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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 35 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,889 1,326 1,314
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.20% 5.37% 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.17% 34.06% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 930 979
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £573 £563
% change year-on-year -8.30% +1.78% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 16
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.25 £53.38
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.81 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £44.50 £74.72
Median % change year-on-year +50.49% -40.44% -11.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £69.72 £76.77
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £44.50 £72.22
% change year-on-year +50.49% -38.38% -9.58%

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 5,371 3,893 4,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.79% 15.77% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,702 2,603 3,306
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 41 144
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.67
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -23.57% -33.49%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.95 £85.25 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -32.00% -28.07%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -1 1,013 £530 -8.62% 199
North of England +7 380 £500 -4.76% 147
Yorkshire +4 203 £500 -4.76% 50
South East -5 145 £500 -13.04% 160
Midlands -5 137 £531 +6.15% 51
North West +2 133 £525 -1.41% 74
South West -2 114 £550 -10.57% 77
West Midlands -4 113 £537 -2.50% 31
North East 0 49 £481 -8.33% 24
East Midlands -24 23 £438 -10.26% 19
East of England -42 16 £513 +25.00% 37
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 72 (3.81%) Confluence
2 68 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 59 (3.12%) Apache
4 49 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.69%) nginx
6 22 (1.16%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) SAS
10 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.11%) CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Drupal
11 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.053%) InDesign
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) 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 1,046 (55.37%) AWS
2 856 (45.31%) Azure
3 550 (29.12%) GitHub
4 397 (21.02%) GCP
5 357 (18.90%) Serverless
6 344 (18.21%) GitHub Actions
7 334 (17.68%) Azure DevOps
8 326 (17.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 251 (13.29%) Amazon S3
10 233 (12.33%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
13 136 (7.20%) OpenShift
14 134 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 134 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
15 133 (7.04%) Azure AKS
16 132 (6.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 126 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
18 124 (6.56%) Entra ID
19 110 (5.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 182 (9.63%) Firewall
2 133 (7.04%) DNS
3 105 (5.56%) VPN
4 97 (5.13%) Network Security
5 45 (2.38%) WAN
6 41 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 31 (1.64%) DHCP
8 30 (1.59%) BGP
8 30 (1.59%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.43%) LAN
10 21 (1.11%) OSPF
11 17 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
11 17 (0.90%) VXLAN
12 15 (0.79%) SSL
13 11 (0.58%) SAN
13 11 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.58%) VLAN
14 10 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.53%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (4.34%) Data Lake
4 72 (3.81%) Power BI
5 60 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 59 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
7 58 (3.07%) NoSQL
8 49 (2.59%) SQL Server
9 47 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (2.49%) BigQuery
9 47 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (2.33%) DynamoDB
11 39 (2.06%) Delta Lake
12 35 (1.85%) Redis
13 33 (1.75%) Relational Database
14 28 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (1.22%) Tableau
16 21 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
17 20 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 398 (21.07%) Jenkins
2 363 (19.22%) GitLab
3 253 (13.39%) Git
4 89 (4.71%) JIRA
5 46 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 30 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.32%) Liquibase
9 24 (1.27%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.11%) Maven
11 17 (0.90%) MLflow
12 16 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.58%) Terragrunt
14 10 (0.53%) Gatling
14 10 (0.53%) JUnit
15 9 (0.48%) Gradle
15 9 (0.48%) Snyk
16 8 (0.42%) git-flow
16 8 (0.42%) Selenium
17 7 (0.37%) JMeter
General
1 387 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 298 (15.78%) Public Sector
3 213 (11.28%) Finance
4 102 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (5.13%) Banking
6 50 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 18 (0.95%) Retail
11 17 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (0.74%) Military
13 11 (0.58%) Law
14 9 (0.48%) Legal
15 8 (0.42%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.26%) Games
18 5 (0.26%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 420 (22.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 244 (12.92%) Senior
3 224 (11.86%) Architect
4 193 (10.22%) AWS Engineer
5 180 (9.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 172 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
7 164 (8.68%) Lead
8 158 (8.36%) Developer
9 150 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
10 137 (7.25%) Data Engineer
11 110 (5.82%) AWS DevOps
12 109 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
13 97 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 95 (5.03%) Software Engineer
