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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 42 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,686 1,444 1,641
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.57% 4.64% 4.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.62% 32.58% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 985 1,262
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 20
10th Percentile £46.20 £46.25 £60.00
25th Percentile £57.13 £58.75 £70.03
Median hourly rate £62.50 £74.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% -3.31% +1.53%
75th Percentile £83.00 £74.22 £78.00
90th Percentile £87.20 £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £74.00 £75.77
% change year-on-year -15.54% -2.33% +20.26%

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 4,870 4,432 5,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.10% 14.23% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,279 2,838 4,031
10th Percentile £310 £313 £306
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.74%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £695 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.40% -5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 57 162
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.54 £17.72
25th Percentile £21.06 £23.80 £24.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £47.01
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -20.22% +82.83%
75th Percentile £66.04 £62.50 £72.35
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.66 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.25 £48.70
% change year-on-year +10.09% -44.05% +89.42%

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +3 880 £525 -12.50% 260
North of England +3 343 £515 +3.00% 93
Yorkshire +4 200 £515 +15.73% 22
Midlands +9 134 £539 -4.90% 54
South West +16 124 £555 -3.48% 81
South East -11 122 £500 -14.31% 201
West Midlands +8 116 £550 -2.87% 31
North West -14 100 £525 -4.55% 57
North East +12 46 £494 -1.50% 14
East of England -14 33 £475 -9.52% 16
East Midlands +3 18 £450 -21.77% 22
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 87 (5.16%) Confluence
2 55 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.67%) nginx
4 39 (2.31%) Apache
5 36 (2.14%) Apache Spark
6 22 (1.30%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
9 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.24%) SAS
10 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.18%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.12%) Documentum
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Endur
2 3 (0.18%) Maximo
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,014 (60.14%) AWS
2 670 (39.74%) Azure
3 454 (26.93%) GitHub
4 308 (18.27%) GCP
5 284 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
6 275 (16.31%) Serverless
7 273 (16.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 250 (14.83%) Azure DevOps
9 229 (13.58%) Amazon S3
10 171 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
11 161 (9.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 156 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
13 131 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
14 124 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 112 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
16 102 (6.05%) Entra ID
17 97 (5.75%) Azure AKS
18 91 (5.40%) OpenShift
19 87 (5.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 74 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 172 (10.20%) Firewall
2 135 (8.01%) DNS
3 86 (5.10%) VPN
4 72 (4.27%) Network Security
5 57 (3.38%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.31%) SSL
7 36 (2.14%) HTTP
8 31 (1.84%) WAN
9 30 (1.78%) DHCP
10 26 (1.54%) BGP
10 26 (1.54%) SSH
11 25 (1.48%) SMTP
12 23 (1.36%) FTP
12 23 (1.36%) LAN
13 22 (1.30%) OSPF
13 22 (1.30%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.83%) MPLS
14 14 (0.83%) VXLAN
15 12 (0.71%) IMAP
15 12 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (7.47%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 64 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 47 (2.79%) Data Lake
5 47 (2.79%) DynamoDB
6 38 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 37 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
7 37 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.96%) Power BI
10 31 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (1.78%) Redis
12 25 (1.48%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.36%) MySQL
13 23 (1.36%) SQL Server
14 15 (0.89%) Big Data
14 15 (0.89%) Tableau
15 13 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 407 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 349 (20.70%) GitLab
3 251 (14.89%) Git
4 125 (7.41%) JIRA
5 56 (3.32%) SonarQube
6 39 (2.31%) Artifactory
7 37 (2.19%) Liquibase
8 36 (2.14%) CircleCI
9 33 (1.96%) Maven
10 29 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (1.48%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.42%) Gradle
12 24 (1.42%) Vagrant
13 18 (1.07%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.77%) Selenium
14 13 (0.77%) Snyk
15 11 (0.65%) JUnit
16 10 (0.59%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.47%) MLflow
17 8 (0.47%) Robot Framework
General
1 415 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 273 (16.19%) Public Sector
3 224 (13.29%) Finance
4 116 (6.88%) Banking
5 93 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 26 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (1.25%) Military
10 21 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.19%) Retail
12 13 (0.77%) Marketing
13 12 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.53%) Publishing
15 7 (0.42%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 394 (23.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 225 (13.35%) Senior
3 219 (12.99%) AWS Engineer
4 191 (11.33%) Architect
5 159 (9.43%) Developer
5 159 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
6 140 (8.30%) Lead
7 132 (7.83%) AWS DevOps
8 126 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 117 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
