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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,229 1,292 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.08% 5.00% 3.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.83% 31.91% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 893 1,020
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 11
10th Percentile £45.24 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £54.98 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £74.50 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +12.74% -9.68% -20.51%

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 5,892 4,049 4,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.43% 15.68% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,053 2,706 3,376
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £514 £510 £519
% change year-on-year +0.78% -1.78% -5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 45 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +68.00% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.48 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.14 £32.50
% change year-on-year +56.54% +8.11% -43.48%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +2 1,201 £550 +3.33% 428
North of England +27 471 £500 - 139
Yorkshire +8 233 £500 -2.44% 38
North West +40 177 £525 +2.44% 82
South East -20 167 £543 +8.50% 165
Midlands -8 138 £511 -2.76% 54
South West -5 129 £550 -10.57% 114
West Midlands -8 113 £513 -6.82% 36
North East +5 75 £425 -10.05% 20
East of England -8 49 £525 +5.00% 20
East Midlands -16 23 £463 -7.50% 18
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
1 103 (4.62%) Confluence
2 91 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (3.05%) Apache
5 34 (1.53%) Jupyter
6 31 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.03%) nginx
8 14 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.54%) SAS
10 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.27%) IIS
11 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.090%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.090%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.090%) Drupal
14 2 (0.090%) Traefik
14 2 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.045%) InDesign
6 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.13%) Maximo
2 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.090%) Endur
3 2 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.045%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.045%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.045%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (56.03%) AWS
2 1,094 (49.08%) Azure
3 593 (26.60%) GitHub
4 465 (20.86%) GCP
5 404 (18.12%) GitHub Actions
6 370 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
7 362 (16.24%) Serverless
8 288 (12.92%) Amazon S3
9 272 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 261 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
11 200 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
12 167 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 152 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
14 149 (6.68%) Azure AKS
15 143 (6.42%) Entra ID
16 139 (6.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 138 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 119 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
19 114 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
20 103 (4.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 228 (10.23%) Firewall
2 152 (6.82%) DNS
3 122 (5.47%) VPN
4 104 (4.67%) Network Security
5 84 (3.77%) WAN
6 65 (2.92%) BGP
7 47 (2.11%) SD-WAN
8 45 (2.02%) OSPF
9 42 (1.88%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.57%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.17%) BIG-IP
13 25 (1.12%) DHCP
14 21 (0.94%) VLAN
15 20 (0.90%) LAN
15 20 (0.90%) SAN
16 19 (0.85%) SSL
17 16 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
18 14 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
4 79 (3.54%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.36%) Power BI
6 73 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 68 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.87%) BigQuery
9 62 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
10 61 (2.74%) NoSQL
11 57 (2.56%) DynamoDB
12 53 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 51 (2.29%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.84%) Relational Database
15 39 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 34 (1.53%) Redis
17 30 (1.35%) Big Data
17 30 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
18 29 (1.30%) Metadata
18 29 (1.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 402 (18.03%) GitLab
2 385 (17.27%) Jenkins
3 309 (13.86%) Git
4 143 (6.42%) JIRA
5 45 (2.02%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.08%) Maven
9 20 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.81%) MLflow
10 18 (0.81%) Snyk
11 12 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.49%) Gatling
13 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.45%) JUnit
13 10 (0.45%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.40%) git-flow
14 9 (0.40%) MSI
15 8 (0.36%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 393 (17.63%) Social Skills
2 324 (14.54%) Public Sector
3 264 (11.84%) Finance
4 116 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (4.08%) Banking
6 69 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.44%) Retail
9 23 (1.03%) Legal
9 23 (1.03%) Military
10 21 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 20 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (0.76%) Publishing
13 15 (0.67%) Law
14 14 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.45%) Billing
17 9 (0.40%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 508 (22.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 368 (16.51%) Senior
3 254 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 233 (10.45%) Architect
5 217 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
6 209 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
