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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,438 1,422 1,390
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.27% 5.19% 4.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.76% 20.35% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 985 988
10th Percentile £401 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.58% -5.36%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 10
10th Percentile £57.25 £42.10 £54.13
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £59.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.02 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £76.25
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 9,845 6,989 8,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.49% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,472 4,751 5,384
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £442 £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 £669
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 276 168 180
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £53.90 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 1,287 £550 +4.76% 1,273
North of England +2 505 £500 -2.44% 340
Yorkshire -7 234 £511 -0.24% 92
South East -4 220 £575 +15.00% 287
North West +23 186 £575 +15.00% 196
South West +5 186 £550 - 187
Midlands -30 119 £482 -12.32% 128
North East -2 97 £425 -18.27% 53
West Midlands -39 94 £512 -7.00% 82
East of England -18 50 £550 +13.92% 65
East Midlands -3 24 £413 -15.38% 46
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
1 107 (4.39%) Confluence
2 102 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (4.02%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.45%) Apache
5 47 (1.93%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.64%) SharePoint
7 27 (1.11%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.21%) CMS
12 5 (0.21%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.082%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.082%) PowerExchange
14 2 (0.082%) Traefik
14 2 (0.082%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.082%) 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 (0.21%) 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 1,396 (57.26%) AWS
2 1,218 (49.96%) Azure
3 649 (26.62%) GitHub
4 504 (20.67%) GCP
5 458 (18.79%) GitHub Actions
6 433 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
7 348 (14.27%) Serverless
8 280 (11.48%) Amazon S3
9 258 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 258 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
10 227 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
11 208 (8.53%) Entra ID
12 202 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 167 (6.85%) Azure AKS
14 153 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
15 150 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
16 143 (5.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 132 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 124 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
19 101 (4.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 271 (11.12%) Firewall
2 195 (8.00%) DNS
3 131 (5.37%) VPN
4 120 (4.92%) Network Security
5 88 (3.61%) TCP/IP
6 83 (3.40%) DHCP
7 77 (3.16%) WAN
8 67 (2.75%) BGP
9 48 (1.97%) OSPF
10 47 (1.93%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.76%) VLAN
12 32 (1.31%) VSAN
13 30 (1.23%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.03%) SSH
17 24 (0.98%) BIG-IP
17 24 (0.98%) SSL
18 18 (0.74%) Internet
19 17 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (3.53%) Data Lake
3 86 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
5 71 (2.91%) DynamoDB
5 71 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 70 (2.87%) MongoDB
7 69 (2.83%) SQL Server
8 67 (2.75%) Power BI
9 66 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 66 (2.71%) BigQuery
10 50 (2.05%) Redis
10 50 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 49 (2.01%) MySQL
12 45 (1.85%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
14 43 (1.76%) Metadata
15 37 (1.52%) Big Data
16 33 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 461 (18.91%) GitLab
2 383 (15.71%) Jenkins
3 370 (15.18%) Git
4 132 (5.41%) JIRA
5 45 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.27%) Maven
7 28 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 20 (0.82%) Claude Code
8 20 (0.82%) Snyk
9 19 (0.78%) Artifactory
9 19 (0.78%) Selenium
10 17 (0.70%) Terragrunt
11 15 (0.62%) JUnit
12 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.53%) MLflow
13 12 (0.49%) MSI
14 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 494 (20.26%) Social Skills
2 355 (14.56%) Public Sector
3 336 (13.78%) Finance
4 157 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (4.35%) Banking
6 72 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (2.01%) Retail
8 36 (1.48%) Military
9 24 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 19 (0.78%) Publishing
10 19 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (0.74%) Law
11 18 (0.74%) Legal
12 16 (0.66%) Local Government
13 14 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 528 (21.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 441 (18.09%) Senior
3 266 (10.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 239 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
5 222 (9.11%) AWS Engineer
5 222 (9.11%) Developer
6 221 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
7 217 (8.90%) Architect
8 204 (8.37%) Lead
9 181 (7.42%) Data Engineer
10 159 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 104 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
11 104 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
12 101 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 99 (4.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 99 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 98 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 92 (3.77%) Security Engineer
