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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 39 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,988 1,217 1,242
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.82% 5.03% 3.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.10% 32.39% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 878 930
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £650
90th Percentile £697 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 7
10th Percentile £40.91 £25.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -28.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £74.00 £53.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £79.60 £79.55 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +21.52% -11.82% -24.66%

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 5,507 3,757 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.51% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 2,587 3,213
10th Percentile £317 £306 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +1.90% -10.40%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 36 103
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.53 £24.89 £17.74
Median hourly rate £56.50 £33.25 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% +29.05% -50.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.48 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £26.38
% change year-on-year +100.00% +4.24% -49.75%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 1,063 £540 -1.82% 296
North of England +19 393 £500 -4.76% 158
Yorkshire +10 210 £500 -4.76% 36
South East -3 163 £513 +2.50% 151
North West +24 139 £525 +0.05% 93
Midlands -8 129 £525 -4.55% 35
South West -9 115 £550 -10.57% 62
West Midlands -9 107 £525 -4.72% 24
North East -5 53 £488 -6.70% 29
East of England -10 43 £494 -1.25% 27
East Midlands -23 21 £450 -10.00% 11
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 85 (4.28%) Confluence
2 82 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 58 (2.92%) Apache
4 47 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.91%) nginx
7 12 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.10%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Actimize
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.050%) Endur
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (53.42%) AWS
2 976 (49.09%) Azure
3 569 (28.62%) GitHub
4 410 (20.62%) GCP
5 375 (18.86%) GitHub Actions
6 339 (17.05%) Serverless
7 337 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
8 286 (14.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 244 (12.27%) Amazon S3
10 242 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
11 193 (9.71%) Amazon EKS
12 142 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 138 (6.94%) Azure AKS
14 137 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
15 126 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
15 126 (6.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 122 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 120 (6.04%) OpenShift
18 118 (5.94%) Entra ID
19 109 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 201 (10.11%) Firewall
2 133 (6.69%) DNS
3 109 (5.48%) VPN
4 99 (4.98%) Network Security
5 63 (3.17%) WAN
6 47 (2.36%) BGP
7 40 (2.01%) SD-WAN
8 37 (1.86%) TCP/IP
9 35 (1.76%) OSPF
10 30 (1.51%) VXLAN
11 23 (1.16%) Ethernet VPN
12 21 (1.06%) LAN
13 20 (1.01%) BIG-IP
13 20 (1.01%) DHCP
13 20 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
15 16 (0.80%) SAN
16 14 (0.70%) SSL
17 12 (0.60%) VLAN
17 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (3.97%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.72%) Power BI
5 73 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
6 64 (3.22%) SQL Server
7 59 (2.97%) BigQuery
8 51 (2.57%) NoSQL
9 50 (2.52%) Delta Lake
10 49 (2.46%) MongoDB
11 47 (2.36%) DynamoDB
12 46 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 40 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
15 35 (1.76%) Redis
16 31 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
17 30 (1.51%) Relational Database
18 28 (1.41%) Big Data
18 28 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
19 25 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 373 (18.76%) Jenkins
2 345 (17.35%) GitLab
3 273 (13.73%) Git
4 121 (6.09%) JIRA
5 43 (2.16%) Artifactory
6 37 (1.86%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.31%) Maven
8 25 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (0.86%) MLflow
11 16 (0.80%) Snyk
12 15 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.65%) Gatling
14 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.50%) git-flow
15 10 (0.50%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
16 9 (0.45%) Gradle
17 8 (0.40%) JUnit
18 7 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 335 (16.85%) Social Skills
2 274 (13.78%) Public Sector
3 210 (10.56%) Finance
4 91 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (4.28%) Banking
6 53 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.11%) Retail
9 20 (1.01%) Legal
10 18 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (0.65%) Military
12 10 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 10 (0.50%) Law
12 10 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.35%) Publishing
15 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.30%) Front Office
15 6 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 443 (22.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 303 (15.24%) Senior
3 215 (10.81%) Architect
4 203 (10.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 199 (10.01%) Azure Engineer
6 173 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
7 167 (8.40%) Developer
8 164 (8.25%) Data Engineer
9 155 (7.80%) Lead
10 139 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
11 113 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
