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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,321 1,393 1,363
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.12% 5.06% 4.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.64% 32.69% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,613 967 987
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £450 £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 £706 £704 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 11
10th Percentile £55.31 £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 £88.15 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.41 £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 6,006 4,261 4,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.25% 15.48% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 2,842 3,245
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £609 £625
90th Percentile £694 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.99% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 55 73
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £17.72
25th Percentile £38.50 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +77.42% -41.89%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.04 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year +65.33% +18.11% -44.78%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 0 1,214 £550 +2.33% 534
North of England +20 505 £500 -2.44% 195
Yorkshire -5 234 £500 -2.44% 52
North West +38 206 £570 +8.57% 112
South East -14 197 £550 +10.00% 138
South West +5 157 £550 -8.33% 104
Midlands -18 129 £512 +2.30% 52
West Midlands -26 106 £511 -5.46% 39
North East -5 79 £425 -13.27% 32
East of England -5 52 £549 +15.64% 22
East Midlands -12 21 £500 +2.56% 13
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 90 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 86 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 79 (3.40%) Apache
5 37 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.99%) 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%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.086%) Traefik
13 1 (0.043%) Anypoint
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 1,318 (56.79%) AWS
2 1,160 (49.98%) Azure
3 638 (27.49%) GitHub
4 471 (20.29%) GCP
5 438 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
6 404 (17.41%) Azure DevOps
7 336 (14.48%) Serverless
8 272 (11.72%) Amazon S3
9 262 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 244 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
11 210 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 158 (6.81%) Azure AKS
13 158 (6.81%) Entra ID
14 141 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
15 134 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 128 (5.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 126 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
18 117 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
19 90 (3.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 268 (11.55%) Firewall
2 192 (8.27%) DNS
3 137 (5.90%) VPN
4 103 (4.44%) Network Security
5 80 (3.45%) WAN
6 75 (3.23%) TCP/IP
7 70 (3.02%) BGP
8 63 (2.71%) DHCP
9 50 (2.15%) OSPF
10 43 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.59%) VXLAN
12 33 (1.42%) VLAN
13 28 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (0.99%) BIG-IP
15 22 (0.95%) SSL
15 22 (0.95%) VSAN
16 21 (0.90%) SSH
17 17 (0.73%) IPsec
17 17 (0.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
3 80 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 70 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 68 (2.93%) NoSQL
7 66 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (2.84%) Power BI
8 64 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 63 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 62 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
11 54 (2.33%) MongoDB
12 49 (2.11%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.98%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (1.59%) Redis
16 35 (1.51%) Oracle Database
17 29 (1.25%) Big Data
17 29 (1.25%) Metadata
17 29 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 416 (17.92%) GitLab
2 391 (16.85%) Jenkins
3 334 (14.39%) Git
4 148 (6.38%) JIRA
5 43 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.21%) Maven
8 27 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.78%) MLflow
10 18 (0.78%) Snyk
11 15 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.52%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.52%) JUnit
13 11 (0.47%) Gatling
13 11 (0.47%) MSI
14 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.43%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.39%) Liquibase
15 9 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 416 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 345 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 291 (12.54%) Finance
4 133 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.96%) 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 21 (0.90%) 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
1 509 (21.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 406 (17.49%) Senior
3 263 (11.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 218 (9.39%) Architect
5 216 (9.31%) Azure Engineer
6 212 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
7 208 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
8 204 (8.79%) Developer
9 203 (8.75%) Lead
10 172 (7.41%) Data Engineer
11 158 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 102 (4.39%) GCP Engineer
