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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 38 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 -21
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,885 1,344 1,318
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.32% 5.26% 3.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.24% 34.36% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 931 984
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
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 £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 16
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.25 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.81 £61.50
Median hourly rate £66.97 £44.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.49% -40.67% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £69.72 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £44.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +50.49% -40.67% -

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 5,349 3,911 4,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.11% 15.32% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,707 2,576 3,337
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 40 147
10th Percentile £18.88 £14.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.03 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.69% -35.00% -23.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.48 £78.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 1 March 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 1,004 £525 -12.50% 284
North of England +3 383 £500 -6.98% 189
Yorkshire +1 204 £500 -5.88% 66
South East -4 142 £500 -13.04% 238
Midlands +9 141 £538 +7.50% 75
North West -3 137 £525 -3.67% 96
South West -9 119 £550 -10.57% 116
West Midlands +7 117 £540 -2.00% 45
North East -7 45 £488 -11.36% 27
East Midlands -14 23 £438 -7.89% 30
East of England -43 20 £550 +37.50% 78
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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 65 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.08%) Apache
4 50 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.75%) nginx
6 23 (1.22%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.053%) InDesign
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.053%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) Actimize
4 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.053%) Endur
4 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (55.86%) AWS
2 834 (44.24%) Azure
3 532 (28.22%) GitHub
4 392 (20.80%) GCP
5 350 (18.57%) Serverless
6 331 (17.56%) GitHub Actions
7 322 (17.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 321 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
9 250 (13.26%) Amazon S3
10 222 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
11 188 (9.97%) Amazon EKS
12 158 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
13 144 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 137 (7.27%) OpenShift
14 137 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 133 (7.06%) Amazon ECS
16 125 (6.63%) Azure AKS
17 123 (6.53%) Entra ID
18 119 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
19 110 (5.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 189 (10.03%) Firewall
2 140 (7.43%) DNS
3 111 (5.89%) VPN
4 103 (5.46%) Network Security
5 51 (2.71%) TCP/IP
6 42 (2.23%) WAN
7 29 (1.54%) SD-WAN
8 28 (1.49%) BGP
8 28 (1.49%) DHCP
9 27 (1.43%) LAN
10 26 (1.38%) SSL
11 21 (1.11%) OSPF
12 16 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
13 13 (0.69%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
15 10 (0.53%) SAN
15 10 (0.53%) VLAN
16 9 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
16 9 (0.48%) HTTP
16 9 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (4.14%) Data Lake
4 71 (3.77%) Power BI
5 64 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 58 (3.08%) MongoDB
7 55 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
8 52 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (2.44%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.39%) SQL Server
12 42 (2.23%) DynamoDB
13 41 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.91%) Relational Database
15 34 (1.80%) Redis
16 33 (1.75%) Delta Lake
17 31 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (1.22%) Tableau
19 21 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
20 20 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 414 (21.96%) Jenkins
2 374 (19.84%) GitLab
3 257 (13.63%) Git
4 90 (4.77%) JIRA
5 45 (2.39%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.59%) Liquibase
8 27 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 25 (1.33%) Maven
10 24 (1.27%) CircleCI
11 18 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.80%) MLflow
13 12 (0.64%) Gradle
14 11 (0.58%) JUnit
14 11 (0.58%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.48%) Gatling
15 9 (0.48%) Selenium
15 9 (0.48%) Snyk
16 7 (0.37%) JMeter
16 7 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 399 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 299 (15.86%) Public Sector
3 207 (10.98%) Finance
4 99 (5.25%) Banking
5 97 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 20 (1.06%) Retail
11 18 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (0.90%) Military
13 11 (0.58%) Law
14 8 (0.42%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.37%) Legal
16 6 (0.32%) Billing
16 6 (0.32%) Marketing
16 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 436 (23.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 256 (13.58%) Senior
3 214 (11.35%) Architect
4 196 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
5 171 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 167 (8.86%) Lead
7 164 (8.70%) Developer
8 163 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
9 148 (7.85%) Platform Engineer
10 141 (7.48%) Data Engineer
11 112 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
12 105 (5.57%) GCP Engineer
13 100 (5.31%) Software Engineer