10 109 (6.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 88 (5.22%) Data Engineer
11 88 (5.22%) Software Engineer
12 80 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 73 (4.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 66 (3.91%) GCP Engineer
15 56 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
16 54 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 52 (3.08%) Python Engineer
18 51 (3.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (8.78%) Kafka
2 108 (6.41%) REST
3 102 (6.05%) Node.js
3 102 (6.05%) RESTful
4 97 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
4 97 (5.75%) React
5 72 (4.27%) .NET
6 69 (4.09%) ARM Templates
7 56 (3.32%) OAuth
8 54 (3.20%) YAML
9 52 (3.08%) Spring Boot
10 47 (2.79%) Spring
11 41 (2.43%) AngularJS
12 39 (2.31%) AWS CDK
13 34 (2.02%) OAuth2
14 33 (1.96%) Keycloak
15 32 (1.90%) OpenID
16 28 (1.66%) FastAPI
17 27 (1.60%) PySpark
17 27 (1.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 286 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.33%) Public Cloud
4 66 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 55 (3.26%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.43%) Replication
7 39 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 38 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 36 (2.14%) NHS
10 31 (1.84%) Private Cloud
11 29 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.60%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.36%) PKI
14 22 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.83%) AI Agents
18 13 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
19 12 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
19 12 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 342 (20.28%) Linux
2 145 (8.60%) Windows
3 57 (3.38%) Unix
4 49 (2.91%) VMS
5 44 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (2.49%) Windows Server
7 29 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
8 21 (1.25%) CentOS
9 19 (1.13%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.47%) Solaris
10 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.30%) Android
11 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) zOS
14 1 (0.059%) Debian
14 1 (0.059%) MVS
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (65.42%) CI/CD
2 1,066 (63.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,048 (62.16%) DevOps
4 449 (26.63%) Containerisation
5 418 (24.79%) Agile
6 255 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
7 248 (14.71%) Microservices
8 240 (14.23%) Observability
9 231 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
10 229 (13.58%) Infrastructure Automation
11 219 (12.99%) Migration
12 196 (11.63%) Software Engineering
13 175 (10.38%) Test Automation
14 160 (9.49%) Cloud Security
15 157 (9.31%) DevSecOps
16 153 (9.07%) Mentoring
17 151 (8.96%) High Availability
18 138 (8.19%) AI
19 137 (8.13%) Analytics
20 134 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 844 (50.06%) Python
2 287 (17.02%) Bash
3 237 (14.06%) PowerShell
4 232 (13.76%) Java
5 223 (13.23%) SQL
6 156 (9.25%) Go
7 105 (6.23%) TypeScript
8 104 (6.17%) Bicep
9 102 (6.05%) JavaScript
10 79 (4.69%) C#
11 51 (3.02%) Shell Script
12 42 (2.49%) Groovy
13 27 (1.60%) Perl
14 15 (0.89%) Ruby
15 14 (0.83%) C++
16 13 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.77%) PHP
16 13 (0.77%) Scala
17 9 (0.53%) C
18 7 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 575 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 479 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 123 (7.30%) AWS Certification
4 109 (6.47%) Degree
5 94 (5.58%) Azure Certification
6 87 (5.16%) DV Cleared
7 70 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 45 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.25%) CISSP
13 20 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (1.07%) CCIE
15 17 (1.01%) CCNP
16 12 (0.71%) JNCIE
17 10 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 8 (0.47%) CISM
18 8 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.91%) GDPR
2 63 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (2.97%) NIST
4 46 (2.73%) QA
5 38 (2.25%) NCSC
6 37 (2.19%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.53%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.36%) SLA
12 5 (0.30%) GRC
12 5 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.24%) HL7
13 4 (0.24%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.18%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 588 (34.88%) Docker
2 116 (6.88%) Active Directory
3 80 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 33 (1.96%) vSphere
6 23 (1.36%) DFS Replication
7 15 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.83%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.77%) Squid
10 12 (0.71%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.71%) Postfix
11 11 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.36%) KVM
13 4 (0.24%) NFS
14 3 (0.18%) GPFS
14 3 (0.18%) Lustre
14 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.059%) iptables
Systems Management
1 716 (42.47%) Kubernetes
2 489 (29.00%) Ansible
3 283 (16.79%) Grafana
4 258 (15.30%) Prometheus
5 62 (3.68%) Argo
5 62 (3.68%) Puppet
6 57 (3.38%) Packer
7 38 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 37 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (2.02%) Istio
10 26 (1.54%) Consul
11 23 (1.36%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (0.95%) Nessus
13 16 (0.95%) Podman
13 16 (0.95%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.83%) Kibana
15 13 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.59%) Rancher
17 9 (0.53%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 215 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 125 (7.41%) Google
3 120 (7.12%) Splunk
4 106 (6.29%) VMware
5 92 (5.46%) Databricks
6 66 (3.91%) F5
7 60 (3.56%) Red Hat
8 48 (2.85%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.79%) ServiceNow
10 44 (2.61%) Dynatrace
11 38 (2.25%) Cisco
12 34 (2.02%) CheckPoint
12 34 (2.02%) Oracle
13 24 (1.42%) IBM
14 21 (1.25%) OpenAI
15 20 (1.19%) Fortinet
15 20 (1.19%) Juniper
16 16 (0.95%) Dell
17 15 (0.89%) Pure Storage
18 14 (0.83%) Zscaler