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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,439 1,429 1,398
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.28% 5.14% 4.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.87% 20.24% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,691 985 995
10th Percentile £402 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £557
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.75% -5.19%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £732
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £43.63 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -26.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £84.02 £61.63 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.13 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,806 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,437 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 169 179
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £51.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +3 1,286 £550 +4.76% 1,401
North of England +5 507 £500 -0.10% 333
Yorkshire -5 239 £510 -0.49% 94
South East -6 220 £572 +14.40% 292
South West +7 186 £550 - 190
North West +19 182 £575 +15.00% 185
Midlands -29 121 £488 -11.36% 135
North East -4 98 £425 -15.00% 55
West Midlands -33 96 £513 -6.82% 87
East of England -15 50 £537 +11.33% 64
East Midlands -4 24 £413 -15.38% 48
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
1 107 (4.39%) Confluence
2 102 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (4.02%) Apache Spark
4 85 (3.49%) Apache
5 47 (1.93%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.64%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.15%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
13 5 (0.21%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.082%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.082%) PowerExchange
15 2 (0.082%) Traefik
16 1 (0.041%) MQSeries
16 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.041%) Houdini
5 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.041%) NUKE
5 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.082%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.082%) Endur
2 2 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,394 (57.15%) AWS
2 1,222 (50.10%) Azure
3 662 (27.14%) GitHub
4 495 (20.30%) GCP
5 470 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
6 436 (17.88%) Azure DevOps
7 352 (14.43%) Serverless
8 281 (11.52%) Amazon S3
9 260 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
10 248 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 224 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
12 202 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 200 (8.20%) Entra ID
14 167 (6.85%) Azure AKS
15 153 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
16 149 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
17 140 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 131 (5.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 125 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
20 103 (4.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 273 (11.19%) Firewall
2 196 (8.04%) DNS
3 131 (5.37%) VPN
4 118 (4.84%) Network Security
5 89 (3.65%) TCP/IP
6 82 (3.36%) DHCP
7 76 (3.12%) WAN
8 66 (2.71%) BGP
9 48 (1.97%) OSPF
10 45 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.76%) VLAN
12 31 (1.27%) VSAN
13 30 (1.23%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.03%) SSH
17 24 (0.98%) BIG-IP
17 24 (0.98%) SSL
18 17 (0.70%) Internet
18 17 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 83 (3.40%) Data Lake
5 77 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
6 75 (3.08%) DynamoDB
7 73 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 71 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 67 (2.75%) MongoDB
9 67 (2.75%) Power BI
10 66 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 65 (2.67%) BigQuery
12 50 (2.05%) Redis
13 49 (2.01%) MySQL
14 48 (1.97%) Relational Database
15 45 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
15 45 (1.85%) Delta Lake
16 43 (1.76%) Metadata
17 37 (1.52%) Big Data
18 33 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 466 (19.11%) GitLab
2 393 (16.11%) Jenkins
3 371 (15.21%) Git
4 134 (5.49%) JIRA
5 45 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.39%) Maven
7 30 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (0.90%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.82%) Claude Code
10 20 (0.82%) Snyk
11 18 (0.74%) Selenium
12 17 (0.70%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.53%) MLflow
15 12 (0.49%) JUnit
15 12 (0.49%) MSI
16 9 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 490 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 358 (14.68%) Public Sector
3 339 (13.90%) Finance
4 152 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (4.18%) Banking
6 72 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (2.05%) Retail
8 49 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (1.48%) Military
10 24 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 19 (0.78%) Publishing
11 19 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 18 (0.74%) Law
12 18 (0.74%) Legal
13 16 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (0.66%) Local Government
14 14 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.53%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 535 (21.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 439 (18.00%) Senior
3 264 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 237 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
5 225 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
6 224 (9.18%) Developer
7 222 (9.10%) AWS Engineer
8 215 (8.82%) Architect
9 207 (8.49%) Lead
10 179 (7.34%) Data Engineer
11 159 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
13 101 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
