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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,195 1,267 1,371
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.05% 5.01% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.73% 31.84% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 879 1,016
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £635 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 11
10th Percentile £43.91 £26.83 £46.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.31 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -25.00% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.55 £74.44
90th Percentile - £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% -15.32% -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 5,818 3,979 4,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.38% 15.75% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,001 2,661 3,371
10th Percentile £322 £305 £298
25th Percentile £415 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £515
% change year-on-year - -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 40 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.68 £20.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £52.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% +68.00% -42.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.49 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.30 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +47.33% +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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 0 1,197 £550 +1.29% 269
North of England +29 456 £500 - 110
Yorkshire +12 229 £500 -2.44% 32
North West +33 167 £525 +5.00% 59
South East -20 162 £546 +9.25% 142
Midlands -19 132 £500 -4.76% 36
South West -12 125 £550 -10.39% 68
West Midlands -16 109 £511 -7.18% 27
North East +5 74 £425 -10.05% 20
East of England -15 47 £525 +5.00% 16
East Midlands -11 22 £450 -10.00% 9
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 99 (4.51%) Confluence
2 91 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (3.10%) Apache
5 34 (1.55%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.05%) nginx
8 14 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.50%) SAS
10 6 (0.27%) IIS
10 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.091%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.091%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.091%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.091%) Drupal
13 2 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.046%) InDesign
6 1 (0.046%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.18%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.14%) Maximo
3 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.091%) Endur
4 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.046%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,239 (56.45%) AWS
2 1,075 (48.97%) Azure
3 585 (26.65%) GitHub
4 457 (20.82%) GCP
5 398 (18.13%) GitHub Actions
6 366 (16.67%) Serverless
7 361 (16.45%) Azure DevOps
8 287 (13.08%) Amazon S3
9 275 (12.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 264 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
11 200 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 148 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (6.70%) Azure AKS
15 140 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 139 (6.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 137 (6.24%) Entra ID
18 120 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
19 108 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
20 106 (4.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 227 (10.34%) Firewall
2 152 (6.92%) DNS
3 120 (5.47%) VPN
4 100 (4.56%) Network Security
5 82 (3.74%) WAN
6 64 (2.92%) BGP
7 47 (2.14%) SD-WAN
8 44 (2.00%) OSPF
9 42 (1.91%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.59%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.18%) BIG-IP
13 25 (1.14%) DHCP
14 21 (0.96%) VLAN
15 20 (0.91%) SAN
16 19 (0.87%) LAN
17 17 (0.77%) SSL
18 16 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
19 14 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 79 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 77 (3.51%) Power BI
6 69 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 67 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 63 (2.87%) NoSQL
9 62 (2.82%) BigQuery
9 62 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
10 59 (2.69%) DynamoDB
11 51 (2.32%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.28%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.87%) Relational Database
14 39 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 38 (1.73%) Redis
16 30 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 30 (1.37%) Big Data
17 29 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
18 28 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 400 (18.22%) GitLab
2 382 (17.40%) Jenkins
3 296 (13.49%) Git
4 140 (6.38%) JIRA
5 45 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.50%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.05%) Maven
9 19 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.82%) Snyk
11 17 (0.77%) MLflow
12 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.55%) Gatling
13 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.46%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.41%) git-flow
14 9 (0.41%) JUnit
15 8 (0.36%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.32%) Mockito
16 7 (0.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 389 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 323 (14.72%) Public Sector
3 252 (11.48%) Finance
4 114 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (4.10%) Banking
6 66 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 55 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.46%) Retail
9 23 (1.05%) Military
10 22 (1.00%) Legal
11 19 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 16 (0.73%) Publishing
13 15 (0.68%) Law
14 12 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.41%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.41%) Billing
16 9 (0.41%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 498 (22.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 358 (16.31%) Senior
