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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,016 1,240 1,239
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.97% 5.09% 3.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.53% 32.73% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 902 917
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 5,519 3,788 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.60% 15.54% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,821 2,622 3,163
10th Percentile £319 £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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1,080 £531 -5.97% 301
North of England +15 385 £500 -4.76% 143
Yorkshire +11 206 £488 -7.14% 32
South East -7 156 £513 -1.20% 152
Midlands -3 143 £525 -2.78% 48
North West +22 139 £547 +4.14% 70
South West -8 127 £563 -8.54% 71
West Midlands +1 116 £531 -5.73% 29
North East -7 48 £475 -9.52% 41
East of England -31 40 £475 -7.32% 32
East Midlands -23 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 82 (4.07%) Apache Spark
1 82 (4.07%) Confluence
2 57 (2.83%) Apache
3 47 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.04%) nginx
6 15 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.099%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.099%) CMS
11 2 (0.099%) Drupal
11 2 (0.099%) Traefik
11 2 (0.099%) 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 (0.099%) 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 1,069 (53.03%) AWS
2 988 (49.01%) Azure
3 568 (28.17%) GitHub
4 406 (20.14%) GCP
5 373 (18.50%) GitHub Actions
6 349 (17.31%) Serverless
7 348 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
8 317 (15.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 256 (12.70%) Amazon S3
10 248 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
11 195 (9.67%) Amazon EKS
12 150 (7.44%) Azure AKS
13 141 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
15 138 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
16 133 (6.60%) OpenShift
17 123 (6.10%) Azure Monitor
18 119 (5.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 117 (5.80%) Entra ID
20 115 (5.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 198 (9.82%) Firewall
2 131 (6.50%) DNS
3 114 (5.65%) VPN
4 98 (4.86%) Network Security
5 53 (2.63%) WAN
6 40 (1.98%) BGP
7 35 (1.74%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.69%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.39%) OSPF
10 21 (1.04%) VXLAN
11 20 (0.99%) DHCP
12 19 (0.94%) LAN
13 18 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
14 17 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
15 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 13 (0.64%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.64%) SAN
16 13 (0.64%) SSL
17 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
18 10 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (4.07%) Data Lake
4 79 (3.92%) Power BI
5 74 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (3.32%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.88%) BigQuery
8 53 (2.63%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.53%) DynamoDB
10 50 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.38%) Delta Lake
12 47 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 46 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
14 45 (2.23%) MongoDB
15 33 (1.64%) Redis
15 33 (1.64%) Relational Database
16 31 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (1.44%) Big Data
18 28 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
19 24 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 372 (18.45%) Jenkins
2 326 (16.17%) GitLab
3 277 (13.74%) Git
4 115 (5.70%) JIRA
5 45 (2.23%) Artifactory
6 32 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.34%) Maven
8 25 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 18 (0.89%) MLflow
10 16 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.69%) Liquibase
11 14 (0.69%) 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
1 362 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 285 (14.14%) Public Sector
3 218 (10.81%) Finance
4 97 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (4.17%) Banking
6 55 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (0.99%) Retail
9 19 (0.94%) Legal
10 15 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (0.64%) 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
1 438 (21.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 296 (14.68%) Senior
3 230 (11.41%) Architect
4 200 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 198 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
6 184 (9.13%) Developer
7 169 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
7 169 (8.38%) Data Engineer
8 160 (7.94%) Lead
9 142 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
10 111 (5.51%) GCP Engineer
10 111 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 108 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 94 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
13 86 (4.27%) Site Engineer
14 84 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 74 (3.67%) Software Engineer
16 69 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 64 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 64 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.73%) Kafka
