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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,194 1,261 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.06% 5.00% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.82% 31.70% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 879 1,020
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £634 £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 13 7 10
10th Percentile £43.91 £26.60 £44.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £48.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile - £80.40 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -25.00%

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 5,801 3,978 4,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.37% 15.78% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 2,663 3,379
10th Percentile £322 £303 £297
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £515
% change year-on-year - -0.52% -6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 39 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £15.83
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +72.13% -43.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £37.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +48.00% +19.05% -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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +3 1,196 £550 +2.09% 291
North of England +25 455 £500 - 110
Yorkshire +10 228 £500 -3.61% 31
North West +31 168 £525 +2.44% 60
South East -18 161 £546 +9.25% 144
Midlands -25 132 £500 -4.76% 37
South West -9 125 £550 -10.57% 62
West Midlands -12 109 £511 -7.18% 26
North East +6 73 £425 -10.05% 20
East of England -17 47 £525 +5.00% 16
East Midlands -7 22 £450 -10.00% 11
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 99 (4.51%) Confluence
2 91 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (3.10%) Apache
5 34 (1.55%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.05%) nginx
8 14 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.50%) SAS
10 6 (0.27%) IIS
10 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.091%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.091%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.091%) Drupal
13 2 (0.091%) Traefik
13 2 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.046%) InDesign
6 1 (0.046%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.18%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.14%) Maximo
3 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.091%) Endur
4 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.046%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,241 (56.56%) AWS
2 1,077 (49.09%) Azure
3 586 (26.71%) GitHub
4 460 (20.97%) GCP
5 400 (18.23%) GitHub Actions
6 368 (16.77%) Serverless
7 358 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
8 287 (13.08%) Amazon S3
9 276 (12.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 265 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
11 200 (9.12%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 148 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
14 145 (6.61%) Azure AKS
15 140 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 139 (6.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 135 (6.15%) Entra ID
18 121 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
19 107 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
20 106 (4.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 229 (10.44%) Firewall
2 151 (6.88%) DNS
3 119 (5.42%) VPN
4 103 (4.69%) Network Security
5 82 (3.74%) WAN
6 64 (2.92%) BGP
7 47 (2.14%) SD-WAN
8 44 (2.01%) OSPF
9 42 (1.91%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.60%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.19%) BIG-IP
13 25 (1.14%) DHCP
14 21 (0.96%) SAN
14 21 (0.96%) VLAN
15 19 (0.87%) LAN
16 17 (0.77%) SSL
17 16 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
18 14 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 79 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 77 (3.51%) Power BI
6 69 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 67 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 63 (2.87%) NoSQL
9 62 (2.83%) BigQuery
9 62 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
10 58 (2.64%) DynamoDB
11 51 (2.32%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.28%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.87%) Relational Database
14 39 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (1.78%) Redis
15 30 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 30 (1.37%) Big Data
16 29 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
17 28 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 400 (18.23%) GitLab
2 384 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 296 (13.49%) Git
4 140 (6.38%) JIRA
5 45 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.50%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.05%) Maven
9 19 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.82%) Snyk
11 17 (0.77%) MLflow
12 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.55%) Gatling
13 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.46%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.41%) git-flow
14 9 (0.41%) JUnit
15 8 (0.36%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.32%) Mockito
16 7 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 391 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 323 (14.72%) Public Sector
3 251 (11.44%) Finance
4 114 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (4.10%) Banking
6 66 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 55 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.46%) Retail
9 23 (1.05%) Military
10 22 (1.00%) Legal
11 19 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 16 (0.73%) Publishing
13 15 (0.68%) Law
14 12 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.41%) Billing
17 9 (0.41%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 497 (22.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 358 (16.32%) Senior
3 249 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (10.57%) Architect
5 213 (9.71%) AWS Engineer
