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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,028 1,263 1,240
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.08% 5.16% 3.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.87% 33.15% 28.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 922 918
10th Percentile £400 £405 £424
25th Percentile £438 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.45% -7.92%
75th Percentile £614 £656 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £739
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 9
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.38 £43.65
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.25 £61.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.30 £77.33 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -12.50% -23.08%

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 5,501 3,810 4,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 15.57% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 2,645 3,169
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 35 120
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.94 £22.30 £17.74
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -50.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £54.06
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.22 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.50
% change year-on-year +107.94% -16.03% -45.22%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 0 1,095 £538 -5.08% 222
North of England +15 390 £500 -4.76% 121
Yorkshire +8 217 £500 -4.76% 23
South East -13 155 £500 -2.44% 133
North West +21 135 £525 +0.02% 65
Midlands -1 134 £525 -4.72% 48
South West -3 125 £550 -10.57% 59
West Midlands -1 106 £525 -8.70% 33
North East -6 45 £475 -9.09% 33
East of England -22 38 £475 -9.52% 36
East Midlands -25 27 £450 -10.00% 15
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 85 (4.19%) Confluence
2 84 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 60 (2.96%) Apache
4 57 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.73%) nginx
6 21 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.39%) 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 (0.099%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.099%) CMS
12 2 (0.099%) Drupal
12 2 (0.099%) Traefik
12 2 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.099%) Weka
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Maximo
2 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.049%) Actimize
4 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1,095 (53.99%) AWS
2 976 (48.13%) Azure
3 573 (28.25%) GitHub
4 400 (19.72%) GCP
5 375 (18.49%) GitHub Actions
6 369 (18.20%) Serverless
7 356 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
8 335 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 277 (13.66%) Amazon S3
10 263 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
12 151 (7.45%) Azure AKS
13 149 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
14 144 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
15 143 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 135 (6.66%) OpenShift
17 130 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
18 121 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 120 (5.92%) Entra ID
20 117 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 185 (9.12%) Firewall
2 135 (6.66%) DNS
3 111 (5.47%) VPN
4 101 (4.98%) Network Security
5 43 (2.12%) WAN
6 36 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.63%) BGP
8 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
9 22 (1.08%) DHCP
10 21 (1.04%) OSPF
11 19 (0.94%) LAN
11 19 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
12 14 (0.69%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.64%) SAN
13 13 (0.64%) SSL
14 11 (0.54%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.49%) SNMP
16 9 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
16 9 (0.44%) VLAN
17 8 (0.39%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 87 (4.29%) Data Lake
4 77 (3.80%) Power BI
5 76 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
6 65 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.81%) BigQuery
8 56 (2.76%) DynamoDB
9 55 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 55 (2.71%) NoSQL
10 49 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 49 (2.42%) MongoDB
11 47 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.27%) Delta Lake
13 34 (1.68%) Relational Database
14 33 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 31 (1.53%) Redis
16 29 (1.43%) Big Data
16 29 (1.43%) Tableau
17 28 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 373 (18.39%) Jenkins
2 315 (15.53%) GitLab
3 283 (13.95%) Git
4 120 (5.92%) JIRA
5 45 (2.22%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.28%) Maven
9 20 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.89%) MLflow
11 17 (0.84%) Gatling
12 15 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 14 (0.69%) Liquibase
14 13 (0.64%) Snyk
15 10 (0.49%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.44%) git-flow
16 9 (0.44%) JUnit
16 9 (0.44%) Terragrunt
17 7 (0.35%) Gradle
17 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 374 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 293 (14.45%) Public Sector
3 216 (10.65%) Finance
4 104 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (4.24%) Banking
6 57 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.08%) Retail
9 19 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.84%) Legal
11 13 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.59%) Health Technology
12 12 (0.59%) Law
13 11 (0.54%) Military
14 9 (0.44%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.35%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.30%) Front Office
17 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 439 (21.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 286 (14.10%) Senior
3 234 (11.54%) Architect
4 196 (9.66%) Azure Engineer
5 193 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 184 (9.07%) AWS Engineer
7 183 (9.02%) Developer
