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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,362 1,398 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.16% 5.06% 4.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.93% 32.65% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,633 969 978
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £714 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 11
10th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £60.36 £52.13 £55.50
Median hourly rate £69.11 £62.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -15.54% -5.13%
75th Percentile £77.15 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £80.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.14% -10.71% -4.11%

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 6,068 4,282 4,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.26% 15.51% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 2,856 3,208
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £708
UK median daily rate £520 £504 £523
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.73% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 56 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.50 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +48.65% -26.34%
75th Percentile £71.22 £65.80 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.48 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £35.14 £34.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% +3.34% -40.87%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 1,236 £550 - 810
North of England +9 503 £507 -2.50% 246
Yorkshire -7 230 £500 -2.44% 69
South East -6 201 £560 +12.00% 173
North West +39 200 £574 +8.98% 141
South West +4 168 £550 -8.33% 128
Midlands -15 132 £527 -0.75% 59
West Midlands -17 109 £526 -4.36% 37
North East -4 87 £425 -18.27% 37
East of England -4 52 £525 +10.53% 32
East Midlands -7 21 £500 +5.26% 22
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
1 120 (5.08%) Confluence
2 91 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 89 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 80 (3.39%) Apache
5 39 (1.65%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.02%) nginx
8 13 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.55%) SAS
9 8 (0.34%) IIS
10 7 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.085%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.085%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.085%) Traefik
14 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.042%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.085%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.085%) Endur
2 2 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,336 (56.56%) AWS
2 1,188 (50.30%) Azure
3 657 (27.82%) GitHub
4 470 (19.90%) GCP
5 455 (19.26%) GitHub Actions
6 421 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
7 344 (14.56%) Serverless
8 274 (11.60%) Amazon S3
9 265 (11.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 253 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
11 214 (9.06%) Amazon EKS
12 181 (7.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 166 (7.03%) Entra ID
14 163 (6.90%) Azure AKS
15 143 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
16 138 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
17 137 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 125 (5.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 122 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
20 91 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 271 (11.47%) Firewall
2 200 (8.47%) DNS
3 137 (5.80%) VPN
4 102 (4.32%) Network Security
5 84 (3.56%) TCP/IP
6 80 (3.39%) WAN
7 72 (3.05%) DHCP
8 69 (2.92%) BGP
9 48 (2.03%) OSPF
10 45 (1.91%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.57%) VXLAN
12 35 (1.48%) VLAN
13 28 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.14%) VSAN
15 25 (1.06%) SSL
16 23 (0.97%) BIG-IP
17 21 (0.89%) SSH
18 18 (0.76%) Internet
19 17 (0.72%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 70 (2.96%) Data Lake
5 70 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 67 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 67 (2.84%) Power BI
7 64 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 61 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 60 (2.54%) BigQuery
10 58 (2.46%) MongoDB
11 50 (2.12%) Delta Lake
12 46 (1.95%) Relational Database
13 41 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 40 (1.69%) Redis
15 37 (1.57%) Oracle Database
16 33 (1.40%) MySQL
17 32 (1.35%) Metadata
18 30 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 427 (18.08%) GitLab
2 388 (16.43%) Jenkins
3 350 (14.82%) Git
4 150 (6.35%) JIRA
5 45 (1.91%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.23%) Maven
8 26 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 23 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.76%) Snyk
11 17 (0.72%) MLflow
12 16 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.55%) MSI
15 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.47%) Gatling
15 11 (0.47%) JUnit
15 11 (0.47%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.42%) Selenium
17 9 (0.38%) Liquibase
General
1 433 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 355 (15.03%) Public Sector
3 294 (12.45%) Finance
4 138 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (3.85%) Banking
6 64 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.03%) Retail
9 26 (1.10%) Military
10 23 (0.97%) Legal
11 22 (0.93%) Publishing
11 22 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.64%) Law
15 13 (0.55%) Local Government
16 12 (0.51%) Billing
16 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 511 (21.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 422 (17.87%) Senior
3 270 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 224 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
5 218 (9.23%) Architect
5 218 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