14 100 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 100 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 97 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 97 (3.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 88 (3.61%) GCP Engineer
17 86 (3.53%) Security Engineer
18 85 (3.49%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (7.75%) Kafka
2 167 (6.85%) REST
3 118 (4.84%) .NET
4 111 (4.55%) React
5 107 (4.39%) ARM Templates
6 96 (3.94%) Node.js
7 95 (3.90%) PySpark
7 95 (3.90%) RESTful
8 91 (3.73%) OAuth
9 80 (3.28%) YAML
10 62 (2.54%) OAuth2
10 62 (2.54%) OpenID
10 62 (2.54%) Spring
11 61 (2.50%) Spring Boot
12 58 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
13 53 (2.17%) JSON
14 41 (1.68%) HTML
14 41 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
15 37 (1.52%) AWS CDK
16 36 (1.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 574 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 145 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 111 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (4.18%) Data Centre
5 89 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 87 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 82 (3.36%) Security Posture
8 75 (3.08%) Public Cloud
9 55 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.26%) PKI
10 52 (2.13%) Replication
11 51 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 50 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
13 48 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
15 39 (1.60%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
17 33 (1.35%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.35%) NHS
18 27 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 442 (18.12%) Linux
2 245 (10.05%) Windows
3 87 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.64%) Unix
6 39 (1.60%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.23%) VMS
8 19 (0.78%) AIX
9 18 (0.74%) CentOS
10 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.082%) Android
16 2 (0.082%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.082%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,796 (73.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,659 (68.02%) CI/CD
3 1,398 (57.32%) DevOps
4 614 (25.17%) Observability
5 608 (24.93%) Agile
6 602 (24.68%) Containerisation
7 559 (22.92%) Platform Engineering
8 416 (17.06%) AI
9 334 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 307 (12.59%) Migration
11 303 (12.42%) Software Engineering
12 298 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
13 297 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 294 (12.05%) Test Automation
15 289 (11.85%) Cloud Security
16 288 (11.81%) DevSecOps
17 275 (11.28%) Analytics
18 266 (10.91%) Infrastructure Automation
19 253 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
20 245 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,198 (49.12%) Python
2 476 (19.52%) PowerShell
3 454 (18.61%) Bash
4 371 (15.21%) SQL
5 287 (11.77%) Java
6 282 (11.56%) Bicep
7 142 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 132 (5.41%) C#
9 129 (5.29%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.40%) Go
11 52 (2.13%) Groovy
11 52 (2.13%) Scala
12 45 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.57%) Perl
15 12 (0.49%) C
16 10 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.41%) R
16 10 (0.41%) Ruby
16 10 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 886 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 716 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 197 (8.08%) DV Cleared
4 175 (7.18%) Azure Certification
5 154 (6.31%) AWS Certification
6 103 (4.22%) Degree
7 62 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 53 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (2.01%) CISSP
12 42 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.19%) CCNP
14 20 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.70%) CISM
17 15 (0.62%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.73%) QA
3 54 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (2.13%) NCSC
5 51 (2.09%) NIST
6 50 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.76%) GDPR
8 24 (0.98%) WCAG
9 19 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.45%) SLA
10 11 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.25%) PSD2
14 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.21%) HL7
14 5 (0.21%) SEPA
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 681 (27.92%) Docker
2 168 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 111 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 44 (1.80%) vSphere
8 37 (1.52%) VMware NSX
9 33 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.62%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.21%) Firmware
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 988 (40.51%) Kubernetes
2 589 (24.15%) Ansible
3 304 (12.46%) Grafana
4 243 (9.96%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.24%) Argo
6 63 (2.58%) Puppet
7 55 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 46 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.64%) Packer
10 27 (1.11%) Istio
10 27 (1.11%) vCenter Server
11 26 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.90%) Kibana
12 22 (0.90%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
14 17 (0.70%) Data Guard
14 17 (0.70%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.70%) Kubeflow
15 15 (0.62%) Podman
15 15 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 464 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 212 (8.69%) Google
3 152 (6.23%) VMware
4 139 (5.70%) Databricks
5 138 (5.66%) Splunk
6 102 (4.18%) Oracle
7 86 (3.53%) Dynatrace
8 85 (3.49%) Cisco
9 76 (3.12%) ServiceNow
10 69 (2.83%) Red Hat
11 66 (2.71%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.64%) F5
13 38 (1.56%) OpenAI
14 35 (1.44%) Arista
15 34 (1.39%) Zscaler
16 32 (1.31%) Fortinet
17 29 (1.19%) Informatica
18 27 (1.11%) CyberArk
19 26 (1.07%) Okta
20 24 (0.98%) Foundry