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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,995 1,240 1,239
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.95% 5.09% 3.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.37% 32.73% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 902 917
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £443 £475 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £617 £656 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £746
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.38 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £61.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £77.33 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% -4.55% -27.15%

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 5,485 3,788 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.61% 15.54% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,796 2,622 3,163
10th Percentile £318 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 37 116
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.93 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +105.36% +8.67% -55.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.20 £73.48 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 1,068 £531 -5.97% 286
North of England +15 383 £500 -4.76% 136
Yorkshire +11 206 £488 -7.14% 31
South East -8 154 £513 -1.20% 143
Midlands -4 142 £525 -2.78% 52
North West +21 139 £547 +4.14% 71
South West -6 126 £550 -10.57% 66
West Midlands -1 115 £525 -6.75% 33
North East -8 47 £475 -9.52% 34
East of England -24 39 £475 -7.32% 31
East Midlands -22 26 £447 -10.60% 19
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 81 (4.06%) Apache Spark
2 80 (4.01%) Confluence
3 57 (2.86%) Apache
4 47 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 21 (1.05%) nginx
7 15 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) Traefik
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Actimize
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,059 (53.08%) AWS
2 975 (48.87%) Azure
3 565 (28.32%) GitHub
4 402 (20.15%) GCP
5 370 (18.55%) GitHub Actions
6 349 (17.49%) Serverless
7 343 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
8 317 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 256 (12.83%) Amazon S3
10 248 (12.43%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
12 149 (7.47%) Azure AKS
13 141 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 138 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
14 138 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
15 132 (6.62%) OpenShift
16 122 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
17 119 (5.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 116 (5.81%) Entra ID
19 115 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 195 (9.77%) Firewall
2 131 (6.57%) DNS
3 111 (5.56%) VPN
4 96 (4.81%) Network Security
5 49 (2.46%) WAN
6 39 (1.95%) BGP
7 35 (1.75%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.50%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.35%) OSPF
10 20 (1.00%) DHCP
10 20 (1.00%) VXLAN
11 19 (0.95%) LAN
12 18 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
13 16 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
14 13 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 13 (0.65%) SAN
15 12 (0.60%) BIG-IP
16 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
16 11 (0.55%) SSL
17 10 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (4.11%) Data Lake
4 79 (3.96%) Power BI
5 74 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 53 (2.66%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.56%) DynamoDB
10 50 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 47 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (2.36%) Delta Lake
12 46 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
13 45 (2.26%) MongoDB
14 33 (1.65%) Redis
14 33 (1.65%) Relational Database
15 31 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
16 29 (1.45%) Big Data
17 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
18 24 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 370 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 321 (16.09%) GitLab
3 273 (13.68%) Git
4 115 (5.76%) JIRA
5 45 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 32 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.35%) Maven
8 25 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.90%) CircleCI
9 18 (0.90%) MLflow
10 16 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.70%) Liquibase
11 14 (0.70%) Snyk
12 12 (0.60%) Gatling
13 11 (0.55%) JUnit
14 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.45%) git-flow
15 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
16 8 (0.40%) Mockito
17 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 359 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 283 (14.19%) Public Sector
3 217 (10.88%) Finance
4 97 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (4.21%) Banking
6 55 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.00%) Retail
9 18 (0.90%) Legal
10 15 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (0.65%) Health Technology
12 12 (0.60%) Law
13 11 (0.55%) Military
13 11 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.35%) Publishing
17 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.30%) Front Office
18 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 429 (21.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 292 (14.64%) Senior
3 228 (11.43%) Architect
4 197 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 196 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
6 184 (9.22%) Developer
7 169 (8.47%) Data Engineer
8 168 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
9 160 (8.02%) Lead
10 141 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
11 110 (5.51%) GCP Engineer
12 108 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 106 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 93 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
