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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,287 1,366 1,383
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.10% 5.01% 3.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.26% 32.48% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 942 1,006
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £704 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.57% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 11
10th Percentile £54.37 £47.65 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +0.81% -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 5,978 4,206 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 15.43% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,081 2,789 3,331
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £625
90th Percentile £691 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £508 £518
% change year-on-year +1.48% -2.03% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 54 81
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.22 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +85.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £53.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £58.62 £39.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +50.30% +25.81% -46.09%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 1,198 £550 +0.92% 415
North of England +24 495 £500 - 148
Yorkshire 0 232 £500 -2.44% 44
North West +45 199 £558 +6.19% 86
South East -18 184 £550 +10.00% 133
South West -2 147 £550 -8.33% 82
Midlands -6 138 £511 +2.10% 43
West Midlands -13 113 £512 -3.67% 34
North East -3 77 £425 -13.27% 19
East of England -7 52 £549 +9.86% 15
East Midlands -12 23 £475 -5.00% 9
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
1 120 (5.25%) Confluence
2 90 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (3.28%) Apache
5 37 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.22%) nginx
8 13 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.57%) SAS
9 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.087%) Drupal
12 2 (0.087%) Traefik
12 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.044%) InDesign
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,296 (56.67%) AWS
2 1,134 (49.58%) Azure
3 612 (26.76%) GitHub
4 462 (20.20%) GCP
5 420 (18.36%) GitHub Actions
6 373 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
7 342 (14.95%) Serverless
8 286 (12.51%) Amazon S3
9 262 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 252 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
11 202 (8.83%) Amazon EKS
12 165 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 151 (6.60%) Entra ID
14 150 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
15 147 (6.43%) Azure AKS
16 137 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 131 (5.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 122 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
19 113 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (4.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 255 (11.15%) Firewall
2 184 (8.05%) DNS
3 135 (5.90%) VPN
4 104 (4.55%) Network Security
5 77 (3.37%) WAN
6 69 (3.02%) BGP
6 69 (3.02%) TCP/IP
7 51 (2.23%) DHCP
8 49 (2.14%) OSPF
9 41 (1.79%) SD-WAN
10 36 (1.57%) VXLAN
11 31 (1.36%) VLAN
12 28 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 27 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
14 23 (1.01%) BIG-IP
15 20 (0.87%) SSH
16 19 (0.83%) SAN
16 19 (0.83%) SSL
17 17 (0.74%) IPsec
18 16 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 82 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
4 76 (3.32%) Data Lake
5 70 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 69 (3.02%) Power BI
7 68 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.80%) BigQuery
9 60 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
10 59 (2.58%) DynamoDB
11 57 (2.49%) NoSQL
12 51 (2.23%) Delta Lake
13 50 (2.19%) MongoDB
14 46 (2.01%) Relational Database
15 39 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 39 (1.71%) Oracle Database
16 33 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
16 33 (1.44%) Redis
17 30 (1.31%) Metadata
18 29 (1.27%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 405 (17.71%) GitLab
2 378 (16.53%) Jenkins
3 324 (14.17%) Git
4 151 (6.60%) JIRA
5 46 (2.01%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 25 (1.09%) Maven
9 19 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.79%) MLflow
11 17 (0.74%) Snyk
12 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.48%) Gatling
14 10 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.44%) JUnit
14 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.44%) MSI
15 9 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
17 7 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 414 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 339 (14.82%) Public Sector
3 280 (12.24%) Finance
4 128 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (3.85%) Banking
6 70 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 59 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (1.75%) Retail
9 26 (1.14%) Legal
9 26 (1.14%) Military
10 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 20 (0.87%) Publishing
12 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.66%) Law
14 11 (0.48%) Billing
14 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 511 (22.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 398 (17.40%) Senior
3 254 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 225 (9.84%) Architect
5 217 (9.49%) AWS Engineer
6 213 (9.31%) Azure Engineer
7 202 (8.83%) Platform Engineer
8 191 (8.35%) Lead
9 180 (7.87%) Developer
10 176 (7.70%) Data Engineer
11 151 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 107 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
