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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,444 1,414 1,389
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.28% 5.13% 4.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.87% 20.14% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 972 980
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £559
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.00% -2.87%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £734
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 9
10th Percentile £58.43 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £63.88 £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 £84.84 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

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 9,826 7,020 8,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.48% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,471 4,762 5,262
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 170 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 1,292 £550 +4.76% 1,247
North of England +3 506 £500 -0.10% 306
Yorkshire -8 231 £513 +2.40% 79
South East -4 221 £574 +14.59% 191
North West +21 188 £575 +15.00% 184
South West +4 186 £550 - 186
Midlands -28 120 £477 -13.27% 127
North East -4 99 £425 -18.27% 44
West Midlands -34 94 £512 -7.00% 85
East of England -16 46 £549 +14.74% 68
East Midlands -5 25 £409 -16.15% 42
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
1 105 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.26%) Confluence
3 94 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 91 (3.72%) Apache
5 49 (2.00%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.64%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.15%) nginx
8 11 (0.45%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.25%) CMS
11 6 (0.25%) IIS
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.082%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.082%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.082%) Traefik
14 1 (0.041%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.041%) NUKE
6 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.082%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.082%) Endur
2 2 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,404 (57.45%) AWS
2 1,220 (49.92%) Azure
3 645 (26.39%) GitHub
4 507 (20.74%) GCP
5 455 (18.62%) GitHub Actions
6 435 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
7 341 (13.95%) Serverless
8 283 (11.58%) Amazon S3
9 254 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 253 (10.35%) AWS Lambda
11 233 (9.53%) Amazon EKS
12 216 (8.84%) Entra ID
13 205 (8.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 164 (6.71%) Azure AKS
15 154 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
16 150 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
17 142 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 133 (5.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 127 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
20 100 (4.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 273 (11.17%) Firewall
2 197 (8.06%) DNS
3 130 (5.32%) VPN
4 124 (5.07%) Network Security
5 90 (3.68%) TCP/IP
6 84 (3.44%) DHCP
7 73 (2.99%) WAN
8 66 (2.70%) BGP
9 48 (1.96%) OSPF
10 44 (1.80%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.76%) VLAN
12 32 (1.31%) VSAN
13 29 (1.19%) VXLAN
14 28 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
16 26 (1.06%) SSH
16 26 (1.06%) SSL
17 24 (0.98%) BIG-IP
18 18 (0.74%) Internet
19 17 (0.70%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (3.52%) Data Lake
5 73 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
5 73 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 71 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 67 (2.74%) BigQuery
8 66 (2.70%) SQL Server
9 65 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 65 (2.66%) DynamoDB
10 63 (2.58%) Power BI
11 54 (2.21%) Redis
12 51 (2.09%) MySQL
13 49 (2.00%) Relational Database
14 45 (1.84%) Delta Lake
15 44 (1.80%) Metadata
16 42 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.43%) Big Data
18 33 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 472 (19.31%) GitLab
2 379 (15.51%) Jenkins
3 373 (15.26%) Git
4 130 (5.32%) JIRA
5 42 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.27%) Maven
7 30 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (0.90%) Artifactory
9 21 (0.86%) Claude Code
10 20 (0.82%) Selenium
11 19 (0.78%) Snyk
12 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.61%) JUnit
14 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.49%) MLflow
15 12 (0.49%) MSI
16 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.41%) Cucumber
17 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 500 (20.46%) Social Skills
2 355 (14.53%) Public Sector
3 347 (14.20%) Finance
4 163 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (4.66%) Banking
6 73 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (1.92%) Retail
8 36 (1.47%) Military
9 24 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 19 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (0.74%) Law
11 18 (0.74%) Legal
11 18 (0.74%) Publishing
12 16 (0.65%) Local Government
13 15 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.49%) Billing
16 11 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 535 (21.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 441 (18.04%) Senior
3 267 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 238 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
5 224 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
6 222 (9.08%) AWS Engineer
6 222 (9.08%) Developer
7 216 (8.84%) Architect
8 201 (8.22%) Lead
9 180 (7.36%) Data Engineer
10 164 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
12 104 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
