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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 40 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,142 1,234 1,344
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.00% 5.00% 3.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.78% 31.71% 29.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 869 1,001
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.71% -3.86% -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 £73.00 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £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 5,669 3,891 4,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.24% 15.76% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 2,625 3,365
10th Percentile £320 £305 £290
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 38 92
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.17
25th Percentile £31.25 £22.36 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 £42.25 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% +37.40% -43.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +2 1,170 £544 +0.46% 213
North of England +21 433 £500 -2.44% 111
Yorkshire +6 218 £500 -4.76% 27
South East -19 162 £513 +2.50% 136
North West +33 159 £525 +5.00% 66
Midlands -13 127 £511 -6.33% 27
South West -7 125 £550 -10.57% 56
West Midlands -18 103 £525 -4.55% 19
North East +3 69 £450 -8.16% 18
East of England -20 46 £513 +2.50% 21
East Midlands -18 23 £449 -10.30% 8
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 94 (4.39%) Confluence
2 90 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 72 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (3.08%) Apache
5 33 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 32 (1.49%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.03%) nginx
8 12 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.51%) SAS
10 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.14%) CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.093%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.093%) Drupal
14 2 (0.093%) Traefik
14 2 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.047%) InDesign
6 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.093%) Endur
4 2 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.047%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,184 (55.28%) AWS
2 1,044 (48.74%) Azure
3 597 (27.87%) GitHub
4 441 (20.59%) GCP
5 406 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
6 372 (17.37%) Serverless
7 358 (16.71%) Azure DevOps
8 285 (13.31%) Amazon S3
9 275 (12.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 267 (12.46%) AWS Lambda
11 204 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
12 172 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 146 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
14 145 (6.77%) Azure AKS
14 145 (6.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 135 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 126 (5.88%) Entra ID
17 125 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
18 108 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
18 108 (5.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 219 (10.22%) Firewall
2 140 (6.54%) DNS
3 113 (5.28%) VPN
4 101 (4.72%) Network Security
5 76 (3.55%) WAN
6 59 (2.75%) BGP
7 45 (2.10%) SD-WAN
8 42 (1.96%) OSPF
9 36 (1.68%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.63%) VXLAN
11 29 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.12%) BIG-IP
12 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 19 (0.89%) SAN
14 18 (0.84%) DHCP
15 17 (0.79%) SSL
16 16 (0.75%) LAN
16 16 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
16 16 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
4 85 (3.97%) Data Lake
5 79 (3.69%) Power BI
6 67 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 64 (2.99%) BigQuery
8 62 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 58 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
10 56 (2.61%) NoSQL
11 55 (2.57%) DynamoDB
12 53 (2.47%) Delta Lake
12 53 (2.47%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.87%) Redis
14 39 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (1.63%) Relational Database
16 31 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
17 30 (1.40%) Big Data
18 29 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
19 27 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 383 (17.88%) GitLab
2 379 (17.69%) Jenkins
3 288 (13.45%) Git
4 136 (6.35%) JIRA
5 45 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 38 (1.77%) Artifactory
7 26 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.12%) Maven
9 18 (0.84%) Snyk
10 16 (0.75%) MLflow
10 16 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.61%) Gatling
12 12 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.47%) git-flow
13 10 (0.47%) Liquibase
14 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.37%) JUnit
14 8 (0.37%) Terragrunt
15 6 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 385 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 308 (14.38%) Public Sector
3 234 (10.92%) Finance
4 108 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (4.01%) Banking
6 60 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.45%) Retail
9 21 (0.98%) Legal
9 21 (0.98%) Military
10 18 (0.84%) Law
11 16 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (0.70%) Publishing
13 13 (0.61%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.42%) Health Technology
17 7 (0.33%) Billing
17 7 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 483 (22.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 349 (16.29%) Senior
3 242 (11.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 218 (10.18%) Architect
5 212 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
6 206 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
7 180 (8.40%) Data Engineer
8 174 (8.12%) Platform Engineer
9 168 (7.84%) Developer
9 168 (7.84%) Lead