16 87 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
17 86 (3.53%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.71%) Kafka
2 170 (6.97%) REST
3 115 (4.72%) .NET
4 110 (4.51%) React
5 103 (4.22%) ARM Templates
6 97 (3.98%) RESTful
7 96 (3.94%) Node.js
7 96 (3.94%) OAuth
7 96 (3.94%) PySpark
8 77 (3.16%) YAML
9 67 (2.75%) OAuth2
10 64 (2.63%) OpenID
11 62 (2.54%) Spring
12 61 (2.50%) Spring Boot
13 55 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.17%) JSON
15 41 (1.68%) HTML
15 41 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
16 39 (1.60%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.48%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 573 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 145 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 112 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (4.22%) Data Centre
5 90 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 85 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 83 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 79 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 55 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.26%) PKI
10 52 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (2.09%) Replication
12 50 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
13 49 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
15 42 (1.72%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.39%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.35%) NHS
18 28 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 440 (18.05%) Linux
2 243 (9.97%) Windows
3 86 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 85 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 39 (1.60%) Unix
6 30 (1.23%) VMS
7 19 (0.78%) AIX
8 18 (0.74%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.33%) 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%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.082%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,803 (73.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,662 (68.17%) CI/CD
3 1,396 (57.26%) DevOps
4 619 (25.39%) Observability
5 604 (24.77%) Agile
6 599 (24.57%) Containerisation
7 556 (22.81%) Platform Engineering
8 418 (17.15%) AI
9 338 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 314 (12.88%) Migration
11 305 (12.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 304 (12.47%) Cloud Security
13 302 (12.39%) Test Automation
14 300 (12.31%) Software Engineering
15 298 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
16 288 (11.81%) DevSecOps
17 274 (11.24%) Analytics
18 269 (11.03%) Infrastructure Automation
19 261 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
20 245 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,199 (49.18%) Python
2 470 (19.28%) PowerShell
3 447 (18.33%) Bash
4 371 (15.22%) SQL
5 287 (11.77%) Java
6 282 (11.57%) Bicep
7 139 (5.70%) JavaScript
8 132 (5.41%) C#
9 125 (5.13%) TypeScript
10 93 (3.81%) Go
11 53 (2.17%) Groovy
12 48 (1.97%) Scala
13 45 (1.85%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 874 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 705 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 199 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 172 (7.05%) Azure Certification
5 161 (6.60%) AWS Certification
6 106 (4.35%) Degree
7 64 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.21%) CISSP
10 53 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
10 53 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 43 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.15%) CCNP
13 20 (0.82%) CISM
13 20 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.62%) VCAP
17 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 92 (3.77%) QA
3 59 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.21%) NIST
5 52 (2.13%) NCSC
6 50 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.76%) GDPR
8 24 (0.98%) WCAG
9 20 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.45%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.25%) PSD2
14 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.21%) HL7
14 5 (0.21%) SEPA
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 675 (27.69%) Docker
2 168 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 112 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.85%) vSphere
7 43 (1.76%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.56%) VMware NSX
9 34 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.21%) Firmware
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 985 (40.40%) Kubernetes
2 586 (24.04%) Ansible
3 297 (12.18%) Grafana
4 236 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.24%) Argo
6 60 (2.46%) Puppet
7 52 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 47 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 39 (1.60%) Packer
10 27 (1.11%) Istio
10 27 (1.11%) vCenter Server
11 25 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.90%) Kibana
12 22 (0.90%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
14 17 (0.70%) Data Guard
14 17 (0.70%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.66%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.62%) Podman
16 15 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 466 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 221 (9.06%) Google
3 154 (6.32%) VMware
4 142 (5.82%) Databricks
5 135 (5.54%) Splunk
6 102 (4.18%) Oracle
7 86 (3.53%) Cisco
7 86 (3.53%) Dynatrace
8 77 (3.16%) ServiceNow
9 65 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 65 (2.67%) Red Hat
10 40 (1.64%) F5
11 38 (1.56%) OpenAI
12 34 (1.39%) Arista
12 34 (1.39%) Zscaler
13 31 (1.27%) Fortinet
14 29 (1.19%) Informatica
15 28 (1.15%) Okta
16 27 (1.11%) CyberArk
17 24 (0.98%) Foundry