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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 39 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,116 1,214 1,344
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.97% 4.96% 3.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.48% 31.45% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 860 999
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £462 £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 £726 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 10
10th Percentile £40.22 £26.60 £44.75
25th Percentile £52.90 £33.38 £48.81
Median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.42 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.40 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -10.26% -22.52%

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 5,646 3,860 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.26% 15.78% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,870 2,621 3,369
10th Percentile £319 £308 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -1.91% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -1.07% -0.29% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 37 91
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.88 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.71% +33.33% -43.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £52.63
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +17.19% -44.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +2 1,159 £545 +0.93% 242
North of England +23 426 £500 -2.44% 121
Yorkshire +8 216 £500 -4.76% 29
South East -17 160 £513 +2.50% 140
North West +27 158 £527 +5.33% 72
Midlands -27 127 £511 -5.46% 30
South West -3 118 £550 -10.57% 76
West Midlands -15 103 £525 -4.63% 21
North East +3 64 £451 -7.91% 20
East of England -14 45 £500 - 22
East Midlands -23 23 £449 -10.30% 9
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 92 (4.35%) Confluence
2 90 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 69 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 64 (3.02%) Apache
5 33 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 29 (1.37%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.04%) nginx
8 11 (0.52%) SAS
9 10 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.33%) 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 (0.095%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.095%) Drupal
14 2 (0.095%) Traefik
14 2 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.047%) InDesign
6 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.095%) Endur
3 2 (0.095%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.095%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.047%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.047%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,161 (54.87%) AWS
2 1,030 (48.68%) Azure
3 593 (28.02%) GitHub
4 440 (20.79%) GCP
5 405 (19.14%) GitHub Actions
6 367 (17.34%) Serverless
7 355 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
8 281 (13.28%) Amazon S3
9 274 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 265 (12.52%) AWS Lambda
11 205 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
12 167 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (6.81%) Azure AKS
14 141 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
14 141 (6.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 133 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 126 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
17 124 (5.86%) Entra ID
18 104 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
18 104 (4.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 216 (10.21%) Firewall
2 139 (6.57%) DNS
3 114 (5.39%) VPN
4 98 (4.63%) Network Security
5 71 (3.36%) WAN
6 54 (2.55%) BGP
7 45 (2.13%) SD-WAN
8 41 (1.94%) OSPF
9 36 (1.70%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.65%) VXLAN
11 29 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.13%) BIG-IP
13 23 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.90%) SAN
15 18 (0.85%) DHCP
16 17 (0.80%) SSL
17 16 (0.76%) LAN
17 16 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
17 16 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
18 14 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (4.06%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.54%) Power BI
5 67 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 64 (3.02%) BigQuery
7 59 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 56 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 55 (2.60%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 52 (2.46%) Delta Lake
10 52 (2.46%) MongoDB
11 41 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 37 (1.75%) Redis
13 31 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 31 (1.47%) Relational Database
14 30 (1.42%) Big Data
15 28 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 375 (17.72%) Jenkins
2 372 (17.58%) GitLab
3 278 (13.14%) Git
4 131 (6.19%) JIRA
5 41 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 39 (1.84%) Artifactory
7 26 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.13%) Maven
9 17 (0.80%) Snyk
10 16 (0.76%) MLflow
11 15 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.57%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.57%) Gatling
13 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.47%) git-flow
14 10 (0.47%) Liquibase
15 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.38%) JUnit
15 8 (0.38%) Terragrunt
16 7 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 382 (18.05%) Social Skills
2 299 (14.13%) Public Sector
3 231 (10.92%) Finance
4 103 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (4.16%) Banking
6 58 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.23%) Retail
9 21 (0.99%) Legal
10 20 (0.95%) Military
11 18 (0.85%) Law
12 17 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.71%) Publishing
14 12 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.43%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.33%) Front Office
18 7 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 481 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 340 (16.07%) Senior
3 239 (11.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 214 (10.11%) Architect
5 212 (10.02%) Azure Engineer
6 203 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
