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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 38 57
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,897 1,350 1,307
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.35% 5.25% 3.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.27% 34.46% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 935 987
10th Percentile £400 £402 £425
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £61.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £67.36 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.19 -
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -

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 5,378 3,918 4,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 15.24% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,717 2,567 3,337
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 41 145
10th Percentile £18.88 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.48 £77.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 1,010 £525 -12.50% 179
North of England +3 384 £500 -7.19% 92
Yorkshire +1 207 £500 -6.98% 25
Midlands +8 146 £538 +7.50% 21
South East +1 146 £500 -13.04% 60
North West -4 134 £500 -8.26% 50
West Midlands +8 121 £540 -2.00% 15
South West -7 119 £550 -10.57% 41
North East -7 46 £481 -12.50% 17
East Midlands -14 24 £438 -7.89% 6
East of England -43 21 £550 +37.50% 12
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 73 (3.85%) Confluence
2 65 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.06%) Apache
4 50 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.85%) nginx
6 24 (1.27%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) Actimize
4 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.053%) Endur
4 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (55.98%) AWS
2 840 (44.28%) Azure
3 531 (27.99%) GitHub
4 392 (20.66%) GCP
5 353 (18.61%) Serverless
6 333 (17.55%) GitHub Actions
7 322 (16.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 320 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
9 252 (13.28%) Amazon S3
10 223 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
11 184 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
13 148 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (7.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 137 (7.22%) OpenShift
16 135 (7.12%) Amazon ECS
17 127 (6.69%) Azure AKS
18 124 (6.54%) Entra ID
19 122 (6.43%) Azure Monitor
20 107 (5.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 192 (10.12%) Firewall
2 141 (7.43%) DNS
3 112 (5.90%) VPN
4 104 (5.48%) Network Security
5 51 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 43 (2.27%) WAN
7 29 (1.53%) BGP
7 29 (1.53%) SD-WAN
8 28 (1.48%) DHCP
8 28 (1.48%) LAN
9 26 (1.37%) SSL
10 22 (1.16%) OSPF
11 16 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
12 13 (0.69%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (0.53%) HTTP
14 10 (0.53%) SAN
14 10 (0.53%) VLAN
15 9 (0.47%) MPLS
15 9 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
3 77 (4.06%) Data Lake
4 71 (3.74%) Power BI
5 67 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 58 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 55 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
8 52 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (2.42%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.37%) SQL Server
12 42 (2.21%) DynamoDB
13 40 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.90%) Relational Database
15 34 (1.79%) Redis
16 32 (1.69%) Delta Lake
17 31 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 23 (1.21%) Tableau
19 20 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 418 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 378 (19.93%) GitLab
3 257 (13.55%) Git
4 92 (4.85%) JIRA
5 45 (2.37%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.74%) Liquibase
7 32 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 25 (1.32%) Maven
10 24 (1.27%) CircleCI
11 18 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.79%) MLflow
13 13 (0.69%) Gradle
14 12 (0.63%) JUnit
15 11 (0.58%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.53%) Snyk
17 9 (0.47%) Gatling
17 9 (0.47%) Selenium
18 7 (0.37%) JMeter
18 7 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 410 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 299 (15.76%) Public Sector
3 211 (11.12%) Finance
4 102 (5.38%) Banking
5 96 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 25 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (1.05%) Retail
9 17 (0.90%) Military
10 11 (0.58%) Law
11 8 (0.42%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.37%) Legal
13 6 (0.32%) Billing
13 6 (0.32%) Marketing
13 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 438 (23.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 255 (13.44%) Senior
3 214 (11.28%) Architect
4 200 (10.54%) AWS Engineer
5 172 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 169 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
7 166 (8.75%) Lead
8 161 (8.49%) Developer
9 150 (7.91%) Platform Engineer
10 139 (7.33%) Data Engineer
11 114 (6.01%) AWS DevOps
12 104 (5.48%) GCP Engineer
13 103 (5.43%) Software Engineer
14 98 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 94 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 77 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 77 (4.06%) Site Engineer
17 72 (3.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 69 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
18 69 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (9.86%) Kafka
2 124 (6.54%) REST
3 120 (6.33%) Node.js
4 100 (5.27%) React
5 98 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
