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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,995 1,279 1,245
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.07% 5.23% 3.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.16% 33.43% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 920 930
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £438 £480 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £559
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +0.45% -6.88%
75th Percentile £614 £668 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.12% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.38 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £52.94
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.25 £68.13 £69.61
90th Percentile £83.30 £78.58 £75.36
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -12.50% -20.00%

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 5,517 3,826 4,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 15.65% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,821 2,647 3,208
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 34 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.89 £23.64 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.38 £26.38
Median % change year-on-year +106.39% +3.76% -54.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.63 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.41 £78.34 £69.80
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -47.83%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 1,081 £525 -8.70% 308
North of England +9 380 £500 -4.76% 138
Yorkshire +8 210 £500 -4.76% 39
South East -7 157 £500 -4.76% 114
Midlands -8 135 £525 -4.72% 36
North West +16 134 £525 - 72
South West -14 117 £550 -10.57% 66
West Midlands +1 108 £525 -12.50% 29
North East -7 43 £475 -9.52% 27
East of England -17 34 £475 -9.52% 36
East Midlands -21 26 £449 -10.30% 7
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 87 (4.36%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.96%) Confluence
3 64 (3.21%) Apache
4 62 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.70%) nginx
6 19 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.80%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.30%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
13 1 (0.050%) FileNet
13 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Maximo
2 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (53.78%) AWS
2 953 (47.77%) Azure
3 565 (28.32%) GitHub
4 399 (20.00%) GCP
5 371 (18.60%) Serverless
6 364 (18.25%) GitHub Actions
7 347 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
8 331 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 276 (13.83%) Amazon S3
10 266 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (9.82%) Amazon EKS
12 145 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (7.12%) Azure AKS
14 141 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
15 136 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 135 (6.77%) OpenShift
17 124 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
18 122 (6.12%) Entra ID
19 120 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 117 (5.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 184 (9.22%) Firewall
2 139 (6.97%) DNS
3 112 (5.61%) VPN
4 102 (5.11%) Network Security
5 44 (2.21%) WAN
6 36 (1.80%) BGP
6 36 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.40%) DHCP
8 26 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.20%) LAN
9 24 (1.20%) OSPF
10 19 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
11 18 (0.90%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.65%) SAN
12 13 (0.65%) VLAN
13 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
13 11 (0.55%) SSL
14 10 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 9 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
3 87 (4.36%) Data Lake
4 78 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
5 75 (3.76%) Power BI
6 61 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 55 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 54 (2.71%) DynamoDB
9 54 (2.71%) NoSQL
10 51 (2.56%) MongoDB
11 50 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 43 (2.16%) Delta Lake
14 36 (1.80%) Relational Database
15 32 (1.60%) Redis
16 31 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
17 30 (1.50%) Tableau
18 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 27 (1.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 369 (18.50%) Jenkins
2 316 (15.84%) GitLab
3 276 (13.83%) Git
4 111 (5.56%) JIRA
5 47 (2.36%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.20%) Maven
9 19 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.80%) Gatling
10 16 (0.80%) Liquibase
10 16 (0.80%) MLflow
11 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.55%) Snyk
13 9 (0.45%) git-flow
13 9 (0.45%) JUnit
13 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
14 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.30%) Mockito
General
1 371 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 292 (14.64%) Public Sector
3 215 (10.78%) Finance
4 105 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (4.36%) Banking
6 55 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.05%) Retail
10 15 (0.75%) Legal
10 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Law
11 12 (0.60%) Military
12 10 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 5 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.25%) Front Office
16 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 426 (21.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 280 (14.04%) Senior
3 234 (11.73%) Architect
4 194 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
5 189 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
6 181 (9.07%) AWS Engineer
7 179 (8.97%) Developer
8 165 (8.27%) Data Engineer
9 162 (8.12%) Lead
10 157 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
11 112 (5.61%) GCP Engineer
12 104 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 101 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
