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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,922 1,307 1,305
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.22% 5.32% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.56% 33.62% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 923 972
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £559
% change year-on-year -7.49% +1.57% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £48.60
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -15.73% -26.19%
75th Percentile £81.50 £77.80 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.10 £82.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -15.73% -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 5,405 3,887 4,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.67% 15.82% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,734 2,618 3,293
10th Percentile £313 £314 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 42 137
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -18.46% -40.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.38 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £85.02 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -38.38%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -1 1,025 £530 -7.83% 281
North of England +8 388 £500 -4.76% 129
Yorkshire +7 200 £500 -4.76% 44
South East -3 146 £500 -13.04% 142
North West +10 143 £510 -2.95% 62
Midlands +10 142 £531 +4.89% 31
South West -7 119 £550 -10.57% 65
West Midlands 0 118 £537 -10.57% 24
North East -2 50 £481 -8.33% 24
East Midlands -21 23 £442 -9.28% 6
East of England -44 18 £494 +2.07% 31
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 80 (4.16%) Confluence
2 71 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 62 (3.23%) Apache
4 51 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.66%) nginx
6 22 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.10%) CMS
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.052%) InDesign
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.052%) Actimize
4 1 (0.052%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.052%) Endur
4 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (54.84%) AWS
2 888 (46.20%) Azure
3 558 (29.03%) GitHub
4 402 (20.92%) GCP
5 369 (19.20%) Serverless
6 351 (18.26%) GitHub Actions
7 338 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
8 333 (17.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 259 (13.48%) Amazon S3
10 242 (12.59%) AWS Lambda
11 202 (10.51%) Amazon EKS
12 158 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
13 138 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 138 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
13 138 (7.18%) OpenShift
14 135 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 131 (6.82%) Azure AKS
16 129 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
16 129 (6.71%) Entra ID
17 111 (5.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 195 (10.15%) Firewall
2 140 (7.28%) DNS
3 110 (5.72%) VPN
4 101 (5.25%) Network Security
5 47 (2.45%) WAN
6 41 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.66%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.61%) BGP
8 31 (1.61%) DHCP
9 28 (1.46%) LAN
10 22 (1.14%) OSPF
11 17 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
11 17 (0.88%) VXLAN
12 15 (0.78%) SSL
13 12 (0.62%) VLAN
14 11 (0.57%) SAN
14 11 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
15 10 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.52%) OpenVPN
16 9 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (4.37%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.85%) Power BI
5 62 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
6 58 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 57 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 51 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 49 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 48 (2.50%) BigQuery
11 47 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (2.29%) DynamoDB
13 41 (2.13%) Delta Lake
14 34 (1.77%) Redis
15 33 (1.72%) Relational Database
16 27 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (1.14%) Tableau
18 21 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
19 20 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 398 (20.71%) Jenkins
2 360 (18.73%) GitLab
3 258 (13.42%) Git
4 99 (5.15%) JIRA
5 47 (2.45%) Artifactory
6 29 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 29 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.25%) Liquibase
8 22 (1.14%) CircleCI
9 20 (1.04%) Maven
10 18 (0.94%) MLflow
11 16 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.57%) JUnit
13 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 10 (0.52%) Terragrunt
14 9 (0.47%) Snyk
15 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.42%) git-flow
15 8 (0.42%) Gradle
15 8 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 387 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 299 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 212 (11.03%) Finance
4 105 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (5.20%) Banking
6 52 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 18 (0.94%) Retail
11 17 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (0.68%) Military
13 11 (0.57%) Law
14 10 (0.52%) Legal
15 8 (0.42%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.36%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.26%) Billing
17 5 (0.26%) Games
17 5 (0.26%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 417 (21.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 252 (13.11%) Senior
3 229 (11.91%) Architect
4 192 (9.99%) AWS Engineer
5 188 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 177 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
7 164 (8.53%) Lead
8 161 (8.38%) Developer
9 157 (8.17%) Platform Engineer
10 141 (7.34%) Data Engineer
11 113 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
12 109 (5.67%) AWS DevOps
13 97 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 93 (4.84%) Software Engineer
