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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,729 1,415 1,560
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.60% 4.65% 4.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.89% 32.59% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 969 1,196
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -7.82%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 17
10th Percentile £49.60 £26.63 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £46.25 £62.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -0.99%
75th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £86.60 £76.89 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.72 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -6.59% -13.33% +19.05%

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 4,955 4,342 5,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.04% 14.26% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 2,783 3,846
10th Percentile £310 £313 £304
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 60 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.17 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.75 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -24.03% +52.66%
75th Percentile £65.80 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +25.93% -42.36% +75.63%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +4 898 £525 -12.50% 273
North of England +3 343 £515 +3.00% 132
Yorkshire +2 200 £513 +13.89% 50
Midlands +26 136 £539 -0.97% 53
South East +4 135 £500 -13.04% 227
South West +21 129 £555 -3.06% 84
West Midlands +18 119 £545 +0.23% 34
North West -16 97 £525 -4.55% 63
North East +7 49 £488 -15.95% 21
East of England -19 32 £479 -8.81% 18
East Midlands -3 17 £434 -24.60% 18
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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 56 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (2.49%) Apache
4 41 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 40 (2.31%) nginx
6 23 (1.33%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.12%) Documentum
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Endur
2 3 (0.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.058%) Actimize
4 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,044 (60.38%) AWS
2 684 (39.56%) Azure
3 465 (26.89%) GitHub
4 312 (18.05%) GCP
5 289 (16.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 289 (16.71%) GitHub Actions
5 289 (16.71%) Serverless
6 252 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
7 239 (13.82%) Amazon S3
8 178 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
9 165 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
10 164 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 140 (8.10%) Amazon ECS
12 132 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 123 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
14 109 (6.30%) Entra ID
15 97 (5.61%) Azure AKS
15 97 (5.61%) OpenShift
16 85 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 78 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 177 (10.24%) Firewall
2 137 (7.92%) DNS
3 89 (5.15%) VPN
4 76 (4.40%) Network Security
5 58 (3.35%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.20%) SSL
7 36 (2.08%) HTTP
8 34 (1.97%) WAN
9 32 (1.85%) DHCP
10 26 (1.50%) BGP
10 26 (1.50%) LAN
11 24 (1.39%) SD-WAN
11 24 (1.39%) SMTP
12 23 (1.33%) SSH
13 22 (1.27%) FTP
14 21 (1.21%) OSPF
15 14 (0.81%) MPLS
15 14 (0.81%) VXLAN
16 12 (0.69%) IMAP
16 12 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (4.97%) NoSQL
4 67 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 50 (2.89%) Data Lake
6 49 (2.83%) DynamoDB
7 40 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
8 39 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 39 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (2.08%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.85%) Power BI
11 32 (1.85%) Redis
12 30 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (1.56%) SQL Server
14 25 (1.45%) BigQuery
14 25 (1.45%) MySQL
15 15 (0.87%) Tableau
16 14 (0.81%) Big Data
16 14 (0.81%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 408 (23.60%) Jenkins
2 358 (20.71%) GitLab
3 253 (14.63%) Git
4 120 (6.94%) JIRA
5 55 (3.18%) SonarQube
6 37 (2.14%) Liquibase
7 33 (1.91%) Artifactory
8 30 (1.74%) Maven
9 29 (1.68%) CircleCI
10 28 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 23 (1.33%) Vagrant
12 22 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 22 (1.27%) Gradle
13 18 (1.04%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.75%) Selenium
14 13 (0.75%) Snyk
15 11 (0.64%) JUnit
16 10 (0.58%) MLflow
16 10 (0.58%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 420 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 283 (16.37%) Public Sector
3 232 (13.42%) Finance
4 115 (6.65%) Banking
5 94 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (2.43%) Financial Institution
7 27 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (1.16%) Military
10 18 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 16 (0.93%) Retail
12 11 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.58%) Marketing
14 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.52%) Publishing
15 7 (0.40%) Games
15 7 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 402 (23.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 225 (13.01%) AWS Engineer
2 225 (13.01%) Senior
3 193 (11.16%) Architect
4 163 (9.43%) Developer
5 161 (9.31%) Platform Engineer
6 150 (8.68%) Lead
7 133 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
8 122 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 117 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
10 110 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 95 (5.49%) Software Engineer
12 91 (5.26%) Data Engineer
13 83 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 76 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 67 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
