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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,742 1,422 1,561
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.60% 4.65% 4.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.97% 32.52% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 979 1,201
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £454 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +2.70% -8.01%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 17
10th Percentile £49.60 £26.63 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £46.25 £62.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -0.99%
75th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £86.60 £76.89 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.72 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -6.59% -13.33% +19.05%

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 4,982 4,373 5,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.01% 14.30% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,806 3,859
10th Percentile £307 £313 £302
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £642 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.52% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 60 161
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.75 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -24.03% +34.83%
75th Percentile £65.80 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +3 898 £525 -12.50% 295
North of England +3 358 £500 - 154
Yorkshire +3 213 £500 +9.89% 65
Midlands +15 138 £534 +1.62% 68
South East +5 133 £500 -13.04% 188
South West +18 126 £555 -3.48% 93
West Midlands +14 121 £540 +2.86% 44
North West -13 98 £528 -4.09% 70
North East +8 50 £494 -13.38% 21
East of England -14 32 £479 -8.81% 39
East Midlands -2 17 £434 -24.60% 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 84 (4.82%) Confluence
2 55 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (2.53%) Apache
4 41 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 39 (2.24%) nginx
6 25 (1.44%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Endur
2 3 (0.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.057%) Actimize
4 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.057%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (60.45%) AWS
2 686 (39.38%) Azure
3 466 (26.75%) GitHub
4 318 (18.25%) GCP
5 295 (16.93%) Serverless
6 293 (16.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 293 (16.82%) GitHub Actions
7 251 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
8 240 (13.78%) Amazon S3
9 185 (10.62%) AWS Lambda
10 165 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
11 164 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 145 (8.32%) Amazon ECS
13 132 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 128 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
15 114 (6.54%) OpenShift
16 110 (6.31%) Entra ID
17 100 (5.74%) Azure AKS
18 84 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 81 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 178 (10.22%) Firewall
2 139 (7.98%) DNS
3 91 (5.22%) VPN
4 77 (4.42%) Network Security
5 59 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 41 (2.35%) SSL
7 36 (2.07%) HTTP
8 34 (1.95%) WAN
9 32 (1.84%) DHCP
10 26 (1.49%) BGP
10 26 (1.49%) LAN
11 24 (1.38%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.26%) SMTP
12 22 (1.26%) SSH
13 21 (1.21%) FTP
13 21 (1.21%) OSPF
14 14 (0.80%) MPLS
14 14 (0.80%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.63%) IMAP
15 11 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 67 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 49 (2.81%) DynamoDB
6 48 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 42 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 41 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 39 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 36 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.89%) Power BI
12 30 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (1.72%) Redis
13 27 (1.55%) SQL Server
14 26 (1.49%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.44%) MySQL
16 15 (0.86%) Tableau
17 14 (0.80%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 414 (23.77%) Jenkins
2 364 (20.90%) GitLab
3 257 (14.75%) Git
4 119 (6.83%) JIRA
5 55 (3.16%) SonarQube
6 37 (2.12%) Liquibase
7 33 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 30 (1.72%) CircleCI
8 30 (1.72%) Maven
9 28 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (1.26%) Bitbucket
10 22 (1.26%) Gradle
11 21 (1.21%) Vagrant
12 18 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.75%) Selenium
13 13 (0.75%) Snyk
14 11 (0.63%) JUnit
15 10 (0.57%) MLflow
15 10 (0.57%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 417 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 288 (16.53%) Public Sector
3 228 (13.09%) Finance
4 114 (6.54%) Banking
5 95 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 27 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.15%) Military
11 18 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 16 (0.92%) Retail
13 11 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.57%) Marketing
15 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.52%) Publishing
16 7 (0.40%) Games
16 7 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 401 (23.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 226 (12.97%) Senior
3 224 (12.86%) AWS Engineer
4 193 (11.08%) Architect
5 163 (9.36%) Developer
6 160 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
7 151 (8.67%) Lead
8 130 (7.46%) AWS DevOps
9 123 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 118 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
11 108 (6.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 94 (5.40%) Software Engineer
13 91 (5.22%) Data Engineer