15 90 (4.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 86 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 80 (4.16%) Site Engineer
18 75 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 60 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
19 60 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.89%) Kafka
2 122 (6.35%) REST
3 114 (5.93%) Node.js
4 98 (5.10%) React
5 89 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
6 85 (4.42%) .NET
7 79 (4.11%) RESTful
8 77 (4.01%) ARM Templates
9 67 (3.49%) PySpark
10 65 (3.38%) OAuth
11 60 (3.12%) Spring
12 56 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
13 55 (2.86%) Spring Boot
14 51 (2.65%) YAML
15 46 (2.39%) AngularJS
16 42 (2.19%) OpenID
17 36 (1.87%) OAuth2
18 33 (1.72%) AWS CDK
19 30 (1.56%) JSON
20 28 (1.46%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 344 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 102 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 64 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 54 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.61%) NHS
9 30 (1.56%) PKI
10 29 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.51%) Security Posture
11 28 (1.46%) Private Cloud
12 26 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.04%) Replication
14 16 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (0.78%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.73%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.73%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.68%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.68%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 347 (18.05%) Linux
2 158 (8.22%) Windows
3 50 (2.60%) VMS
4 42 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 40 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.87%) Unix
7 12 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.52%) CentOS
9 6 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.052%) AIX
14 1 (0.052%) Android
14 1 (0.052%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.052%) Rocky
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,305 (67.90%) CI/CD
2 1,229 (63.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,188 (61.81%) DevOps
4 502 (26.12%) Containerisation
5 411 (21.38%) Agile
6 372 (19.35%) Observability
7 284 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
8 269 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 267 (13.89%) Migration
10 251 (13.06%) Analytics
11 233 (12.12%) Microservices
12 221 (11.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 217 (11.29%) AI
14 211 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 205 (10.67%) Software Engineering
16 189 (9.83%) Test Automation
17 185 (9.63%) Cloud Security
18 182 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
19 176 (9.16%) Mentoring
20 174 (9.05%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 931 (48.44%) Python
2 304 (15.82%) SQL
3 302 (15.71%) Bash
4 265 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 210 (10.93%) Java
6 166 (8.64%) Bicep
7 115 (5.98%) Go
7 115 (5.98%) JavaScript
8 98 (5.10%) TypeScript
9 96 (4.99%) C#
10 45 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.61%) Ruby
12 28 (1.46%) Scala
13 25 (1.30%) Groovy
14 15 (0.78%) Rust
15 9 (0.47%) C
16 8 (0.42%) PHP
17 6 (0.31%) C++
18 5 (0.26%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 675 (35.12%) Security Cleared
2 553 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.87%) AWS Certification
4 124 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 109 (5.67%) DV Cleared
6 100 (5.20%) Degree
7 72 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (2.08%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.61%) CISSP
14 29 (1.51%) CCNP
15 19 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 16 (0.83%) CCIE
17 15 (0.78%) CISM
18 14 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
19 12 (0.62%) CCNA
20 11 (0.57%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (4.99%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.11%) GDPR
3 66 (3.43%) QA
4 58 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.86%) NIST
6 45 (2.34%) NCSC
7 34 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.62%) SLA
11 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.52%) GRC
11 10 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.26%) HL7
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 576 (29.97%) Docker
2 103 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 79 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (2.19%) vSphere
6 33 (1.72%) VMware NSX
7 30 (1.56%) Hyper-V
8 27 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.47%) Squid
10 7 (0.36%) KVM
11 6 (0.31%) NFS
12 5 (0.26%) Lustre
12 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.21%) Firmware
13 4 (0.21%) GPFS
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) HDFS
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.052%) iptables
Systems Management
1 791 (41.16%) Kubernetes
2 502 (26.12%) Ansible
3 284 (14.78%) Grafana
4 250 (13.01%) Prometheus
5 76 (3.95%) Argo
6 50 (2.60%) Istio
7 39 (2.03%) Puppet
8 37 (1.93%) Packer
9 35 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 30 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.46%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.09%) Consul
13 16 (0.83%) Rancher
14 15 (0.78%) Kibana
14 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (0.78%) Podman
15 13 (0.68%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.57%) linkerd
17 9 (0.47%) Sysdig
18 8 (0.42%) logstash
Vendors
1 296 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.57%) Google
3 143 (7.44%) Databricks
4 124 (6.45%) Splunk
5 120 (6.24%) VMware
6 85 (4.42%) Red Hat
7 55 (2.86%) Oracle
8 46 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 43 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 38 (1.98%) Cisco
11 30 (1.56%) Pure Storage
12 29 (1.51%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.35%) F5
14 25 (1.30%) IBM
15 23 (1.20%) Fortinet
16 21 (1.09%) SolarWinds
17 20 (1.04%) Atlassian
18 17 (0.88%) Citrix
19 16 (0.83%) OpenAI
19 16 (0.83%) PagerDuty