8 168 (8.28%) Data Engineer
9 161 (7.94%) Lead
10 155 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
11 109 (5.37%) GCP Engineer
12 107 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 102 (5.03%) AWS DevOps
14 97 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 91 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 88 (4.34%) Site Engineer
17 79 (3.90%) Software Engineer
18 73 (3.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 69 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 64 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (9.02%) Kafka
2 127 (6.26%) Node.js
3 110 (5.42%) .NET
3 110 (5.42%) React
4 104 (5.13%) REST
5 78 (3.85%) PySpark
6 74 (3.65%) ARM Templates
7 72 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 71 (3.50%) OAuth
9 69 (3.40%) RESTful
10 67 (3.30%) Spring
11 63 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (2.96%) Spring Boot
13 53 (2.61%) AngularJS
13 53 (2.61%) YAML
14 50 (2.47%) OpenID
15 40 (1.97%) AWS CDK
15 40 (1.97%) OAuth2
16 36 (1.78%) JSON
17 33 (1.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 408 (20.12%) Cloud Native
2 100 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 94 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 67 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 50 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 40 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.48%) NHS
11 28 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.38%) PKI
12 27 (1.33%) Replication
13 26 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 21 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 18 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (0.79%) Clustering
17 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 333 (16.42%) Linux
2 149 (7.35%) Windows
3 47 (2.32%) VMS
4 45 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.12%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.68%) Unix
7 15 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.49%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.099%) Debian
10 2 (0.099%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.099%) zOS
11 1 (0.049%) AIX
11 1 (0.049%) Android
11 1 (0.049%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.049%) Rocky
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,346 (66.37%) CI/CD
2 1,307 (64.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,197 (59.02%) DevOps
4 495 (24.41%) Containerisation
5 452 (22.29%) Agile
6 399 (19.67%) Observability
7 330 (16.27%) Platform Engineering
8 277 (13.66%) Migration
9 267 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
10 260 (12.82%) Analytics
11 241 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 237 (11.69%) AI
13 222 (10.95%) Microservices
14 213 (10.50%) Software Engineering
15 206 (10.16%) Test Automation
16 197 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 195 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
18 189 (9.32%) Cloud Security
19 182 (8.97%) DevSecOps
20 167 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 939 (46.30%) Python
2 333 (16.42%) SQL
3 287 (14.15%) Bash
4 277 (13.66%) PowerShell
5 232 (11.44%) Java
6 183 (9.02%) Bicep
7 126 (6.21%) JavaScript
8 121 (5.97%) C#
9 115 (5.67%) TypeScript
10 91 (4.49%) Go
11 47 (2.32%) Scala
12 43 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.68%) Ruby
14 33 (1.63%) Groovy
15 14 (0.69%) Rust
16 8 (0.39%) C
17 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.35%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 726 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 613 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 140 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 117 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 115 (5.67%) DV Cleared
6 76 (3.75%) Degree
7 66 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.43%) CCNP
13 26 (1.28%) CISSP
14 16 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 14 (0.69%) OCP
17 13 (0.64%) CCIE
17 13 (0.64%) CCNA
17 13 (0.64%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 71 (3.50%) GDPR
3 64 (3.16%) QA
4 54 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.61%) NIST
6 37 (1.82%) NCSC
7 33 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) SLA
10 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.54%) GRC
10 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.39%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.25%) HL7
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.099%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.099%) PSD2
System Software
1 568 (28.01%) Docker
2 92 (4.54%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.82%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.43%) vSphere
8 25 (1.23%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.54%) Squid
10 8 (0.39%) 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 3 (0.15%) Ceph
16 2 (0.099%) Corosync
16 2 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 809 (39.89%) Kubernetes
2 487 (24.01%) Ansible
3 272 (13.41%) Grafana
4 235 (11.59%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.94%) Argo
6 48 (2.37%) Istio
7 45 (2.22%) Puppet
8 37 (1.82%) Packer
9 36 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 29 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.13%) Consul
12 23 (1.13%) Kibana
13 18 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.84%) Rancher
15 11 (0.54%) linkerd
15 11 (0.54%) Podman
16 9 (0.44%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 326 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.02%) Google
3 141 (6.95%) Databricks
4 124 (6.11%) Splunk
5 108 (5.33%) VMware
6 87 (4.29%) Red Hat
7 62 (3.06%) Oracle
8 53 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 51 (2.51%) Dynatrace
10 43 (2.12%) Cisco
11 27 (1.33%) Pure Storage
12 25 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 24 (1.18%) IBM
14 23 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 20 (0.99%) OpenAI
16 19 (0.94%) Atlassian
17 16 (0.79%) Citrix
17 16 (0.79%) F5
17 16 (0.79%) PagerDuty
17 16 (0.79%) SolarWinds