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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,989 1,237 1,247
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.90% 5.09% 3.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.32% 32.62% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 896 928
10th Percentile £400 £403 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £750 £743
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 5,476 3,792 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 15.60% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 2,617 3,177
10th Percentile £313 £313 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 39 106
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.64 £22.60 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.00 £28.00 £25.74
Median % change year-on-year +103.57% +8.79% -53.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.33 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.30 £79.55 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.75 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +110.38% +2.85% -55.19%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 1,064 £530 -3.64% 257
North of England +16 390 £500 -4.76% 153
Yorkshire +14 206 £488 -7.14% 39
South East -10 156 £513 +2.40% 145
North West +25 141 £533 +1.48% 79
Midlands -5 137 £525 -2.51% 49
South West -10 118 £550 -10.57% 63
West Midlands -4 114 £525 -6.75% 30
North East -3 52 £488 -7.14% 35
East of England -18 40 £475 -5.00% 28
East Midlands -28 22 £450 -10.00% 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 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 80 (4.02%) Confluence
3 57 (2.87%) Apache
4 48 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.85%) nginx
7 14 (0.70%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 9 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.10%) CMS
13 2 (0.10%) Drupal
13 2 (0.10%) Traefik
13 2 (0.10%) 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 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (53.39%) AWS
2 977 (49.12%) Azure
3 572 (28.76%) GitHub
4 404 (20.31%) GCP
5 379 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 348 (17.50%) Serverless
7 340 (17.09%) Azure DevOps
8 298 (14.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 255 (12.82%) Amazon S3
10 250 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
11 195 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
12 142 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 140 (7.04%) Azure AKS
15 130 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
16 126 (6.33%) OpenShift
17 121 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 119 (5.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 118 (5.93%) Entra ID
20 114 (5.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 198 (9.95%) Firewall
2 129 (6.49%) DNS
3 111 (5.58%) VPN
4 98 (4.93%) Network Security
5 56 (2.82%) WAN
6 43 (2.16%) BGP
7 37 (1.86%) SD-WAN
8 36 (1.81%) TCP/IP
9 31 (1.56%) OSPF
10 24 (1.21%) VXLAN
11 21 (1.06%) DHCP
12 20 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
13 19 (0.96%) LAN
14 18 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
15 17 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.80%) BIG-IP
17 15 (0.75%) SAN
18 13 (0.65%) SSL
19 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
19 11 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (4.02%) Data Lake
4 79 (3.97%) Power BI
5 75 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
6 63 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 50 (2.51%) DynamoDB
9 49 (2.46%) Delta Lake
9 49 (2.46%) NoSQL
10 47 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 44 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 44 (2.21%) MongoDB
12 42 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (1.71%) Redis
14 32 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 32 (1.61%) Relational Database
15 29 (1.46%) Big Data
16 28 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
17 25 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 369 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 335 (16.84%) GitLab
3 271 (13.62%) Git
4 113 (5.68%) JIRA
5 43 (2.16%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.36%) Maven
8 24 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 16 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.75%) Snyk
13 12 (0.60%) Gatling
13 12 (0.60%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.45%) git-flow
15 9 (0.45%) JUnit
15 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
16 8 (0.40%) Gradle
17 7 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 340 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 278 (13.98%) Public Sector
3 213 (10.71%) Finance
4 94 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (4.32%) Banking
6 51 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.01%) Retail
9 19 (0.96%) Legal
10 12 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (0.60%) Military
11 11 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.45%) Law
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.30%) Front Office
17 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 433 (21.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 304 (15.28%) Senior
3 224 (11.26%) Architect
4 201 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 197 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (9.05%) Developer
7 167 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
8 165 (8.30%) Data Engineer
9 154 (7.74%) Lead
10 141 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
11 112 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (5.43%) GCP Engineer
13 107 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 89 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
