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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 -17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,892 1,353 1,310
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.41% 5.23% 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.52% 34.56% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 940 998
10th Percentile £400 £405 £431
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £701 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £62.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £67.36 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -

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 5,327 3,915 4,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.25% 15.14% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,678 2,567 3,384
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +2.10% -9.87%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 42 149
10th Percentile £18.65 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £21.01 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £26.00 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +104.81% -35.50% -16.02%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £77.19 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.76% -44.78% -2.78%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +1 1,014 £525 -12.50% 257
North of England 0 379 £500 -4.76% 121
Yorkshire -1 205 £500 -4.76% 36
South East +5 146 £500 -13.04% 139
Midlands +15 143 £537 +7.35% 40
North West -7 129 £500 -4.76% 64
West Midlands +11 123 £538 +1.13% 35
South West -4 118 £550 -10.57% 46
North East -8 48 £475 -12.84% 21
East of England -34 21 £550 +34.15% 11
East Midlands -14 19 £428 -12.31% 5
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 73 (3.86%) Confluence
2 63 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 57 (3.01%) Apache
4 50 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.85%) nginx
6 26 (1.37%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) Actimize
4 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.053%) Endur
4 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (55.60%) AWS
2 833 (44.03%) Azure
3 527 (27.85%) GitHub
4 386 (20.40%) GCP
5 354 (18.71%) Serverless
6 335 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
7 318 (16.81%) Azure DevOps
8 317 (16.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 254 (13.42%) Amazon S3
10 226 (11.95%) AWS Lambda
11 181 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (8.19%) Amazon EC2
13 152 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (7.35%) OpenShift
15 138 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
16 135 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 125 (6.61%) Azure AKS
17 125 (6.61%) Entra ID
18 122 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
19 102 (5.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 189 (9.99%) Firewall
2 135 (7.14%) DNS
3 108 (5.71%) Network Security
3 108 (5.71%) VPN
4 51 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 43 (2.27%) WAN
6 31 (1.64%) BGP
7 29 (1.53%) SD-WAN
8 28 (1.48%) DHCP
8 28 (1.48%) LAN
9 25 (1.32%) OSPF
9 25 (1.32%) SSL
10 14 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
10 14 (0.74%) VXLAN
11 12 (0.63%) HTTP
11 12 (0.63%) VLAN
12 11 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
13 10 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (0.53%) MPLS
13 10 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (4.18%) Data Lake
4 71 (3.75%) Power BI
5 69 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 58 (3.07%) MongoDB
7 56 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
8 52 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
10 45 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.22%) SQL Server
12 41 (2.17%) DynamoDB
13 36 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (1.90%) Relational Database
14 34 (1.80%) Redis
15 32 (1.69%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
17 24 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
18 23 (1.22%) Tableau
19 20 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 413 (21.83%) Jenkins
2 381 (20.14%) GitLab
3 251 (13.27%) Git
4 92 (4.86%) JIRA
5 45 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 34 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 33 (1.74%) Liquibase
8 27 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.27%) Maven
10 23 (1.22%) CircleCI
11 21 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.79%) MLflow
13 14 (0.74%) Gradle
14 13 (0.69%) JUnit
15 12 (0.63%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.53%) Selenium
16 10 (0.53%) Snyk
17 8 (0.42%) Gatling
17 8 (0.42%) Postman
17 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 415 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 301 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 209 (11.05%) Finance
4 100 (5.29%) Banking
5 97 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.06%) Retail
12 18 (0.95%) Military
13 11 (0.58%) Law
14 8 (0.42%) Marketing
14 8 (0.42%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.37%) Legal
16 6 (0.32%) Billing
16 6 (0.32%) Games
16 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 443 (23.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 250 (13.21%) Senior
3 210 (11.10%) Architect
4 200 (10.57%) AWS Engineer
5 170 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
6 167 (8.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 166 (8.77%) Lead
8 163 (8.62%) Developer
9 154 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
10 139 (7.35%) Data Engineer
11 113 (5.97%) AWS DevOps
12 102 (5.39%) Software Engineer
13 97 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 97 (5.13%) GCP Engineer
