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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,335 1,404 1,363
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.13% 5.08% 4.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.85% 32.52% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,615 970 978
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £707 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 11
10th Percentile £56.45 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £59.72 £52.13 £55.50
Median hourly rate £68.22 £62.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% -15.54% -5.13%
75th Percentile £79.31 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £80.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.84 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -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 6,010 4,317 4,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.20% 15.62% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,091 2,879 3,226
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £702
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £520
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 56 67
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £20.50
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.45 £54.75 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% +51.39% -31.11%
75th Percentile £71.00 £65.80 £63.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.48 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £35.14 £33.25
% change year-on-year +79.69% +5.67% -42.17%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +2 1,215 £550 - 817
North of England +11 501 £500 -3.85% 253
Yorkshire -7 226 £500 -2.44% 72
North West +33 203 £572 +8.95% 147
South East -6 199 £560 +12.00% 181
South West +3 166 £550 -8.33% 124
Midlands -19 133 £527 +0.38% 56
West Midlands -19 110 £526 -3.49% 38
North East -6 86 £425 -18.27% 35
East of England -7 51 £513 +7.89% 32
East Midlands -6 21 £500 +5.26% 18
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
1 121 (5.18%) Confluence
2 89 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 87 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (3.30%) Apache
5 38 (1.63%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.03%) nginx
8 13 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.56%) SAS
9 7 (0.30%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) 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 Superset
12 2 (0.086%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.086%) Traefik
13 1 (0.043%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.043%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) 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 (0.086%) 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 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.086%) Endur
2 2 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,321 (56.57%) AWS
2 1,174 (50.28%) Azure
3 644 (27.58%) GitHub
4 463 (19.83%) GCP
5 447 (19.14%) GitHub Actions
6 417 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
7 340 (14.56%) Serverless
8 273 (11.69%) Amazon S3
9 259 (11.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 251 (10.75%) AWS Lambda
11 211 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
12 177 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 163 (6.98%) Entra ID
14 159 (6.81%) Azure AKS
15 142 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
16 134 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 132 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
18 123 (5.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 121 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
20 91 (3.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 267 (11.43%) Firewall
2 195 (8.35%) DNS
3 135 (5.78%) VPN
4 102 (4.37%) Network Security
5 81 (3.47%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.38%) WAN
7 69 (2.96%) BGP
8 68 (2.91%) DHCP
9 48 (2.06%) OSPF
10 44 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.58%) VXLAN
12 33 (1.41%) VLAN
13 28 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (1.16%) Ethernet VPN
15 26 (1.11%) VSAN
16 25 (1.07%) SSL
17 23 (0.99%) BIG-IP
18 21 (0.90%) SSH
19 17 (0.73%) Internet
19 17 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
4 71 (3.04%) SQL Server
5 69 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 68 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 67 (2.87%) Power BI
8 64 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
8 64 (2.74%) DynamoDB
9 61 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (2.57%) BigQuery
11 55 (2.36%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.14%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.97%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (1.58%) Oracle Database
15 37 (1.58%) Redis
16 31 (1.33%) Metadata
17 29 (1.24%) MySQL
18 28 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 419 (17.94%) GitLab
2 383 (16.40%) Jenkins
3 344 (14.73%) Git
4 151 (6.47%) JIRA
5 45 (1.93%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.24%) Maven
8 26 (1.11%) Artifactory
9 23 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.77%) Snyk
11 17 (0.73%) MLflow
12 16 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.60%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.56%) MSI
15 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.47%) Gatling
15 11 (0.47%) JUnit
15 11 (0.47%) Terragrunt
16 9 (0.39%) Liquibase
16 9 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 422 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 347 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 292 (12.51%) Finance
4 138 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (3.85%) Banking
6 64 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (2.01%) Retail
9 26 (1.11%) Military
10 25 (1.07%) Legal
11 22 (0.94%) Publishing
11 22 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 18 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.64%) Law
15 13 (0.56%) Local Government
16 12 (0.51%) Billing
17 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 507 (21.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 416 (17.82%) Senior
3 265 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 222 (9.51%) Azure Engineer
