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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 39 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,991 1,230 1,251
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.86% 5.03% 3.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.33% 32.39% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,402 886 935
10th Percentile £400 £401 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.66 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% -41.94% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £53.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £79.13 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £44.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +41.88% -19.09% -27.15%

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 5,480 3,798 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.37% 15.52% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 2,614 3,217
10th Percentile £319 £311 £258
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £513
% change year-on-year -4.44% +2.10% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 38 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.63 £21.99 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.75 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +103.60% +7.70% -50.75%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.36 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.42 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +2 1,069 £538 -2.27% 277
North of England +18 389 £500 -4.76% 165
Yorkshire +12 208 £488 -7.14% 40
South East -14 161 £513 +2.50% 141
North West +24 140 £527 +0.31% 94
Midlands -7 132 £525 -3.67% 40
South West -6 115 £563 -8.54% 66
West Midlands -6 110 £525 -6.75% 25
North East -6 50 £488 -6.70% 31
East of England -15 42 £513 +2.50% 32
East Midlands -23 21 £450 -10.00% 15
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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 80 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 56 (2.81%) Apache
4 46 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.85%) nginx
7 12 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) Traefik
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (53.59%) AWS
2 975 (48.97%) Azure
3 568 (28.53%) GitHub
4 403 (20.24%) GCP
5 375 (18.83%) GitHub Actions
6 339 (17.03%) Serverless
7 333 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
8 299 (15.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 249 (12.51%) Amazon S3
10 245 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
11 199 (9.99%) Amazon EKS
12 143 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 142 (7.13%) Azure AKS
14 141 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
15 131 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
16 124 (6.23%) OpenShift
17 122 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 120 (6.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 116 (5.83%) Entra ID
20 111 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 201 (10.10%) Firewall
2 135 (6.78%) DNS
3 112 (5.63%) VPN
4 97 (4.87%) Network Security
5 59 (2.96%) WAN
6 45 (2.26%) BGP
7 40 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 38 (1.91%) SD-WAN
9 33 (1.66%) OSPF
10 27 (1.36%) VXLAN
11 23 (1.16%) DHCP
12 21 (1.05%) Ethernet VPN
13 20 (1.00%) LAN
14 18 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
15 17 (0.85%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.75%) SAN
17 13 (0.65%) SSL
18 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
19 11 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (3.97%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.77%) Power BI
5 74 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
6 63 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.86%) BigQuery
8 50 (2.51%) Delta Lake
8 50 (2.51%) MongoDB
8 50 (2.51%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.41%) DynamoDB
10 46 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 40 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.81%) Redis
14 34 (1.71%) Relational Database
15 33 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
16 28 (1.41%) Big Data
17 27 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 370 (18.58%) Jenkins
2 338 (16.98%) GitLab
3 276 (13.86%) Git
4 117 (5.88%) JIRA
5 45 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.36%) Maven
8 24 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.85%) MLflow
10 16 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.80%) Snyk
10 16 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.65%) Gatling
12 11 (0.55%) Liquibase
13 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.50%) git-flow
13 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
14 9 (0.45%) Gradle
15 8 (0.40%) JUnit
16 7 (0.35%) Cucumber
General
1 332 (16.68%) Social Skills
2 276 (13.86%) Public Sector
3 206 (10.35%) Finance
4 94 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (4.12%) Banking
6 50 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.10%) Retail
9 19 (0.95%) Legal
10 13 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Military
12 10 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 10 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.45%) Law
14 8 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.35%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
15 7 (0.35%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 435 (21.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 306 (15.37%) Senior
3 217 (10.90%) Architect
4 200 (10.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 197 (9.89%) Azure Engineer
6 179 (8.99%) Developer
7 171 (8.59%) AWS Engineer
8 163 (8.19%) Data Engineer
9 152 (7.63%) Lead
10 139 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
