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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,141 1,235 1,338
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.00% 5.00% 3.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.80% 31.73% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 870 998
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -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 5,664 3,892 4,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 15.76% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,880 2,626 3,345
10th Percentile £322 £305 £290
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 38 92
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.17
25th Percentile £31.25 £22.36 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 £42.25 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% +37.40% -44.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 1,172 £550 +1.85% 355
North of England +23 435 £500 -2.44% 135
Yorkshire +8 219 £500 -4.76% 29
North West +32 160 £525 +5.00% 81
South East -20 159 £513 +2.50% 168
Midlands -18 126 £518 -5.00% 39
South West -10 124 £550 -10.57% 69
West Midlands -15 103 £525 -4.55% 29
North East +3 69 £450 -8.16% 25
East of England -20 46 £513 +2.50% 29
East Midlands -20 22 £450 -10.00% 10
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 95 (4.44%) Confluence
2 91 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 72 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (3.08%) Apache
5 33 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 32 (1.49%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.03%) nginx
8 12 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.51%) SAS
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 (0.093%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.093%) Drupal
14 2 (0.093%) Traefik
14 2 (0.093%) 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 (0.093%) 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 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.093%) Endur
4 2 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.047%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,182 (55.21%) AWS
2 1,037 (48.44%) Azure
3 594 (27.74%) GitHub
4 438 (20.46%) GCP
5 403 (18.82%) GitHub Actions
6 370 (17.28%) Serverless
7 354 (16.53%) Azure DevOps
8 286 (13.36%) Amazon S3
9 269 (12.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 266 (12.42%) AWS Lambda
11 205 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
12 172 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 147 (6.87%) Azure AKS
14 146 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
14 146 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 136 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 126 (5.89%) Entra ID
17 124 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
18 109 (5.09%) Power Platform
19 107 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 216 (10.09%) Firewall
2 138 (6.45%) DNS
3 111 (5.18%) VPN
4 101 (4.72%) Network Security
5 74 (3.46%) WAN
6 59 (2.76%) BGP
7 44 (2.06%) SD-WAN
8 41 (1.91%) OSPF
9 35 (1.63%) VXLAN
10 34 (1.59%) TCP/IP
11 28 (1.31%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.12%) BIG-IP
12 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 19 (0.89%) SAN
14 18 (0.84%) DHCP
15 17 (0.79%) SSL
16 16 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
16 16 (0.75%) VLAN
17 15 (0.70%) LAN
17 15 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.34%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
4 85 (3.97%) Data Lake
5 80 (3.74%) Power BI
6 64 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 64 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 63 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 59 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
9 56 (2.62%) NoSQL
10 55 (2.57%) DynamoDB
11 53 (2.48%) Delta Lake
12 51 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.87%) Redis
14 39 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (1.63%) Relational Database
16 31 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
17 30 (1.40%) Big Data
18 29 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
19 27 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 383 (17.89%) GitLab
2 379 (17.70%) Jenkins
3 289 (13.50%) Git
4 135 (6.31%) JIRA
5 45 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 38 (1.77%) Artifactory
7 26 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.12%) Maven
9 18 (0.84%) Snyk
10 16 (0.75%) MLflow
10 16 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.61%) Gatling
12 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.47%) git-flow
13 10 (0.47%) Liquibase
14 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.37%) JUnit
14 8 (0.37%) Terragrunt
15 6 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 386 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 306 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 236 (11.02%) Finance
4 106 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (4.11%) Banking
6 62 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.49%) Retail
9 21 (0.98%) Legal
9 21 (0.98%) Military
10 16 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (0.75%) Law
11 15 (0.70%) Publishing
11 15 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.42%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 484 (22.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 348 (16.25%) Senior
3 244 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 217 (10.14%) Architect
5 212 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
6 207 (9.67%) AWS Engineer
7 182 (8.50%) Data Engineer
8 176 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
9 166 (7.75%) Developer
9 166 (7.75%) Lead
10 128 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 115 (5.37%) GCP Engineer
12 103 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