14 92 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 80 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 76 (4.02%) Site Engineer
17 75 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
18 68 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (10.04%) Kafka
2 126 (6.66%) REST
3 119 (6.29%) Node.js
4 102 (5.39%) React
5 100 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
6 87 (4.60%) RESTful
7 82 (4.33%) ARM Templates
8 81 (4.28%) .NET
9 68 (3.59%) OAuth
10 63 (3.33%) PySpark
11 62 (3.28%) Spring
12 58 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 51 (2.70%) YAML
14 48 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
15 44 (2.33%) AngularJS
16 43 (2.27%) OpenID
17 37 (1.96%) OAuth2
18 32 (1.69%) AWS CDK
19 30 (1.59%) SAML
20 29 (1.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 339 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 113 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.54%) Data Centre
6 45 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 37 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.64%) Security Posture
10 30 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.59%) NHS
11 26 (1.37%) PKI
12 25 (1.32%) Replication
13 24 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (0.79%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.79%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.69%) Clustering
17 11 (0.58%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 365 (19.29%) Linux
2 153 (8.09%) Windows
3 49 (2.59%) VMS
4 47 (2.48%) Unix
5 43 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 41 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.69%) CentOS
9 10 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.16%) Solaris
12 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.053%) Android
13 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.053%) Rocky
13 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,302 (68.82%) CI/CD
2 1,201 (63.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,191 (62.95%) DevOps
4 500 (26.43%) Containerisation
5 402 (21.25%) Agile
6 352 (18.60%) Observability
7 271 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
8 264 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
9 263 (13.90%) Migration
10 238 (12.58%) Microservices
11 230 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
12 228 (12.05%) Analytics
13 217 (11.47%) Software Engineering
14 209 (11.05%) AI
15 203 (10.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 185 (9.78%) Cloud Security
17 182 (9.62%) DevSecOps
17 182 (9.62%) Test Automation
18 173 (9.14%) Mentoring
19 163 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 939 (49.63%) Python
2 300 (15.86%) Bash
3 278 (14.69%) SQL
4 247 (13.05%) PowerShell
5 213 (11.26%) Java
6 153 (8.09%) Bicep
7 132 (6.98%) Go
8 126 (6.66%) JavaScript
9 99 (5.23%) TypeScript
10 93 (4.92%) C#
11 54 (2.85%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.53%) Groovy
12 29 (1.53%) Ruby
13 23 (1.22%) Scala
14 14 (0.74%) Rust
15 8 (0.42%) C
15 8 (0.42%) PHP
16 6 (0.32%) C++
16 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 673 (35.57%) Security Cleared
2 557 (29.44%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.29%) AWS Certification
4 119 (6.29%) Azure Certification
5 115 (6.08%) Degree
6 110 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 80 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.64%) Master's Degree
10 44 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (1.69%) CISSP
14 24 (1.27%) CCNP
15 18 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.90%) CISM
17 16 (0.85%) CCIE
18 11 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.96%) GDPR
3 61 (3.22%) QA
4 58 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.91%) NIST
6 47 (2.48%) NCSC
7 31 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 10 (0.53%) SLA
10 9 (0.48%) GRC
11 7 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.21%) HL7
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 597 (31.55%) Docker
2 102 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 75 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (2.01%) vSphere
6 34 (1.80%) VMware NSX
7 32 (1.69%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.69%) Squid
10 9 (0.48%) KVM
11 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.26%) Lustre
13 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 4 (0.21%) GPFS
14 4 (0.21%) Postfix
15 3 (0.16%) NFS
15 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 799 (42.23%) Kubernetes
2 518 (27.38%) Ansible
3 291 (15.38%) Grafana
4 252 (13.32%) Prometheus
5 70 (3.70%) Argo
6 45 (2.38%) Istio
7 40 (2.11%) Puppet
8 38 (2.01%) Packer
9 36 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 36 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (1.43%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.06%) Consul
12 18 (0.95%) Kibana
13 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (0.85%) Podman
14 12 (0.63%) logstash
15 11 (0.58%) FortiGate
15 11 (0.58%) Rancher
16 10 (0.53%) Nessus
17 9 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 278 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.83%) Google
3 137 (7.24%) Databricks
4 127 (6.71%) Splunk
5 116 (6.13%) VMware
6 78 (4.12%) Red Hat
7 50 (2.64%) Oracle
8 49 (2.59%) Dynatrace
9 43 (2.27%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.11%) Cisco
10 40 (2.11%) F5
10 40 (2.11%) Palo Alto
11 32 (1.69%) IBM
12 29 (1.53%) Pure Storage
13 26 (1.37%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.16%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.00%) Atlassian
15 19 (1.00%) SolarWinds
16 18 (0.95%) OpenAI
17 17 (0.90%) Citrix