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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,276 1,345 1,393
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.09% 4.95% 3.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.10% 32.02% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,591 924 1,016
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £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 5,974 4,201 4,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.46% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,098 2,786 3,351
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £518
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.51% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 55 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.98
25th Percentile £32.06 £26.60 £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 £66.04 £49.69
90th Percentile £79.30 £81.78 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £37.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +52.32% +16.15% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 1,204 £550 +4.56% 290
North of England +19 490 £500 - 164
Yorkshire +1 236 £500 - 47
North West +39 191 £547 +4.14% 91
South East -19 174 £543 +8.50% 138
South West +3 145 £550 -8.33% 83
Midlands -15 140 £525 +5.00% 61
West Midlands -14 116 £525 -2.51% 37
North East 0 76 £425 -13.27% 27
East of England -6 52 £549 +9.86% 25
East Midlands -11 22 £475 -5.00% 24
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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (3.25%) Apache
5 37 (1.63%) Jupyter
6 31 (1.36%) 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%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.088%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.088%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.088%) Drupal
13 2 (0.088%) Traefik
13 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 1,290 (56.68%) AWS
2 1,111 (48.81%) Azure
3 613 (26.93%) GitHub
4 458 (20.12%) GCP
5 421 (18.50%) GitHub Actions
6 372 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
7 352 (15.47%) Serverless
8 294 (12.92%) Amazon S3
9 267 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 257 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
11 205 (9.01%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 154 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
14 142 (6.24%) Azure AKS
15 141 (6.20%) Entra ID
16 137 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 133 (5.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 115 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
19 111 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
20 95 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 249 (10.94%) Firewall
2 172 (7.56%) DNS
3 131 (5.76%) VPN
4 105 (4.61%) Network Security
5 83 (3.65%) WAN
6 71 (3.12%) BGP
7 60 (2.64%) TCP/IP
8 51 (2.24%) OSPF
9 46 (2.02%) SD-WAN
10 38 (1.67%) DHCP
11 35 (1.54%) VXLAN
12 30 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 30 (1.32%) VLAN
13 27 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
14 25 (1.10%) BIG-IP
15 19 (0.83%) LAN
15 19 (0.83%) SAN
15 19 (0.83%) SSL
16 17 (0.75%) IPsec
17 15 (0.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
3 85 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
4 77 (3.38%) Data Lake
5 71 (3.12%) Power BI
6 70 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 66 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 63 (2.77%) BigQuery
9 60 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
10 58 (2.55%) DynamoDB
10 58 (2.55%) NoSQL
11 51 (2.24%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.20%) Delta Lake
13 46 (2.02%) Relational Database
14 38 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (1.63%) Oracle Database
16 33 (1.45%) Redis
17 32 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
18 29 (1.27%) Big Data
19 28 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 408 (17.93%) GitLab
2 387 (17.00%) Jenkins
3 328 (14.41%) Git
4 151 (6.63%) JIRA
5 45 (1.98%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.27%) 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 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.40%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 412 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 342 (15.03%) Public Sector
3 272 (11.95%) Finance
4 125 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (3.82%) Banking
6 69 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (1.71%) 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
1 516 (22.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 390 (17.14%) Senior
3 255 (11.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 226 (9.93%) Architect
5 222 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
6 209 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
7 197 (8.66%) Platform Engineer
8 193 (8.48%) Lead
9 181 (7.95%) Developer
10 177 (7.78%) Data Engineer
11 142 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
13 103 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 103 (4.53%) GCP Engineer
14 97 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
16 91 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 80 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 76 (3.34%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (7.38%) Kafka
2 131 (5.76%) REST
3 108 (4.75%) .NET
4 105 (4.61%) React
5 101 (4.44%) Node.js
6 99 (4.35%) PySpark
7 78 (3.43%) OAuth
8 77 (3.38%) RESTful
9 64 (2.81%) YAML
10 63 (2.77%) ARM Templates
10 63 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 59 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (2.42%) OpenID
13 54 (2.37%) Spring
14 53 (2.33%) OAuth2
15 52 (2.28%) Spring Boot
16 45 (1.98%) JSON
17 38 (1.67%) AWS CDK
18 37 (1.63%) AngularJS
19 34 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 540 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 122 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 73 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 68 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 49 (2.15%) Security Posture
9 39 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.58%) PKI
11 36 (1.58%) Replication
12 34 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 33 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 29 (1.27%) AI Agents
14 29 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (1.27%) NHS
15 25 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 361 (15.86%) Linux
2 201 (8.83%) Windows
3 80 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 53 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.32%) VMS
6 28 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.10%) Unix
8 15 (0.66%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 9 (0.40%) 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%) Debian
15 2 (0.088%) Rocky
15 2 (0.088%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,584 (69.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,520 (66.78%) CI/CD
3 1,341 (58.92%) DevOps
4 557 (24.47%) Agile
5 551 (24.21%) Containerisation
6 479 (21.05%) Observability
7 456 (20.04%) Platform Engineering
8 318 (13.97%) AI
9 284 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (12.30%) Migration
11 246 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 244 (10.72%) Test Automation
13 242 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 241 (10.59%) Analytics
15 240 (10.54%) Software Engineering
16 233 (10.24%) Cloud Security
17 223 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 217 (9.53%) Infrastructure Automation
19 216 (9.49%) Microservices
20 202 (8.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (46.57%) Python
2 371 (16.30%) Bash
3 350 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 345 (15.16%) SQL
5 251 (11.03%) Java
6 210 (9.23%) Bicep
7 132 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 121 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 116 (5.10%) C#
10 84 (3.69%) Go
11 50 (2.20%) Scala
12 47 (2.07%) Groovy
13 32 (1.41%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.70%) Ruby
14 16 (0.70%) Rust
15 11 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.40%) R
17 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.35%) Perl
18 7 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 817 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 674 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 160 (7.03%) DV Cleared
4 141 (6.20%) Azure Certification
5 121 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 83 (3.65%) Degree
7 68 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 41 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 31 (1.36%) CCNP
12 26 (1.14%) CISSP
13 20 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.75%) CCNA
15 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) CCIE
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 66 (2.90%) QA
3 50 (2.20%) GDPR
4 41 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.71%) NIST
6 37 (1.63%) NCSC
7 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.66%) WCAG
9 10 (0.44%) GRC
9 10 (0.44%) SLA
10 9 (0.40%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.22%) HL7
12 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) PSD2
14 2 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 612 (26.89%) Docker
2 118 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 90 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.63%) 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 (0.62%) 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%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 857 (37.65%) Kubernetes
2 508 (22.32%) Ansible
3 289 (12.70%) Grafana
4 248 (10.90%) Prometheus
5 91 (4.00%) Argo
6 57 (2.50%) Puppet
7 43 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.54%) Packer
9 33 (1.45%) Istio
10 28 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (1.23%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
13 19 (0.83%) Kibana
14 17 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
15 16 (0.70%) Data Guard
15 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.62%) Podman
17 13 (0.57%) Consul
17 13 (0.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 354 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.88%) Google
3 128 (5.62%) Splunk
4 127 (5.58%) Databricks
5 120 (5.27%) VMware
6 98 (4.31%) Oracle
7 85 (3.73%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.34%) Dynatrace
9 67 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.86%) Cisco
11 58 (2.55%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.85%) F5
13 34 (1.49%) Arista
14 33 (1.45%) OpenAI
15 32 (1.41%) Zscaler
16 27 (1.19%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.05%) Informatica
18 23 (1.01%) Aruba
18 23 (1.01%) Foundry
19 22 (0.97%) Juniper