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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,809 1,332 1,354
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.41% 5.07% 3.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.09% 34.30% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 933 1,045
10th Percentile £400 £410 £431
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 17
10th Percentile £44.22 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £62.00
Median hourly rate £58.94 £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% -30.33% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.36 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +12.79% -30.33% -

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 5,156 3,883 4,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.43% 14.78% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,572 2,523 3,454
10th Percentile £313 £315 £253
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £740 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 155
10th Percentile £17.82 £14.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £20.00
Median hourly rate £47.75 £26.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.19% -39.43% -7.89%
75th Percentile £62.80 £62.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £75.66 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +96.08% -44.78% +11.18%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -2 949 £525 -12.50% 280
North of England -4 356 £500 -4.76% 117
Yorkshire -2 195 £500 -3.61% 42
South East +11 149 £500 -13.04% 141
Midlands +23 145 £537 +7.40% 36
South West +1 130 £550 -10.20% 69
West Midlands +25 128 £540 +5.42% 31
North West -10 117 £483 -8.10% 65
North East -1 47 £475 -15.93% 10
East of England -34 22 £550 +29.41% 12
East Midlands -13 17 £428 -14.50% 5
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 71 (3.92%) Confluence
2 56 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 52 (2.87%) Apache
4 45 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.93%) nginx
6 29 (1.60%) OpenStack
7 14 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) SAS
9 4 (0.22%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.17%) Drupal
10 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Maximo
2 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.055%) Actimize
4 1 (0.055%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.055%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.055%) Endur
4 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (56.11%) AWS
2 788 (43.56%) Azure
3 510 (28.19%) GitHub
4 362 (20.01%) GCP
5 338 (18.68%) Serverless
6 324 (17.91%) GitHub Actions
7 307 (16.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 303 (16.75%) Azure DevOps
9 245 (13.54%) Amazon S3
10 218 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
11 173 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
12 156 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
13 151 (8.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 138 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
14 138 (7.63%) OpenShift
15 131 (7.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 118 (6.52%) Entra ID
17 115 (6.36%) Azure AKS
18 108 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
19 91 (5.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 183 (10.12%) Firewall
2 126 (6.97%) DNS
3 102 (5.64%) Network Security
4 99 (5.47%) VPN
5 46 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 43 (2.38%) WAN
7 30 (1.66%) LAN
8 29 (1.60%) BGP
9 28 (1.55%) SD-WAN
10 27 (1.49%) DHCP
11 26 (1.44%) SSL
12 25 (1.38%) OSPF
13 17 (0.94%) HTTP
14 13 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
15 12 (0.66%) VXLAN
16 11 (0.61%) FTP
16 11 (0.61%) MPLS
16 11 (0.61%) SMTP
16 11 (0.61%) SSH
16 11 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (6.69%) Amazon RDS
3 71 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 70 (3.87%) Data Lake
5 64 (3.54%) Power BI
6 59 (3.26%) MongoDB
7 49 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
9 44 (2.43%) DynamoDB
10 39 (2.16%) SQL Server
11 38 (2.10%) BigQuery
11 38 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (2.05%) Relational Database
13 33 (1.82%) Redis
14 32 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
14 32 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
15 24 (1.33%) Tableau
16 23 (1.27%) Delta Lake
17 22 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
18 21 (1.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 400 (22.11%) Jenkins
2 367 (20.29%) GitLab
3 239 (13.21%) Git
4 94 (5.20%) JIRA
5 46 (2.54%) Artifactory
6 38 (2.10%) SonarQube
7 28 (1.55%) Liquibase
8 25 (1.38%) CircleCI
9 24 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.33%) Maven
10 22 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (0.83%) Gradle
12 14 (0.77%) JUnit
13 13 (0.72%) Terragrunt
14 11 (0.61%) MLflow
15 10 (0.55%) Selenium
15 10 (0.55%) Vagrant
16 9 (0.50%) Snyk
17 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
17 8 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 403 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 284 (15.70%) Public Sector
3 203 (11.22%) Finance
4 104 (5.75%) Banking
5 90 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.44%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (1.00%) Military
10 18 (1.00%) Retail
11 10 (0.55%) Law
11 10 (0.55%) Marketing
12 8 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.39%) Games
13 7 (0.39%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.39%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.33%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 435 (24.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 227 (12.55%) Senior
3 202 (11.17%) AWS Engineer
4 198 (10.95%) Architect
5 156 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
6 154 (8.51%) Developer
7 150 (8.29%) Lead
8 149 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
9 146 (8.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (7.13%) Data Engineer
