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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,465 1,429 1,398
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.30% 5.14% 4.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.88% 20.24% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,715 985 995
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £557
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.75% -5.19%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £732
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £43.63 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -26.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £84.02 £61.63 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.13 £74.55
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 9,906 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,513 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 169 179
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +4 1,303 £550 +4.76% 1,481
North of England +5 512 £500 -0.10% 345
Yorkshire -4 240 £505 -1.46% 101
South East -7 220 £572 +14.40% 282
South West +6 187 £550 - 195
North West +18 186 £575 +15.00% 188
Midlands -30 121 £488 -11.36% 136
North East -3 98 £425 -15.00% 56
West Midlands -37 96 £513 -6.82% 86
East of England -10 51 £549 +13.85% 70
East Midlands -3 24 £413 -15.38% 50
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
1 108 (4.38%) Confluence
2 102 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (3.98%) Apache Spark
4 85 (3.45%) Apache
5 47 (1.91%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.14%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.20%) CMS
13 5 (0.20%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
15 2 (0.081%) Traefik
16 1 (0.041%) Anypoint
16 1 (0.041%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
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 (0.081%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) 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 1,414 (57.36%) AWS
2 1,229 (49.86%) Azure
3 666 (27.02%) GitHub
4 505 (20.49%) GCP
5 471 (19.11%) GitHub Actions
6 437 (17.73%) Azure DevOps
7 356 (14.44%) Serverless
8 284 (11.52%) Amazon S3
9 262 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
10 258 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 228 (9.25%) Amazon EKS
12 202 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 202 (8.19%) Entra ID
13 167 (6.77%) Azure AKS
14 153 (6.21%) Azure Monitor
15 151 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
16 144 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 131 (5.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 126 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
19 103 (4.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 275 (11.16%) Firewall
2 196 (7.95%) DNS
3 133 (5.40%) VPN
4 121 (4.91%) Network Security
5 89 (3.61%) TCP/IP
6 82 (3.33%) DHCP
7 77 (3.12%) WAN
8 67 (2.72%) BGP
9 48 (1.95%) OSPF
10 46 (1.87%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.74%) VLAN
12 31 (1.26%) VSAN
13 30 (1.22%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (1.05%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.01%) SSH
17 24 (0.97%) BIG-IP
17 24 (0.97%) SSL
18 17 (0.69%) Internet
18 17 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
3 87 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 77 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
6 75 (3.04%) DynamoDB
7 74 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 72 (2.92%) NoSQL
9 70 (2.84%) MongoDB
10 68 (2.76%) Power BI
11 66 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 66 (2.68%) BigQuery
12 51 (2.07%) Redis
13 49 (1.99%) MySQL
13 49 (1.99%) Relational Database
14 46 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
15 45 (1.83%) Delta Lake
16 43 (1.74%) Metadata
17 37 (1.50%) Big Data
18 33 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 467 (18.95%) GitLab
2 395 (16.02%) Jenkins
3 374 (15.17%) Git
4 137 (5.56%) JIRA
5 45 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.38%) Maven
7 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
8 28 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.81%) Claude Code
10 20 (0.81%) Snyk
11 18 (0.73%) Selenium
12 17 (0.69%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.61%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.57%) JUnit
15 13 (0.53%) MLflow
16 12 (0.49%) MSI
17 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
18 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 500 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 358 (14.52%) Public Sector
3 345 (14.00%) Finance
4 157 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (4.34%) Banking
6 73 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (2.03%) Retail
8 49 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (1.46%) Military
10 24 (0.97%) Aerospace
11 19 (0.77%) Publishing
11 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (0.73%) Law
12 18 (0.73%) Legal
13 16 (0.65%) Local Government
14 14 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.53%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 537 (21.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 443 (17.97%) Senior
3 266 (10.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 237 (9.61%) Azure Engineer
5 228 (9.25%) Platform Engineer
6 225 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
7 224 (9.09%) Developer
8 218 (8.84%) Architect
9 207 (8.40%) Lead
10 181 (7.34%) Data Engineer
11 161 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
13 102 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
14 100 (4.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 100 (4.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 99 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 97 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 90 (3.65%) Security Engineer
18 88 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