3 247 (11.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 234 (10.66%) Architect
5 214 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
6 207 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
7 182 (8.29%) Data Engineer
8 179 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
9 177 (8.06%) Developer
10 169 (7.70%) Lead
11 129 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
12 108 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
13 99 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 95 (4.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 84 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
16 82 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 80 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 76 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 68 (3.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (7.93%) Kafka
2 112 (5.10%) REST
3 111 (5.06%) .NET
4 101 (4.60%) PySpark
4 101 (4.60%) React
5 99 (4.51%) Node.js
6 89 (4.05%) OAuth
7 77 (3.51%) RESTful
8 67 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
9 63 (2.87%) OpenID
10 62 (2.82%) ARM Templates
11 61 (2.78%) YAML
12 59 (2.69%) OAuth2
13 58 (2.64%) Spring
14 55 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
14 55 (2.51%) Spring Boot
15 44 (2.00%) JSON
16 40 (1.82%) AWS CDK
17 37 (1.69%) AngularJS
18 32 (1.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 526 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.42%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 64 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 43 (1.96%) Security Posture
9 36 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 32 (1.46%) Replication
11 31 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
13 28 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 27 (1.23%) PKI
15 26 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
15 26 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 25 (1.14%) NHS
17 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
18 17 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 328 (14.94%) Linux
2 180 (8.20%) Windows
3 76 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.41%) VMS
6 27 (1.23%) Unix
7 26 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.59%) CentOS
9 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.32%) AIX
11 7 (0.32%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.091%) Debian
14 2 (0.091%) Rocky
14 2 (0.091%) Solaris
14 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,506 (68.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,472 (67.06%) CI/CD
3 1,304 (59.41%) DevOps
4 519 (23.64%) Containerisation
5 517 (23.55%) Agile
6 437 (19.91%) Observability
7 422 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
8 310 (14.12%) AI
9 267 (12.16%) Migration
10 264 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
11 245 (11.16%) Analytics
12 229 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 228 (10.39%) Test Automation
14 221 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 220 (10.02%) Cloud Security
16 218 (9.93%) Software Engineering
17 215 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 210 (9.57%) Microservices
19 208 (9.48%) Infrastructure Automation
20 185 (8.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (46.24%) Python
2 355 (16.17%) SQL
3 327 (14.90%) Bash
4 313 (14.26%) PowerShell
5 250 (11.39%) Java
6 203 (9.25%) Bicep
7 123 (5.60%) JavaScript
8 116 (5.28%) C#
9 110 (5.01%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.78%) Go
11 47 (2.14%) Scala
12 46 (2.10%) Groovy
13 34 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.77%) Ruby
14 17 (0.77%) Rust
15 10 (0.46%) C
16 9 (0.41%) R
17 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.32%) Perl
18 7 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 772 (35.17%) Security Cleared
2 641 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 138 (6.29%) Azure Certification
4 137 (6.24%) DV Cleared
5 112 (5.10%) AWS Certification
6 84 (3.83%) Degree
7 62 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (1.28%) CCNP
13 27 (1.23%) CISSP
14 17 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.73%) CCNA
16 15 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.64%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.50%) CCIE
18 11 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 10 (0.46%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.73%) QA
3 54 (2.46%) GDPR
4 47 (2.14%) NIST
5 46 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.59%) NCSC
8 34 (1.55%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.55%) WCAG
10 11 (0.50%) SLA
11 10 (0.46%) GRC
12 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.18%) HL7
13 4 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.18%) PSD2
14 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 585 (26.65%) Docker
2 103 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 77 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.23%) vSphere
8 26 (1.18%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.87%) Squid
10 12 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.46%) NFS
13 9 (0.41%) KVM
14 5 (0.23%) Firmware
15 3 (0.14%) Ceph
15 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.14%) Postfix
16 2 (0.091%) Corosync
16 2 (0.091%) GPFS
16 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 825 (37.59%) Kubernetes
2 475 (21.64%) Ansible
3 268 (12.21%) Grafana
4 240 (10.93%) Prometheus
5 74 (3.37%) Argo
6 50 (2.28%) Puppet
7 39 (1.78%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.64%) Istio
9 31 (1.41%) Packer
10 28 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.82%) Kibana
14 14 (0.64%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.59%) Podman
16 12 (0.55%) Consul
16 12 (0.55%) Rancher
17 11 (0.50%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 326 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 210 (9.57%) Google
3 127 (5.79%) Databricks
4 117 (5.33%) Splunk
5 104 (4.74%) VMware
6 83 (3.78%) Red Hat
7 81 (3.69%) Oracle
8 73 (3.33%) Dynatrace
9 60 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 54 (2.46%) Cisco
10 54 (2.46%) Palo Alto
11 39 (1.78%) F5
12 34 (1.55%) OpenAI
13 33 (1.50%) Arista
14 28 (1.28%) Zscaler
15 25 (1.14%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.00%) Aruba
16 22 (1.00%) Foundry
17 21 (0.96%) Pure Storage
18 20 (0.91%) Informatica