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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 47
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,391 1,387 1,376
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 5.03% 4.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.24% 20.21% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 964 995
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £718 £713 £728
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 11
10th Percentile £56.70 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.56 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £77.15 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -10.26%

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 9,865 6,864 8,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.88% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,717 5,610
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 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 165 197
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £26.36
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £77.22 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +20.37% -8.33% -5.75%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 1,240 £550 +2.33% 663
North of England +11 506 £510 -1.92% 220
Yorkshire -3 229 £513 - 64
South East -4 211 £560 +11.89% 185
North West +33 199 £575 +9.52% 120
South West +2 181 £553 -5.47% 115
Midlands -13 133 £500 -7.15% 84
West Midlands -21 106 £519 -5.68% 48
North East -4 92 £425 -18.27% 39
East of England -5 52 £525 +5.00% 30
East Midlands -3 26 £450 -10.00% 36
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
1 118 (4.94%) Confluence
2 94 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.30%) Apache
4 43 (1.80%) Jupyter
5 32 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.92%) nginx
7 13 (0.54%) SAS
8 12 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.33%) IIS
9 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.21%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.084%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.042%) FactoryTalk
14 1 (0.042%) Traefik
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 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
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 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
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 1,370 (57.30%) AWS
2 1,209 (50.56%) Azure
3 659 (27.56%) GitHub
4 472 (19.74%) GCP
5 464 (19.41%) GitHub Actions
6 441 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
7 357 (14.93%) Serverless
8 277 (11.59%) Amazon S3
9 264 (11.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 262 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
11 220 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
12 189 (7.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 170 (7.11%) Entra ID
14 168 (7.03%) Azure AKS
15 148 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (5.90%) Azure Monitor
17 137 (5.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 124 (5.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 120 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
20 92 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 277 (11.59%) Firewall
2 205 (8.57%) DNS
3 133 (5.56%) VPN
4 110 (4.60%) Network Security
5 86 (3.60%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.30%) WAN
7 78 (3.26%) DHCP
8 67 (2.80%) BGP
9 47 (1.97%) OSPF
10 45 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.59%) VLAN
12 36 (1.51%) VXLAN
13 32 (1.34%) VSAN
14 29 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.05%) SSL
17 24 (1.00%) BIG-IP
18 23 (0.96%) SSH
19 18 (0.75%) Internet
19 18 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (3.43%) SQL Server
4 80 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
5 71 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 70 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
7 69 (2.89%) Power BI
8 68 (2.84%) Data Lake
9 67 (2.80%) DynamoDB
9 67 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 61 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 59 (2.47%) BigQuery
12 48 (2.01%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.92%) Redis
14 45 (1.88%) Relational Database
15 41 (1.71%) MySQL
16 39 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
16 39 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 39 (1.63%) Oracle Database
17 37 (1.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 433 (18.11%) GitLab
2 388 (16.23%) Jenkins
3 355 (14.85%) Git
4 149 (6.23%) JIRA
5 44 (1.84%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.30%) Maven
7 30 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 17 (0.71%) Snyk
12 16 (0.67%) MLflow
13 15 (0.63%) Terragrunt
14 14 (0.59%) Selenium
15 13 (0.54%) MSI
16 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.46%) Gatling
16 11 (0.46%) JUnit
17 8 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 453 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 358 (14.97%) Public Sector
3 312 (13.05%) Finance
4 138 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.85%) Banking
6 69 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.05%) Retail
9 26 (1.09%) Military
10 22 (0.92%) Legal
11 21 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.88%) Publishing
12 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.63%) Law
14 14 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.54%) Local Government
16 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
17 11 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 516 (21.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 428 (17.90%) Senior
3 268 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 229 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
5 222 (9.28%) Platform Engineer
6 218 (9.12%) Architect
7 217 (9.08%) Developer
8 214 (8.95%) AWS Engineer
9 206 (8.62%) Lead