14 82 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 74 (4.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 67 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
16 67 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 59 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
18 57 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 56 (3.21%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (9.07%) Kafka
2 110 (6.31%) REST
3 106 (6.08%) Node.js
4 104 (5.97%) RESTful
5 103 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
6 102 (5.86%) React
7 69 (3.96%) .NET
8 61 (3.50%) ARM Templates
9 55 (3.16%) Spring Boot
10 54 (3.10%) OAuth
11 53 (3.04%) YAML
12 50 (2.87%) Spring
13 44 (2.53%) AngularJS
14 42 (2.41%) AWS CDK
15 34 (1.95%) Keycloak
16 32 (1.84%) OAuth2
16 32 (1.84%) OpenID
17 29 (1.66%) FastAPI
18 28 (1.61%) JSON
19 26 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 300 (17.22%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 59 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 40 (2.30%) Replication
8 37 (2.12%) NHS
9 36 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 34 (1.95%) Private Cloud
11 28 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.61%) Security Posture
12 26 (1.49%) PKI
13 23 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.92%) AI Agents
15 16 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (0.69%) Management Information System
18 11 (0.63%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 357 (20.49%) Linux
2 149 (8.55%) Windows
3 57 (3.27%) Unix
4 49 (2.81%) VMS
5 44 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 42 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.38%) Amazon Linux
8 21 (1.21%) Ubuntu
9 20 (1.15%) CentOS
10 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.40%) Solaris
11 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.17%) Android
13 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
14 1 (0.057%) Debian
14 1 (0.057%) MVS
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,150 (66.02%) CI/CD
2 1,091 (62.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,069 (61.37%) DevOps
4 479 (27.50%) Containerisation
5 415 (23.82%) Agile
6 260 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 252 (14.47%) Observability
8 250 (14.35%) Microservices
9 237 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
10 233 (13.38%) Migration
11 230 (13.20%) Infrastructure Automation
12 216 (12.40%) Software Engineering
13 179 (10.28%) Test Automation
14 162 (9.30%) DevSecOps
15 161 (9.24%) Cloud Security
16 160 (9.18%) High Availability
17 154 (8.84%) Mentoring
18 153 (8.78%) AI
19 151 (8.67%) Analytics
20 144 (8.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 888 (50.98%) Python
2 304 (17.45%) Bash
3 238 (13.66%) PowerShell
4 231 (13.26%) Java
5 226 (12.97%) SQL
6 161 (9.24%) Go
7 107 (6.14%) Bicep
8 106 (6.08%) JavaScript
9 100 (5.74%) TypeScript
10 80 (4.59%) C#
11 51 (2.93%) Shell Script
12 39 (2.24%) Groovy
13 26 (1.49%) Perl
14 23 (1.32%) Ruby
15 12 (0.69%) C++
15 12 (0.69%) PHP
15 12 (0.69%) Scala
16 10 (0.57%) C
17 6 (0.34%) Korn
17 6 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 585 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 486 (27.90%) SC Cleared
3 131 (7.52%) AWS Certification
4 116 (6.66%) Degree
5 95 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 92 (5.28%) Azure Certification
7 74 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.87%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.49%) CISSP
13 24 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.21%) CCIE
15 20 (1.15%) CCNP
16 18 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 13 (0.75%) CISM
17 13 (0.75%) JNCIE
18 10 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 8 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.08%) GDPR
2 62 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.93%) QA
4 50 (2.87%) NIST
5 46 (2.64%) NCSC
6 37 (2.12%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.29%) GRC
12 5 (0.29%) HL7
12 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.29%) SLA
13 4 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.11%) COBIT
15 2 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 598 (34.33%) Docker
2 114 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 80 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (1.89%) VMware NSX
5 33 (1.89%) vSphere
6 21 (1.21%) DFS Replication
7 17 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.92%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.69%) Squid
10 11 (0.63%) Dovecot
10 11 (0.63%) Postfix
10 11 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.40%) KVM
12 5 (0.29%) NFS
13 4 (0.23%) Lustre
13 4 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.17%) GPFS
14 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 735 (42.19%) Kubernetes
2 524 (30.08%) Ansible
3 292 (16.76%) Grafana
4 263 (15.10%) Prometheus
5 65 (3.73%) Puppet
6 60 (3.44%) Argo
7 52 (2.99%) Packer
8 43 (2.47%) Progress Chef
9 36 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
10 30 (1.72%) Istio
11 23 (1.32%) Consul
12 22 (1.26%) vCenter Server
13 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
14 18 (1.03%) Podman
15 16 (0.92%) Nessus
15 16 (0.92%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.80%) Kibana
17 13 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
18 11 (0.63%) Rancher
19 9 (0.52%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 220 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 126 (7.23%) Google
3 124 (7.12%) Splunk
4 111 (6.37%) VMware
5 98 (5.63%) Databricks
6 66 (3.79%) F5
7 61 (3.50%) Red Hat
8 50 (2.87%) Palo Alto
8 50 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 43 (2.47%) Dynatrace
10 41 (2.35%) Cisco
11 35 (2.01%) CheckPoint
12 34 (1.95%) Oracle
13 23 (1.32%) IBM
13 23 (1.32%) OpenAI
14 22 (1.26%) Juniper
15 21 (1.21%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.98%) Dell
17 16 (0.92%) Citrix
18 15 (0.86%) Zscaler