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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,319 1,388 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.13% 5.05% 3.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.70% 32.69% 30.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,614 958 986
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £701 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 11
10th Percentile £55.12 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.13 £55.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -15.54% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.53 £80.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -10.71% -4.11%

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 5,993 4,246 4,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.26% 15.44% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,099 2,823 3,250
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £612 £608 £625
90th Percentile £694 £695 £703
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £520
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.88% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 55 74
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.62 £26.45 £22.64
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +76.00% -42.32%
75th Percentile £70.06 £66.04 £56.88
90th Percentile £80.03 £81.78 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +65.33% +19.05% -45.22%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +1 1,209 £550 +1.85% 482
North of England +17 507 £500 -2.44% 191
Yorkshire -1 231 £500 -2.44% 53
North West +41 209 £560 +6.67% 107
South East -13 199 £550 +10.00% 123
South West +1 154 £550 -8.33% 96
Midlands -23 130 £513 - 54
West Midlands -28 107 £512 -6.15% 40
North East -7 80 £425 -13.27% 32
East of England -4 52 £549 +13.85% 18
East Midlands -12 21 £500 +2.56% 14
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
1 119 (5.13%) Confluence
2 92 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 83 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (3.32%) Apache
5 37 (1.60%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.03%) nginx
8 13 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.56%) SAS
9 7 (0.30%) IIS
9 7 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.086%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.086%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.086%) Traefik
13 1 (0.043%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.043%) Houdini
5 1 (0.043%) InDesign
5 1 (0.043%) NUKE
5 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.086%) Endur
2 2 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.043%) Maximo
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,314 (56.66%) AWS
2 1,158 (49.94%) Azure
3 632 (27.25%) GitHub
4 466 (20.09%) GCP
5 436 (18.80%) GitHub Actions
6 401 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
7 339 (14.62%) Serverless
8 274 (11.82%) Amazon S3
9 262 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 246 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
11 212 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 158 (6.81%) Azure AKS
14 157 (6.77%) Entra ID
15 142 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
16 134 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 128 (5.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 126 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
19 116 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
20 90 (3.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 264 (11.38%) Firewall
2 187 (8.06%) DNS
3 136 (5.86%) VPN
4 102 (4.40%) Network Security
5 80 (3.45%) WAN
6 72 (3.10%) TCP/IP
7 70 (3.02%) BGP
8 60 (2.59%) DHCP
9 50 (2.16%) OSPF
10 43 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.60%) VXLAN
12 32 (1.38%) VLAN
13 28 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (0.99%) BIG-IP
15 21 (0.91%) SSH
15 21 (0.91%) SSL
16 20 (0.86%) VSAN
17 17 (0.73%) IPsec
17 17 (0.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
3 80 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 69 (2.98%) Data Lake
6 68 (2.93%) NoSQL
7 67 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (2.85%) Power BI
9 63 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 62 (2.67%) BigQuery
11 59 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
12 54 (2.33%) MongoDB
13 49 (2.11%) Delta Lake
14 47 (2.03%) Relational Database
15 40 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
16 36 (1.55%) Redis
17 35 (1.51%) Oracle Database
18 30 (1.29%) Big Data
19 29 (1.25%) MySQL
20 28 (1.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 418 (18.03%) GitLab
2 389 (16.77%) Jenkins
3 332 (14.32%) Git
4 146 (6.30%) JIRA
5 43 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.16%) Maven
8 21 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.78%) MLflow
9 18 (0.78%) Snyk
10 13 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.52%) Claude Code
11 12 (0.52%) JUnit
12 11 (0.47%) Gatling
12 11 (0.47%) MSI
13 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.39%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.39%) Mockito
14 9 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 419 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 349 (15.05%) Public Sector
3 289 (12.46%) Finance
4 133 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (3.92%) Banking
6 62 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (1.94%) Retail
9 27 (1.16%) Military
10 25 (1.08%) Legal
11 23 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.86%) Publishing
13 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.65%) Law
15 12 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.52%) Billing
15 12 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 511 (22.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 406 (17.51%) Senior
3 259 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 217 (9.36%) Architect
4 217 (9.36%) Azure Engineer
5 211 (9.10%) AWS Engineer
6 206 (8.88%) Developer
6 206 (8.88%) Platform Engineer
7 204 (8.80%) Lead
8 173 (7.46%) Data Engineer
