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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,389 1,378 1,368
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.23% 5.00% 4.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.22% 32.34% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,654 951 986
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £458 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 8 11
10th Percentile £56.65 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.37 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £79.31 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 6,092 4,261 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 15.45% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,158 2,835 3,192
10th Percentile £325 £304 £308
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.83%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £692 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 61 68
10th Percentile £20.58 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.62%
75th Percentile £73.56 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £83.38 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -36.21%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +3 1,237 £550 - 655
North of England +10 511 £505 -2.88% 203
Yorkshire -2 232 £505 -1.46% 57
South East -8 214 £560 +12.00% 185
North West +34 200 £575 +9.52% 115
South West +7 179 £553 -7.83% 107
Midlands -13 131 £511 -2.76% 69
West Midlands -25 107 £525 -2.23% 36
North East -5 93 £425 -18.27% 33
East of England -9 52 £525 +8.81% 27
East Midlands -7 23 £475 -2.56% 33
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
1 116 (4.86%) Confluence
2 94 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 79 (3.31%) Apache
5 42 (1.76%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 21 (0.88%) nginx
8 13 (0.54%) SAS
9 12 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) IIS
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.21%) CMS
13 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.084%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
15 1 (0.042%) FactoryTalk
15 1 (0.042%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,372 (57.43%) AWS
2 1,204 (50.40%) Azure
3 659 (27.58%) GitHub
4 478 (20.01%) GCP
5 463 (19.38%) GitHub Actions
6 435 (18.21%) Azure DevOps
7 352 (14.73%) Serverless
8 274 (11.47%) Amazon S3
9 269 (11.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 260 (10.88%) AWS Lambda
11 221 (9.25%) Amazon EKS
12 190 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 170 (7.12%) Entra ID
14 167 (6.99%) Azure AKS
15 147 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
16 139 (5.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 135 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
18 129 (5.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 120 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (3.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 279 (11.68%) Firewall
2 205 (8.58%) DNS
3 134 (5.61%) VPN
4 108 (4.52%) Network Security
5 86 (3.60%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.31%) WAN
7 77 (3.22%) DHCP
8 68 (2.85%) BGP
9 47 (1.97%) OSPF
10 45 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.59%) VLAN
12 36 (1.51%) VXLAN
13 32 (1.34%) VSAN
14 29 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.05%) SSL
17 24 (1.00%) BIG-IP
18 22 (0.92%) SSH
19 18 (0.75%) Internet
19 18 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 81 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
5 72 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 71 (2.97%) Data Lake
7 67 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 67 (2.80%) Power BI
8 66 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 65 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 62 (2.60%) BigQuery
11 60 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (2.05%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.93%) Redis
14 45 (1.88%) Relational Database
15 41 (1.72%) MySQL
16 40 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
18 37 (1.55%) Oracle Database
19 36 (1.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 434 (18.17%) GitLab
2 392 (16.41%) Jenkins
3 357 (14.94%) Git
4 147 (6.15%) JIRA
5 43 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 30 (1.26%) Maven
7 24 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 22 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.75%) Snyk
10 17 (0.71%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.67%) MLflow
12 15 (0.63%) Terragrunt
13 13 (0.54%) MSI
13 13 (0.54%) Selenium
14 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.46%) Gatling
14 11 (0.46%) JUnit
15 8 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 446 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 355 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 316 (13.23%) Finance
4 138 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (3.89%) Banking
6 67 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (2.13%) Retail
9 26 (1.09%) Military
10 22 (0.92%) Legal
10 22 (0.92%) Publishing
11 21 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.63%) Law
14 14 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.54%) Local Government
16 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
17 11 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 509 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 429 (17.96%) Senior
3 274 (11.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 224 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 219 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
6 218 (9.13%) Architect
7 215 (9.00%) AWS Engineer
8 213 (8.92%) Developer
9 209 (8.75%) Lead
10 165 (6.91%) Data Engineer
11 161 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 104 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