10 166 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 162 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
13 97 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
14 96 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 94 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 93 (3.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 92 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 92 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
18 84 (3.51%) Network Engineer
19 76 (3.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (7.61%) Kafka
2 162 (6.78%) REST
3 122 (5.10%) .NET
4 113 (4.73%) React
5 96 (4.02%) Node.js
6 94 (3.93%) ARM Templates
7 92 (3.85%) PySpark
8 90 (3.76%) RESTful
9 79 (3.30%) OAuth
10 78 (3.26%) YAML
11 60 (2.51%) Spring
12 56 (2.34%) Spring Boot
13 54 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
14 52 (2.17%) OAuth2
15 49 (2.05%) JSON
15 49 (2.05%) OpenID
16 48 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
17 44 (1.84%) HTML
18 38 (1.59%) CSS
19 37 (1.55%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 562 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 153 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 82 (3.43%) Onboarding
7 69 (2.89%) Public Cloud
8 67 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 54 (2.26%) PKI
10 52 (2.17%) Replication
11 48 (2.01%) AI Agents
12 47 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.46%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.42%) NHS
17 32 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
18 30 (1.25%) Management Information System
19 25 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 422 (17.65%) Linux
2 249 (10.41%) Windows
3 85 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 84 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 33 (1.38%) VMS
7 32 (1.34%) Unix
8 19 (0.79%) AIX
9 15 (0.63%) CentOS
10 12 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
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 (0.084%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,733 (72.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,613 (67.46%) CI/CD
3 1,388 (58.05%) DevOps
4 598 (25.01%) Agile
5 583 (24.38%) Containerisation
6 562 (23.50%) Observability
7 536 (22.42%) Platform Engineering
8 379 (15.85%) AI
9 313 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 294 (12.30%) Test Automation
11 292 (12.21%) Migration
12 286 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
13 285 (11.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 270 (11.29%) Software Engineering
15 269 (11.25%) Cloud Security
16 260 (10.87%) Analytics
17 256 (10.71%) DevSecOps
18 253 (10.58%) Infrastructure Automation
19 238 (9.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 235 (9.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,138 (47.60%) Python
2 462 (19.32%) PowerShell
3 442 (18.49%) Bash
4 373 (15.60%) SQL
5 276 (11.54%) Java
6 274 (11.46%) Bicep
7 144 (6.02%) JavaScript
8 137 (5.73%) C#
9 128 (5.35%) TypeScript
10 73 (3.05%) Go
11 51 (2.13%) Scala
12 49 (2.05%) Groovy
13 39 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.59%) Rust
15 13 (0.54%) Perl
16 12 (0.50%) R
17 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.46%) Ruby
18 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 871 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 709 (29.65%) SC Cleared
3 189 (7.90%) DV Cleared
4 166 (6.94%) Azure Certification
5 139 (5.81%) AWS Certification
6 96 (4.02%) Degree
7 64 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (1.84%) CISSP
12 39 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (1.34%) CCNP
14 20 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 18 (0.75%) VCAP
17 17 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 14 (0.59%) CCNA
18 14 (0.59%) CISM
19 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.51%) QA
3 50 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.09%) GDPR
4 48 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.01%) NIST
5 47 (1.97%) NCSC
6 22 (0.92%) WCAG
7 20 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.54%) SLA
9 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.29%) GRC
11 6 (0.25%) HL7
12 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.21%) PSD2
12 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 648 (27.10%) Docker
2 153 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 118 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 48 (2.01%) vSphere
7 46 (1.92%) Hyper-V
8 45 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 28 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.59%) Squid
12 9 (0.38%) KVM
12 9 (0.38%) NFS
13 8 (0.33%) Firmware
14 6 (0.25%) Ceph
15 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 939 (39.27%) Kubernetes
2 566 (23.67%) Ansible
3 294 (12.30%) Grafana
4 246 (10.29%) Prometheus
5 87 (3.64%) Argo
6 62 (2.59%) Puppet
7 51 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.59%) Packer
9 35 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (1.34%) Istio
11 30 (1.25%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.79%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.79%) Kibana
14 19 (0.79%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.75%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.67%) Podman
17 15 (0.63%) VxRail
18 14 (0.59%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 435 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.57%) Google
3 154 (6.44%) VMware
4 139 (5.81%) Databricks
5 136 (5.69%) Splunk
6 107 (4.48%) Oracle
7 78 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 78 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 74 (3.09%) ServiceNow
9 72 (3.01%) Cisco
10 60 (2.51%) Palo Alto
11 43 (1.80%) F5
12 35 (1.46%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.42%) Arista
14 32 (1.34%) Fortinet
14 32 (1.34%) Informatica
15 30 (1.25%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.00%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.00%) Foundry
17 22 (0.92%) Aruba