13 100 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 99 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 99 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 99 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 96 (3.93%) Security Engineer
16 84 (3.44%) Network Engineer
17 83 (3.40%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (7.90%) Kafka
2 174 (7.12%) REST
3 109 (4.46%) .NET
4 106 (4.34%) React
5 104 (4.26%) OAuth
6 103 (4.21%) ARM Templates
7 101 (4.13%) RESTful
8 95 (3.89%) PySpark
9 84 (3.44%) Node.js
10 75 (3.07%) YAML
11 69 (2.82%) OAuth2
12 68 (2.78%) OpenID
13 65 (2.66%) Spring
14 64 (2.62%) Spring Boot
15 60 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (1.92%) JSON
17 43 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
18 42 (1.72%) HTML
19 38 (1.55%) JWT
20 37 (1.51%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 587 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 95 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 86 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 80 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.37%) PKI
9 56 (2.29%) AI Agents
10 55 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
11 54 (2.21%) Replication
12 52 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
13 51 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.76%) Private Cloud
15 42 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
16 35 (1.43%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (1.31%) NHS
19 27 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 449 (18.37%) Linux
2 247 (10.11%) Windows
3 87 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.68%) Unix
6 39 (1.60%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.19%) VMS
8 19 (0.78%) AIX
8 19 (0.78%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.082%) Android
15 2 (0.082%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.082%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,812 (74.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,670 (68.33%) CI/CD
3 1,410 (57.69%) DevOps
4 625 (25.57%) Observability
5 606 (24.80%) Containerisation
6 596 (24.39%) Agile
7 572 (23.40%) Platform Engineering
8 425 (17.39%) AI
9 343 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 325 (13.30%) Migration
11 316 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 313 (12.81%) Test Automation
13 311 (12.73%) Cloud Security
14 304 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
15 298 (12.19%) Software Engineering
16 291 (11.91%) DevSecOps
17 275 (11.25%) Analytics
18 273 (11.17%) Infrastructure Automation
19 270 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
20 249 (10.19%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,208 (49.43%) Python
2 470 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 453 (18.54%) Bash
4 372 (15.22%) SQL
5 289 (11.82%) Java
6 285 (11.66%) Bicep
7 141 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 127 (5.20%) C#
9 117 (4.79%) TypeScript
10 98 (4.01%) Go
11 51 (2.09%) Groovy
12 45 (1.84%) Scala
12 45 (1.84%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (0.61%) Perl
15 12 (0.49%) C
16 10 (0.41%) Rust
17 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.37%) R
18 8 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 874 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 704 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 202 (8.27%) DV Cleared
4 169 (6.91%) Azure Certification
5 163 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 104 (4.26%) Degree
7 66 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.29%) CISSP
10 52 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.15%) CCNP
14 20 (0.82%) CISM
15 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 19 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 17 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.61%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.85%) QA
3 58 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.21%) NIST
5 52 (2.13%) NCSC
6 51 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.68%) GDPR
8 24 (0.98%) WCAG
9 19 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.45%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.25%) PSD2
15 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.20%) HL7
15 5 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 688 (28.15%) Docker
2 172 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.92%) vSphere
6 46 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (1.72%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 35 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.16%) Firmware
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,005 (41.12%) Kubernetes
2 589 (24.10%) Ansible
3 304 (12.44%) Grafana
4 243 (9.94%) Prometheus
5 83 (3.40%) Argo
6 61 (2.50%) Puppet
7 53 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 49 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (1.68%) Packer
10 30 (1.23%) Istio
11 27 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 26 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.94%) Kibana
14 22 (0.90%) Kustomize
15 19 (0.78%) Kubeflow
16 18 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
17 17 (0.70%) Data Guard
18 15 (0.61%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.61%) SCCM
19 14 (0.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 471 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 227 (9.29%) Google
3 156 (6.38%) VMware
4 139 (5.69%) Databricks
5 138 (5.65%) Splunk
6 98 (4.01%) Oracle
7 90 (3.68%) Dynatrace
8 84 (3.44%) Cisco
9 77 (3.15%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.66%) Red Hat
11 63 (2.58%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.64%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.55%) F5
14 34 (1.39%) Arista
15 33 (1.35%) Zscaler
16 29 (1.19%) Fortinet
16 29 (1.19%) Informatica
17 28 (1.15%) CyberArk
17 28 (1.15%) Okta
18 24 (0.98%) Foundry