13 98 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 98 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 98 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
13 98 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
14 94 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 79 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 78 (3.41%) Network Engineer
17 77 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (7.26%) Kafka
2 134 (5.86%) REST
3 108 (4.72%) .NET
4 104 (4.55%) React
5 100 (4.37%) Node.js
6 97 (4.24%) PySpark
7 77 (3.37%) OAuth
8 76 (3.32%) RESTful
9 72 (3.15%) ARM Templates
10 66 (2.89%) YAML
11 61 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
12 57 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
13 54 (2.36%) OpenID
14 53 (2.32%) OAuth2
15 52 (2.27%) Spring
16 50 (2.19%) Spring Boot
17 47 (2.06%) JSON
18 37 (1.62%) AngularJS
19 35 (1.53%) AWS CDK
20 34 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 539 (23.57%) Cloud Native
2 132 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 81 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 79 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 67 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 55 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 40 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.66%) PKI
11 36 (1.57%) Replication
12 35 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
13 31 (1.36%) AI Agents
13 31 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 30 (1.31%) Private Cloud
15 28 (1.22%) NHS
16 26 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 25 (1.09%) Management Information System
18 24 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 378 (16.53%) Linux
2 217 (9.49%) Windows
3 85 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.40%) VMS
6 28 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.18%) Unix
8 17 (0.74%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.087%) Solaris
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,597 (69.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,523 (66.59%) CI/CD
3 1,340 (58.59%) DevOps
4 558 (24.40%) Agile
5 548 (23.96%) Containerisation
6 485 (21.21%) Observability
7 470 (20.55%) Platform Engineering
8 327 (14.30%) AI
9 285 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
10 278 (12.16%) Migration
11 266 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 250 (10.93%) Analytics
13 247 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 243 (10.63%) Test Automation
15 242 (10.58%) Cloud Security
16 241 (10.54%) Software Engineering
17 222 (9.71%) Infrastructure Automation
17 222 (9.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 212 (9.27%) Microservices
19 204 (8.92%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (46.52%) Python
2 389 (17.01%) Bash
3 369 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 343 (15.00%) SQL
5 255 (11.15%) Java
6 230 (10.06%) Bicep
7 133 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 121 (5.29%) TypeScript
9 116 (5.07%) C#
10 82 (3.59%) Go
11 51 (2.23%) Scala
12 48 (2.10%) Groovy
13 32 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.74%) Rust
15 16 (0.70%) Ruby
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 10 (0.44%) R
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
20 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 821 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 669 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 169 (7.39%) DV Cleared
4 146 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 122 (5.33%) AWS Certification
6 87 (3.80%) Degree
7 65 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (1.31%) CCNP
12 30 (1.31%) CISSP
13 18 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.74%) CCNA
15 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
17 10 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 71 (3.10%) QA
3 49 (2.14%) GDPR
4 44 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.75%) NIST
6 38 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.66%) NCSC
7 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.70%) WCAG
9 10 (0.44%) GRC
9 10 (0.44%) SLA
10 8 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.22%) HL7
12 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) PSD2
14 2 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 609 (26.63%) Docker
2 134 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 94 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 39 (1.71%) vSphere
7 37 (1.62%) VMware NSX
8 21 (0.92%) Squid
9 19 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
10 16 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.48%) NFS
12 8 (0.35%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 4 (0.17%) Ceph
15 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 866 (37.87%) Kubernetes
2 517 (22.61%) Ansible
3 288 (12.59%) Grafana
4 243 (10.63%) Prometheus
5 93 (4.07%) Argo
6 55 (2.40%) Puppet
7 42 (1.84%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.49%) Packer
9 31 (1.36%) Istio
9 31 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.27%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.83%) Kibana
13 18 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
14 17 (0.74%) Data Guard
15 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.66%) Podman
17 13 (0.57%) Kubeflow
18 12 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 372 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 200 (8.75%) Google
3 129 (5.64%) Splunk
4 126 (5.51%) VMware
5 124 (5.42%) Databricks
6 101 (4.42%) Oracle
7 89 (3.89%) Red Hat
8 77 (3.37%) Dynatrace
9 69 (3.02%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.84%) Cisco
11 60 (2.62%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.79%) F5
13 35 (1.53%) Arista
14 33 (1.44%) OpenAI
15 30 (1.31%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.31%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.05%) Aruba
16 24 (1.05%) Informatica
17 22 (0.96%) Foundry
18 21 (0.92%) Juniper