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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 39 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -12
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,156 1,247 1,365
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.00% 5.01% 3.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.75% 31.73% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 875 1,018
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 10
10th Percentile £43.91 £26.60 £44.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £48.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.40 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -25.00%

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 5,711 3,930 4,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.25% 15.80% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,920 2,642 3,375
10th Percentile £322 £308 £293
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -2.24% -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 142 39 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £15.76
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.32 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% +44.72% -44.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £49.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year +65.41% +2.31% -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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 1,184 £550 +1.85% 220
North of England +23 440 £500 -1.23% 103
Yorkshire +2 220 £500 -4.76% 24
North West +34 164 £525 +2.44% 60
South East -30 153 £534 +6.75% 132
Midlands -13 128 £511 -5.20% 32
South West -9 126 £550 -10.57% 50
West Midlands -15 104 £525 -4.55% 21
North East +1 69 £425 -11.46% 19
East of England -19 46 £513 +2.50% 18
East Midlands -14 23 £450 -10.00% 11
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 (4.59%) Confluence
2 90 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (3.11%) Apache
5 34 (1.58%) Jupyter
6 33 (1.53%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.07%) nginx
8 13 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.51%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.14%) CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.093%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.093%) Drupal
14 2 (0.093%) Traefik
14 2 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.046%) InDesign
6 1 (0.046%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.093%) Endur
4 2 (0.093%) 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 1,208 (56.03%) AWS
2 1,047 (48.56%) Azure
3 576 (26.72%) GitHub
4 439 (20.36%) GCP
5 391 (18.14%) GitHub Actions
6 373 (17.30%) Serverless
7 355 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
8 289 (13.40%) Amazon S3
9 271 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
10 268 (12.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 205 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
12 171 (7.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 149 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
14 145 (6.73%) Azure AKS
15 139 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 138 (6.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 137 (6.35%) Entra ID
18 126 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
19 108 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
20 105 (4.87%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 219 (10.16%) Firewall
2 138 (6.40%) DNS
3 116 (5.38%) VPN
4 103 (4.78%) Network Security
5 79 (3.66%) WAN
6 61 (2.83%) BGP
7 45 (2.09%) SD-WAN
8 41 (1.90%) OSPF
9 35 (1.62%) VXLAN
10 33 (1.53%) TCP/IP
11 27 (1.25%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.11%) BIG-IP
12 24 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 20 (0.93%) SAN
14 18 (0.83%) DHCP
14 18 (0.83%) VLAN
15 16 (0.74%) LAN
15 16 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
15 16 (0.74%) SSL
16 15 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
3 88 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
4 81 (3.76%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.53%) Power BI
6 66 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 65 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 61 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
9 59 (2.74%) BigQuery
9 59 (2.74%) NoSQL
10 56 (2.60%) DynamoDB
11 50 (2.32%) Delta Lake
11 50 (2.32%) MongoDB
12 39 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 37 (1.72%) Redis
13 37 (1.72%) Relational Database
14 31 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
15 29 (1.35%) Big Data
15 29 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 390 (18.09%) GitLab
2 377 (17.49%) Jenkins
3 291 (13.50%) Git
4 139 (6.45%) JIRA
5 45 (2.09%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.58%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.07%) Maven
9 18 (0.83%) Snyk
10 16 (0.74%) MLflow
10 16 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.60%) Gatling
12 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.46%) git-flow
13 10 (0.46%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.42%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.37%) JUnit
16 7 (0.32%) Mockito
16 7 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 381 (17.67%) Social Skills
2 318 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 241 (11.18%) Finance
4 109 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.13%) Banking
6 61 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (1.25%) Retail
9 24 (1.11%) Military
10 21 (0.97%) Legal
11 16 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (0.70%) Law
12 15 (0.70%) Publishing
12 15 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.42%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.37%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 492 (22.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 354 (16.42%) Senior
3 245 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (10.20%) Architect
5 212 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
6 209 (9.69%) Azure Engineer
7 178 (8.26%) Data Engineer
8 177 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
9 173 (8.02%) Developer
10 163 (7.56%) Lead