9 156 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 104 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
11 100 (4.31%) GCP Engineer
11 100 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
12 98 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 96 (4.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 95 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 83 (3.58%) Network Engineer
16 82 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 79 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (7.46%) Kafka
2 154 (6.64%) REST
3 114 (4.92%) .NET
4 107 (4.61%) React
5 99 (4.27%) Node.js
6 95 (4.10%) PySpark
7 84 (3.62%) RESTful
8 77 (3.32%) OAuth
9 75 (3.23%) ARM Templates
10 71 (3.06%) YAML
11 60 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 58 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (2.41%) Spring
14 53 (2.29%) OAuth2
14 53 (2.29%) Spring Boot
15 50 (2.16%) OpenID
16 48 (2.07%) JSON
17 40 (1.72%) HTML
18 37 (1.60%) AngularJS
19 34 (1.47%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 558 (24.06%) Cloud Native
2 136 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 124 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
4 101 (4.36%) Data Centre
5 85 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 67 (2.89%) Public Cloud
8 59 (2.54%) Security Posture
9 46 (1.98%) PKI
10 42 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
12 40 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.60%) Replication
14 34 (1.47%) NHS
15 33 (1.42%) Private Cloud
16 32 (1.38%) AI Agents
17 28 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
18 27 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
19 25 (1.08%) Management Information System
19 25 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 397 (17.12%) Linux
2 233 (10.05%) Windows
3 84 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 73 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.38%) Ubuntu
5 32 (1.38%) VMS
6 28 (1.21%) Unix
7 18 (0.78%) AIX
8 12 (0.52%) CentOS
9 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.086%) Solaris
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,640 (70.72%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,557 (67.14%) CI/CD
3 1,358 (58.56%) DevOps
4 570 (24.58%) Agile
5 565 (24.36%) Containerisation
6 515 (22.21%) Observability
7 480 (20.70%) Platform Engineering
8 335 (14.45%) AI
9 291 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
10 283 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 281 (12.12%) Migration
12 268 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 261 (11.25%) Test Automation
14 254 (10.95%) Cloud Security
15 250 (10.78%) Analytics
16 246 (10.61%) Software Engineering
17 229 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 225 (9.70%) Infrastructure Automation
19 223 (9.62%) Microservices
20 217 (9.36%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,100 (47.43%) Python
2 412 (17.77%) Bash
3 392 (16.90%) PowerShell
4 354 (15.27%) SQL
5 270 (11.64%) Java
6 245 (10.56%) Bicep
7 142 (6.12%) JavaScript
8 126 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 124 (5.35%) C#
10 79 (3.41%) Go
11 49 (2.11%) Scala
12 47 (2.03%) Groovy
13 32 (1.38%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.78%) Rust
15 15 (0.65%) Ruby
16 11 (0.47%) C
16 11 (0.47%) R
17 9 (0.39%) Perl
18 8 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 835 (36.01%) Security Cleared
2 678 (29.24%) SC Cleared
3 177 (7.63%) DV Cleared
4 153 (6.60%) Azure Certification
5 123 (5.30%) AWS Certification
6 90 (3.88%) Degree
7 65 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.38%) CCNP
13 31 (1.34%) CISSP
14 19 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.69%) CCNA
15 16 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.47%) VCAP
18 10 (0.43%) CCIE
18 10 (0.43%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 73 (3.15%) QA
3 46 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 46 (1.98%) GDPR
4 41 (1.77%) NCSC
5 37 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.60%) NIST
6 21 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.78%) WCAG
8 8 (0.34%) GRC
8 8 (0.34%) SLA
9 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.22%) HL7
10 5 (0.22%) PSD2
11 4 (0.17%) SEPA
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 629 (27.12%) Docker
2 143 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 104 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 43 (1.85%) vSphere
7 42 (1.81%) Hyper-V
8 40 (1.72%) VMware NSX
9 20 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
10 17 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.69%) Squid
12 11 (0.47%) NFS
13 9 (0.39%) KVM
14 6 (0.26%) Firmware
15 5 (0.22%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
17 2 (0.086%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.086%) OpenSSH
17 2 (0.086%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 883 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 532 (22.94%) Ansible
3 290 (12.51%) Grafana
4 242 (10.44%) Prometheus
5 96 (4.14%) Argo
6 59 (2.54%) Puppet
7 45 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.55%) Packer
9 33 (1.42%) Istio
10 32 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.21%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (0.82%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
14 18 (0.78%) Data Guard
15 17 (0.73%) Kibana
15 17 (0.73%) Podman
16 16 (0.69%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.56%) SCCM
18 12 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 386 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.84%) Google
3 141 (6.08%) VMware
4 135 (5.82%) Splunk
5 123 (5.30%) Databricks
6 98 (4.23%) Oracle
7 84 (3.62%) Red Hat
8 75 (3.23%) Dynatrace
9 71 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 67 (2.89%) Cisco
11 61 (2.63%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.81%) F5
13 35 (1.51%) Arista
13 35 (1.51%) OpenAI
14 30 (1.29%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.29%) Zscaler
15 24 (1.03%) Aruba
15 24 (1.03%) Foundry
15 24 (1.03%) Informatica
16 22 (0.95%) Juniper