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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,039 1,197 1,263
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.88% 5.02% 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.57% 31.78% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 858 946
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £26.60 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £52.94
Median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.58
90th Percentile £79.30 £80.40 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -10.26% -19.86%

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 5,576 3,766 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.80% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,833 2,585 3,256
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.48% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -7.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 36 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.69 £21.39 £18.89
Median hourly rate £56.50 £33.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% +23.15% -48.39%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.40 £50.13
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.48 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +92.98% -5.00% -45.45%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 1,099 £543 -1.23% 287
North of England +23 416 £500 -3.85% 157
Yorkshire +14 219 £490 -6.67% 33
South East -12 158 £513 +2.50% 126
North West +30 152 £525 +5.00% 92
Midlands -16 128 £525 -3.67% 39
South West -10 115 £550 -10.57% 61
West Midlands -12 106 £525 -4.63% 27
North East -3 55 £475 -9.09% 32
East of England -17 43 £475 -5.00% 25
East Midlands -22 21 £450 -10.00% 12
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 85 (4.17%) Confluence
2 81 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 60 (2.94%) Apache
4 55 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.98%) nginx
7 16 (0.78%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.49%) SAS
9 9 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.098%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.098%) Drupal
13 2 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.049%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
5 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Maximo
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.049%) Endur
3 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (53.41%) AWS
2 1,000 (49.04%) Azure
3 574 (28.15%) GitHub
4 423 (20.75%) GCP
5 383 (18.78%) GitHub Actions
6 347 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
7 339 (16.63%) Serverless
8 278 (13.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 256 (12.56%) Amazon S3
10 245 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
12 152 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 140 (6.87%) Azure AKS
14 138 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
15 133 (6.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 125 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 124 (6.08%) Entra ID
18 123 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
19 122 (5.98%) OpenShift
20 110 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 204 (10.00%) Firewall
2 136 (6.67%) DNS
3 110 (5.39%) VPN
4 101 (4.95%) Network Security
5 66 (3.24%) WAN
6 50 (2.45%) BGP
7 42 (2.06%) SD-WAN
8 38 (1.86%) OSPF
9 36 (1.77%) TCP/IP
10 32 (1.57%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
12 23 (1.13%) BIG-IP
13 22 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.93%) DHCP
14 19 (0.93%) LAN
15 18 (0.88%) SAN
16 17 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
17 16 (0.78%) SSL
18 14 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
19 11 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (3.83%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.68%) Power BI
5 74 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (3.29%) SQL Server
7 60 (2.94%) BigQuery
8 53 (2.60%) Delta Lake
8 53 (2.60%) MongoDB
9 52 (2.55%) NoSQL
10 50 (2.45%) DynamoDB
11 45 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
14 37 (1.81%) Redis
15 32 (1.57%) Relational Database
16 30 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
18 28 (1.37%) Big Data
19 24 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 373 (18.29%) Jenkins
2 355 (17.41%) GitLab
3 269 (13.19%) Git
4 123 (6.03%) JIRA
5 43 (2.11%) Artifactory
6 37 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.18%) Maven
8 16 (0.78%) MLflow
8 16 (0.78%) Snyk
8 16 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.64%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.59%) Gatling
12 11 (0.54%) Terragrunt
13 10 (0.49%) git-flow
13 10 (0.49%) Liquibase
14 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.39%) Gradle
14 8 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 349 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 281 (13.78%) Public Sector
3 223 (10.94%) Finance
4 94 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (4.46%) Banking
6 54 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.13%) Retail
9 21 (1.03%) Legal
10 17 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.83%) Military
11 11 (0.54%) Law
12 10 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.39%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.39%) Publishing
14 8 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 454 (22.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 314 (15.40%) Senior
3 218 (10.69%) Architect
4 214 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 202 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
6 183 (8.97%) AWS Engineer
7 165 (8.09%) Data Engineer
8 163 (7.99%) Lead
9 159 (7.80%) Developer
10 144 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
11 120 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
13 93 (4.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 92 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