13 94 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 88 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
15 80 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 72 (3.62%) Software Engineer
17 71 (3.57%) Site Engineer
18 69 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
19 68 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 67 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.85%) Kafka
2 112 (5.63%) Node.js
3 105 (5.28%) React
4 102 (5.13%) .NET
5 92 (4.63%) REST
6 80 (4.02%) PySpark
7 73 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 68 (3.42%) OAuth
9 64 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
9 64 (3.22%) RESTful
10 63 (3.17%) ARM Templates
11 62 (3.12%) Spring
12 58 (2.92%) Spring Boot
12 58 (2.92%) YAML
13 51 (2.57%) OpenID
14 45 (2.26%) AngularJS
15 43 (2.16%) OAuth2
16 42 (2.11%) AWS CDK
17 40 (2.01%) JSON
18 26 (1.31%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 419 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 106 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 84 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 81 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 70 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 48 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 42 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.66%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.51%) PKI
10 28 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.41%) Replication
11 27 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
14 21 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 21 (1.06%) NHS
15 17 (0.86%) Clustering
16 14 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 295 (14.84%) Linux
2 142 (7.14%) Windows
3 47 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.96%) VMS
6 28 (1.41%) Unix
7 18 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.60%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) Android
13 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,339 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 1,319 (66.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,204 (60.56%) DevOps
4 474 (23.84%) Containerisation
5 440 (22.13%) Agile
6 405 (20.37%) Observability
7 336 (16.90%) Platform Engineering
8 263 (13.23%) Migration
9 248 (12.47%) AI
10 234 (11.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 231 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
12 226 (11.37%) Analytics
13 203 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 202 (10.16%) Software Engineering
15 196 (9.86%) Test Automation
16 189 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 183 (9.21%) Microservices
18 179 (9.00%) Cloud Security
18 179 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
19 173 (8.70%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 887 (44.62%) Python
2 318 (16.00%) SQL
3 281 (14.13%) Bash
4 280 (14.08%) PowerShell
5 217 (10.92%) Java
6 176 (8.85%) Bicep
7 120 (6.04%) JavaScript
8 110 (5.53%) C#
9 104 (5.23%) TypeScript
10 78 (3.92%) Go
11 52 (2.62%) Scala
12 36 (1.81%) Groovy
13 35 (1.76%) Shell Script
14 27 (1.36%) Ruby
15 15 (0.75%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.40%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
17 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 697 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 575 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.74%) Azure Certification
4 121 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 93 (4.68%) AWS Certification
6 70 (3.52%) Degree
7 60 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (1.51%) CCNP
13 20 (1.01%) CISSP
14 14 (0.70%) CCNA
15 13 (0.65%) CCIE
15 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.65%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 10 (0.50%) OCP
17 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 62 (3.12%) QA
3 57 (2.87%) GDPR
4 47 (2.36%) NIST
5 44 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.56%) NCSC
6 31 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.65%) SLA
9 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.20%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) PSD2
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 514 (25.86%) Docker
2 92 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 69 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 35 (1.76%) Hyper-V
7 25 (1.26%) vSphere
8 21 (1.06%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.86%) Squid
10 10 (0.50%) KVM
10 10 (0.50%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) Ceph
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.15%) Lustre
13 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.10%) Corosync
14 2 (0.10%) GPFS
14 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 768 (38.63%) Kubernetes
2 480 (24.14%) Ansible
3 260 (13.08%) Grafana
4 225 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 78 (3.92%) Argo
6 46 (2.31%) Puppet
7 43 (2.16%) Istio
8 31 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
10 25 (1.26%) Packer
11 23 (1.16%) Kibana
12 21 (1.06%) vCenter Server
13 18 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.86%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.65%) Rancher
16 12 (0.60%) Consul
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
17 11 (0.55%) Podman
18 10 (0.50%) HAProxy
18 10 (0.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 295 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 182 (9.15%) Google
3 126 (6.34%) Databricks
4 117 (5.89%) Splunk
5 102 (5.13%) VMware
6 84 (4.23%) Red Hat
7 69 (3.47%) Oracle
8 59 (2.97%) Dynatrace
9 57 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.52%) Cisco
11 42 (2.11%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.51%) F5
13 27 (1.36%) Arista
14 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
15 22 (1.11%) OpenAI
16 21 (1.06%) IBM
16 21 (1.06%) Pure Storage
17 20 (1.01%) Zscaler
18 19 (0.96%) Aruba
19 16 (0.80%) Citrix