14 96 (5.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 94 (4.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 77 (4.08%) Site Engineer
17 74 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 70 (3.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 70 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
18 70 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (9.76%) Kafka
2 122 (6.47%) REST
3 121 (6.42%) Node.js
4 100 (5.31%) React
5 95 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
6 88 (4.67%) RESTful
7 84 (4.46%) .NET
8 80 (4.24%) ARM Templates
9 67 (3.55%) PySpark
10 66 (3.50%) OAuth
11 62 (3.29%) Spring
12 58 (3.08%) Spring Boot
13 51 (2.71%) OpenTelemetry
14 49 (2.60%) YAML
15 44 (2.33%) AngularJS
15 44 (2.33%) OpenID
16 37 (1.96%) OAuth2
17 32 (1.70%) AWS CDK
18 29 (1.54%) SAML
19 28 (1.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 342 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 107 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.40%) Data Centre
6 47 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 37 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.70%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.59%) Security Posture
10 29 (1.54%) NHS
11 28 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.49%) PKI
12 24 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.22%) Replication
14 19 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (0.80%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.74%) Clustering
17 13 (0.69%) AI Agents
17 13 (0.69%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 358 (18.99%) Linux
2 153 (8.12%) Windows
3 47 (2.49%) VMS
4 46 (2.44%) Unix
5 45 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.12%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.74%) CentOS
7 14 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.21%) CoreOS
10 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.16%) Solaris
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.053%) Android
13 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.053%) Rocky
13 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,294 (68.65%) CI/CD
2 1,201 (63.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,182 (62.71%) DevOps
4 499 (26.47%) Containerisation
5 394 (20.90%) Agile
6 354 (18.78%) Observability
7 268 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
8 262 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (13.79%) Migration
10 242 (12.84%) Microservices
11 234 (12.41%) Analytics
12 228 (12.10%) Infrastructure Automation
13 214 (11.35%) Software Engineering
14 207 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 205 (10.88%) AI
16 182 (9.66%) DevSecOps
17 180 (9.55%) Cloud Security
17 180 (9.55%) Test Automation
18 173 (9.18%) Mentoring
19 172 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 938 (49.76%) Python
2 308 (16.34%) Bash
3 288 (15.28%) SQL
4 252 (13.37%) PowerShell
5 212 (11.25%) Java
6 149 (7.90%) Bicep
7 127 (6.74%) Go
8 124 (6.58%) JavaScript
9 103 (5.46%) TypeScript
10 93 (4.93%) C#
11 51 (2.71%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.54%) Ruby
13 25 (1.33%) Groovy
14 24 (1.27%) Scala
15 15 (0.80%) Rust
16 8 (0.42%) PHP
17 7 (0.37%) C
18 6 (0.32%) C++
18 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 675 (35.81%) Security Cleared
2 557 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 136 (7.21%) AWS Certification
4 120 (6.37%) Azure Certification
5 108 (5.73%) DV Cleared
6 106 (5.62%) Degree
7 75 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 47 (2.49%) Master's Degree
10 46 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 41 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.64%) CISSP
14 26 (1.38%) CCNP
15 20 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 15 (0.80%) CCIE
16 15 (0.80%) CISM
17 13 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
18 11 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.46%) Data Quality
2 71 (3.77%) GDPR
3 62 (3.29%) QA
4 53 (2.81%) NIST
5 52 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (2.49%) NCSC
7 32 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.58%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.53%) SLA
12 7 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.21%) HL7
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 589 (31.25%) Docker
2 103 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (2.07%) vSphere
6 30 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 30 (1.59%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.53%) Squid
9 6 (0.32%) KVM
9 6 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.27%) Lustre
10 5 (0.27%) NFS
10 5 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.21%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) HDFS
13 1 (0.053%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.053%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 793 (42.07%) Kubernetes
2 513 (27.21%) Ansible
3 285 (15.12%) Grafana
4 247 (13.10%) Prometheus
5 73 (3.87%) Argo
6 47 (2.49%) Istio
7 40 (2.12%) Puppet
8 37 (1.96%) Packer
9 36 (1.91%) Progress Chef
10 34 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (1.43%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.11%) Consul
13 18 (0.95%) Kibana
14 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
14 16 (0.85%) Podman
15 13 (0.69%) Rancher
16 12 (0.64%) FortiGate
16 12 (0.64%) logstash
17 10 (0.53%) linkerd
18 9 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 282 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.34%) Google
3 139 (7.37%) Databricks
4 127 (6.74%) Splunk
5 115 (6.10%) VMware
6 84 (4.46%) Red Hat
7 52 (2.76%) Oracle
8 47 (2.49%) Dynatrace
9 41 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 37 (1.96%) F5
12 35 (1.86%) Cisco
13 29 (1.54%) IBM
13 29 (1.54%) Pure Storage
14 26 (1.38%) CheckPoint
15 23 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.06%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.01%) SolarWinds
18 17 (0.90%) Zscaler
19 16 (0.85%) OpenAI