15 84 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 74 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
17 71 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.48%) Site Engineer
18 70 (3.43%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.58%) Kafka
2 110 (5.39%) Node.js
3 106 (5.20%) React
4 105 (5.15%) .NET
5 98 (4.81%) REST
6 88 (4.32%) PySpark
7 74 (3.63%) OAuth
7 74 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 67 (3.29%) ARM Templates
9 63 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
9 63 (3.09%) RESTful
9 63 (3.09%) YAML
10 60 (2.94%) Spring
11 57 (2.80%) Spring Boot
12 54 (2.65%) OpenID
13 49 (2.40%) OAuth2
14 45 (2.21%) JSON
15 42 (2.06%) AngularJS
16 39 (1.91%) AWS CDK
17 28 (1.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 451 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 109 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 83 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 74 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 44 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.67%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.47%) PKI
9 30 (1.47%) Replication
9 30 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 28 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
14 19 (0.93%) NHS
15 17 (0.83%) Clustering
16 15 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 304 (14.91%) Linux
2 152 (7.45%) Windows
3 58 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.86%) VMS
6 27 (1.32%) Unix
7 22 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.69%) CentOS
9 8 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.098%) AIX
13 2 (0.098%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.098%) Debian
13 2 (0.098%) Rocky
13 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.098%) zOS
14 1 (0.049%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,379 (67.63%) CI/CD
2 1,371 (67.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,234 (60.52%) DevOps
4 472 (23.15%) Containerisation
5 448 (21.97%) Agile
6 419 (20.55%) Observability
7 354 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
8 267 (13.09%) Migration
9 257 (12.60%) AI
10 240 (11.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 236 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
12 228 (11.18%) Analytics
13 209 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 203 (9.96%) Software Engineering
15 201 (9.86%) Test Automation
16 198 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 192 (9.42%) Cloud Security
18 190 (9.32%) Infrastructure Automation
19 189 (9.27%) Microservices
20 177 (8.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 918 (45.02%) Python
2 327 (16.04%) SQL
3 298 (14.62%) PowerShell
4 297 (14.57%) Bash
5 226 (11.08%) Java
6 184 (9.02%) Bicep
7 118 (5.79%) JavaScript
8 108 (5.30%) C#
9 102 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 81 (3.97%) Go
11 50 (2.45%) Scala
12 37 (1.81%) Groovy
12 37 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.18%) Ruby
14 14 (0.69%) Rust
15 8 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.39%) R
16 7 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.34%) Perl
16 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 705 (34.58%) Security Cleared
2 579 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 142 (6.96%) Azure Certification
4 121 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 96 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 78 (3.83%) Degree
7 58 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.42%) CCNP
13 26 (1.28%) CISSP
14 15 (0.74%) CCNA
15 14 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.64%) CISM
17 12 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 11 (0.54%) CCIE
19 10 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.94%) QA
3 57 (2.80%) GDPR
4 49 (2.40%) NIST
5 45 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.57%) NCSC
7 30 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.74%) SLA
10 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.49%) GRC
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.20%) PSD2
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
14 4 (0.20%) WCAG
15 3 (0.15%) HL7
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 532 (26.09%) Docker
2 95 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.81%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.32%) vSphere
8 21 (1.03%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.93%) Squid
10 10 (0.49%) KVM
10 10 (0.49%) NFS
11 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.25%) Firmware
12 5 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.15%) Ceph
13 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.15%) Postfix
14 2 (0.098%) Corosync
14 2 (0.098%) GPFS
14 2 (0.098%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 788 (38.65%) Kubernetes
2 487 (23.88%) Ansible
3 266 (13.05%) Grafana
4 233 (11.43%) Prometheus
5 81 (3.97%) Argo
6 45 (2.21%) Istio
7 44 (2.16%) Puppet
8 33 (1.62%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.42%) Packer
10 27 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.13%) Kibana
12 22 (1.08%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.83%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.64%) Rancher
16 12 (0.59%) Consul
17 11 (0.54%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.54%) Kustomize
17 11 (0.54%) linkerd
17 11 (0.54%) Podman
Vendors
1 301 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.61%) Google
3 126 (6.18%) Databricks
4 118 (5.79%) Splunk
5 105 (5.15%) VMware
6 90 (4.41%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.68%) Oracle
8 59 (2.89%) Dynatrace
9 55 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 52 (2.55%) Cisco
11 44 (2.16%) Palo Alto
12 34 (1.67%) F5
13 30 (1.47%) Arista
14 27 (1.32%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.23%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.08%) Pure Storage
17 21 (1.03%) Aruba
17 21 (1.03%) IBM
18 20 (0.98%) Zscaler
19 16 (0.78%) Citrix