14 96 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 96 (4.02%) GCP Engineer
14 96 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 95 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 88 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 85 (3.56%) Network Engineer
18 77 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (7.41%) Kafka
2 165 (6.91%) REST
3 121 (5.06%) .NET
4 114 (4.77%) React
5 94 (3.93%) Node.js
6 90 (3.77%) RESTful
7 89 (3.73%) ARM Templates
8 87 (3.64%) PySpark
9 78 (3.26%) YAML
10 77 (3.22%) OAuth
11 59 (2.47%) Spring
12 57 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (2.30%) Spring Boot
14 51 (2.13%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.09%) JSON
16 49 (2.05%) OpenID
16 49 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
17 43 (1.80%) HTML
18 38 (1.59%) AngularJS
19 37 (1.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 571 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 155 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 82 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 70 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 69 (2.89%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.22%) PKI
10 50 (2.09%) Replication
11 48 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
11 48 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.88%) AI Agents
13 43 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
14 36 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.42%) NHS
17 31 (1.30%) Management Information System
18 25 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 426 (17.83%) Linux
2 249 (10.42%) Windows
3 87 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 84 (3.52%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.30%) Unix
6 31 (1.30%) VMS
7 19 (0.80%) AIX
8 15 (0.63%) CentOS
9 12 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.084%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,725 (72.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,612 (67.48%) CI/CD
3 1,384 (57.93%) DevOps
4 592 (24.78%) Agile
5 581 (24.32%) Containerisation
6 561 (23.48%) Observability
7 526 (22.02%) Platform Engineering
8 374 (15.66%) AI
9 310 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 295 (12.35%) Migration
11 288 (12.06%) Test Automation
12 287 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
13 286 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 270 (11.30%) Cloud Security
15 264 (11.05%) Software Engineering
16 260 (10.88%) Analytics
17 248 (10.38%) DevSecOps
18 247 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
19 235 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 233 (9.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (47.72%) Python
2 460 (19.25%) PowerShell
3 445 (18.63%) Bash
4 369 (15.45%) SQL
5 276 (11.55%) Java
6 266 (11.13%) Bicep
7 142 (5.94%) JavaScript
8 136 (5.69%) C#
9 124 (5.19%) TypeScript
10 74 (3.10%) Go
11 51 (2.13%) Scala
12 47 (1.97%) Groovy
13 37 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.59%) Rust
15 13 (0.54%) Ruby
16 12 (0.50%) Perl
16 12 (0.50%) R
17 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 868 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 705 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 188 (7.87%) DV Cleared
4 162 (6.78%) Azure Certification
5 138 (5.78%) AWS Certification
6 94 (3.93%) Degree
7 65 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.84%) CISSP
10 44 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.34%) CCNP
13 20 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (0.75%) VCAP
16 15 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.59%) CCNA
18 13 (0.54%) CISM
19 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.26%) QA
3 53 (2.22%) GDPR
4 49 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 49 (2.05%) NIST
5 48 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.97%) NCSC
7 21 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 21 (0.88%) WCAG
8 13 (0.54%) SLA
9 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.33%) GRC
10 6 (0.25%) HL7
11 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.21%) PSD2
11 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.17%) SEPA
13 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 648 (27.12%) Docker
2 152 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 119 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 55 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 48 (2.01%) vSphere
7 46 (1.93%) Hyper-V
8 45 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 27 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.59%) Squid
12 10 (0.42%) KVM
13 9 (0.38%) NFS
14 8 (0.33%) Firmware
15 6 (0.25%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 941 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 568 (23.78%) Ansible
3 293 (12.26%) Grafana
4 246 (10.30%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.68%) Argo
6 62 (2.60%) Puppet
7 53 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.63%) Packer
9 35 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.38%) Istio
11 30 (1.26%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.75%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.75%) Kibana
16 16 (0.67%) Podman
17 15 (0.63%) VxRail
18 14 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 428 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 213 (8.92%) Google
3 156 (6.53%) VMware
4 137 (5.73%) Splunk
5 134 (5.61%) Databricks
6 106 (4.44%) Oracle
7 81 (3.39%) Dynatrace
8 79 (3.31%) Red Hat
9 76 (3.18%) ServiceNow
10 72 (3.01%) Cisco
11 60 (2.51%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.84%) F5
13 34 (1.42%) Arista
13 34 (1.42%) OpenAI
14 32 (1.34%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.26%) Informatica
15 30 (1.26%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.00%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.00%) Foundry
17 22 (0.92%) Aruba