11 112 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (5.52%) GCP Engineer
13 103 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 88 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
15 80 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 78 (3.92%) Site Engineer
17 74 (3.72%) Software Engineer
18 68 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
19 67 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 65 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (8.59%) Kafka
2 116 (5.83%) Node.js
3 106 (5.32%) React
4 104 (5.22%) .NET
5 97 (4.87%) REST
6 79 (3.97%) PySpark
7 73 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 66 (3.31%) OAuth
8 66 (3.31%) RESTful
8 66 (3.31%) Spring
9 63 (3.16%) ARM Templates
9 63 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
10 61 (3.06%) Spring Boot
11 54 (2.71%) YAML
12 50 (2.51%) AngularJS
12 50 (2.51%) OpenID
13 42 (2.11%) AWS CDK
13 42 (2.11%) JSON
13 42 (2.11%) OAuth2
14 26 (1.31%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 418 (20.99%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 81 (4.07%) Data Centre
3 81 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 73 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 39 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 33 (1.66%) PKI
8 30 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 30 (1.51%) Private Cloud
9 29 (1.46%) Replication
10 28 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
15 21 (1.05%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.05%) NHS
16 17 (0.85%) Clustering
17 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 300 (15.07%) Linux
2 143 (7.18%) Windows
3 45 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (2.11%) VMS
5 41 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.41%) Unix
7 15 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.50%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) Android
13 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,344 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 1,318 (66.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,198 (60.17%) DevOps
4 480 (24.11%) Containerisation
5 438 (22.00%) Agile
6 397 (19.94%) Observability
7 325 (16.32%) Platform Engineering
8 266 (13.36%) Migration
9 241 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 238 (11.95%) AI
11 236 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
12 228 (11.45%) Analytics
13 205 (10.30%) Software Engineering
14 196 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 196 (9.84%) Test Automation
15 187 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 187 (9.39%) Microservices
16 182 (9.14%) Infrastructure Automation
17 181 (9.09%) Cloud Security
18 174 (8.74%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 897 (45.05%) Python
2 322 (16.17%) SQL
3 281 (14.11%) Bash
4 278 (13.96%) PowerShell
5 225 (11.30%) Java
6 179 (8.99%) Bicep
7 126 (6.33%) JavaScript
8 114 (5.73%) C#
9 111 (5.58%) TypeScript
10 81 (4.07%) Go
11 51 (2.56%) Scala
12 40 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.81%) Groovy
14 29 (1.46%) Ruby
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.40%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
17 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 706 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 580 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.73%) Azure Certification
4 119 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 98 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 70 (3.52%) Degree
7 61 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 44 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.46%) CCNP
12 20 (1.00%) CISSP
13 14 (0.70%) CCNA
13 14 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.70%) OCP
13 14 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
14 13 (0.65%) CCIE
14 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 66 (3.31%) QA
3 58 (2.91%) GDPR
4 47 (2.36%) NIST
5 45 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 31 (1.56%) NCSC
8 21 (1.05%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.50%) GRC
12 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.20%) HL7
15 4 (0.20%) PSD2
15 4 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 523 (26.27%) Docker
2 91 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 25 (1.26%) vSphere
8 21 (1.05%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.80%) Squid
10 9 (0.45%) KVM
10 9 (0.45%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.15%) Ceph
13 3 (0.15%) Lustre
13 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.10%) Corosync
14 2 (0.10%) HDFS
14 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 770 (38.67%) Kubernetes
2 482 (24.21%) Ansible
3 263 (13.21%) Grafana
4 225 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 77 (3.87%) Argo
6 46 (2.31%) Istio
7 44 (2.21%) Puppet
8 34 (1.71%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.16%) Kibana
9 23 (1.16%) Packer
9 23 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (1.05%) vCenter Server
11 17 (0.85%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
13 14 (0.70%) Rancher
14 12 (0.60%) Consul
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
15 11 (0.55%) Podman
16 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 300 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 179 (8.99%) Google
3 124 (6.23%) Databricks
4 116 (5.83%) Splunk
5 106 (5.32%) VMware
6 81 (4.07%) Red Hat
7 70 (3.52%) Oracle
8 61 (3.06%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.81%) ServiceNow
10 46 (2.31%) Cisco
11 40 (2.01%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.36%) F5
13 25 (1.26%) Arista
13 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.26%) Pure Storage
14 20 (1.00%) IBM
14 20 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 20 (1.00%) Zscaler
15 17 (0.85%) Aruba
16 16 (0.80%) Citrix