11 126 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 109 (5.06%) GCP Engineer
13 105 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
14 97 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 96 (4.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 82 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
17 81 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 78 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 75 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 70 (3.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.12%) Kafka
2 104 (4.82%) React
2 104 (4.82%) REST
3 101 (4.68%) .NET
4 100 (4.64%) Node.js
5 97 (4.50%) PySpark
6 84 (3.90%) OAuth
7 75 (3.48%) RESTful
8 67 (3.11%) ARM Templates
8 67 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
9 63 (2.92%) YAML
10 62 (2.88%) OpenID
11 57 (2.64%) OAuth2
11 57 (2.64%) Spring
12 54 (2.50%) Spring Boot
13 53 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
14 43 (1.99%) JSON
15 40 (1.86%) AWS CDK
16 38 (1.76%) AngularJS
17 31 (1.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 511 (23.70%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 109 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.45%) Data Centre
5 81 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 65 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 63 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 41 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 37 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 31 (1.44%) Replication
12 28 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 28 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (1.25%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.25%) PKI
13 27 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 24 (1.11%) NHS
16 18 (0.83%) Management Information System
17 15 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 310 (14.38%) Linux
2 171 (7.93%) Windows
3 74 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.67%) VMS
6 26 (1.21%) Unix
7 24 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.60%) CentOS
9 9 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.32%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.19%) AIX
13 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.093%) Debian
15 2 (0.093%) Rocky
15 2 (0.093%) Solaris
15 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,477 (68.51%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,449 (67.21%) CI/CD
3 1,288 (59.74%) DevOps
4 508 (23.56%) Containerisation
5 506 (23.47%) Agile
6 432 (20.04%) Observability
7 411 (19.06%) Platform Engineering
8 303 (14.05%) AI
9 263 (12.20%) Migration
10 254 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
11 246 (11.41%) Analytics
12 224 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 224 (10.39%) Test Automation
13 219 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 216 (10.02%) Cloud Security
15 215 (9.97%) Software Engineering
16 214 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 205 (9.51%) Microservices
18 204 (9.46%) Infrastructure Automation
19 179 (8.30%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 990 (45.92%) Python
2 353 (16.37%) SQL
3 307 (14.24%) Bash
4 295 (13.68%) PowerShell
5 245 (11.36%) Java
6 197 (9.14%) Bicep
7 124 (5.75%) JavaScript
8 109 (5.06%) C#
9 108 (5.01%) TypeScript
10 81 (3.76%) Go
11 49 (2.27%) Scala
12 41 (1.90%) Groovy
13 33 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.83%) Ruby
14 18 (0.83%) Rust
15 9 (0.42%) R
16 8 (0.37%) C
16 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.32%) Perl
17 7 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 761 (35.30%) Security Cleared
2 632 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 145 (6.73%) Azure Certification
4 138 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 115 (5.33%) AWS Certification
6 80 (3.71%) Degree
7 60 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.39%) CISSP
13 26 (1.21%) CCNP
14 17 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.74%) CCNA
16 15 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.60%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
19 10 (0.46%) OCP
19 10 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 62 (2.88%) QA
3 55 (2.55%) GDPR
4 51 (2.37%) NIST
5 49 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.58%) NCSC
7 34 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.51%) SLA
9 11 (0.51%) WCAG
10 10 (0.46%) GRC
11 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.23%) PSD2
14 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.19%) HL7
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
15 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 574 (26.62%) Docker
2 101 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 77 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.35%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.25%) vSphere
8 23 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 18 (0.83%) Squid
10 11 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.46%) KVM
11 10 (0.46%) NFS
11 10 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.093%) GPFS
14 2 (0.093%) Lustre
14 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 799 (37.06%) Kubernetes
2 474 (21.99%) Ansible
3 264 (12.24%) Grafana
4 240 (11.13%) Prometheus
5 74 (3.43%) Argo
6 50 (2.32%) Puppet
7 38 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.72%) Istio
9 31 (1.44%) Packer
10 28 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.07%) FortiGate
11 23 (1.07%) vCenter Server
12 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.79%) Kibana
14 14 (0.65%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.56%) Consul
15 12 (0.56%) Podman
15 12 (0.56%) Rancher
16 11 (0.51%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 312 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 204 (9.46%) Google
3 126 (5.84%) Databricks
4 114 (5.29%) Splunk
5 102 (4.73%) VMware
6 85 (3.94%) Red Hat
7 77 (3.57%) Oracle
8 68 (3.15%) Dynatrace
9 58 (2.69%) ServiceNow
10 52 (2.41%) Palo Alto
11 50 (2.32%) Cisco
12 36 (1.67%) F5
13 34 (1.58%) Arista
14 33 (1.53%) OpenAI
15 27 (1.25%) Fortinet
16 26 (1.21%) Zscaler
17 23 (1.07%) Aruba
18 22 (1.02%) Foundry
18 22 (1.02%) IBM
18 22 (1.02%) Pure Storage