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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 41 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,726 1,438 1,629
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.61% 4.62% 4.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.85% 32.64% 29.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 984 1,253
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -7.02%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £656
90th Percentile £713 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 20
10th Percentile £46.20 £26.63 £60.00
25th Percentile £57.13 £46.25 £70.03
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -15.07% +1.53%
75th Percentile £83.00 £74.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £87.20 £76.89 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £75.77
% change year-on-year -3.85% -14.21% +20.26%

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 4,952 4,406 5,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.11% 14.15% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 2,819 3,970
10th Percentile £310 £313 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £744
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 60 161
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.05 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.66 £23.80 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.08 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -26.14% +78.10%
75th Percentile £66.63 £60.63 £71.90
90th Percentile £80.90 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £31.86 £27.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year +18.00% -44.21% +88.25%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +1 897 £525 -12.50% 320
North of England +2 348 £515 +3.00% 98
Yorkshire +2 203 £513 +16.48% 30
Midlands +19 135 £539 +2.57% 63
South East -4 130 £500 -14.53% 235
South West +18 126 £555 -3.48% 87
West Midlands +10 117 £550 +4.76% 33
North West -10 99 £525 -4.55% 53
North East +10 49 £488 -16.67% 15
East of England -17 35 £475 -9.52% 22
East Midlands +3 18 £450 -21.77% 28
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 85 (4.92%) Confluence
2 57 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (2.49%) Apache
4 42 (2.43%) nginx
5 41 (2.38%) Apache Spark
6 23 (1.33%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.12%) FileNet
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Endur
2 3 (0.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.058%) Actimize
4 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,044 (60.49%) AWS
2 682 (39.51%) Azure
3 469 (27.17%) GitHub
4 316 (18.31%) GCP
5 295 (17.09%) GitHub Actions
6 290 (16.80%) Serverless
7 282 (16.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 253 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
9 234 (13.56%) Amazon S3
10 179 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
11 163 (9.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 161 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
13 139 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
14 127 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 120 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
16 103 (5.97%) Entra ID
17 99 (5.74%) Azure AKS
18 95 (5.50%) OpenShift
19 88 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 76 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 174 (10.08%) Firewall
2 136 (7.88%) DNS
3 87 (5.04%) VPN
4 74 (4.29%) Network Security
5 58 (3.36%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.20%) SSL
7 36 (2.09%) HTTP
8 33 (1.91%) WAN
9 31 (1.80%) DHCP
10 26 (1.51%) BGP
11 25 (1.45%) LAN
12 24 (1.39%) SMTP
12 24 (1.39%) SSH
13 23 (1.33%) SD-WAN
14 22 (1.27%) FTP
15 21 (1.22%) OSPF
16 14 (0.81%) MPLS
16 14 (0.81%) VXLAN
17 12 (0.70%) IMAP
17 12 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (7.47%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 65 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 50 (2.90%) Data Lake
6 49 (2.84%) DynamoDB
7 39 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 39 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (2.09%) Relational Database
10 31 (1.80%) Power BI
11 30 (1.74%) Redis
12 29 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (1.45%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.39%) MySQL
14 24 (1.39%) SQL Server
15 15 (0.87%) Big Data
15 15 (0.87%) Metadata
15 15 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 412 (23.87%) Jenkins
2 359 (20.80%) GitLab
3 257 (14.89%) Git
4 122 (7.07%) JIRA
5 55 (3.19%) SonarQube
6 39 (2.26%) Artifactory
7 37 (2.14%) Liquibase
8 36 (2.09%) CircleCI
9 32 (1.85%) Maven
10 30 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (1.45%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.39%) Gradle
13 23 (1.33%) Vagrant
14 18 (1.04%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.75%) Selenium
15 13 (0.75%) Snyk
16 11 (0.64%) JUnit
17 10 (0.58%) MLflow
17 10 (0.58%) TeamCity
18 9 (0.52%) Robot Framework
General
1 422 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 282 (16.34%) Public Sector
3 225 (13.04%) Finance
4 116 (6.72%) Banking
5 94 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (2.43%) Financial Institution
7 27 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (1.22%) Military
11 20 (1.16%) Retail
11 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.64%) Marketing
14 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.52%) Publishing
15 8 (0.46%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 402 (23.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 231 (13.38%) Senior
3 223 (12.92%) AWS Engineer
4 200 (11.59%) Architect
5 167 (9.68%) Developer
6 159 (9.21%) Platform Engineer
7 142 (8.23%) Lead
8 134 (7.76%) AWS DevOps
9 124 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 116 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
11 111 (6.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 92 (5.33%) Software Engineer