15 84 (4.21%) Site Engineer
16 83 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 74 (3.71%) Software Engineer
18 67 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 64 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 62 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.77%) Kafka
2 121 (6.07%) Node.js
3 104 (5.21%) .NET
3 104 (5.21%) React
4 100 (5.01%) REST
5 78 (3.91%) PySpark
6 72 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 71 (3.56%) RESTful
8 69 (3.46%) Spring
9 67 (3.36%) ARM Templates
10 66 (3.31%) OAuth
11 63 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
12 62 (3.11%) Spring Boot
13 53 (2.66%) YAML
14 52 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 50 (2.51%) OpenID
16 40 (2.01%) AWS CDK
16 40 (2.01%) OAuth2
17 35 (1.75%) JSON
18 27 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 414 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 102 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 88 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 76 (3.81%) Data Centre
5 73 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 49 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 40 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.65%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.55%) PKI
10 30 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.35%) Replication
12 24 (1.20%) NHS
12 24 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.00%) AI Agents
15 19 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (0.80%) Clustering
17 14 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 314 (15.74%) Linux
2 154 (7.72%) Windows
3 46 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.21%) VMS
5 43 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (1.45%) Unix
7 14 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.45%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) Android
14 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.050%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,336 (66.97%) CI/CD
2 1,306 (65.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,188 (59.55%) DevOps
4 497 (24.91%) Containerisation
5 446 (22.36%) Agile
6 400 (20.05%) Observability
7 316 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
8 270 (13.53%) Migration
9 253 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 247 (12.38%) Analytics
11 241 (12.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 232 (11.63%) AI
13 214 (10.73%) Microservices
14 208 (10.43%) Software Engineering
15 206 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 204 (10.23%) Test Automation
17 185 (9.27%) Infrastructure Automation
18 184 (9.22%) Cloud Security
19 181 (9.07%) DevSecOps
20 180 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 904 (45.31%) Python
2 328 (16.44%) SQL
3 278 (13.93%) Bash
3 278 (13.93%) PowerShell
4 237 (11.88%) Java
5 179 (8.97%) Bicep
6 124 (6.22%) JavaScript
7 116 (5.81%) C#
8 115 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 88 (4.41%) Go
10 51 (2.56%) Scala
11 42 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.70%) Groovy
13 31 (1.55%) Ruby
14 14 (0.70%) Rust
15 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.40%) R
16 7 (0.35%) C
17 6 (0.30%) Perl
17 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 710 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 593 (29.72%) SC Cleared
3 138 (6.92%) Azure Certification
4 116 (5.81%) DV Cleared
5 109 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 75 (3.76%) Degree
7 63 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.40%) CCNP
13 25 (1.25%) CISSP
14 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.70%) CCNA
16 14 (0.70%) OCP
17 13 (0.65%) CISM
17 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.16%) Data Quality
2 65 (3.26%) GDPR
3 63 (3.16%) QA
4 51 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.51%) NIST
6 35 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.70%) NCSC
8 20 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 12 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.55%) GRC
12 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.25%) HL7
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.15%) PSD2
16 3 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 542 (27.17%) Docker
2 90 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.90%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.35%) vSphere
8 23 (1.15%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.55%) Squid
10 7 (0.35%) KVM
10 7 (0.35%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) Lustre
11 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) GPFS
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) HDFS
13 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 797 (39.95%) Kubernetes
2 487 (24.41%) Ansible
3 270 (13.53%) Grafana
4 231 (11.58%) Prometheus
5 80 (4.01%) Argo
6 48 (2.41%) Puppet
7 46 (2.31%) Istio
8 35 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.40%) Packer
10 24 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.15%) Kibana
11 23 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 20 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 17 (0.85%) Rancher
14 16 (0.80%) Consul
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
15 11 (0.55%) Podman
16 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 320 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 180 (9.02%) Google
3 133 (6.67%) Databricks
4 119 (5.96%) Splunk
5 109 (5.46%) VMware
6 85 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 65 (3.26%) Oracle
8 57 (2.86%) Dynatrace
9 53 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.06%) Cisco
11 30 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.35%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.25%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.15%) IBM
15 22 (1.10%) F5
16 20 (1.00%) Arista
17 19 (0.95%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.85%) Citrix
19 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty
19 16 (0.80%) SolarWinds