6 207 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
7 182 (8.30%) Data Engineer
8 178 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
9 175 (7.98%) Developer
10 169 (7.70%) Lead
11 129 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
13 107 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
14 98 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 94 (4.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 84 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
16 84 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 80 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 75 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 68 (3.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.02%) Kafka
2 113 (5.15%) REST
3 109 (4.97%) .NET
4 101 (4.60%) PySpark
4 101 (4.60%) React
5 99 (4.51%) Node.js
6 89 (4.06%) OAuth
7 78 (3.56%) RESTful
8 67 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
9 63 (2.87%) OpenID
10 61 (2.78%) ARM Templates
10 61 (2.78%) YAML
11 59 (2.69%) OAuth2
12 58 (2.64%) Spring
13 55 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (2.51%) Spring Boot
14 44 (2.01%) JSON
15 40 (1.82%) AWS CDK
16 37 (1.69%) AngularJS
17 32 (1.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 527 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.47%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 69 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 64 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 43 (1.96%) Security Posture
9 36 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 32 (1.46%) Replication
12 31 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
14 28 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 28 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.23%) PKI
16 26 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
17 25 (1.14%) NHS
18 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
19 17 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 328 (14.95%) Linux
2 181 (8.25%) Windows
3 76 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.46%) VMS
6 27 (1.23%) Unix
7 26 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.59%) CentOS
9 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.32%) AIX
11 7 (0.32%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.091%) Debian
14 2 (0.091%) Rocky
14 2 (0.091%) Solaris
14 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,506 (68.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,471 (67.05%) CI/CD
3 1,301 (59.30%) DevOps
4 519 (23.66%) Agile
5 518 (23.61%) Containerisation
6 440 (20.05%) Observability
7 420 (19.14%) Platform Engineering
8 310 (14.13%) AI
9 271 (12.35%) Migration
10 263 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
11 244 (11.12%) Analytics
12 234 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 229 (10.44%) Test Automation
14 227 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 218 (9.94%) Cloud Security
15 218 (9.94%) Software Engineering
16 215 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 212 (9.66%) Microservices
18 207 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
19 185 (8.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (46.26%) Python
2 355 (16.18%) SQL
3 325 (14.81%) Bash
4 314 (14.31%) PowerShell
5 250 (11.39%) Java
6 199 (9.07%) Bicep
7 124 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 115 (5.24%) C#
9 111 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.78%) Go
11 47 (2.14%) Scala
12 46 (2.10%) Groovy
13 34 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.82%) Rust
15 17 (0.77%) Ruby
16 10 (0.46%) C
17 9 (0.41%) R
18 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
19 7 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 770 (35.10%) Security Cleared
2 638 (29.08%) SC Cleared
3 140 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 137 (6.24%) DV Cleared
5 114 (5.20%) AWS Certification
6 85 (3.87%) Degree
7 61 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 39 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.28%) CCNP
12 27 (1.23%) CISSP
13 17 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.73%) CCNA
15 15 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 14 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.50%) CCIE
17 11 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 61 (2.78%) QA
3 53 (2.42%) GDPR
4 47 (2.14%) NIST
5 46 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.60%) NCSC
8 34 (1.55%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.50%) SLA
10 11 (0.50%) WCAG
11 10 (0.46%) GRC
12 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.18%) HL7
13 4 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.18%) PSD2
14 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 583 (26.57%) Docker
2 103 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.23%) vSphere
8 26 (1.19%) VMware NSX
9 18 (0.82%) Squid
10 12 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
10 12 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.46%) KVM
11 10 (0.46%) NFS
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.091%) Corosync
14 2 (0.091%) GPFS
14 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 823 (37.51%) Kubernetes
2 481 (21.92%) Ansible
3 270 (12.31%) Grafana
4 242 (11.03%) Prometheus
5 74 (3.37%) Argo
6 50 (2.28%) Puppet
7 39 (1.78%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.64%) Istio
9 31 (1.41%) Packer
10 28 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.82%) Kibana
14 14 (0.64%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.59%) Podman
16 12 (0.55%) Consul
16 12 (0.55%) Rancher
17 11 (0.50%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 327 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 215 (9.80%) Google
3 126 (5.74%) Databricks
4 118 (5.38%) Splunk
5 105 (4.79%) VMware
6 83 (3.78%) Red Hat
7 81 (3.69%) Oracle
8 74 (3.37%) Dynatrace
9 60 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 54 (2.46%) Cisco
10 54 (2.46%) Palo Alto
11 39 (1.78%) F5
12 34 (1.55%) OpenAI
13 33 (1.50%) Arista
14 28 (1.28%) Zscaler
15 25 (1.14%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.05%) Foundry
17 22 (1.00%) Aruba
17 22 (1.00%) Pure Storage
18 20 (0.91%) Informatica