6 90 (4.74%) RESTful
7 82 (4.32%) ARM Templates
8 81 (4.27%) .NET
9 67 (3.53%) OAuth
10 65 (3.43%) PySpark
11 63 (3.32%) Spring
12 59 (3.11%) Spring Boot
13 50 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
14 48 (2.53%) YAML
15 44 (2.32%) AngularJS
15 44 (2.32%) OpenID
16 38 (2.00%) OAuth2
17 32 (1.69%) AWS CDK
18 29 (1.53%) SAML
19 27 (1.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 344 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 110 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (3.69%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.43%) Data Centre
6 45 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 36 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.69%) Private Cloud
8 32 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 30 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.58%) NHS
10 28 (1.48%) PKI
11 24 (1.27%) Replication
12 23 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.79%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.69%) AI Agents
15 13 (0.69%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.69%) Clustering
16 12 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 363 (19.14%) Linux
2 155 (8.17%) Windows
3 49 (2.58%) VMS
4 46 (2.42%) Unix
5 45 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.11%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.74%) CentOS
9 8 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.21%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.16%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.053%) Android
14 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.053%) Rocky
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,304 (68.74%) CI/CD
2 1,207 (63.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,191 (62.78%) DevOps
4 503 (26.52%) Containerisation
5 401 (21.14%) Agile
6 355 (18.71%) Observability
7 270 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
8 263 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (13.71%) Migration
10 242 (12.76%) Microservices
11 234 (12.34%) Analytics
12 231 (12.18%) Infrastructure Automation
13 218 (11.49%) Software Engineering
14 208 (10.96%) AI
15 204 (10.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 188 (9.91%) Cloud Security
17 183 (9.65%) DevSecOps
18 181 (9.54%) Test Automation
19 174 (9.17%) Mentoring
20 169 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 941 (49.60%) Python
2 308 (16.24%) Bash
3 287 (15.13%) SQL
4 255 (13.44%) PowerShell
5 211 (11.12%) Java
6 152 (8.01%) Bicep
7 131 (6.91%) Go
8 126 (6.64%) JavaScript
9 103 (5.43%) TypeScript
10 93 (4.90%) C#
11 51 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.53%) Ruby
13 27 (1.42%) Groovy
14 23 (1.21%) Scala
15 15 (0.79%) Rust
16 8 (0.42%) PHP
17 7 (0.37%) C
18 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.26%) C++
19 5 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 679 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 564 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.43%) AWS Certification
4 123 (6.48%) Azure Certification
5 113 (5.96%) Degree
6 109 (5.75%) DV Cleared
7 80 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.64%) Master's Degree
10 46 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 41 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 33 (1.74%) CISSP
14 25 (1.32%) CCNP
15 20 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.90%) CISM
17 15 (0.79%) CCIE
18 13 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
19 11 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 73 (3.85%) GDPR
3 61 (3.22%) QA
4 56 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.90%) NIST
6 48 (2.53%) NCSC
7 32 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.53%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) SLA
12 7 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.21%) HL7
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 598 (31.52%) Docker
2 104 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (2.06%) vSphere
6 31 (1.63%) VMware NSX
7 30 (1.58%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.63%) Squid
10 6 (0.32%) KVM
10 6 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.26%) Lustre
11 5 (0.26%) NFS
11 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.21%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.21%) GPFS
13 3 (0.16%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.16%) Postfix
14 2 (0.11%) Ceph
14 2 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 801 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 516 (27.20%) Ansible
3 292 (15.39%) Grafana
4 253 (13.34%) Prometheus
5 72 (3.80%) Argo
6 47 (2.48%) Istio
7 40 (2.11%) Puppet
8 37 (1.95%) Packer
9 36 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 34 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (1.42%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.11%) Consul
13 18 (0.95%) Kibana
14 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 16 (0.84%) Podman
15 13 (0.69%) Rancher
16 12 (0.63%) FortiGate
16 12 (0.63%) logstash
17 10 (0.53%) linkerd
18 9 (0.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 286 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 175 (9.23%) Google
3 138 (7.27%) Databricks
4 128 (6.75%) Splunk
5 116 (6.11%) VMware
6 85 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 50 (2.64%) Oracle
8 49 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.11%) Palo Alto
11 38 (2.00%) F5
12 36 (1.90%) Cisco
13 29 (1.53%) IBM
13 29 (1.53%) Pure Storage
14 26 (1.37%) CheckPoint
15 23 (1.21%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.05%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.00%) SolarWinds
18 17 (0.90%) OpenAI
19 16 (0.84%) Zscaler