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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,400 1,389 1,368
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.26% 5.04% 4.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.61% 20.21% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,679 965 994
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 8 10
10th Percentile £57.25 £46.68 £44.75
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £55.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -10.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £84.02 £67.49 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.46% -21.79%

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 9,753 6,874 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.93% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,422 4,723 5,577
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 166 182
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £50.38 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 1,253 £550 +4.76% 1,210
North of England +9 506 £500 -2.44% 311
Yorkshire -3 234 £513 - 102
South East -1 217 £560 +11.89% 216
North West +26 192 £550 +4.76% 157
South West +5 184 £556 -4.96% 160
Midlands -22 127 £500 -6.28% 104
West Midlands -26 105 £525 -2.78% 57
North East -3 94 £425 -16.67% 54
East of England -9 50 £525 +5.00% 58
East Midlands -5 21 £425 -15.00% 47
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
1 117 (4.88%) Confluence
2 96 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 83 (3.46%) Apache
5 44 (1.83%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.00%) nginx
8 12 (0.50%) SAS
9 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) IIS
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
14 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
15 3 (0.13%) Apache Superset
16 2 (0.083%) CloudStack
16 2 (0.083%) PowerExchange
17 1 (0.042%) ArcGIS
17 1 (0.042%) FactoryTalk
17 1 (0.042%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) 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 (0.042%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,376 (57.33%) AWS
2 1,212 (50.50%) Azure
3 664 (27.67%) GitHub
4 471 (19.63%) GitHub Actions
5 467 (19.46%) GCP
6 438 (18.25%) Azure DevOps
7 366 (15.25%) Serverless
8 283 (11.79%) Amazon S3
9 268 (11.17%) AWS Lambda
10 259 (10.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 214 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
12 194 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 177 (7.38%) Entra ID
14 158 (6.58%) Azure AKS
15 148 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
16 146 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
17 137 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 125 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
19 120 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 93 (3.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 279 (11.63%) Firewall
2 205 (8.54%) DNS
3 131 (5.46%) VPN
4 109 (4.54%) Network Security
5 88 (3.67%) TCP/IP
6 84 (3.50%) DHCP
7 76 (3.17%) WAN
8 64 (2.67%) BGP
9 46 (1.92%) OSPF
10 44 (1.83%) SD-WAN
11 40 (1.67%) VLAN
12 33 (1.38%) VXLAN
13 31 (1.29%) VSAN
14 29 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.04%) SSH
16 24 (1.00%) BIG-IP
16 24 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (0.96%) SSL
18 18 (0.75%) Internet
19 16 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
4 76 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 73 (3.04%) Data Lake
5 73 (3.04%) DynamoDB
5 73 (3.04%) SQL Server
6 71 (2.96%) Power BI
7 65 (2.71%) MongoDB
8 63 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 59 (2.46%) BigQuery
10 48 (2.00%) Delta Lake
10 48 (2.00%) Redis
11 47 (1.96%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.88%) MySQL
13 42 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
14 40 (1.67%) Metadata
15 39 (1.63%) Oracle Database
16 33 (1.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 443 (18.46%) GitLab
2 389 (16.21%) Jenkins
3 354 (14.75%) Git
4 148 (6.17%) JIRA
5 46 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.33%) Maven
7 30 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 24 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.79%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 17 (0.71%) Selenium
11 16 (0.67%) MLflow
11 16 (0.67%) Snyk
11 16 (0.67%) Terragrunt
12 13 (0.54%) JUnit
13 12 (0.50%) MSI
14 10 (0.42%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.42%) Gatling
14 10 (0.42%) Mockito
General
1 471 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 357 (14.88%) Public Sector
3 313 (13.04%) Finance
4 142 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (3.79%) Banking
6 69 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.08%) Retail
9 33 (1.38%) Military
10 24 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 22 (0.92%) Legal
12 20 (0.83%) Publishing
12 20 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 16 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (0.67%) Law
14 15 (0.63%) Local Government
15 13 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 522 (21.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 424 (17.67%) Senior
3 266 (11.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 231 (9.63%) Platform Engineer
5 230 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
6 217 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
7 216 (9.00%) Developer
8 213 (8.88%) Architect
9 204 (8.50%) Lead
10 172 (7.17%) Data Engineer
11 162 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 103 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
14 96 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
15 94 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 94 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 92 (3.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.63%) GCP Engineer