7 177 (8.36%) Data Engineer
8 170 (8.03%) Developer
9 169 (7.99%) Lead
10 165 (7.80%) Platform Engineer
11 126 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 115 (5.43%) GCP Engineer
13 102 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
14 94 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 85 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 82 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 78 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
18 74 (3.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 71 (3.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (8.51%) Kafka
2 107 (5.06%) Node.js
3 106 (5.01%) React
4 105 (4.96%) .NET
5 99 (4.68%) REST
6 95 (4.49%) PySpark
7 78 (3.69%) OAuth
8 73 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 68 (3.21%) RESTful
10 67 (3.17%) ARM Templates
11 63 (2.98%) Spring
12 61 (2.88%) YAML
13 60 (2.84%) Spring Boot
14 57 (2.69%) OpenID
15 53 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
15 53 (2.50%) OAuth2
16 43 (2.03%) AWS CDK
17 42 (1.98%) AngularJS
17 42 (1.98%) JSON
18 30 (1.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 493 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 117 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 98 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.54%) Data Centre
5 78 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 62 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 51 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.51%) Private Cloud
11 30 (1.42%) Replication
12 28 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 27 (1.28%) PKI
14 26 (1.23%) AI Agents
14 26 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.04%) NHS
17 15 (0.71%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 300 (14.18%) Linux
2 157 (7.42%) Windows
3 69 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.80%) VMS
6 26 (1.23%) Unix
7 23 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.61%) CentOS
9 8 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
10 7 (0.33%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) AIX
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.095%) Debian
14 2 (0.095%) Rocky
14 2 (0.095%) Solaris
14 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,445 (68.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,428 (67.49%) CI/CD
3 1,280 (60.49%) DevOps
4 494 (23.35%) Containerisation
5 481 (22.73%) Agile
6 443 (20.94%) Observability
7 391 (18.48%) Platform Engineering
8 299 (14.13%) AI
9 261 (12.33%) Migration
10 246 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
11 242 (11.44%) Analytics
12 238 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 217 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 213 (10.07%) Software Engineering
15 212 (10.02%) Test Automation
16 210 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 206 (9.74%) Cloud Security
18 201 (9.50%) Microservices
19 197 (9.31%) Infrastructure Automation
20 184 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 959 (45.32%) Python
2 352 (16.64%) SQL
3 302 (14.27%) Bash
4 294 (13.89%) PowerShell
5 242 (11.44%) Java
6 190 (8.98%) Bicep
7 119 (5.62%) JavaScript
8 111 (5.25%) C#
9 107 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 81 (3.83%) Go
11 50 (2.36%) Scala
12 40 (1.89%) Groovy
13 35 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.85%) Ruby
15 15 (0.71%) Rust
16 10 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.38%) R
18 7 (0.33%) C
18 7 (0.33%) Perl
18 7 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 741 (35.02%) Security Cleared
2 616 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 145 (6.85%) Azure Certification
4 131 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 109 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 78 (3.69%) Degree
7 64 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 37 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (1.28%) CCNP
12 27 (1.28%) CISSP
13 17 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.76%) CCNA
15 12 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 11 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.62%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.84%) QA
3 57 (2.69%) GDPR
4 50 (2.36%) NIST
5 46 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 31 (1.47%) NCSC
8 14 (0.66%) SLA
9 11 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.47%) GRC
11 9 (0.43%) WCAG
12 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) HL7
16 3 (0.14%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 559 (26.42%) Docker
2 89 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.32%) vSphere
8 23 (1.09%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.90%) Squid
10 11 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.47%) KVM
11 10 (0.47%) NFS
12 8 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.24%) Firmware
14 3 (0.14%) Ceph
14 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.14%) Postfix
15 2 (0.095%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.095%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.095%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 791 (37.38%) Kubernetes
2 474 (22.40%) Ansible
3 265 (12.52%) Grafana
4 236 (11.15%) Prometheus
5 84 (3.97%) Argo
6 47 (2.22%) Puppet
7 45 (2.13%) Istio
8 37 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.37%) Packer
10 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.85%) Kibana
14 17 (0.80%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.61%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.57%) Consul
16 12 (0.57%) Rancher
17 11 (0.52%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.52%) Podman
18 10 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 301 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 208 (9.83%) Google
3 125 (5.91%) Databricks
4 116 (5.48%) Splunk
5 107 (5.06%) VMware
6 87 (4.11%) Red Hat
7 80 (3.78%) Oracle
8 64 (3.02%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.65%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.36%) Cisco
11 48 (2.27%) Palo Alto
12 35 (1.65%) F5
13 33 (1.56%) Arista
14 32 (1.51%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.18%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.09%) Aruba
17 22 (1.04%) IBM
17 22 (1.04%) Pure Storage
18 20 (0.95%) Zscaler
19 17 (0.80%) Foundry