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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,279 1,344 1,386
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.09% 4.95% 3.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.05% 32.02% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,594 923 1,012
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 11
10th Percentile £53.06 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.01 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.74 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.70% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £79.38 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +20.48% -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 5,989 4,198 4,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.39% 15.47% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,116 2,788 3,352
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £418 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +1.98% -2.60% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 53 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.85
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.57 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.74 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +50.67% +15.38% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +2 1,209 £550 +4.76% 379
North of England +24 491 £500 - 164
Yorkshire +3 237 £500 - 38
North West +40 190 £538 +2.38% 100
South East -17 172 £530 +5.90% 133
South West +1 145 £550 -8.33% 117
Midlands -7 141 £519 +2.52% 49
West Midlands -19 116 £525 -2.78% 31
North East +1 77 £425 -13.27% 27
East of England -10 51 £549 +11.82% 11
East Midlands -11 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
1 120 (5.27%) Confluence
2 91 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 77 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (3.25%) Apache
5 37 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.23%) nginx
8 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.57%) SAS
10 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.088%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.088%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.088%) Drupal
14 2 (0.088%) Traefik
14 2 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.044%) InDesign
6 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.088%) Endur
2 2 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,291 (56.65%) AWS
2 1,111 (48.75%) Azure
3 613 (26.90%) GitHub
4 464 (20.36%) GCP
5 422 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
6 372 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
7 355 (15.58%) Serverless
8 294 (12.90%) Amazon S3
9 270 (11.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 257 (11.28%) AWS Lambda
11 207 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 154 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
14 142 (6.23%) Azure AKS
15 141 (6.19%) Entra ID
16 138 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 137 (6.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 116 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
19 112 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
20 98 (4.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 248 (10.88%) Firewall
2 171 (7.50%) DNS
3 130 (5.70%) VPN
4 106 (4.65%) Network Security
5 83 (3.64%) WAN
6 71 (3.12%) BGP
7 59 (2.59%) TCP/IP
8 51 (2.24%) OSPF
9 46 (2.02%) SD-WAN
10 37 (1.62%) DHCP
11 35 (1.54%) VXLAN
12 30 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.27%) VLAN
14 27 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (1.10%) BIG-IP
16 19 (0.83%) LAN
16 19 (0.83%) SAN
16 19 (0.83%) SSL
17 17 (0.75%) IPsec
18 15 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
4 76 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 73 (3.20%) Power BI
6 72 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 66 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.81%) BigQuery
9 61 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
10 59 (2.59%) NoSQL
11 58 (2.54%) DynamoDB
12 51 (2.24%) MongoDB
13 50 (2.19%) Delta Lake
14 45 (1.97%) Relational Database
15 38 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 37 (1.62%) Oracle Database
17 33 (1.45%) Redis
18 32 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 29 (1.27%) Big Data
19 29 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 410 (17.99%) GitLab
2 392 (17.20%) Jenkins
3 327 (14.35%) Git
4 151 (6.63%) JIRA
5 45 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.32%) Artifactory
8 24 (1.05%) Maven
9 20 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.79%) MLflow
11 17 (0.75%) Snyk
12 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.48%) Gatling
14 10 (0.44%) JUnit
14 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.44%) MSI
15 9 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.35%) git-flow
17 7 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 414 (18.17%) Social Skills
2 341 (14.96%) Public Sector
3 273 (11.98%) Finance
4 126 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (3.82%) Banking
6 68 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (1.67%) Retail
9 25 (1.10%) Legal
10 24 (1.05%) Military
11 22 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.75%) Publishing
14 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.66%) Law
15 11 (0.48%) Billing
15 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 522 (22.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 390 (17.11%) Senior
3 254 (11.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 229 (10.05%) Architect
5 224 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
6 209 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
7 196 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
8 193 (8.47%) Lead
9 179 (7.85%) Data Engineer
9 179 (7.85%) Developer
10 141 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 113 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
12 105 (4.61%) GCP Engineer
13 104 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 97 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