2 121 (6.00%) Node.js
3 104 (5.16%) .NET
3 104 (5.16%) React
4 100 (4.96%) REST
5 78 (3.87%) PySpark
6 72 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 71 (3.52%) RESTful
8 69 (3.42%) ARM Templates
8 69 (3.42%) Spring
9 66 (3.27%) OAuth
10 65 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
11 62 (3.08%) Spring Boot
12 54 (2.68%) YAML
13 52 (2.58%) AngularJS
14 50 (2.48%) OpenID
15 40 (1.98%) AWS CDK
15 40 (1.98%) OAuth2
16 35 (1.74%) JSON
17 27 (1.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 415 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (3.82%) Data Centre
5 73 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 49 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 40 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.54%) PKI
10 30 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.34%) Replication
12 26 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 24 (1.19%) NHS
13 24 (1.19%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (0.99%) AI Agents
16 19 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.79%) Clustering
18 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 318 (15.77%) Linux
2 154 (7.64%) Windows
3 46 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (2.18%) VMS
5 29 (1.44%) Unix
6 14 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.45%) CentOS
8 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.099%) Debian
12 2 (0.099%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.099%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.050%) Android
13 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.050%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,350 (66.96%) CI/CD
2 1,321 (65.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,201 (59.57%) DevOps
4 500 (24.80%) Containerisation
5 449 (22.27%) Agile
6 402 (19.94%) Observability
7 321 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
8 272 (13.49%) Migration
9 254 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
10 247 (12.25%) Analytics
11 244 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 237 (11.76%) AI
13 214 (10.62%) Microservices
14 211 (10.47%) Software Engineering
15 208 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 205 (10.17%) Test Automation
17 188 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
18 187 (9.28%) Cloud Security
19 184 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 182 (9.03%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 913 (45.29%) Python
2 329 (16.32%) SQL
3 285 (14.14%) PowerShell
4 283 (14.04%) Bash
5 238 (11.81%) Java
6 180 (8.93%) Bicep
7 124 (6.15%) JavaScript
8 116 (5.75%) C#
8 116 (5.75%) TypeScript
9 89 (4.41%) Go
10 51 (2.53%) Scala
11 42 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.69%) Groovy
13 31 (1.54%) Ruby
14 14 (0.69%) Rust
15 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.40%) R
16 7 (0.35%) C
16 7 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 718 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 599 (29.71%) SC Cleared
3 140 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 118 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 109 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 75 (3.72%) Degree
7 63 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.39%) CCNP
13 25 (1.24%) CISSP
14 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.69%) CCNA
16 14 (0.69%) OCP
17 13 (0.64%) CISM
17 13 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 65 (3.22%) GDPR
3 63 (3.13%) QA
4 51 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.48%) NIST
6 35 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.69%) NCSC
8 20 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) 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
1 547 (27.13%) Docker
2 90 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.88%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.34%) vSphere
8 23 (1.14%) 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 (0.099%) Ceph
13 2 (0.099%) HDFS
13 2 (0.099%) iptables
Systems Management
1 803 (39.83%) Kubernetes
2 492 (24.40%) Ansible
3 272 (13.49%) Grafana
4 233 (11.56%) Prometheus
5 81 (4.02%) Argo
6 49 (2.43%) Puppet
7 46 (2.28%) Istio
8 36 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.39%) Packer
10 24 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.14%) Kibana
11 23 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.84%) FortiGate
13 17 (0.84%) Rancher
14 16 (0.79%) Consul
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
15 11 (0.55%) Podman
16 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 320 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 181 (8.98%) Google
3 134 (6.65%) Databricks
4 121 (6.00%) Splunk
5 111 (5.51%) VMware
6 85 (4.22%) Red Hat
7 66 (3.27%) Oracle
8 57 (2.83%) Dynatrace
9 53 (2.63%) ServiceNow
10 43 (2.13%) Cisco
11 34 (1.69%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.34%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.24%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.14%) F5
14 23 (1.14%) IBM
15 21 (1.04%) Arista
16 19 (0.94%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.89%) Zscaler
18 17 (0.84%) Citrix
19 16 (0.79%) SolarWinds