18 88 (3.57%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (7.71%) Kafka
2 169 (6.86%) REST
3 118 (4.79%) .NET
4 111 (4.50%) React
5 107 (4.34%) ARM Templates
6 96 (3.89%) Node.js
6 96 (3.89%) PySpark
6 96 (3.89%) RESTful
7 94 (3.81%) OAuth
8 80 (3.25%) YAML
9 65 (2.64%) OAuth2
10 63 (2.56%) OpenID
11 62 (2.52%) Spring
12 61 (2.47%) Spring Boot
13 59 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.15%) JSON
15 41 (1.66%) HTML
15 41 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
16 39 (1.58%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.46%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 580 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 111 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (4.18%) Data Centre
5 91 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 87 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 84 (3.41%) Security Posture
8 80 (3.25%) Public Cloud
9 55 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.23%) PKI
10 53 (2.15%) Replication
11 51 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
12 50 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
13 49 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
15 41 (1.66%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.38%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.34%) NHS
18 28 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 445 (18.05%) Linux
2 247 (10.02%) Windows
3 88 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 87 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.62%) Unix
6 39 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.22%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
9 18 (0.73%) CentOS
10 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.081%) Android
16 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.081%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,819 (73.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,677 (68.03%) CI/CD
3 1,410 (57.20%) DevOps
4 623 (25.27%) Observability
5 614 (24.91%) Agile
6 605 (24.54%) Containerisation
7 567 (23.00%) Platform Engineering
8 419 (17.00%) AI
9 342 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 309 (12.54%) Migration
11 306 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 306 (12.41%) Software Engineering
12 305 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
13 303 (12.29%) Test Automation
14 299 (12.13%) Cloud Security
15 288 (11.68%) DevSecOps
16 275 (11.16%) Analytics
17 270 (10.95%) Infrastructure Automation
18 261 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
19 248 (10.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,213 (49.21%) Python
2 480 (19.47%) PowerShell
3 458 (18.58%) Bash
4 373 (15.13%) SQL
5 292 (11.85%) Java
6 282 (11.44%) Bicep
7 142 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 134 (5.44%) C#
9 129 (5.23%) TypeScript
10 91 (3.69%) Go
11 54 (2.19%) Groovy
12 52 (2.11%) Scala
13 45 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (0.61%) Perl
15 12 (0.49%) C
16 10 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.41%) R
16 10 (0.41%) Ruby
16 10 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 889 (36.06%) Security Cleared
2 719 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 197 (7.99%) DV Cleared
4 176 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 161 (6.53%) AWS Certification
6 105 (4.26%) Degree
7 64 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 54 (2.19%) CISSP
10 53 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 42 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.18%) CCNP
13 20 (0.81%) CISM
13 20 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.61%) VCAP
17 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.44%) Data Quality
2 93 (3.77%) QA
3 58 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (2.23%) NIST
5 52 (2.11%) NCSC
6 50 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.74%) GDPR
8 24 (0.97%) WCAG
9 20 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.45%) SLA
10 11 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.24%) PSD2
14 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.20%) HL7
14 5 (0.20%) SEPA
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 686 (27.83%) Docker
2 168 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 111 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.83%) Hyper-V
7 44 (1.78%) vSphere
8 37 (1.50%) VMware NSX
9 33 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.61%) Squid
12 8 (0.32%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 6 (0.24%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Firmware
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 997 (40.45%) Kubernetes
2 594 (24.10%) Ansible
3 307 (12.45%) Grafana
4 245 (9.94%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.20%) Argo
6 64 (2.60%) Puppet
7 56 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 46 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (1.66%) Packer
10 27 (1.10%) Istio
10 27 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 26 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.89%) Kibana
12 22 (0.89%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
14 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
14 17 (0.69%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.69%) Kubeflow
15 15 (0.61%) Podman
15 15 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 470 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 219 (8.88%) Google
3 152 (6.17%) VMware
4 144 (5.84%) Databricks
5 140 (5.68%) Splunk
6 103 (4.18%) Oracle
7 88 (3.57%) Dynatrace
8 86 (3.49%) Cisco
9 77 (3.12%) ServiceNow
10 69 (2.80%) Red Hat
11 66 (2.68%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.62%) F5
13 38 (1.54%) OpenAI
14 35 (1.42%) Arista
15 34 (1.38%) Zscaler
16 32 (1.30%) Fortinet
17 29 (1.18%) Informatica
18 27 (1.10%) CyberArk
19 26 (1.05%) Okta
20 24 (0.97%) Foundry