10 127 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 115 (5.37%) GCP Engineer
12 103 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
13 95 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 93 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 80 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
16 79 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 76 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 70 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (8.45%) Kafka
2 109 (5.09%) Node.js
3 107 (5.00%) React
4 103 (4.81%) .NET
5 102 (4.76%) REST
6 99 (4.62%) PySpark
7 81 (3.78%) OAuth
8 73 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
9 69 (3.22%) RESTful
10 67 (3.13%) ARM Templates
11 63 (2.94%) YAML
12 62 (2.89%) Spring
13 59 (2.75%) Spring Boot
14 58 (2.71%) OpenID
15 54 (2.52%) OAuth2
16 53 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
17 44 (2.05%) JSON
18 42 (1.96%) AWS CDK
19 41 (1.91%) AngularJS
20 31 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 500 (23.34%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 101 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 55 (2.57%) Onboarding
8 39 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 31 (1.45%) Replication
12 29 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
13 28 (1.31%) PKI
14 27 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 26 (1.21%) AI Agents
16 25 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
17 22 (1.03%) NHS
18 15 (0.70%) Management Information System
18 15 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 306 (14.29%) Linux
2 161 (7.52%) Windows
3 73 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.59%) VMS
6 28 (1.31%) Unix
7 26 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.65%) CentOS
9 8 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.33%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.093%) Debian
14 2 (0.093%) Rocky
14 2 (0.093%) Solaris
14 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,466 (68.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,447 (67.55%) CI/CD
3 1,289 (60.18%) DevOps
4 509 (23.76%) Containerisation
5 492 (22.97%) Agile
6 444 (20.73%) Observability
7 402 (18.77%) Platform Engineering
8 306 (14.29%) AI
9 266 (12.42%) Migration
10 253 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
11 247 (11.53%) Analytics
12 239 (11.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 221 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 218 (10.18%) Test Automation
15 213 (9.94%) Cloud Security
15 213 (9.94%) Software Engineering
16 212 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 202 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
17 202 (9.43%) Microservices
18 188 (8.78%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 979 (45.70%) Python
2 355 (16.57%) SQL
3 307 (14.33%) Bash
4 297 (13.87%) PowerShell
5 242 (11.30%) Java
6 192 (8.96%) Bicep
7 120 (5.60%) JavaScript
8 109 (5.09%) C#
9 106 (4.95%) TypeScript
10 82 (3.83%) Go
11 50 (2.33%) Scala
12 41 (1.91%) Groovy
13 36 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.84%) Ruby
15 17 (0.79%) Rust
16 9 (0.42%) R
17 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.33%) Perl
18 7 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 751 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 624 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 145 (6.77%) Azure Certification
4 133 (6.21%) DV Cleared
5 113 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 75 (3.50%) Degree
7 65 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 44 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.35%) CISSP
13 27 (1.26%) CCNP
14 17 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.75%) CCNA
16 14 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.56%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
19 10 (0.47%) OCP
19 10 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.80%) QA
3 56 (2.61%) GDPR
4 52 (2.43%) NIST
5 49 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.45%) NCSC
9 14 (0.65%) SLA
10 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.47%) GRC
12 9 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.23%) PSD2
16 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.19%) SEPA
17 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
17 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 571 (26.66%) Docker
2 92 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.35%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.31%) vSphere
8 23 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.89%) Squid
10 11 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.47%) KVM
11 10 (0.47%) NFS
11 10 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.093%) GPFS
14 2 (0.093%) Lustre
14 2 (0.093%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 799 (37.30%) Kubernetes
2 478 (22.32%) Ansible
3 270 (12.61%) Grafana
4 241 (11.25%) Prometheus
5 84 (3.92%) Argo
6 49 (2.29%) Puppet
7 47 (2.19%) Istio
8 37 (1.73%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.40%) Packer
10 29 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 22 (1.03%) FortiGate
13 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
14 18 (0.84%) Kibana
15 14 (0.65%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.56%) Consul
16 12 (0.56%) Podman
16 12 (0.56%) Rancher
17 11 (0.51%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 310 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 206 (9.62%) Google
3 127 (5.93%) Databricks
4 121 (5.65%) Splunk
5 107 (5.00%) VMware
6 88 (4.11%) Red Hat
7 80 (3.73%) Oracle
8 70 (3.27%) Dynatrace
9 59 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 51 (2.38%) Cisco
11 49 (2.29%) Palo Alto
12 36 (1.68%) F5
13 33 (1.54%) Arista
14 32 (1.49%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.21%) Fortinet
16 25 (1.17%) Zscaler
17 23 (1.07%) Aruba
18 22 (1.03%) IBM
18 22 (1.03%) Pure Storage
19 21 (0.98%) Foundry