15 92 (4.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 80 (4.24%) Site Engineer
17 79 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 71 (3.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 58 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
19 58 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (9.90%) Kafka
2 120 (6.35%) REST
3 115 (6.09%) Node.js
4 93 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
5 91 (4.82%) React
6 84 (4.45%) .NET
7 79 (4.18%) ARM Templates
7 79 (4.18%) RESTful
8 65 (3.44%) OAuth
8 65 (3.44%) PySpark
9 58 (3.07%) Spring
10 54 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
10 54 (2.86%) Spring Boot
11 49 (2.59%) YAML
12 43 (2.28%) AngularJS
13 42 (2.22%) OpenID
14 36 (1.91%) OAuth2
15 33 (1.75%) AWS CDK
16 30 (1.59%) JSON
17 28 (1.48%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 337 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 104 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 64 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 48 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 39 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.64%) PKI
9 30 (1.59%) NHS
9 30 (1.59%) Security Posture
10 29 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.54%) Private Cloud
11 24 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.01%) Replication
13 17 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.79%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.79%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.74%) Clustering
16 13 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 347 (18.37%) Linux
2 155 (8.21%) Windows
3 47 (2.49%) VMS
4 42 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.12%) Windows Server
6 39 (2.06%) Unix
7 12 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.58%) CentOS
9 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.053%) AIX
14 1 (0.053%) Android
14 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.053%) Rocky
14 1 (0.053%) Solaris
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,295 (68.55%) CI/CD
2 1,207 (63.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,176 (62.26%) DevOps
4 496 (26.26%) Containerisation
5 397 (21.02%) Agile
6 367 (19.43%) Observability
7 273 (14.45%) Platform Engineering
8 266 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 265 (14.03%) Migration
10 245 (12.97%) Analytics
11 234 (12.39%) Microservices
12 215 (11.38%) Infrastructure Automation
13 213 (11.28%) AI
14 209 (11.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 205 (10.85%) Software Engineering
16 187 (9.90%) Test Automation
17 181 (9.58%) Cloud Security
18 177 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 174 (9.21%) DevSecOps
19 174 (9.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 926 (49.02%) Python
2 299 (15.83%) Bash
3 298 (15.78%) SQL
4 263 (13.92%) PowerShell
5 207 (10.96%) Java
6 157 (8.31%) Bicep
7 120 (6.35%) Go
8 115 (6.09%) JavaScript
9 100 (5.29%) TypeScript
10 95 (5.03%) C#
11 48 (2.54%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.64%) Ruby
13 26 (1.38%) Scala
14 24 (1.27%) Groovy
15 15 (0.79%) Rust
16 9 (0.48%) C
17 8 (0.42%) PHP
18 6 (0.32%) C++
19 5 (0.26%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 664 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 543 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 131 (6.93%) AWS Certification
4 123 (6.51%) Azure Certification
5 105 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 102 (5.40%) Degree
7 71 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.28%) Master's Degree
11 42 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.64%) CISSP
14 27 (1.43%) CCNP
15 19 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 15 (0.79%) CCIE
16 15 (0.79%) CISM
17 14 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
18 11 (0.58%) CCNA
18 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.97%) GDPR
3 64 (3.39%) QA
4 54 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.59%) NIST
6 47 (2.49%) NCSC
7 34 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.69%) SLA
11 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.53%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.21%) HL7
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
1 571 (30.23%) Docker
2 99 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 77 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
5 40 (2.12%) vSphere
6 30 (1.59%) VMware NSX
7 29 (1.54%) Hyper-V
8 23 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.48%) Squid
10 7 (0.37%) KVM
11 6 (0.32%) NFS
12 5 (0.26%) Lustre
12 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.21%) GPFS
13 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.16%) Firmware
15 2 (0.11%) Ceph
15 2 (0.11%) HDFS
15 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.053%) iptables
Systems Management
1 795 (42.09%) Kubernetes
2 501 (26.52%) Ansible
3 284 (15.03%) Grafana
4 247 (13.08%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.97%) Argo
6 48 (2.54%) Istio
7 41 (2.17%) Puppet
8 39 (2.06%) Packer
9 37 (1.96%) Progress Chef
10 28 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (1.43%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.11%) Consul
13 17 (0.90%) Kibana
14 16 (0.85%) Podman
15 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
15 15 (0.79%) Rancher
16 13 (0.69%) FortiGate
17 11 (0.58%) linkerd
18 9 (0.48%) logstash
18 9 (0.48%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 289 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 181 (9.58%) Google
3 144 (7.62%) Databricks
4 126 (6.67%) Splunk
5 117 (6.19%) VMware
6 83 (4.39%) Red Hat
7 51 (2.70%) Oracle
8 44 (2.33%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.22%) ServiceNow
10 37 (1.96%) Cisco
11 30 (1.59%) Pure Storage
12 29 (1.54%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.32%) F5
14 24 (1.27%) IBM
15 23 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 21 (1.11%) SolarWinds
17 20 (1.06%) Atlassian
18 16 (0.85%) Citrix
18 16 (0.85%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.85%) PagerDuty