13 95 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 95 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 80 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 79 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
16 75 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 73 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (8.41%) Kafka
2 108 (5.04%) Node.js
3 107 (5.00%) React
4 102 (4.76%) REST
5 100 (4.67%) .NET
5 100 (4.67%) PySpark
6 82 (3.83%) OAuth
7 73 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
8 69 (3.22%) RESTful
9 67 (3.13%) ARM Templates
10 63 (2.94%) YAML
11 62 (2.90%) Spring
12 59 (2.76%) OpenID
12 59 (2.76%) Spring Boot
13 55 (2.57%) OAuth2
14 54 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
15 43 (2.01%) JSON
16 41 (1.91%) AngularJS
17 40 (1.87%) AWS CDK
18 31 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 506 (23.63%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 102 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 64 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 57 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 41 (1.91%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 31 (1.45%) Replication
12 28 (1.31%) PKI
13 27 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
13 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 26 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 25 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.03%) NHS
17 16 (0.75%) Management Information System
18 15 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 302 (14.11%) Linux
2 158 (7.38%) Windows
3 74 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.59%) VMS
6 26 (1.21%) Unix
7 25 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.61%) CentOS
9 8 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.33%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.093%) Debian
14 2 (0.093%) Solaris
14 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,466 (68.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,446 (67.54%) CI/CD
3 1,286 (60.07%) DevOps
4 509 (23.77%) Containerisation
5 495 (23.12%) Agile
6 443 (20.69%) Observability
7 408 (19.06%) Platform Engineering
8 309 (14.43%) AI
9 264 (12.33%) Migration
10 252 (11.77%) Problem-Solving
11 247 (11.54%) Analytics
12 236 (11.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 220 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 219 (10.23%) Test Automation
15 215 (10.04%) Cloud Security
16 213 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 213 (9.95%) Software Engineering
17 203 (9.48%) Microservices
18 202 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
19 185 (8.64%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 981 (45.82%) Python
2 354 (16.53%) SQL
3 306 (14.29%) Bash
4 295 (13.78%) PowerShell
5 240 (11.21%) Java
6 192 (8.97%) Bicep
7 119 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 107 (5.00%) C#
9 106 (4.95%) TypeScript
10 82 (3.83%) Go
11 50 (2.34%) Scala
12 41 (1.91%) Groovy
13 33 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.84%) Ruby
14 18 (0.84%) Rust
15 9 (0.42%) R
16 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.33%) C
17 7 (0.33%) Perl
17 7 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 753 (35.17%) Security Cleared
2 627 (29.29%) SC Cleared
3 145 (6.77%) Azure Certification
4 133 (6.21%) DV Cleared
5 116 (5.42%) AWS Certification
6 77 (3.60%) Degree
7 62 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 44 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 31 (1.45%) CISSP
12 27 (1.26%) CCNP
13 17 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.75%) CCNA
15 15 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.61%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.47%) OCP
18 10 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 59 (2.76%) QA
3 56 (2.62%) GDPR
4 52 (2.43%) NIST
5 49 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.59%) NCSC
6 34 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.56%) SLA
8 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.47%) GRC
10 9 (0.42%) WCAG
11 7 (0.33%) 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%) SEPA
15 3 (0.14%) HL7
15 3 (0.14%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 571 (26.67%) Docker
2 91 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 76 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 28 (1.31%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.26%) vSphere
8 23 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.89%) Squid
10 11 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.47%) KVM
11 10 (0.47%) NFS
11 10 (0.47%) 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%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.093%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.093%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 801 (37.41%) Kubernetes
2 475 (22.19%) Ansible
3 269 (12.56%) Grafana
4 242 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 84 (3.92%) Argo
6 48 (2.24%) Puppet
7 47 (2.20%) Istio
8 38 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.40%) Packer
10 29 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.07%) vCenter Server
12 22 (1.03%) FortiGate
13 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
14 18 (0.84%) Kibana
15 14 (0.65%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.56%) Consul
16 12 (0.56%) Podman
16 12 (0.56%) Rancher
17 11 (0.51%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 306 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 209 (9.76%) Google
3 127 (5.93%) Databricks
4 120 (5.60%) Splunk
5 105 (4.90%) VMware
6 88 (4.11%) Red Hat
7 76 (3.55%) Oracle
8 69 (3.22%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.34%) Cisco
10 50 (2.34%) Palo Alto
11 36 (1.68%) F5
12 33 (1.54%) Arista
13 32 (1.49%) OpenAI
14 25 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.12%) Zscaler
16 22 (1.03%) Aruba
16 22 (1.03%) IBM
16 22 (1.03%) Pure Storage
17 21 (0.98%) Foundry