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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,432 1,421 1,393
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.27% 5.12% 4.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.89% 20.12% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 979 981
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% -3.45%
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 9,771 7,063 8,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.18% 25.46% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,796 5,307
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
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 257 170 178
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £27.53
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.61
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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +7 1,283 £550 +4.76% 1,239
North of England +4 505 £500 -1.28% 300
Yorkshire -9 230 £513 +1.18% 79
South East -1 221 £574 +14.59% 194
North West +15 188 £575 +15.00% 180
South West +5 186 £550 - 179
Midlands -26 119 £477 -13.27% 120
North East -3 99 £425 -18.27% 43
West Midlands -36 93 £511 -7.18% 78
East of England -11 45 £550 +14.81% 66
East Midlands -3 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 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.28%) Confluence
3 94 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 91 (3.74%) Apache
5 49 (2.01%) Jupyter
6 39 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.15%) nginx
8 11 (0.45%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.29%) 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%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.21%) 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 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) 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 1,395 (57.36%) AWS
2 1,215 (49.96%) Azure
3 643 (26.44%) GitHub
4 503 (20.68%) GCP
5 454 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
6 432 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
7 340 (13.98%) Serverless
8 282 (11.60%) Amazon S3
9 252 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
10 251 (10.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 231 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
12 214 (8.80%) Entra ID
13 202 (8.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 164 (6.74%) Azure AKS
15 153 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
16 149 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
17 140 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 133 (5.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 125 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
20 100 (4.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 271 (11.14%) Firewall
2 194 (7.98%) DNS
3 127 (5.22%) VPN
4 122 (5.02%) Network Security
5 89 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 83 (3.41%) DHCP
7 73 (3.00%) WAN
8 65 (2.67%) BGP
9 48 (1.97%) OSPF
10 44 (1.81%) SD-WAN
11 42 (1.73%) VLAN
12 32 (1.32%) VSAN
13 29 (1.19%) VXLAN
14 28 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
16 26 (1.07%) SSH
17 25 (1.03%) SSL
18 24 (0.99%) BIG-IP
19 18 (0.74%) Internet
20 17 (0.70%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (3.54%) Data Lake
5 73 (3.00%) MongoDB
6 72 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
7 71 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 67 (2.75%) BigQuery
9 66 (2.71%) SQL Server
10 65 (2.67%) DynamoDB
11 64 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 63 (2.59%) Power BI
13 54 (2.22%) Redis
14 51 (2.10%) MySQL
15 49 (2.01%) Relational Database
16 45 (1.85%) Delta Lake
17 44 (1.81%) Metadata
18 41 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
19 35 (1.44%) Big Data
20 33 (1.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 469 (19.28%) GitLab
2 376 (15.46%) Jenkins
3 371 (15.25%) Git
4 130 (5.35%) JIRA
5 42 (1.73%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.23%) Maven
8 29 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (0.86%) Artifactory
9 21 (0.86%) Claude Code
10 20 (0.82%) Selenium
11 19 (0.78%) Snyk
12 16 (0.66%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.62%) JUnit
14 14 (0.58%) 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
1 498 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 354 (14.56%) Public Sector
3 344 (14.14%) Finance
4 162 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (4.61%) Banking
6 73 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (1.93%) Retail
8 36 (1.48%) Military
9 24 (0.99%) 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 (0.66%) Local Government
13 15 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.58%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.49%) Billing
16 11 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 532 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 440 (18.09%) Senior
3 266 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 236 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
5 223 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
6 222 (9.13%) Developer
7 221 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
8 215 (8.84%) Architect
9 200 (8.22%) Lead
10 179 (7.36%) Data Engineer
11 164 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
13 103 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
14 99 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 99 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 98 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 98 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 95 (3.91%) Security Engineer