11 121 (6.69%) AWS DevOps
12 104 (5.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 99 (5.47%) Software Engineer
14 88 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 82 (4.53%) GCP Engineer
16 79 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 73 (4.04%) Site Engineer
18 70 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 61 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
19 61 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (10.50%) Kafka
2 117 (6.47%) REST
3 111 (6.14%) Node.js
4 99 (5.47%) React
5 97 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
6 85 (4.70%) RESTful
7 80 (4.42%) ARM Templates
8 75 (4.15%) .NET
9 65 (3.59%) OAuth
10 64 (3.54%) Spring
11 61 (3.37%) Spring Boot
12 54 (2.99%) PySpark
13 50 (2.76%) YAML
14 45 (2.49%) AngularJS
15 41 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
16 40 (2.21%) OpenID
17 35 (1.93%) OAuth2
18 30 (1.66%) AWS CDK
19 29 (1.60%) SAML
20 27 (1.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 311 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 108 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 61 (3.37%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 33 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 33 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 32 (1.77%) NHS
9 30 (1.66%) Replication
10 28 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.49%) PKI
12 22 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.88%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.72%) Clustering
17 12 (0.66%) Algorithms
18 11 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 355 (19.62%) Linux
2 160 (8.84%) Windows
3 50 (2.76%) VMS
4 48 (2.65%) Unix
5 43 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 37 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.77%) CentOS
9 13 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.11%) Android
12 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.055%) Rocky
13 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,233 (68.16%) CI/CD
2 1,147 (63.41%) DevOps
3 1,140 (63.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 485 (26.81%) Containerisation
5 380 (21.01%) Agile
6 325 (17.97%) Observability
7 259 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
8 256 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
9 251 (13.88%) Migration
10 236 (13.05%) Microservices
11 221 (12.22%) Infrastructure Automation
12 206 (11.39%) Analytics
12 206 (11.39%) Software Engineering
13 197 (10.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 190 (10.50%) AI
15 182 (10.06%) DevSecOps
16 178 (9.84%) Test Automation
17 171 (9.45%) Cloud Security
18 164 (9.07%) Mentoring
19 155 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 900 (49.75%) Python
2 290 (16.03%) Bash
3 263 (14.54%) SQL
4 245 (13.54%) PowerShell
5 208 (11.50%) Java
6 140 (7.74%) Bicep
7 134 (7.41%) Go
8 115 (6.36%) JavaScript
9 94 (5.20%) TypeScript
10 88 (4.86%) C#
11 53 (2.93%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.66%) Groovy
13 26 (1.44%) Ruby
14 19 (1.05%) Scala
15 10 (0.55%) Rust
16 9 (0.50%) PHP
17 8 (0.44%) C
18 7 (0.39%) C++
18 7 (0.39%) Perl
19 5 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 646 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 542 (29.96%) SC Cleared
3 130 (7.19%) AWS Certification
4 115 (6.36%) Azure Certification
4 115 (6.36%) Degree
5 107 (5.91%) DV Cleared
6 76 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 48 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.60%) CISSP
13 22 (1.22%) CCNP
14 20 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.94%) CCIE
15 17 (0.94%) CISM
16 11 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.55%) JNCIE
17 10 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.09%) GDPR
2 65 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (3.26%) QA
4 54 (2.99%) NIST
5 52 (2.87%) NCSC
6 30 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.16%) SOC 2
8 13 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 9 (0.50%) SLA
12 8 (0.44%) GRC
13 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.22%) HL7
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 578 (31.95%) Docker
2 101 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 77 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (1.99%) vSphere
6 33 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 30 (1.66%) Hyper-V
8 18 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.77%) Squid
10 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
11 9 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (0.44%) KVM
13 7 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 7 (0.39%) Postfix
14 5 (0.28%) Lustre
14 5 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.22%) GPFS
16 3 (0.17%) NFS
16 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 774 (42.79%) Kubernetes
2 519 (28.69%) Ansible
3 287 (15.87%) Grafana
4 254 (14.04%) Prometheus
5 67 (3.70%) Argo
6 45 (2.49%) Puppet
7 40 (2.21%) Istio
8 36 (1.99%) Packer
8 36 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 35 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
10 24 (1.33%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.05%) Consul
12 18 (1.00%) Kibana
13 17 (0.94%) Podman
14 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
15 13 (0.72%) Nessus
15 13 (0.72%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.66%) logstash
16 12 (0.66%) Rancher
17 9 (0.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 259 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 152 (8.40%) Google
3 126 (6.97%) Databricks
4 125 (6.91%) Splunk
5 115 (6.36%) VMware
6 72 (3.98%) Red Hat
7 47 (2.60%) Oracle
8 45 (2.49%) Dynatrace
9 44 (2.43%) F5
9 44 (2.43%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.21%) Cisco
11 39 (2.16%) Palo Alto
12 29 (1.60%) IBM
13 28 (1.55%) CheckPoint
14 23 (1.27%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.27%) Pure Storage
15 19 (1.05%) Atlassian
15 19 (1.05%) OpenAI
16 18 (1.00%) SolarWinds
17 17 (0.94%) Dell