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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,415 1,400 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.26% 5.05% 4.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.60% 20.26% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,684 972 999
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £718 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 8 10
10th Percentile £57.25 £46.68 £44.75
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £55.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -10.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £84.02 £67.49 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.46% -21.79%

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 9,819 6,909 8,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.39% 24.90% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,469 4,744 5,564
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
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 265 166 183
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.43 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +4 1,261 £550 +4.76% 1,259
North of England +9 508 £500 -2.68% 311
Yorkshire -3 233 £513 - 102
South East -3 218 £560 +11.89% 222
North West +26 195 £550 +4.76% 162
South West +5 183 £556 -4.96% 173
Midlands -18 130 £500 -6.28% 110
West Midlands -20 107 £519 -3.94% 59
North East -2 94 £425 -16.67% 49
East of England -10 50 £525 +5.00% 54
East Midlands -4 22 £425 -15.00% 51
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
1 119 (4.93%) Confluence
2 97 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 82 (3.40%) Apache
5 44 (1.82%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 24 (0.99%) nginx
8 12 (0.50%) SAS
9 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) IIS
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
14 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
15 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
16 2 (0.083%) CloudStack
16 2 (0.083%) PowerExchange
17 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
17 1 (0.041%) Traefik
17 1 (0.041%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.083%) 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 (0.083%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.083%) Endur
2 2 (0.083%) 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 1,381 (57.18%) AWS
2 1,219 (50.48%) Azure
3 668 (27.66%) GitHub
4 473 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
5 470 (19.46%) GCP
6 442 (18.30%) Azure DevOps
7 368 (15.24%) Serverless
8 285 (11.80%) Amazon S3
9 272 (11.26%) AWS Lambda
10 261 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 217 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
12 195 (8.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 176 (7.29%) Entra ID
14 165 (6.83%) Azure AKS
15 149 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
16 147 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
17 138 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 125 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
19 119 (4.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 94 (3.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 279 (11.55%) Firewall
2 205 (8.49%) DNS
3 132 (5.47%) VPN
4 112 (4.64%) Network Security
5 88 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 83 (3.44%) DHCP
7 78 (3.23%) WAN
8 66 (2.73%) BGP
9 47 (1.95%) OSPF
10 45 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 40 (1.66%) VLAN
12 35 (1.45%) VXLAN
13 31 (1.28%) VSAN
14 29 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (1.04%) SSH
16 24 (0.99%) BIG-IP
16 24 (0.99%) SSL
17 18 (0.75%) Internet
18 16 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
4 76 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
6 74 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.02%) Data Lake
7 73 (3.02%) DynamoDB
8 72 (2.98%) Power BI
9 67 (2.77%) MongoDB
10 63 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 60 (2.48%) BigQuery
12 49 (2.03%) Delta Lake
13 47 (1.95%) Redis
14 46 (1.90%) Relational Database
15 43 (1.78%) MySQL
16 41 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
17 40 (1.66%) Metadata
18 39 (1.61%) Oracle Database
19 33 (1.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 447 (18.51%) GitLab
2 391 (16.19%) Jenkins
3 354 (14.66%) Git
4 150 (6.21%) JIRA
5 45 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.28%) Maven
7 30 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.99%) Artifactory
8 24 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 17 (0.70%) Selenium
11 16 (0.66%) MLflow
11 16 (0.66%) Snyk
11 16 (0.66%) Terragrunt
12 13 (0.54%) JUnit
13 12 (0.50%) MSI
14 10 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.41%) Gatling
14 10 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 473 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 358 (14.82%) Public Sector
3 316 (13.08%) Finance
4 143 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (3.89%) Banking
6 69 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.07%) Retail
9 32 (1.33%) Military
10 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 22 (0.91%) Legal
12 20 (0.83%) Publishing
12 20 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 16 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.62%) Law
14 15 (0.62%) Local Government
15 13 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 523 (21.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 427 (17.68%) Senior
3 268 (11.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 234 (9.69%) Azure Engineer
5 230 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 220 (9.11%) AWS Engineer
7 216 (8.94%) Architect
7 216 (8.94%) Developer
8 207 (8.57%) Lead
9 171 (7.08%) Data Engineer
