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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,369 1,392 1,371
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.19% 5.02% 4.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.21% 20.19% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 969 985
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -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 9,784 6,893 8,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 24.85% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,430 4,736 5,591
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £437 £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 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 166 190
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -11.10% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £76.85 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%

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 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 24 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 24 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 1,231 £550 +2.33% 206
North of England +11 503 £510 -1.92% 140
Yorkshire -2 227 £513 - 38
South East -10 207 £560 +11.89% 144
North West +33 198 £575 +9.52% 76
South West +1 180 £553 -5.47% 79
Midlands -11 129 £500 -6.89% 52
West Midlands -20 105 £513 -5.96% 32
North East -4 92 £425 -18.27% 27
East of England -11 51 £525 +5.00% 12
East Midlands -1 23 £425 -15.00% 20
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
1 117 (4.94%) Confluence
2 93 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 78 (3.29%) Apache
4 43 (1.82%) Jupyter
5 29 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.93%) nginx
7 13 (0.55%) SAS
8 12 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.34%) IIS
9 8 (0.34%) 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 1,355 (57.20%) AWS
2 1,194 (50.40%) Azure
3 657 (27.73%) GitHub
4 468 (19.76%) GCP
5 462 (19.50%) GitHub Actions
6 439 (18.53%) Azure DevOps
7 353 (14.90%) Serverless
8 275 (11.61%) Amazon S3
9 261 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 261 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
10 220 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
11 185 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 168 (7.09%) Entra ID
13 167 (7.05%) Azure AKS
14 144 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
15 139 (5.87%) Azure Monitor
16 135 (5.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 123 (5.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 119 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
19 92 (3.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 274 (11.57%) Firewall
2 202 (8.53%) DNS
3 133 (5.61%) VPN
4 109 (4.60%) Network Security
5 86 (3.63%) TCP/IP
6 78 (3.29%) DHCP
6 78 (3.29%) WAN
7 67 (2.83%) BGP
8 47 (1.98%) OSPF
9 45 (1.90%) SD-WAN
10 38 (1.60%) VLAN
11 36 (1.52%) VXLAN
12 32 (1.35%) VSAN
13 29 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 26 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
15 24 (1.01%) BIG-IP
15 24 (1.01%) SSL
16 23 (0.97%) SSH
17 18 (0.76%) Internet
18 16 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 78 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
5 70 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 69 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 69 (2.91%) Power BI
7 68 (2.87%) Data Lake
8 67 (2.83%) DynamoDB
8 67 (2.83%) MongoDB
9 60 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 58 (2.45%) BigQuery
11 48 (2.03%) Delta Lake
12 46 (1.94%) Redis
13 45 (1.90%) Relational Database
14 41 (1.73%) MySQL
15 39 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
15 39 (1.65%) Oracle Database
16 37 (1.56%) Metadata
17 36 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 431 (18.19%) GitLab
2 387 (16.34%) Jenkins
3 352 (14.86%) Git
4 148 (6.25%) JIRA
5 44 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.31%) Maven
7 30 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.97%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.76%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 17 (0.72%) Snyk
12 16 (0.68%) MLflow
13 15 (0.63%) Terragrunt
14 14 (0.59%) Selenium
15 13 (0.55%) MSI
16 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.46%) JUnit
17 10 (0.42%) Gatling
18 8 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 450 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 352 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 311 (13.13%) Finance
4 137 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (3.80%) Banking
6 68 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.07%) Retail
9 26 (1.10%) Military
10 22 (0.93%) Legal
11 21 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.89%) Publishing
12 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.63%) Law
14 14 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.55%) Local Government
16 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
17 11 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 513 (21.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 424 (17.90%) Senior
3 264 (11.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 228 (9.62%) Azure Engineer
5 222 (9.37%) Platform Engineer
6 218 (9.20%) Developer
7 214 (9.03%) Architect
8 210 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
9 205 (8.65%) Lead
10 165 (6.96%) Data Engineer
11 162 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 100 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
13 96 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 96 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
14 92 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 91 (3.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 91 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 90 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