14 93 (4.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 88 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 84 (4.21%) Site Engineer
16 84 (4.21%) Software Engineer
17 73 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 62 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.47%) Kafka
2 128 (6.42%) Node.js
3 110 (5.51%) React
4 105 (5.26%) REST
5 101 (5.06%) .NET
6 78 (3.91%) PySpark
7 75 (3.76%) ARM Templates
8 71 (3.56%) OAuth
9 68 (3.41%) RESTful
10 66 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
11 64 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 64 (3.21%) Spring
12 57 (2.86%) Spring Boot
13 54 (2.71%) YAML
14 53 (2.66%) AngularJS
15 47 (2.36%) OpenID
16 38 (1.90%) AWS CDK
17 37 (1.85%) OAuth2
18 36 (1.80%) JSON
19 31 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 395 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 100 (5.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 70 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.71%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.65%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.50%) NHS
10 29 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.45%) PKI
11 27 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.15%) Replication
13 21 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 19 (0.95%) AI Agents
15 18 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (0.80%) Clustering
17 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
18 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 328 (16.44%) Linux
2 145 (7.27%) Windows
3 48 (2.41%) VMS
4 43 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 42 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (1.70%) Unix
7 15 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.45%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.10%) Debian
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.10%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.050%) Android
13 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.050%) Rocky
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,330 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1,287 (64.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,178 (59.05%) DevOps
4 488 (24.46%) Containerisation
5 446 (22.36%) Agile
6 389 (19.50%) Observability
7 325 (16.29%) Platform Engineering
8 268 (13.43%) Migration
8 268 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
9 255 (12.78%) Analytics
10 236 (11.83%) AI
11 230 (11.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 220 (11.03%) Microservices
13 212 (10.63%) Software Engineering
14 202 (10.13%) Test Automation
15 198 (9.92%) Infrastructure Automation
16 193 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 186 (9.32%) Cloud Security
18 179 (8.97%) DevSecOps
19 170 (8.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 934 (46.82%) Python
2 328 (16.44%) SQL
3 285 (14.29%) Bash
4 269 (13.48%) PowerShell
5 228 (11.43%) Java
6 178 (8.92%) Bicep
7 122 (6.12%) JavaScript
8 114 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 111 (5.56%) C#
10 88 (4.41%) Go
11 48 (2.41%) Scala
12 43 (2.16%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.75%) Ruby
14 28 (1.40%) Groovy
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) C
17 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.35%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 708 (35.49%) Security Cleared
2 593 (29.72%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 120 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 111 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 80 (4.01%) Degree
7 66 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.55%) CCNP
13 29 (1.45%) CISSP
14 18 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.80%) CCIE
15 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
16 14 (0.70%) OCP
17 13 (0.65%) CCNA
17 13 (0.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.76%) GDPR
3 66 (3.31%) QA
4 60 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.96%) NIST
6 41 (2.06%) NCSC
7 35 (1.75%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.60%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.25%) HL7
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 556 (27.87%) Docker
2 95 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 79 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 31 (1.55%) vSphere
8 30 (1.50%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.55%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
11 7 (0.35%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
13 5 (0.25%) Lustre
13 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.20%) GPFS
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.10%) Corosync
15 2 (0.10%) HDFS
15 2 (0.10%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 797 (39.95%) Kubernetes
2 479 (24.01%) Ansible
3 266 (13.33%) Grafana
4 230 (11.53%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.96%) Argo
6 50 (2.51%) Istio
7 44 (2.21%) Puppet
8 37 (1.85%) Packer
9 35 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 28 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (1.35%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.15%) Kibana
13 22 (1.10%) Consul
14 17 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.85%) Rancher
15 15 (0.75%) FortiGate
16 12 (0.60%) Podman
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
19 8 (0.40%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 321 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 186 (9.32%) Google
3 148 (7.42%) Databricks
4 116 (5.81%) Splunk
5 114 (5.71%) VMware
6 89 (4.46%) Red Hat
7 59 (2.96%) Oracle
8 51 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 45 (2.26%) Dynatrace
10 43 (2.16%) Cisco
11 28 (1.40%) Pure Storage
12 26 (1.30%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.25%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.20%) IBM
15 20 (1.00%) F5
15 20 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 20 (1.00%) SolarWinds
16 19 (0.95%) Atlassian
17 17 (0.85%) Citrix
18 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty