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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,423 1,427 1,405
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.26% 5.17% 4.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.78% 20.32% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 988 997
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% -5.53%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £727
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 10
10th Percentile £57.25 £42.10 £54.13
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £59.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -5.13%
75th Percentile £84.02 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,779 7,022 8,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.46% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,428 4,778 5,448
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £667
90th Percentile £738 £749 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 168 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +4 1,279 £550 +4.76% 1,770
North of England +3 502 £500 -0.10% 398
Yorkshire -7 232 £513 - 117
South East -4 219 £574 +14.70% 314
South West +6 186 £550 - 230
North West +23 185 £575 +15.00% 223
Midlands -34 118 £477 -13.27% 164
North East -4 97 £425 -15.00% 60
West Midlands -38 93 £511 -7.18% 103
East of England -14 49 £549 +13.85% 84
East Midlands -3 24 £413 -15.38% 61
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
1 105 (4.33%) Confluence
2 102 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (4.04%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.47%) Apache
5 47 (1.94%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.65%) SharePoint
7 27 (1.11%) nginx
8 12 (0.50%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
13 5 (0.21%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.083%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.083%) PowerExchange
15 2 (0.083%) Traefik
16 1 (0.041%) MQSeries
16 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
6 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.041%) NUKE
6 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.083%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.083%) Endur
2 2 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,389 (57.33%) AWS
2 1,210 (49.94%) Azure
3 647 (26.70%) GitHub
4 499 (20.59%) GCP
5 456 (18.82%) GitHub Actions
6 429 (17.71%) Azure DevOps
7 347 (14.32%) Serverless
8 280 (11.56%) Amazon S3
9 257 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
10 256 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 226 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
12 202 (8.34%) Entra ID
13 201 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 164 (6.77%) Azure AKS
15 152 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
16 150 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
17 143 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 130 (5.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 123 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
20 99 (4.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 271 (11.18%) Firewall
2 193 (7.97%) DNS
3 130 (5.37%) VPN
4 120 (4.95%) Network Security
5 88 (3.63%) TCP/IP
6 82 (3.38%) DHCP
7 76 (3.14%) WAN
8 66 (2.72%) BGP
9 48 (1.98%) OSPF
10 46 (1.90%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.77%) VLAN
12 31 (1.28%) VSAN
13 30 (1.24%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.03%) SSH
17 24 (0.99%) BIG-IP
17 24 (0.99%) SSL
18 17 (0.70%) Internet
18 17 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (3.55%) Data Lake
3 86 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
5 71 (2.93%) DynamoDB
5 71 (2.93%) NoSQL
6 70 (2.89%) MongoDB
7 69 (2.85%) SQL Server
8 67 (2.77%) Power BI
9 66 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 66 (2.72%) BigQuery
10 50 (2.06%) Redis
11 49 (2.02%) MySQL
11 49 (2.02%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.86%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
14 43 (1.77%) Metadata
15 37 (1.53%) Big Data
16 33 (1.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 458 (18.90%) GitLab
2 380 (15.68%) Jenkins
3 366 (15.11%) Git
4 130 (5.37%) JIRA
5 45 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.28%) Maven
7 28 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 20 (0.83%) Claude Code
8 20 (0.83%) Snyk
9 19 (0.78%) Artifactory
10 18 (0.74%) Selenium
11 17 (0.70%) Terragrunt
12 14 (0.58%) JUnit
13 13 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.54%) MLflow
14 12 (0.50%) MSI
15 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 492 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 354 (14.61%) Public Sector
3 335 (13.83%) Finance
4 155 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (4.37%) Banking
6 72 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (2.02%) Retail
8 36 (1.49%) Military
9 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 19 (0.78%) Publishing
10 19 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (0.74%) Law
11 18 (0.74%) Legal
12 16 (0.66%) Local Government
13 14 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 524 (21.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 438 (18.08%) Senior
3 264 (10.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 236 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
5 221 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
6 220 (9.08%) Developer
6 220 (9.08%) Platform Engineer
7 215 (8.87%) Architect
8 203 (8.38%) Lead
9 181 (7.47%) Data Engineer
10 160 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 103 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
12 102 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
13 99 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 99 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 97 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 97 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 90 (3.71%) Security Engineer