17 83 (3.41%) GCP Engineer
17 83 (3.41%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (7.89%) Kafka
2 174 (7.15%) REST
3 109 (4.48%) .NET
4 106 (4.36%) React
5 102 (4.19%) OAuth
6 101 (4.15%) ARM Templates
7 100 (4.11%) RESTful
8 95 (3.91%) PySpark
9 84 (3.45%) Node.js
10 74 (3.04%) YAML
11 68 (2.80%) OAuth2
12 66 (2.71%) OpenID
13 65 (2.67%) Spring
14 64 (2.63%) Spring Boot
15 58 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (1.93%) JSON
17 43 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
18 42 (1.73%) HTML
19 37 (1.52%) CSS
19 37 (1.52%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 584 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 146 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 114 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (4.24%) Data Centre
5 94 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 86 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.54%) Security Posture
7 80 (3.29%) Public Cloud
8 57 (2.34%) PKI
9 56 (2.30%) AI Agents
10 55 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
11 53 (2.18%) Replication
12 52 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
13 49 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.77%) Private Cloud
15 42 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
16 35 (1.44%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (1.32%) NHS
19 27 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 446 (18.34%) Linux
2 245 (10.07%) Windows
3 87 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.69%) 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 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.21%) 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%) Debian
15 2 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,804 (74.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,661 (68.30%) CI/CD
3 1,402 (57.65%) DevOps
4 621 (25.53%) Observability
5 603 (24.79%) Containerisation
6 594 (24.42%) Agile
7 567 (23.31%) Platform Engineering
8 423 (17.39%) AI
9 341 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 322 (13.24%) Migration
11 314 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 311 (12.79%) Test Automation
13 310 (12.75%) Cloud Security
14 304 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 296 (12.17%) Software Engineering
16 290 (11.92%) DevSecOps
17 274 (11.27%) Analytics
18 272 (11.18%) Infrastructure Automation
19 268 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
20 247 (10.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,203 (49.47%) Python
2 468 (19.24%) PowerShell
3 450 (18.50%) Bash
4 370 (15.21%) SQL
5 286 (11.76%) Java
6 283 (11.64%) Bicep
7 140 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 126 (5.18%) C#
9 117 (4.81%) TypeScript
10 97 (3.99%) Go
11 51 (2.10%) Groovy
12 45 (1.85%) Scala
13 44 (1.81%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.62%) Perl
16 12 (0.49%) C
17 10 (0.41%) Rust
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.37%) R
19 8 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 870 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 701 (28.82%) SC Cleared
3 201 (8.26%) DV Cleared
4 169 (6.95%) Azure Certification
5 162 (6.66%) AWS Certification
6 104 (4.28%) Degree
7 66 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 55 (2.26%) CISSP
10 52 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.69%) 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 (0.62%) VCAP
18 14 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.87%) QA
3 58 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.22%) NIST
5 52 (2.14%) NCSC
6 51 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.69%) GDPR
8 24 (0.99%) 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 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.21%) HL7
15 5 (0.21%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 684 (28.13%) Docker
2 171 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 47 (1.93%) vSphere
6 42 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 38 (1.56%) VMware NSX
8 35 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.58%) Squid
11 8 (0.33%) KVM
12 6 (0.25%) Ceph
12 6 (0.25%) NFS
13 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.21%) Postfix
14 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 4 (0.16%) Firmware
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 999 (41.08%) Kubernetes
2 586 (24.10%) Ansible
3 301 (12.38%) Grafana
4 240 (9.87%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.37%) Argo
6 60 (2.47%) Puppet
7 52 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (1.69%) Packer
10 29 (1.19%) Istio
11 27 (1.11%) vCenter Server
12 26 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.95%) 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 (0.62%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.62%) SCCM
19 14 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 468 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 226 (9.29%) Google
3 156 (6.41%) VMware
4 139 (5.72%) Databricks
5 138 (5.67%) Splunk
6 98 (4.03%) Oracle
7 90 (3.70%) Dynatrace
8 84 (3.45%) Cisco
9 77 (3.17%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.67%) Red Hat
11 62 (2.55%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.64%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.56%) F5
14 33 (1.36%) Arista
14 33 (1.36%) Zscaler
15 29 (1.19%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.19%) Informatica
16 28 (1.15%) CyberArk
16 28 (1.15%) Okta
17 24 (0.99%) Foundry