16 59 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
16 59 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 57 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 49 (2.83%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (9.02%) Kafka
2 111 (6.42%) REST
3 105 (6.07%) Node.js
4 104 (6.02%) RESTful
5 100 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
5 100 (5.78%) React
6 71 (4.11%) .NET
7 63 (3.64%) ARM Templates
8 55 (3.18%) OAuth
8 55 (3.18%) Spring Boot
9 54 (3.12%) YAML
10 49 (2.83%) Spring
11 43 (2.49%) AngularJS
12 42 (2.43%) AWS CDK
13 36 (2.08%) Keycloak
14 33 (1.91%) OAuth2
14 33 (1.91%) OpenID
15 29 (1.68%) FastAPI
16 27 (1.56%) JSON
16 27 (1.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 299 (17.29%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (3.93%) Public Cloud
4 67 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 58 (3.35%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 40 (2.31%) Replication
8 38 (2.20%) NHS
9 36 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.91%) Private Cloud
11 29 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.56%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.27%) PKI
15 18 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.87%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
18 12 (0.69%) Management Information System
19 11 (0.64%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 352 (20.36%) Linux
2 148 (8.56%) Windows
3 59 (3.41%) Unix
4 49 (2.83%) VMS
5 44 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 26 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
7 21 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 20 (1.16%) CentOS
9 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.40%) Solaris
10 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.12%) zOS
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) MVS
14 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,130 (65.36%) CI/CD
2 1,089 (62.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,065 (61.60%) DevOps
4 469 (27.13%) Containerisation
5 418 (24.18%) Agile
6 256 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 249 (14.40%) Microservices
8 248 (14.34%) Observability
9 237 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
10 231 (13.36%) Infrastructure Automation
11 226 (13.07%) Migration
12 213 (12.32%) Software Engineering
13 177 (10.24%) Test Automation
14 163 (9.43%) DevSecOps
15 159 (9.20%) Cloud Security
16 155 (8.96%) High Availability
17 154 (8.91%) Mentoring
18 152 (8.79%) AI
19 146 (8.44%) Analytics
20 142 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 869 (50.26%) Python
2 294 (17.00%) Bash
3 235 (13.59%) PowerShell
4 230 (13.30%) Java
5 225 (13.01%) SQL
6 158 (9.14%) Go
7 108 (6.25%) Bicep
8 105 (6.07%) JavaScript
9 100 (5.78%) TypeScript
10 79 (4.57%) C#
11 51 (2.95%) Shell Script
12 39 (2.26%) Groovy
13 27 (1.56%) Perl
14 19 (1.10%) Ruby
15 12 (0.69%) C++
15 12 (0.69%) PHP
15 12 (0.69%) Scala
16 10 (0.58%) C
17 7 (0.40%) Rust
18 6 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 587 (33.95%) Security Cleared
2 489 (28.28%) SC Cleared
3 131 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 114 (6.59%) Degree
5 95 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 91 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 72 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.83%) Master's Degree
10 35 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.27%) CCIE
14 21 (1.21%) CCNP
14 21 (1.21%) CISSP
15 18 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 13 (0.75%) JNCIE
17 10 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 8 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 8 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.05%) GDPR
2 63 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.95%) NIST
4 49 (2.83%) QA
5 45 (2.60%) NCSC
6 37 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.29%) GRC
11 5 (0.29%) HL7
11 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.29%) SLA
12 4 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 596 (34.47%) Docker
2 115 (6.65%) Active Directory
3 79 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (1.91%) VMware NSX
5 33 (1.91%) vSphere
6 22 (1.27%) DFS Replication
7 16 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.87%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.75%) Squid
10 12 (0.69%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.69%) Postfix
11 11 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.40%) KVM
13 5 (0.29%) NFS
14 4 (0.23%) Lustre
14 4 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.17%) GPFS
15 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.12%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 712 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 511 (29.55%) Ansible
3 287 (16.60%) Grafana
4 259 (14.98%) Prometheus
5 65 (3.76%) Puppet
6 60 (3.47%) Argo
7 54 (3.12%) Packer
8 41 (2.37%) Progress Chef
9 37 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
10 30 (1.74%) Istio
11 23 (1.33%) Consul
12 22 (1.27%) vCenter Server
13 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
14 18 (1.04%) Podman
15 17 (0.98%) Nessus
16 16 (0.93%) Proxmox
17 13 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
18 12 (0.69%) Kibana
19 11 (0.64%) Rancher
20 9 (0.52%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 216 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 125 (7.23%) Google
2 125 (7.23%) Splunk
3 110 (6.36%) VMware
4 100 (5.78%) Databricks
5 66 (3.82%) F5
6 64 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 50 (2.89%) Palo Alto
7 50 (2.89%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.49%) Dynatrace
9 41 (2.37%) Cisco
10 35 (2.02%) CheckPoint
10 35 (2.02%) Oracle
11 22 (1.27%) IBM
11 22 (1.27%) Juniper
11 22 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.21%) Fortinet
13 17 (0.98%) Dell
14 15 (0.87%) Citrix
14 15 (0.87%) Zscaler