13 90 (5.21%) Data Engineer
14 81 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 74 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 67 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
17 59 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
18 57 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 54 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 52 (3.01%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (9.04%) Kafka
2 110 (6.37%) Node.js
3 108 (6.26%) REST
4 105 (6.08%) RESTful
5 100 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
6 99 (5.74%) React
7 72 (4.17%) .NET
8 66 (3.82%) ARM Templates
9 56 (3.24%) OAuth
10 54 (3.13%) Spring Boot
10 54 (3.13%) YAML
11 49 (2.84%) Spring
12 43 (2.49%) AngularJS
13 42 (2.43%) AWS CDK
14 34 (1.97%) Keycloak
14 34 (1.97%) OAuth2
15 32 (1.85%) OpenID
16 29 (1.68%) FastAPI
17 27 (1.56%) PySpark
17 27 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 296 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.23%) Public Cloud
4 67 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 58 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.32%) Replication
7 38 (2.20%) NHS
8 37 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 33 (1.91%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (1.56%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.39%) PKI
13 23 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.87%) AI Agents
17 13 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
18 12 (0.70%) Management Information System
19 11 (0.64%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 349 (20.22%) Linux
2 147 (8.52%) Windows
3 57 (3.30%) Unix
4 49 (2.84%) VMS
5 45 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (2.55%) Windows Server
7 27 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
8 21 (1.22%) CentOS
9 20 (1.16%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.46%) Solaris
10 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.12%) zOS
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) MVS
14 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,136 (65.82%) CI/CD
2 1,089 (63.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,069 (61.94%) DevOps
4 470 (27.23%) Containerisation
5 424 (24.57%) Agile
6 258 (14.95%) Microservices
7 257 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 246 (14.25%) Observability
9 234 (13.56%) Platform Engineering
10 233 (13.50%) Infrastructure Automation
11 223 (12.92%) Migration
12 208 (12.05%) Software Engineering
13 177 (10.25%) Test Automation
14 162 (9.39%) Cloud Security
15 161 (9.33%) DevSecOps
16 157 (9.10%) Mentoring
17 154 (8.92%) High Availability
18 150 (8.69%) AI
19 144 (8.34%) Analytics
20 136 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 867 (50.23%) Python
2 290 (16.80%) Bash
3 238 (13.79%) Java
4 236 (13.67%) PowerShell
5 224 (12.98%) SQL
6 159 (9.21%) Go
7 108 (6.26%) TypeScript
8 107 (6.20%) JavaScript
9 105 (6.08%) Bicep
10 81 (4.69%) C#
11 49 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 42 (2.43%) Groovy
13 27 (1.56%) Perl
14 18 (1.04%) Ruby
15 14 (0.81%) C++
15 14 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.75%) PHP
16 13 (0.75%) Scala
17 10 (0.58%) C
18 7 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 586 (33.95%) Security Cleared
2 487 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 126 (7.30%) AWS Certification
4 111 (6.43%) Degree
5 95 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 93 (5.39%) Azure Certification
7 71 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (2.84%) Master's Degree
9 46 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.22%) CISSP
14 20 (1.16%) CCIE
15 19 (1.10%) CCNP
16 18 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.70%) JNCIE
18 10 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 8 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 8 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.94%) GDPR
2 64 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.95%) NIST
4 49 (2.84%) QA
5 40 (2.32%) Data Quality
6 39 (2.26%) NCSC
7 19 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.35%) SLA
12 5 (0.29%) GRC
12 5 (0.29%) HL7
12 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 598 (34.65%) Docker
2 117 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 80 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (1.91%) VMware NSX
5 33 (1.91%) vSphere
6 22 (1.27%) DFS Replication
7 14 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.75%) Squid
9 12 (0.70%) Dovecot
9 12 (0.70%) Postfix
10 11 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.41%) KVM
12 5 (0.29%) NFS
13 4 (0.23%) Lustre
13 4 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.17%) GPFS
14 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.12%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 728 (42.18%) Kubernetes
2 511 (29.61%) Ansible
3 290 (16.80%) Grafana
4 263 (15.24%) Prometheus
5 68 (3.94%) Puppet
6 60 (3.48%) Argo
7 54 (3.13%) Packer
8 40 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 37 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
10 31 (1.80%) Istio
11 24 (1.39%) Consul
12 22 (1.27%) vCenter Server
13 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 18 (1.04%) Podman
15 16 (0.93%) Nessus
15 16 (0.93%) Proxmox
16 13 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
16 13 (0.75%) Kibana
17 10 (0.58%) Rancher
18 9 (0.52%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 217 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 127 (7.36%) Google
3 124 (7.18%) Splunk
4 108 (6.26%) VMware
5 96 (5.56%) Databricks
6 66 (3.82%) F5
7 64 (3.71%) Red Hat
8 49 (2.84%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.72%) ServiceNow
10 46 (2.67%) Dynatrace
11 40 (2.32%) Cisco
12 35 (2.03%) Oracle
13 34 (1.97%) CheckPoint
14 23 (1.33%) OpenAI
15 22 (1.27%) IBM
16 21 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 21 (1.22%) Juniper
17 16 (0.93%) Dell
18 15 (0.87%) Pure Storage
19 14 (0.81%) Zscaler