17 84 (3.55%) Network Engineer
18 74 (3.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (7.64%) Kafka
2 160 (6.75%) REST
3 121 (5.11%) .NET
4 113 (4.77%) React
5 94 (3.97%) ARM Templates
5 94 (3.97%) Node.js
6 91 (3.84%) PySpark
7 90 (3.80%) RESTful
8 79 (3.33%) OAuth
9 77 (3.25%) YAML
10 60 (2.53%) Spring
11 56 (2.36%) Spring Boot
12 54 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
13 52 (2.20%) OAuth2
14 49 (2.07%) JSON
14 49 (2.07%) OpenID
15 46 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
16 43 (1.82%) HTML
17 38 (1.60%) CSS
18 37 (1.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 556 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 147 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 111 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 83 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 81 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 69 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 66 (2.79%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.24%) PKI
10 49 (2.07%) Replication
11 48 (2.03%) AI Agents
12 47 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
13 46 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
16 35 (1.48%) Private Cloud
17 34 (1.44%) NHS
18 32 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
19 30 (1.27%) Management Information System
20 25 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 415 (17.52%) Linux
2 243 (10.26%) Windows
3 84 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 80 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.31%) Unix
6 31 (1.31%) VMS
7 19 (0.80%) AIX
8 14 (0.59%) CentOS
9 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.13%) CoreOS
13 3 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.084%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,721 (72.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,599 (67.50%) CI/CD
3 1,378 (58.17%) DevOps
4 593 (25.03%) Agile
5 578 (24.40%) Containerisation
6 558 (23.55%) Observability
7 534 (22.54%) Platform Engineering
8 376 (15.87%) AI
9 310 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 292 (12.33%) Test Automation
11 287 (12.11%) Migration
12 285 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 285 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
13 266 (11.23%) Cloud Security
14 265 (11.19%) Software Engineering
15 257 (10.85%) Analytics
16 255 (10.76%) DevSecOps
17 253 (10.68%) Infrastructure Automation
18 236 (9.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 232 (9.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (47.57%) Python
2 454 (19.16%) PowerShell
3 437 (18.45%) Bash
4 367 (15.49%) SQL
5 275 (11.61%) Java
6 271 (11.44%) Bicep
7 142 (5.99%) JavaScript
8 137 (5.78%) C#
9 124 (5.23%) TypeScript
10 71 (3.00%) Go
11 51 (2.15%) Scala
12 49 (2.07%) Groovy
13 39 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.55%) Perl
14 13 (0.55%) Rust
15 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.46%) R
15 11 (0.46%) Ruby
16 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 862 (36.39%) Security Cleared
2 701 (29.59%) SC Cleared
3 187 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 165 (6.96%) Azure Certification
5 139 (5.87%) AWS Certification
6 95 (4.01%) Degree
7 61 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 43 (1.82%) CISSP
12 39 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (1.35%) CCNP
14 20 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 18 (0.76%) VCAP
17 17 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 14 (0.59%) CCNA
18 14 (0.59%) CISM
19 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.55%) QA
3 50 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.03%) GDPR
4 48 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.03%) NIST
5 47 (1.98%) NCSC
6 22 (0.93%) WCAG
7 18 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.55%) SLA
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.25%) GRC
10 6 (0.25%) HL7
11 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.21%) PSD2
11 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.17%) SEPA
13 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 645 (27.23%) Docker
2 150 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 114 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.94%) Hyper-V
7 45 (1.90%) VMware NSX
7 45 (1.90%) vSphere
8 28 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.59%) Squid
11 9 (0.38%) KVM
12 8 (0.34%) Firmware
13 7 (0.30%) NFS
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
1 929 (39.21%) Kubernetes
2 560 (23.64%) Ansible
3 290 (12.24%) Grafana
4 242 (10.22%) Prometheus
5 87 (3.67%) Argo
6 61 (2.57%) Puppet
7 51 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.60%) Packer
9 35 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.31%) Istio
11 29 (1.22%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.80%) Kibana
14 19 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.76%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.63%) Podman
16 15 (0.63%) VxRail
17 14 (0.59%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 425 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 201 (8.48%) Google
3 150 (6.33%) VMware
4 137 (5.78%) Databricks
5 136 (5.74%) Splunk
6 107 (4.52%) Oracle
7 78 (3.29%) Dynatrace
8 73 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 73 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 72 (3.04%) Cisco
10 60 (2.53%) Palo Alto
11 43 (1.82%) F5
12 35 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.44%) Arista
14 32 (1.35%) Informatica
15 31 (1.31%) Fortinet
16 30 (1.27%) Zscaler
17 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
17 24 (1.01%) Foundry
18 22 (0.93%) Aruba