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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 38 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,949 1,304 1,281
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 5.28% 3.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.64% 33.43% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 926 956
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £447 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £559
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.79% -6.88%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £560
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.89% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 11
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £46.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £58.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.08% -21.77% -21.52%
75th Percentile £81.50 £68.13 £75.49
90th Percentile £85.10 £78.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £48.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -21.77% -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 5,469 3,901 4,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.63% 15.80% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,785 2,645 3,262
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 39 132
10th Percentile £19.33 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.35 £21.05 £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £57.63
90th Percentile £77.43 £77.74 £69.86
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +115.69% -20.31% -41.82%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 1,049 £535 -6.96% 273
North of England +12 389 £500 -4.76% 135
Yorkshire +5 205 £500 -4.76% 48
North West +19 146 £519 -1.13% 65
Midlands +2 145 £525 -2.51% 36
South East -13 145 £500 -11.19% 143
South West -2 121 £550 -10.57% 78
West Midlands -3 120 £537 -8.76% 28
North East -8 42 £466 -11.24% 23
East Midlands -24 24 £447 -8.31% 7
East of England -36 20 £494 +2.07% 36
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 (4.31%) Confluence
2 71 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 63 (3.23%) Apache
4 50 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.69%) nginx
6 21 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.15%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.10%) Weka
5 1 (0.051%) InDesign
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.41%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.051%) Actimize
4 1 (0.051%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.051%) Endur
4 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (54.75%) AWS
2 910 (46.69%) Azure
3 570 (29.25%) GitHub
4 405 (20.78%) GCP
5 377 (19.34%) Serverless
6 359 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
7 346 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
8 337 (17.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 264 (13.55%) Amazon S3
10 248 (12.72%) AWS Lambda
11 200 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (7.34%) OpenShift
14 140 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
15 139 (7.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 133 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 131 (6.72%) Azure AKS
18 128 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
19 124 (6.36%) Entra ID
20 111 (5.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 198 (10.16%) Firewall
2 145 (7.44%) DNS
3 114 (5.85%) VPN
4 102 (5.23%) Network Security
5 48 (2.46%) WAN
6 41 (2.10%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.69%) BGP
8 32 (1.64%) SD-WAN
9 31 (1.59%) DHCP
10 28 (1.44%) LAN
11 23 (1.18%) OSPF
12 18 (0.92%) VXLAN
13 17 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
14 15 (0.77%) SSL
15 12 (0.62%) VLAN
16 11 (0.56%) OpenVPN
16 11 (0.56%) SAN
16 11 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
17 10 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
18 9 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (4.31%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.80%) Power BI
5 62 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
6 59 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 54 (2.77%) SQL Server
8 52 (2.67%) MongoDB
9 50 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
10 48 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 47 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (2.41%) BigQuery
11 47 (2.41%) DynamoDB
12 41 (2.10%) Delta Lake
13 35 (1.80%) Redis
14 32 (1.64%) Relational Database
15 26 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 22 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
16 22 (1.13%) Tableau
17 20 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 409 (20.99%) Jenkins
2 354 (18.16%) GitLab
3 268 (13.75%) Git
4 108 (5.54%) JIRA
5 49 (2.51%) Artifactory
6 29 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.44%) SonarQube
8 25 (1.28%) Liquibase
9 21 (1.08%) Maven
10 19 (0.97%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.87%) MLflow
12 15 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.67%) Gatling
14 10 (0.51%) JUnit
14 10 (0.51%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.46%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.41%) git-flow
16 8 (0.41%) Snyk
17 7 (0.36%) Robot Framework
17 7 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 393 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 294 (15.08%) Public Sector
3 223 (11.44%) Finance
4 104 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (5.18%) Banking
6 51 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.03%) Retail
10 19 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 16 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.62%) Military
13 11 (0.56%) Law
13 11 (0.56%) Legal
14 8 (0.41%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.36%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.26%) Billing
16 5 (0.26%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 422 (21.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 262 (13.44%) Senior
3 233 (11.95%) Architect
4 189 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 187 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
6 180 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