18 79 (3.29%) Network Engineer
19 73 (3.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.83%) Kafka
2 158 (6.58%) REST
3 122 (5.08%) .NET
4 112 (4.67%) React
5 96 (4.00%) ARM Templates
6 95 (3.96%) Node.js
7 91 (3.79%) PySpark
8 88 (3.67%) RESTful
9 81 (3.38%) OAuth
10 79 (3.29%) YAML
11 62 (2.58%) Spring
12 58 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 56 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
14 54 (2.25%) OAuth2
15 51 (2.13%) OpenID
16 50 (2.08%) JSON
17 47 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
18 42 (1.75%) HTML
19 37 (1.54%) AWS CDK
19 37 (1.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 570 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 147 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 112 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.04%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 80 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 72 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 69 (2.88%) Security Posture
8 52 (2.17%) PKI
9 51 (2.13%) AI Agents
10 50 (2.08%) Replication
11 46 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
13 43 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
15 36 (1.50%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.46%) NHS
17 33 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (1.33%) Management Information System
19 25 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 427 (17.79%) Linux
2 244 (10.17%) Windows
3 88 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 80 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 36 (1.50%) Unix
7 32 (1.33%) VMS
8 20 (0.83%) AIX
9 14 (0.58%) CentOS
10 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.083%) Android
16 2 (0.083%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.083%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,757 (73.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,622 (67.58%) CI/CD
3 1,393 (58.04%) DevOps
4 608 (25.33%) Agile
5 589 (24.54%) Containerisation
6 580 (24.17%) Observability
7 553 (23.04%) Platform Engineering
8 397 (16.54%) AI
9 316 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 293 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
11 291 (12.13%) Test Automation
12 288 (12.00%) Migration
13 287 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 284 (11.83%) Software Engineering
15 273 (11.38%) Cloud Security
16 271 (11.29%) DevSecOps
17 264 (11.00%) Analytics
18 259 (10.79%) Infrastructure Automation
19 237 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 234 (9.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,159 (48.29%) Python
2 456 (19.00%) PowerShell
3 449 (18.71%) Bash
4 365 (15.21%) SQL
5 281 (11.71%) Java
6 274 (11.42%) Bicep
7 139 (5.79%) JavaScript
8 135 (5.63%) C#
9 123 (5.13%) TypeScript
10 76 (3.17%) Go
11 52 (2.17%) Groovy
12 51 (2.13%) Scala
13 44 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.54%) Perl
15 12 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.46%) Ruby
16 11 (0.46%) Rust
17 10 (0.42%) R
18 9 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 8 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 873 (36.38%) Security Cleared
2 712 (29.67%) SC Cleared
3 187 (7.79%) DV Cleared
4 166 (6.92%) Azure Certification
5 140 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 98 (4.08%) Degree
7 64 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.92%) CISSP
12 40 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.21%) CCNP
14 21 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (0.75%) VCAP
16 17 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 16 (0.67%) CISM
18 13 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 13 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 86 (3.58%) QA
3 55 (2.29%) NIST
4 54 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 48 (2.00%) NCSC
7 47 (1.96%) GDPR
8 22 (0.92%) WCAG
9 18 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.42%) SLA
11 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.25%) HL7
14 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.21%) GRC
14 5 (0.21%) PSD2
15 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.17%) SEPA
16 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 662 (27.58%) Docker
2 155 (6.46%) Active Directory
3 120 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 49 (2.04%) Hyper-V
7 47 (1.96%) vSphere
8 45 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 31 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.63%) Squid
12 9 (0.38%) KVM
13 8 (0.33%) Firmware
14 6 (0.25%) Ceph
14 6 (0.25%) NFS
15 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
15 5 (0.21%) Postfix
16 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 948 (39.50%) Kubernetes
2 577 (24.04%) Ansible
3 292 (12.17%) Grafana
4 240 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 86 (3.58%) Argo
6 62 (2.58%) Puppet
7 52 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.63%) Packer
9 36 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.29%) Istio
11 30 (1.25%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
13 21 (0.88%) Kustomize
14 20 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
15 19 (0.79%) Data Guard
15 19 (0.79%) Kibana
16 17 (0.71%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.63%) Kubeflow
17 15 (0.63%) Podman
18 14 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 439 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 200 (8.33%) Google
3 157 (6.54%) VMware
4 138 (5.75%) Databricks
5 133 (5.54%) Splunk
6 108 (4.50%) Oracle
7 77 (3.21%) Dynatrace
8 74 (3.08%) Cisco
8 74 (3.08%) Red Hat
9 72 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 59 (2.46%) Palo Alto
11 42 (1.75%) F5
12 37 (1.54%) OpenAI
13 33 (1.38%) Arista
14 32 (1.33%) Informatica
15 28 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 28 (1.17%) Zscaler
16 25 (1.04%) Foundry
17 24 (1.00%) CyberArk
18 22 (0.92%) Aruba