16 91 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 80 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 79 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 74 (3.25%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (7.46%) Kafka
2 128 (5.62%) REST
3 110 (4.83%) .NET
4 102 (4.48%) React
5 100 (4.39%) PySpark
6 98 (4.30%) Node.js
7 81 (3.55%) OAuth
8 76 (3.33%) RESTful
9 65 (2.85%) YAML
10 63 (2.76%) ARM Templates
10 63 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 59 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
12 56 (2.46%) OpenID
13 54 (2.37%) OAuth2
13 54 (2.37%) Spring
14 52 (2.28%) Spring Boot
15 46 (2.02%) JSON
16 37 (1.62%) AngularJS
16 37 (1.62%) AWS CDK
17 34 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 541 (23.74%) Cloud Native
2 120 (5.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 117 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.34%) Data Centre
5 81 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 73 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 69 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 48 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 40 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.58%) Replication
12 35 (1.54%) PKI
13 33 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 33 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 29 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (1.27%) NHS
15 28 (1.23%) AI Agents
16 27 (1.18%) Virtual Team
17 24 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 362 (15.88%) Linux
2 200 (8.78%) Windows
3 81 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 53 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.32%) VMS
6 27 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.10%) Unix
8 15 (0.66%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 9 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.088%) Rocky
15 2 (0.088%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,587 (69.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,525 (66.92%) CI/CD
3 1,349 (59.19%) DevOps
4 553 (24.27%) Agile
4 553 (24.27%) Containerisation
5 477 (20.93%) Observability
6 457 (20.05%) Platform Engineering
7 313 (13.73%) AI
8 286 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
9 283 (12.42%) Migration
10 244 (10.71%) Analytics
10 244 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 244 (10.71%) Test Automation
11 240 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 234 (10.27%) Cloud Security
13 233 (10.22%) Software Engineering
14 225 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 217 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
15 217 (9.52%) Microservices
16 198 (8.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,061 (46.56%) Python
2 370 (16.24%) Bash
3 350 (15.36%) PowerShell
4 349 (15.31%) SQL
5 253 (11.10%) Java
6 209 (9.17%) Bicep
7 132 (5.79%) JavaScript
8 117 (5.13%) C#
9 116 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 84 (3.69%) Go
11 50 (2.19%) Scala
12 47 (2.06%) Groovy
13 33 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.70%) Ruby
14 16 (0.70%) Rust
15 11 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.39%) R
17 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.35%) Perl
18 7 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 815 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 672 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 159 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 140 (6.14%) Azure Certification
5 121 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 83 (3.64%) Degree
7 70 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
9 42 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (1.32%) CCNP
13 24 (1.05%) CISSP
14 20 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.75%) CCNA
16 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.53%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (0.44%) OCP
18 10 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 66 (2.90%) QA
3 51 (2.24%) GDPR
4 40 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 40 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.71%) NIST
6 38 (1.67%) NCSC
7 27 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.66%) WCAG
9 10 (0.44%) GRC
9 10 (0.44%) SLA
9 10 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.22%) HL7
11 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.13%) PSD2
13 2 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 614 (26.94%) Docker
2 117 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 90 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.62%) Hyper-V
7 35 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 35 (1.54%) vSphere
8 21 (0.92%) Squid
9 18 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.48%) NFS
12 7 (0.31%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.088%) GPFS
15 2 (0.088%) Lustre
15 2 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 863 (37.87%) Kubernetes
2 509 (22.33%) Ansible
3 290 (12.72%) Grafana
4 249 (10.93%) Prometheus
5 91 (3.99%) Argo
6 57 (2.50%) Puppet
7 44 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.54%) Packer
9 34 (1.49%) Istio
10 29 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.05%) FortiGate
13 23 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (0.83%) Kibana
15 17 (0.75%) Kustomize
15 17 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
16 16 (0.70%) Data Guard
17 14 (0.61%) Podman
18 13 (0.57%) Consul
18 13 (0.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 356 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 206 (9.04%) Google
3 130 (5.70%) Splunk
4 126 (5.53%) Databricks
5 120 (5.27%) VMware
6 98 (4.30%) Oracle
7 85 (3.73%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.33%) Dynatrace
9 67 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 63 (2.76%) Cisco
11 58 (2.54%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.84%) F5
13 34 (1.49%) Arista
14 33 (1.45%) OpenAI
15 32 (1.40%) Zscaler
16 27 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.05%) Informatica
18 23 (1.01%) Aruba
18 23 (1.01%) Foundry
19 21 (0.92%) Juniper