16 87 (3.59%) GCP Engineer
17 86 (3.55%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.76%) Kafka
2 167 (6.89%) REST
3 115 (4.75%) .NET
4 107 (4.42%) React
5 103 (4.25%) ARM Templates
6 96 (3.96%) PySpark
7 95 (3.92%) RESTful
8 94 (3.88%) Node.js
8 94 (3.88%) OAuth
9 77 (3.18%) YAML
10 65 (2.68%) OAuth2
11 62 (2.56%) OpenID
11 62 (2.56%) Spring
12 61 (2.52%) Spring Boot
13 55 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.19%) JSON
15 41 (1.69%) HTML
15 41 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
16 38 (1.57%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 570 (23.52%) Cloud Native
2 143 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 109 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 90 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 84 (3.47%) Security Posture
7 83 (3.43%) Product Ownership
8 78 (3.22%) Public Cloud
9 55 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.27%) PKI
10 51 (2.10%) Replication
11 50 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 49 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
13 48 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
15 40 (1.65%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.40%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.36%) NHS
18 28 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 439 (18.12%) Linux
2 243 (10.03%) Windows
3 86 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 85 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 39 (1.61%) Unix
6 30 (1.24%) VMS
7 19 (0.78%) AIX
8 18 (0.74%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.083%) Android
15 2 (0.083%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.083%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,793 (74.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,650 (68.10%) CI/CD
3 1,386 (57.20%) DevOps
4 613 (25.30%) Observability
5 600 (24.76%) Agile
6 592 (24.43%) Containerisation
7 552 (22.78%) Platform Engineering
8 415 (17.13%) AI
9 337 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 308 (12.71%) Migration
11 304 (12.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 298 (12.30%) Cloud Security
12 298 (12.30%) Software Engineering
13 297 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
13 297 (12.26%) Test Automation
14 285 (11.76%) DevSecOps
15 274 (11.31%) Analytics
16 267 (11.02%) Infrastructure Automation
17 261 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
18 245 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (49.11%) Python
2 470 (19.40%) PowerShell
3 446 (18.41%) Bash
4 370 (15.27%) SQL
5 286 (11.80%) Java
6 279 (11.51%) Bicep
7 139 (5.74%) JavaScript
8 132 (5.45%) C#
9 124 (5.12%) TypeScript
10 90 (3.71%) Go
11 53 (2.19%) Groovy
12 48 (1.98%) Scala
13 44 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (0.62%) Perl
15 12 (0.50%) C
16 10 (0.41%) Rust
17 9 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.37%) R
17 9 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 870 (35.91%) Security Cleared
2 701 (28.93%) SC Cleared
3 196 (8.09%) DV Cleared
4 171 (7.06%) Azure Certification
5 160 (6.60%) AWS Certification
6 104 (4.29%) Degree
7 62 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 62 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (2.23%) CISSP
9 53 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.16%) CCNP
12 20 (0.83%) CISM
12 20 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 18 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.62%) VCAP
16 14 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.76%) QA
3 57 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.23%) NIST
5 52 (2.15%) NCSC
6 50 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.77%) GDPR
8 24 (0.99%) WCAG
9 20 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.45%) SLA
10 11 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.25%) PSD2
14 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.21%) HL7
14 5 (0.21%) SEPA
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 670 (27.65%) Docker
2 167 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 111 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 44 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.82%) vSphere
7 37 (1.53%) VMware NSX
8 33 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.58%) Squid
11 8 (0.33%) KVM
12 6 (0.25%) Ceph
12 6 (0.25%) NFS
13 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.21%) Firmware
13 5 (0.21%) Postfix
14 4 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 976 (40.28%) Kubernetes
2 581 (23.98%) Ansible
3 297 (12.26%) Grafana
4 236 (9.74%) Prometheus
5 78 (3.22%) Argo
6 60 (2.48%) Puppet
7 52 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 46 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 39 (1.61%) Packer
10 27 (1.11%) Istio
10 27 (1.11%) vCenter Server
11 25 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.91%) Kibana
12 22 (0.91%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
14 17 (0.70%) Data Guard
14 17 (0.70%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.66%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.62%) Podman
16 15 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 461 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 217 (8.96%) Google
3 152 (6.27%) VMware
4 141 (5.82%) Databricks
5 135 (5.57%) Splunk
6 102 (4.21%) Oracle
7 86 (3.55%) Dynatrace
8 85 (3.51%) Cisco
9 75 (3.10%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.68%) Palo Alto
10 65 (2.68%) Red Hat
11 40 (1.65%) F5
12 38 (1.57%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.40%) Arista
13 34 (1.40%) Zscaler
14 31 (1.28%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.20%) Informatica
16 27 (1.11%) CyberArk
17 26 (1.07%) Okta
18 24 (0.99%) Foundry