6 217 (9.19%) AWS Engineer
7 211 (8.93%) Developer
8 203 (8.59%) Lead
9 167 (7.07%) Data Engineer
10 159 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
12 103 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
13 100 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 99 (4.19%) GCP Engineer
14 99 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 96 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 83 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 82 (3.47%) Network Engineer
18 76 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.15%) Kafka
2 159 (6.73%) REST
3 119 (5.04%) .NET
4 112 (4.74%) React
5 100 (4.23%) Node.js
6 91 (3.85%) PySpark
6 91 (3.85%) RESTful
7 82 (3.47%) ARM Templates
8 78 (3.30%) OAuth
9 73 (3.09%) YAML
10 56 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
11 55 (2.33%) Spring
12 52 (2.20%) OAuth2
12 52 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
13 51 (2.16%) OpenID
13 51 (2.16%) Spring Boot
14 49 (2.07%) JSON
15 43 (1.82%) HTML
16 39 (1.65%) AngularJS
17 37 (1.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 566 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 144 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 71 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 60 (2.54%) Security Posture
9 50 (2.12%) PKI
10 44 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
11 43 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 42 (1.78%) Replication
13 38 (1.61%) AI Agents
14 34 (1.44%) Private Cloud
15 32 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
15 32 (1.35%) NHS
16 27 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 27 (1.14%) Management Information System
17 23 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 410 (17.36%) Linux
2 241 (10.20%) Windows
3 83 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 80 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 32 (1.35%) Unix
6 32 (1.35%) VMS
7 19 (0.80%) AIX
8 13 (0.55%) CentOS
9 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.085%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,687 (71.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,581 (66.93%) CI/CD
3 1,383 (58.55%) DevOps
4 579 (24.51%) Agile
5 575 (24.34%) Containerisation
6 531 (22.48%) Observability
7 513 (21.72%) Platform Engineering
8 355 (15.03%) AI
9 293 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 288 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
11 287 (12.15%) Migration
12 285 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 281 (11.90%) Test Automation
14 263 (11.13%) Cloud Security
15 262 (11.09%) Analytics
16 253 (10.71%) Software Engineering
17 236 (9.99%) Infrastructure Automation
18 230 (9.74%) Microservices
19 229 (9.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 228 (9.65%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,128 (47.76%) Python
2 431 (18.25%) Bash
3 430 (18.20%) PowerShell
4 359 (15.20%) SQL
5 272 (11.52%) Java
6 253 (10.71%) Bicep
7 149 (6.31%) JavaScript
8 132 (5.59%) C#
9 128 (5.42%) TypeScript
10 72 (3.05%) Go
11 49 (2.07%) Scala
12 48 (2.03%) Groovy
13 35 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.68%) Rust
15 14 (0.59%) Ruby
16 12 (0.51%) R
17 11 (0.47%) C
17 11 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.42%) Perl
19 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 859 (36.37%) Security Cleared
2 698 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 181 (7.66%) DV Cleared
4 162 (6.86%) Azure Certification
5 129 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 91 (3.85%) Degree
7 67 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.52%) CISSP
13 31 (1.31%) CCNP
14 20 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 15 (0.64%) CCNA
17 14 (0.59%) VCAP
18 10 (0.42%) CCIE
19 9 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 77 (3.26%) QA
3 50 (2.12%) GDPR
4 48 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.91%) NCSC
6 42 (1.78%) NIST
7 41 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.89%) WCAG
9 20 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.38%) SLA
11 8 (0.34%) GRC
12 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.25%) HL7
13 5 (0.21%) PSD2
13 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.085%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 648 (27.43%) Docker
2 151 (6.39%) Active Directory
3 112 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.95%) Hyper-V
7 45 (1.91%) vSphere
8 43 (1.82%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
9 21 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (0.64%) Squid
11 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 9 (0.38%) NFS
12 6 (0.25%) Firmware
13 5 (0.21%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
14 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.085%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.085%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 910 (38.53%) Kubernetes
2 554 (23.45%) Ansible
3 286 (12.11%) Grafana
4 240 (10.16%) Prometheus
5 91 (3.85%) Argo
6 61 (2.58%) Puppet
7 47 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.65%) Packer
9 35 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (1.44%) Istio
11 28 (1.19%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.80%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.72%) Kibana
15 17 (0.72%) Kustomize
15 17 (0.72%) Podman
16 14 (0.59%) VxRail
17 13 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 406 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 209 (8.85%) Google
3 152 (6.44%) VMware
4 132 (5.59%) Splunk
5 124 (5.25%) Databricks
6 101 (4.28%) Oracle
7 82 (3.47%) Dynatrace
8 79 (3.34%) Red Hat
9 74 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 68 (2.88%) Cisco
11 61 (2.58%) Palo Alto
12 43 (1.82%) F5
13 35 (1.48%) Arista
13 35 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 31 (1.31%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.27%) Zscaler
16 27 (1.14%) Informatica
17 24 (1.02%) Aruba
17 24 (1.02%) Foundry
18 23 (0.97%) Juniper