7 166 (8.52%) Platform Engineer
8 164 (8.41%) Lead
9 162 (8.31%) Developer
10 142 (7.29%) Data Engineer
11 114 (5.85%) GCP Engineer
12 103 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
13 98 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 93 (4.77%) Software Engineer
15 87 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 84 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 81 (4.16%) Site Engineer
18 77 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 62 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
19 62 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (9.59%) Kafka
2 124 (6.36%) REST
3 117 (6.00%) Node.js
4 104 (5.34%) React
5 92 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
6 89 (4.57%) .NET
7 80 (4.10%) ARM Templates
8 79 (4.05%) RESTful
9 66 (3.39%) PySpark
10 64 (3.28%) OAuth
11 60 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 58 (2.98%) Spring
13 54 (2.77%) YAML
14 51 (2.62%) Spring Boot
15 48 (2.46%) AngularJS
16 43 (2.21%) OpenID
17 37 (1.90%) AWS CDK
18 36 (1.85%) OAuth2
19 29 (1.49%) .NET Core
19 29 (1.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 353 (18.11%) Cloud Native
2 105 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 67 (3.44%) Public Cloud
6 60 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.49%) NHS
10 29 (1.49%) PKI
11 28 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 26 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.13%) Replication
14 17 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.72%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.72%) Data Structures
17 13 (0.67%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 350 (17.96%) Linux
2 162 (8.31%) Windows
3 50 (2.57%) VMS
4 45 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 42 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.90%) Unix
7 12 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.46%) CentOS
9 6 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.051%) AIX
14 1 (0.051%) Android
14 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.051%) Rocky
14 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,319 (67.68%) CI/CD
2 1,249 (64.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,199 (61.52%) DevOps
4 513 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 427 (21.91%) Agile
6 376 (19.29%) Observability
7 302 (15.50%) Platform Engineering
8 277 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
9 267 (13.70%) Migration
10 247 (12.67%) Analytics
11 226 (11.60%) Microservices
12 223 (11.44%) Infrastructure Automation
13 219 (11.24%) AI
14 214 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 206 (10.57%) Software Engineering
16 190 (9.75%) Test Automation
17 185 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 182 (9.34%) Cloud Security
19 176 (9.03%) DevSecOps
20 172 (8.83%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 952 (48.85%) Python
2 314 (16.11%) Bash
3 305 (15.65%) SQL
4 274 (14.06%) PowerShell
5 206 (10.57%) Java
6 166 (8.52%) Bicep
7 117 (6.00%) Go
8 116 (5.95%) JavaScript
9 104 (5.34%) TypeScript
10 99 (5.08%) C#
11 45 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.64%) Ruby
12 32 (1.64%) Scala
13 26 (1.33%) Groovy
14 15 (0.77%) Rust
15 9 (0.46%) C
16 8 (0.41%) PHP
17 6 (0.31%) C++
17 6 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 685 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 565 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 130 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 108 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 99 (5.08%) Degree
6 73 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 52 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (2.00%) Master's Degree
11 35 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.59%) CISSP
13 30 (1.54%) CCNP
14 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.82%) CCIE
17 15 (0.77%) CISM
18 14 (0.72%) OCP
19 12 (0.62%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.98%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.05%) GDPR
3 67 (3.44%) QA
4 60 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (2.92%) NIST
6 45 (2.31%) NCSC
7 34 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.62%) SLA
11 11 (0.56%) GRC
12 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.51%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.26%) HL7
15 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 584 (29.96%) Docker
2 100 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 85 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.36%) vSphere
6 37 (1.90%) VMware NSX
7 33 (1.69%) Hyper-V
8 31 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.51%) Squid
10 7 (0.36%) KVM
11 6 (0.31%) NFS
12 5 (0.26%) Lustre
12 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.21%) Firmware
13 4 (0.21%) GPFS
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.10%) Ceph
15 2 (0.10%) HDFS
16 1 (0.051%) iptables
Systems Management
1 807 (41.41%) Kubernetes
2 514 (26.37%) Ansible
3 290 (14.88%) Grafana
4 253 (12.98%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.21%) Argo
6 50 (2.57%) Istio
7 40 (2.05%) Puppet
8 39 (2.00%) Packer
9 37 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 32 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 31 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.08%) Consul
13 17 (0.87%) Rancher
14 14 (0.72%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.72%) Kibana
14 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.72%) Podman
15 11 (0.56%) linkerd
16 9 (0.46%) Sysdig
17 7 (0.36%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 303 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 185 (9.49%) Google
3 143 (7.34%) Databricks
4 130 (6.67%) Splunk
5 126 (6.46%) VMware
6 94 (4.82%) Red Hat
7 54 (2.77%) Oracle
8 46 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 46 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 39 (2.00%) Cisco
10 34 (1.74%) Pure Storage
11 30 (1.54%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.33%) F5
13 25 (1.28%) IBM
14 24 (1.23%) Fortinet
15 21 (1.08%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.03%) Atlassian
17 17 (0.87%) Citrix
18 16 (0.82%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.82%) PagerDuty