadata
15 52 (2.06%) MySQL
16 48 (1.90%) Delta Lake
17 41 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
18 36 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (1.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 495 (19.62%) GitLab
2 411 (16.29%) Jenkins
3 405 (16.05%) Git
4 130 (5.15%) JIRA
5 39 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.35%) Maven
8 30 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.07%) Claude Code
10 25 (0.99%) Selenium
11 22 (0.87%) Artifactory
12 18 (0.71%) Snyk
13 17 (0.67%) Cypress.io
14 16 (0.63%) Terragrunt
15 15 (0.59%) JUnit
16 14 (0.55%) Cucumber
17 12 (0.48%) MLflow
17 12 (0.48%) MSI
18 10 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 9 (0.36%) Mockito
General
1 542 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 379 (15.02%) Finance
3 363 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 169 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (5.19%) Banking
6 70 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (1.86%) Retail
8 45 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (1.43%) Military
10 26 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.83%) Legal
12 20 (0.79%) Publishing
13 18 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (0.71%) Law
13 18 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 16 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.63%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.59%) Local Government
15 15 (0.59%) Police
16 13 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 567 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 458 (18.15%) Senior
3 271 (10.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 249 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
5 238 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
6 231 (9.16%) Architect
6 231 (9.16%) AWS Engineer
7 225 (8.92%) Developer
8 199 (7.89%) Lead
9 174 (6.90%) Data Engineer
10 168 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 115 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
12 111 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
13 109 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 106 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 104 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 102 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 101 (4.00%) Security Engineer
18 85 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
19 84 (3.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (8.09%) REST
2 199 (7.89%) Kafka
3 119 (4.72%) .NET
4 114 (4.52%) ARM Templates
4 114 (4.52%) OAuth
5 112 (4.44%) React
6 105 (4.16%) RESTful
7 90 (3.57%) PySpark
8 87 (3.45%) Node.js
9 80 (3.17%) YAML
10 77 (3.05%) OpenID
11 71 (2.81%) OAuth2
11 71 (2.81%) Spring
12 70 (2.77%) Spring Boot
13 59 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.10%) JSON
15 47 (1.86%) AWS CDK
16 45 (1.78%) FastAPI
16 45 (1.78%) SAML
17 44 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 593 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 155 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 120 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 107 (4.24%) Data Centre
6 92 (3.65%) Security Posture
7 80 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 79 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 63 (2.50%) PKI
10 60 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
11 59 (2.34%) AI Agents
12 58 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
13 53 (2.10%) Replication
14 50 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
15 45 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
16 42 (1.66%) Management Information System
17 39 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
18 37 (1.47%) Private Cloud
19 33 (1.31%) NHS
20 27 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 470 (18.63%) Linux
2 269 (10.66%) Windows
3 97 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 89 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.51%) Unix
7 30 (1.19%) VMS
8 19 (0.75%) AIX
8 19 (0.75%) CentOS
9 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.36%) macOS
12 6 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
13 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.079%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.079%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,868 (74.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,755 (69.56%) CI/CD
3 1,497 (59.33%) DevOps
4 663 (26.28%) Observability
5 620 (24.57%) Containerisation
6 612 (24.26%) Platform Engineering
7 592 (23.46%) Agile
8 451 (17.88%) AI
9 368 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 350 (13.87%) Migration
11 337 (13.36%) Cloud Security
12 325 (12.88%) Test Automation
13 324 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 317 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
15 314 (12.45%) Software Engineering
16 304 (12.05%) DevSecOps
17 297 (11.77%) Analytics
17 297 (11.77%) Stakeholder Management
18 294 (11.65%) Infrastructure Automation
19 278 (11.02%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,254 (49.70%) Python
2 508 (20.13%) PowerShell
3 487 (19.30%) Bash
4 395 (15.66%) SQL
5 311 (12.33%) Bicep
6 289 (11.45%) Java
7 148 (5.87%) JavaScript
8 137 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 134 (5.31%) C#
10 104 (4.12%) Go
11 60 (2.38%) Groovy
12 52 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.43%) Scala
14 19 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.55%) C
15 14 (0.55%) Perl
16 10 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.40%) Rust
17 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 912 (36.15%) Security Cleared
2 717 (28.42%) SC Cleared
3 212 (8.40%) DV Cleared
4 176 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 173 (6.86%) Azure Certification
6 114 (4.52%) Degree
7 67 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 62 (2.46%) CISSP
9 51 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 50 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.11%) CCNP
13 24 (0.95%) CISM
14 22 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.59%) VCAP
18 14 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 14 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 100 (3.96%) QA
3 61 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (2.10%) NIST
5 52 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 49 (1.94%) GDPR
6 49 (1.94%) NCSC
7 24 (0.95%) WCAG
8 19 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.40%) SLA
11 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.24%) PSD2
12 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.20%) HL7
12 5 (0.20%) SEPA
13 3 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 727 (28.81%) Docker
2 190 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 113 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.98%) vSphere
6 38 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 38 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 37 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 36 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.55%) Squid
11 8 (0.32%) KVM
12 6 (0.24%) Ceph
12 6 (0.24%) NFS
13 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.20%) Postfix
14 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 4 (0.16%) Firmware
14 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,059 (41.97%) Kubernetes
2 609 (24.14%) Ansible
3 312 (12.37%) Grafana
4 246 (9.75%) Prometheus
5 84 (3.33%) Argo
6 59 (2.34%) Puppet
7 56 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 54 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (1.63%) Packer
10 34 (1.35%) Istio
11 31 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (1.11%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.91%) Kustomize
14 21 (0.83%) Kibana
14 21 (0.83%) Kubeflow
15 20 (0.79%) SCCM
16 17 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
17 16 (0.63%) Data Guard
18 14 (0.55%) VxRail
19 13 (0.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 505 (20.02%) Microsoft
2 251 (9.95%) Google
3 155 (6.14%) VMware
4 151 (5.98%) Databricks
5 139 (5.51%) Splunk
6 105 (4.16%) Oracle
7 104 (4.12%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.17%) Cisco
9 75 (2.97%) ServiceNow
10 71 (2.81%) Red Hat
11 66 (2.62%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.63%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.55%) F5
14 34 (1.35%) Arista
15 33 (1.31%) Zscaler
16 29 (1.15%) CyberArk
16 29 (1.15%) Informatica
17 27 (1.07%) Foundry
17 27 (1.07%) Okta
18 26 (1.03%) CrowdStrike