5 220 (9.42%) Architect
6 215 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (9.12%) Platform Engineer
8 211 (9.04%) Developer
9 199 (8.52%) Lead
10 165 (7.07%) Data Engineer
11 159 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 100 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
14 98 (4.20%) GCP Engineer
15 96 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 94 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 84 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 81 (3.47%) Network Engineer
19 75 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (7.02%) Kafka
2 158 (6.77%) REST
3 118 (5.05%) .NET
4 109 (4.67%) React
5 103 (4.41%) Node.js
6 90 (3.85%) PySpark
6 90 (3.85%) RESTful
7 82 (3.51%) ARM Templates
8 74 (3.17%) OAuth
9 73 (3.13%) YAML
10 56 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
11 55 (2.36%) Spring
12 52 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
13 51 (2.18%) Spring Boot
14 50 (2.14%) OpenID
15 49 (2.10%) JSON
15 49 (2.10%) OAuth2
16 42 (1.80%) HTML
17 38 (1.63%) AngularJS
18 36 (1.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 557 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 144 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.24%) Data Centre
5 82 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 70 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 60 (2.57%) Security Posture
9 49 (2.10%) PKI
10 44 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 41 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 41 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 38 (1.63%) Replication
13 35 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 33 (1.41%) Private Cloud
15 32 (1.37%) NHS
16 29 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
17 27 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.16%) Management Information System
18 23 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 401 (17.17%) Linux
2 236 (10.11%) Windows
3 82 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 77 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.33%) Unix
7 29 (1.24%) VMS
8 19 (0.81%) AIX
9 13 (0.56%) CentOS
10 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.086%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,661 (71.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,559 (66.77%) CI/CD
3 1,367 (58.54%) DevOps
4 573 (24.54%) Agile
5 567 (24.28%) Containerisation
6 520 (22.27%) Observability
7 504 (21.58%) Platform Engineering
8 346 (14.82%) AI
9 290 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
10 285 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 285 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 283 (12.12%) Migration
12 273 (11.69%) Test Automation
13 263 (11.26%) Cloud Security
14 257 (11.01%) Analytics
15 248 (10.62%) Software Engineering
16 234 (10.02%) Infrastructure Automation
17 228 (9.76%) DevSecOps
18 225 (9.64%) Microservices
19 223 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,106 (47.37%) Python
2 426 (18.24%) Bash
3 420 (17.99%) PowerShell
4 346 (14.82%) SQL
5 266 (11.39%) Java
6 255 (10.92%) Bicep
7 143 (6.12%) JavaScript
8 128 (5.48%) TypeScript
9 127 (5.44%) C#
10 72 (3.08%) Go
11 48 (2.06%) Groovy
11 48 (2.06%) Scala
12 35 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.73%) Rust
14 14 (0.60%) Ruby
15 12 (0.51%) R
16 11 (0.47%) C
17 10 (0.43%) Perl
18 8 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 848 (36.32%) Security Cleared
2 687 (29.42%) SC Cleared
3 181 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 161 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 126 (5.40%) AWS Certification
6 88 (3.77%) Degree
7 63 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.54%) CISSP
13 31 (1.33%) CCNP
14 20 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.69%) CCNA
17 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 13 (0.56%) VCAP
19 10 (0.43%) CCIE
20 9 (0.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.17%) QA
3 49 (2.10%) GDPR
4 48 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.93%) NCSC
6 40 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.71%) NIST
7 21 (0.90%) WCAG
8 19 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.34%) GRC
9 8 (0.34%) SLA
10 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.26%) HL7
11 5 (0.21%) PSD2
11 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.17%) SEPA
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.086%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 637 (27.28%) Docker
2 147 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 107 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.93%) Hyper-V
7 44 (1.88%) vSphere
8 42 (1.80%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
10 20 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.69%) Squid
12 9 (0.39%) KVM
12 9 (0.39%) NFS
13 6 (0.26%) Firmware
14 5 (0.21%) Ceph
15 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 2 (0.086%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.086%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.086%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 893 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 548 (23.47%) Ansible
3 283 (12.12%) Grafana
4 237 (10.15%) Prometheus
5 91 (3.90%) Argo
6 60 (2.57%) Puppet
7 47 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.63%) Packer
9 33 (1.41%) Istio
9 33 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (1.20%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 20 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
13 19 (0.81%) Data Guard
14 17 (0.73%) Podman
15 16 (0.69%) Kibana
15 16 (0.69%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.56%) SCCM
16 13 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 401 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.78%) Google
3 147 (6.30%) VMware
4 130 (5.57%) Splunk
5 121 (5.18%) Databricks
6 101 (4.33%) Oracle
7 83 (3.55%) Dynatrace
8 79 (3.38%) Red Hat
9 74 (3.17%) ServiceNow
10 67 (2.87%) Cisco
11 61 (2.61%) Palo Alto
12 43 (1.84%) F5
13 35 (1.50%) Arista
13 35 (1.50%) OpenAI
14 31 (1.33%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.28%) Zscaler
16 26 (1.11%) Informatica
17 24 (1.03%) Aruba
17 24 (1.03%) Foundry
18 23 (0.99%) Juniper