15 82 (4.12%) Site Engineer
16 80 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 72 (3.62%) Software Engineer
18 67 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
18 67 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 66 (3.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.80%) Kafka
2 116 (5.83%) Node.js
3 102 (5.13%) .NET
4 101 (5.08%) React
5 100 (5.03%) REST
6 80 (4.02%) PySpark
7 71 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
8 69 (3.47%) Spring
9 67 (3.37%) RESTful
10 66 (3.32%) ARM Templates
10 66 (3.32%) OAuth
11 64 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
12 63 (3.17%) Spring Boot
13 57 (2.87%) YAML
14 49 (2.46%) AngularJS
15 48 (2.41%) OpenID
16 41 (2.06%) OAuth2
17 40 (2.01%) AWS CDK
18 38 (1.91%) JSON
19 28 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 414 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 88 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 78 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 74 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 50 (2.51%) Public Cloud
7 37 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.66%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (1.56%) PKI
10 29 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.46%) Replication
11 25 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.06%) NHS
13 20 (1.01%) AI Agents
14 19 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.80%) Clustering
16 14 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 300 (15.08%) Linux
2 145 (7.29%) Windows
3 44 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (2.11%) VMS
5 41 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.36%) Unix
7 14 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.50%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) Android
13 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,342 (67.47%) CI/CD
2 1,312 (65.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,196 (60.13%) DevOps
4 493 (24.79%) Containerisation
5 435 (21.87%) Agile
6 400 (20.11%) Observability
7 322 (16.19%) Platform Engineering
8 266 (13.37%) Migration
9 244 (12.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 241 (12.12%) Analytics
11 239 (12.02%) AI
12 238 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
13 204 (10.26%) Software Engineering
14 202 (10.16%) Microservices
15 201 (10.11%) Test Automation
16 198 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 185 (9.30%) Cloud Security
18 184 (9.25%) Infrastructure Automation
18 184 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 179 (9.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 905 (45.50%) Python
2 327 (16.44%) SQL
3 280 (14.08%) PowerShell
4 277 (13.93%) Bash
5 234 (11.76%) Java
6 175 (8.80%) Bicep
7 125 (6.28%) JavaScript
8 113 (5.68%) C#
9 112 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 88 (4.42%) Go
11 51 (2.56%) Scala
12 40 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.76%) Groovy
14 31 (1.56%) Ruby
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.40%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
18 6 (0.30%) C
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 704 (35.39%) Security Cleared
2 583 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 137 (6.89%) Azure Certification
4 117 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 103 (5.18%) AWS Certification
6 72 (3.62%) Degree
7 62 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.41%) CCNP
13 24 (1.21%) CISSP
14 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.70%) CCNA
15 14 (0.70%) OCP
15 14 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
16 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.60%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.18%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.17%) QA
3 62 (3.12%) GDPR
4 49 (2.46%) NIST
5 48 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.76%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.66%) NCSC
8 21 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.55%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.20%) HL7
15 4 (0.20%) PSD2
15 4 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 528 (26.55%) Docker
2 91 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 25 (1.26%) vSphere
8 21 (1.06%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.65%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
10 8 (0.40%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) Lustre
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.15%) GPFS
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) HDFS
14 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 780 (39.22%) Kubernetes
2 480 (24.13%) Ansible
3 265 (13.32%) Grafana
4 229 (11.51%) Prometheus
5 80 (4.02%) Argo
6 45 (2.26%) Istio
7 44 (2.21%) Puppet
8 35 (1.76%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.21%) Packer
10 23 (1.16%) Kibana
10 23 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.06%) vCenter Server
12 17 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (0.75%) Rancher
15 12 (0.60%) Consul
16 10 (0.50%) linkerd
16 10 (0.50%) Podman
17 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 307 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.20%) Google
3 126 (6.33%) Databricks
4 117 (5.88%) Splunk
5 106 (5.33%) VMware
6 81 (4.07%) Red Hat
7 64 (3.22%) Oracle
8 59 (2.97%) Dynatrace
9 55 (2.77%) ServiceNow
10 43 (2.16%) Cisco
11 37 (1.86%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.31%) F5
13 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.26%) Pure Storage
14 24 (1.21%) Arista
15 21 (1.06%) IBM
16 19 (0.96%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.90%) Zscaler
18 16 (0.80%) Aruba
19 15 (0.75%) Citrix