14 99 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
15 98 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 95 (4.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 95 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 84 (3.62%) Network Engineer
18 81 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 79 (3.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (7.37%) Kafka
2 154 (6.64%) REST
3 115 (4.95%) .NET
4 109 (4.70%) React
5 100 (4.31%) Node.js
6 94 (4.05%) PySpark
7 85 (3.66%) RESTful
8 76 (3.27%) ARM Templates
8 76 (3.27%) OAuth
9 72 (3.10%) YAML
10 60 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
11 57 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
12 56 (2.41%) Spring
13 53 (2.28%) Spring Boot
14 52 (2.24%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.15%) OpenID
16 48 (2.07%) JSON
17 40 (1.72%) HTML
18 37 (1.59%) AngularJS
19 34 (1.46%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 556 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 137 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 123 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (4.44%) Data Centre
5 82 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 78 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 69 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 49 (2.11%) PKI
10 42 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 41 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.59%) Replication
13 33 (1.42%) AI Agents
13 33 (1.42%) Private Cloud
14 32 (1.38%) NHS
15 28 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
16 25 (1.08%) Management Information System
16 25 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 398 (17.15%) Linux
2 232 (10.00%) Windows
3 84 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 73 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.34%) VMS
7 29 (1.25%) Unix
8 18 (0.78%) AIX
9 12 (0.52%) CentOS
10 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.086%) Debian
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,645 (70.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,560 (67.21%) CI/CD
3 1,358 (58.51%) DevOps
4 573 (24.69%) Agile
5 564 (24.30%) Containerisation
6 517 (22.27%) Observability
7 484 (20.85%) Platform Engineering
8 339 (14.61%) AI
9 288 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
10 282 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 281 (12.11%) Migration
12 272 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 264 (11.37%) Test Automation
14 256 (11.03%) Cloud Security
15 250 (10.77%) Analytics
16 246 (10.60%) Software Engineering
17 228 (9.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 227 (9.78%) Infrastructure Automation
19 222 (9.56%) Microservices
20 218 (9.39%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (47.69%) Python
2 419 (18.05%) Bash
3 397 (17.10%) PowerShell
4 355 (15.30%) SQL
5 271 (11.68%) Java
6 244 (10.51%) Bicep
7 144 (6.20%) JavaScript
8 126 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 124 (5.34%) C#
10 78 (3.36%) Go
11 50 (2.15%) Scala
12 47 (2.02%) Groovy
13 32 (1.38%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.78%) Rust
15 15 (0.65%) Ruby
16 12 (0.52%) R
17 11 (0.47%) C
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 7 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 835 (35.98%) Security Cleared
2 677 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 180 (7.76%) DV Cleared
4 153 (6.59%) Azure Certification
5 124 (5.34%) AWS Certification
6 89 (3.83%) Degree
7 65 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 49 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 33 (1.42%) 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 13 (0.56%) VCAP
18 10 (0.43%) OCP
18 10 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.34%) Data Quality
2 73 (3.15%) QA
3 46 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 46 (1.98%) GDPR
4 41 (1.77%) NCSC
5 38 (1.64%) NIST
6 37 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.78%) WCAG
9 8 (0.34%) GRC
9 8 (0.34%) SLA
10 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.22%) HL7
11 5 (0.22%) PSD2
12 4 (0.17%) SEPA
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 631 (27.19%) Docker
2 146 (6.29%) Active Directory
3 106 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.94%) vSphere
7 42 (1.81%) Hyper-V
7 42 (1.81%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
9 17 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.69%) Squid
11 11 (0.47%) NFS
12 9 (0.39%) KVM
13 6 (0.26%) Firmware
14 5 (0.22%) 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
1 888 (38.26%) Kubernetes
2 536 (23.09%) Ansible
3 290 (12.49%) Grafana
4 242 (10.43%) Prometheus
5 96 (4.14%) Argo
6 59 (2.54%) Puppet
7 45 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.55%) Packer
9 32 (1.38%) Istio
9 32 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 20 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 19 (0.82%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
13 18 (0.78%) 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
1 385 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 209 (9.00%) Google
3 143 (6.16%) VMware
4 135 (5.82%) Splunk
5 123 (5.30%) Databricks
6 98 (4.22%) Oracle
7 85 (3.66%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.27%) Dynatrace
9 72 (3.10%) ServiceNow
10 68 (2.93%) 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 25 (1.08%) Informatica
16 24 (1.03%) Aruba
16 24 (1.03%) Foundry
17 23 (0.99%) Juniper