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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,245 1,313 1,389
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.11% 4.99% 3.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.91% 31.92% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 905 1,023
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £443 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 11
10th Percentile £46.50 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £55.40 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £74.38 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +12.74% -9.68% -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 5,922 4,113 4,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.47% 15.62% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,074 2,737 3,383
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +0.98% -1.54% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 46 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £16.47
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.29
Median hourly rate £62.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% +53.97% -42.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £31.39 £32.50
% change year-on-year +76.04% -3.43% -43.48%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 1,212 £550 +3.33% 420
North of England +28 474 £500 - 135
Yorkshire +4 234 £500 -2.44% 40
North West +44 178 £525 +2.44% 77
South East -21 166 £530 +5.90% 161
Midlands -11 142 £513 +0.10% 55
South West -6 129 £550 -10.57% 110
West Midlands -11 117 £525 -3.67% 37
North East +3 77 £425 -11.46% 20
East of England -17 50 £537 +7.43% 20
East Midlands -13 23 £463 -7.50% 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
1 110 (4.90%) Confluence
2 93 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (3.16%) Apache
5 34 (1.51%) Jupyter
6 31 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.07%) nginx
8 15 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.53%) SAS
10 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.27%) IIS
11 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.089%) Apache Synapse
14 2 (0.089%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.089%) Drupal
14 2 (0.089%) Traefik
14 2 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.045%) InDesign
6 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.089%) Endur
2 2 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.045%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.045%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.045%) Maximo
3 1 (0.045%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,267 (56.44%) AWS
2 1,102 (49.09%) Azure
3 604 (26.90%) GitHub
4 465 (20.71%) GCP
5 416 (18.53%) GitHub Actions
6 371 (16.53%) Azure DevOps
7 358 (15.95%) Serverless
8 294 (13.10%) Amazon S3
9 273 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 259 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
11 209 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
12 167 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 151 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (6.55%) Azure AKS
15 143 (6.37%) Entra ID
16 138 (6.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 138 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 121 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
18 112 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
19 103 (4.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 226 (10.07%) Firewall
2 154 (6.86%) DNS
3 121 (5.39%) VPN
4 101 (4.50%) Network Security
5 84 (3.74%) WAN
6 65 (2.90%) BGP
7 47 (2.09%) SD-WAN
8 45 (2.00%) OSPF
9 42 (1.87%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.56%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.16%) BIG-IP
12 26 (1.16%) DHCP
13 21 (0.94%) VLAN
14 20 (0.89%) LAN
15 19 (0.85%) SAN
15 19 (0.85%) SSL
16 16 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
17 14 (0.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
3 82 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
4 78 (3.47%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.34%) Power BI
6 73 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 68 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.85%) BigQuery
9 62 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
9 62 (2.76%) NoSQL
10 57 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 53 (2.36%) Delta Lake
11 53 (2.36%) MongoDB
12 43 (1.92%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.51%) Redis
15 33 (1.47%) Oracle Database
16 31 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
17 30 (1.34%) Big Data
18 29 (1.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 407 (18.13%) GitLab
2 388 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 310 (13.81%) Git
4 145 (6.46%) JIRA
5 45 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 28 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.07%) Maven
9 20 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.80%) MLflow
10 18 (0.80%) Snyk
11 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.49%) Gatling
13 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.45%) JUnit
13 10 (0.45%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.40%) MSI
15 8 (0.36%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.36%) git-flow
16 7 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 403 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 329 (14.65%) Public Sector
3 266 (11.85%) Finance
4 119 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (4.05%) Banking
6 68 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.43%) Retail
9 26 (1.16%) Legal
10 23 (1.02%) Military
11 22 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.76%) Publishing
14 15 (0.67%) Law
15 14 (0.62%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.49%) Billing
16 11 (0.49%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.45%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 508 (22.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 371 (16.53%) Senior
3 251 (11.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 236 (10.51%) Architect
5 217 (9.67%) AWS Engineer
6 205 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