7 183 (8.21%) Data Engineer
7 183 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
8 181 (8.12%) Developer
9 177 (7.94%) Lead
10 131 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 110 (4.93%) AWS DevOps
12 108 (4.85%) GCP Engineer
13 101 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 95 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 85 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
16 82 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 81 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 76 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 69 (3.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (7.72%) Kafka
2 118 (5.29%) REST
3 114 (5.11%) .NET
4 102 (4.58%) PySpark
5 99 (4.44%) Node.js
6 98 (4.40%) React
7 84 (3.77%) OAuth
8 77 (3.45%) RESTful
9 65 (2.92%) ARM Templates
9 65 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
10 64 (2.87%) YAML
11 58 (2.60%) OpenID
12 57 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (2.51%) OAuth2
13 56 (2.51%) Spring
14 52 (2.33%) Spring Boot
15 44 (1.97%) JSON
16 40 (1.79%) AWS CDK
17 37 (1.66%) AngularJS
18 33 (1.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 532 (23.87%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 66 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 42 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 33 (1.48%) Replication
11 30 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
12 28 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.26%) PKI
13 27 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 26 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.12%) NHS
16 20 (0.90%) Management Information System
17 18 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 337 (15.12%) Linux
2 189 (8.48%) Windows
3 76 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.39%) VMS
6 28 (1.26%) Unix
7 26 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.58%) CentOS
9 9 (0.40%) AIX
9 9 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.090%) Rocky
14 2 (0.090%) Solaris
14 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,526 (68.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,491 (66.89%) CI/CD
3 1,322 (59.31%) DevOps
4 530 (23.78%) Containerisation
5 529 (23.73%) Agile
6 448 (20.10%) Observability
7 435 (19.52%) Platform Engineering
8 307 (13.77%) AI
9 272 (12.20%) Migration
10 267 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
11 250 (11.22%) Analytics
12 236 (10.59%) Test Automation
13 228 (10.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 226 (10.14%) Cloud Security
14 226 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 223 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 222 (9.96%) Software Engineering
17 214 (9.60%) Microservices
18 213 (9.56%) Infrastructure Automation
19 186 (8.34%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (45.98%) Python
2 351 (15.75%) SQL
3 336 (15.07%) Bash
4 325 (14.58%) PowerShell
5 254 (11.40%) Java
6 215 (9.65%) Bicep
7 126 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 120 (5.38%) C#
9 113 (5.07%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.72%) Go
11 49 (2.20%) Scala
12 47 (2.11%) Groovy
13 34 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.81%) Ruby
15 17 (0.76%) Rust
16 11 (0.49%) C
17 9 (0.40%) R
18 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
19 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 779 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 647 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 142 (6.37%) DV Cleared
4 138 (6.19%) Azure Certification
5 112 (5.02%) AWS Certification
6 87 (3.90%) Degree
7 63 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.30%) CCNP
13 28 (1.26%) CISSP
14 17 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.72%) CCNA
16 15 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.63%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.49%) CCIE
18 11 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 10 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 58 (2.60%) QA
3 54 (2.42%) GDPR
4 45 (2.02%) NIST
5 43 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.66%) NCSC
8 31 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.63%) WCAG
10 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.49%) SLA
12 10 (0.45%) GRC
13 7 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.18%) HL7
15 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 591 (26.51%) Docker
2 107 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 80 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 27 (1.21%) vSphere
8 21 (0.94%) Squid
9 14 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.49%) NFS
12 9 (0.40%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.090%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.090%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.090%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 838 (37.60%) Kubernetes
2 489 (21.94%) Ansible
3 272 (12.20%) Grafana
4 244 (10.95%) Prometheus
5 77 (3.45%) Argo
6 53 (2.38%) Puppet
7 39 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.62%) Istio
9 32 (1.44%) Packer
10 27 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.99%) FortiGate
13 18 (0.81%) Kibana
14 15 (0.67%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.58%) Consul
15 13 (0.58%) Podman
16 12 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
16 12 (0.54%) Rancher
17 11 (0.49%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 338 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 209 (9.38%) Google
3 128 (5.74%) Databricks
4 123 (5.52%) Splunk
5 108 (4.85%) VMware
6 84 (3.77%) Oracle
7 83 (3.72%) Red Hat
8 74 (3.32%) Dynatrace
9 61 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 55 (2.47%) Cisco
10 55 (2.47%) Palo Alto
11 39 (1.75%) F5
12 34 (1.53%) Arista
13 33 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 29 (1.30%) Zscaler
15 25 (1.12%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.03%) Aruba
17 22 (0.99%) Foundry
18 21 (0.94%) Informatica
18 21 (0.94%) Pure Storage