7 186 (8.29%) Data Engineer
8 184 (8.20%) Lead
8 184 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
9 178 (7.93%) Developer
10 132 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 111 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
12 106 (4.72%) GCP Engineer
13 102 (4.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 93 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 87 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
16 83 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 82 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 74 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 68 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (7.62%) Kafka
2 117 (5.21%) REST
3 113 (5.03%) .NET
4 103 (4.59%) PySpark
5 99 (4.41%) Node.js
6 95 (4.23%) React
7 84 (3.74%) OAuth
8 76 (3.39%) RESTful
9 65 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 64 (2.85%) YAML
11 62 (2.76%) ARM Templates
11 62 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
12 58 (2.58%) OpenID
13 56 (2.49%) OAuth2
13 56 (2.49%) Spring
14 52 (2.32%) Spring Boot
15 44 (1.96%) JSON
16 40 (1.78%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.60%) AngularJS
18 33 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 530 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (4.28%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 69 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 46 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 41 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (1.51%) Private Cloud
10 34 (1.51%) Replication
11 33 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
13 28 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.25%) PKI
14 27 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 27 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 26 (1.16%) NHS
16 20 (0.89%) Management Information System
17 18 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 344 (15.32%) Linux
2 190 (8.46%) Windows
3 76 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 55 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.34%) VMS
6 28 (1.25%) Unix
7 26 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.58%) CentOS
9 11 (0.49%) AIX
10 9 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.089%) Debian
15 2 (0.089%) Rocky
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,548 (68.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,510 (67.26%) CI/CD
3 1,327 (59.11%) DevOps
4 535 (23.83%) Containerisation
5 528 (23.52%) Agile
6 462 (20.58%) Observability
7 439 (19.55%) Platform Engineering
8 309 (13.76%) AI
9 273 (12.16%) Migration
10 270 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
11 248 (11.05%) Analytics
12 236 (10.51%) Test Automation
13 231 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 230 (10.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 224 (9.98%) Cloud Security
15 224 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 222 (9.89%) Software Engineering
17 213 (9.49%) Infrastructure Automation
18 212 (9.44%) Microservices
19 191 (8.51%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (46.15%) Python
2 354 (15.77%) SQL
3 348 (15.50%) Bash
4 329 (14.65%) PowerShell
5 255 (11.36%) Java
6 214 (9.53%) Bicep
7 123 (5.48%) JavaScript
8 119 (5.30%) C#
9 112 (4.99%) TypeScript
10 85 (3.79%) Go
11 49 (2.18%) Scala
12 47 (2.09%) Groovy
13 34 (1.51%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.80%) Ruby
15 16 (0.71%) Rust
16 11 (0.49%) C
17 9 (0.40%) R
18 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
19 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 790 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 655 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 142 (6.33%) DV Cleared
4 134 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 111 (4.94%) AWS Certification
6 85 (3.79%) Degree
7 64 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.29%) CCNP
12 26 (1.16%) CISSP
13 17 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.71%) CCNA
15 15 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 14 (0.62%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.49%) CCIE
17 11 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 57 (2.54%) QA
3 55 (2.45%) GDPR
4 43 (1.92%) NIST
5 42 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.65%) NCSC
8 31 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.62%) WCAG
10 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.49%) SLA
12 10 (0.45%) GRC
13 7 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.18%) HL7
15 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.13%) PSD2
16 2 (0.089%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 605 (26.95%) Docker
2 111 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 79 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 28 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 27 (1.20%) vSphere
8 21 (0.94%) Squid
9 15 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.49%) NFS
12 8 (0.36%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.089%) GPFS
15 2 (0.089%) Lustre
15 2 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 841 (37.46%) Kubernetes
2 490 (21.83%) Ansible
3 284 (12.65%) Grafana
4 248 (11.05%) Prometheus
5 85 (3.79%) Argo
6 55 (2.45%) Puppet
7 41 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.56%) Istio
9 33 (1.47%) Packer
10 28 (1.25%) vCenter Server
11 27 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
13 22 (0.98%) FortiGate
14 19 (0.85%) Kibana
15 15 (0.67%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
17 13 (0.58%) Consul
17 13 (0.58%) Data Guard
17 13 (0.58%) Podman
18 12 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 340 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 205 (9.13%) Google
3 130 (5.79%) Databricks
4 126 (5.61%) Splunk
5 108 (4.81%) VMware
6 93 (4.14%) Oracle
7 81 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 73 (3.25%) Dynatrace
9 64 (2.85%) ServiceNow
10 55 (2.45%) Cisco
10 55 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 39 (1.74%) F5
12 34 (1.51%) Arista
12 34 (1.51%) OpenAI
13 29 (1.29%) Zscaler
14 25 (1.11%) Fortinet
15 23 (1.02%) Aruba
15 23 (1.02%) Foundry
16 22 (0.98%) Informatica
17 20 (0.89%) Pure Storage