10 167 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 103 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 96 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 96 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
14 95 (3.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 92 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 85 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
17 80 (3.31%) Network Engineer
18 76 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (7.70%) Kafka
2 158 (6.54%) REST
3 120 (4.97%) .NET
4 112 (4.64%) React
5 97 (4.02%) ARM Templates
6 96 (3.98%) Node.js
7 91 (3.77%) PySpark
8 86 (3.56%) RESTful
9 80 (3.31%) OAuth
10 78 (3.23%) YAML
11 61 (2.53%) Spring
12 57 (2.36%) Spring Boot
13 56 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
14 52 (2.15%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.07%) OpenID
16 49 (2.03%) JSON
17 46 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
18 42 (1.74%) HTML
19 37 (1.53%) AWS CDK
19 37 (1.53%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 567 (23.48%) Cloud Native
2 151 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 111 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.06%) Data Centre
5 82 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 71 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 69 (2.86%) Security Posture
9 54 (2.24%) PKI
10 51 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 50 (2.07%) Replication
12 46 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.45%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.41%) NHS
17 32 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
17 32 (1.33%) Management Information System
18 25 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 430 (17.81%) Linux
2 248 (10.27%) Windows
3 88 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 83 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 34 (1.41%) Unix
7 32 (1.33%) VMS
8 20 (0.83%) AIX
9 15 (0.62%) CentOS
10 11 (0.46%) 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 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.083%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,762 (72.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,626 (67.33%) CI/CD
3 1,401 (58.01%) DevOps
4 608 (25.18%) Agile
5 588 (24.35%) Containerisation
6 583 (24.14%) Observability
7 556 (23.02%) Platform Engineering
8 397 (16.44%) AI
9 316 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 296 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
11 295 (12.22%) Migration
11 295 (12.22%) Test Automation
12 292 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 280 (11.59%) Software Engineering
14 276 (11.43%) Cloud Security
15 272 (11.26%) DevSecOps
16 266 (11.01%) Analytics
17 258 (10.68%) Infrastructure Automation
18 240 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 234 (9.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,160 (48.03%) Python
2 465 (19.25%) PowerShell
3 450 (18.63%) Bash
4 371 (15.36%) SQL
5 278 (11.51%) Java
6 276 (11.43%) Bicep
7 142 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 139 (5.76%) C#
9 125 (5.18%) TypeScript
10 76 (3.15%) Go
11 51 (2.11%) Groovy
12 50 (2.07%) Scala
13 42 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.58%) Perl
15 12 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.50%) Ruby
16 11 (0.46%) Rust
17 10 (0.41%) R
18 9 (0.37%) C
18 9 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 881 (36.48%) Security Cleared
2 716 (29.65%) SC Cleared
3 188 (7.78%) DV Cleared
4 169 (7.00%) Azure Certification
5 141 (5.84%) AWS Certification
6 100 (4.14%) Degree
7 62 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 52 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 46 (1.90%) CISSP
11 41 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (1.24%) CCNP
13 21 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (0.75%) VCAP
15 17 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 16 (0.66%) CISM
17 14 (0.58%) CCNA
18 13 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 86 (3.56%) QA
3 55 (2.28%) NIST
4 54 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 49 (2.03%) GDPR
5 49 (2.03%) NCSC
6 22 (0.91%) WCAG
7 19 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.54%) SLA
9 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.25%) HL7
12 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.21%) GRC
12 5 (0.21%) PSD2
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 664 (27.49%) Docker
2 154 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 120 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 49 (2.03%) Hyper-V
7 46 (1.90%) vSphere
8 45 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 29 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.62%) Squid
12 9 (0.37%) KVM
13 8 (0.33%) Firmware
14 7 (0.29%) NFS
15 6 (0.25%) Ceph
16 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
16 5 (0.21%) Postfix
17 3 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
17 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 954 (39.50%) Kubernetes
2 581 (24.06%) Ansible
3 298 (12.34%) Grafana
4 247 (10.23%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.64%) Argo
6 62 (2.57%) Puppet
7 52 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.66%) Packer
9 36 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.28%) Istio
11 29 (1.20%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.83%) Kustomize
13 20 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.79%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.79%) Kibana
15 17 (0.70%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.62%) Kubeflow
16 15 (0.62%) Podman
17 14 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 441 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 199 (8.24%) Google
3 157 (6.50%) VMware
4 138 (5.71%) Databricks
5 137 (5.67%) Splunk
6 107 (4.43%) Oracle
7 78 (3.23%) Dynatrace
8 75 (3.11%) Cisco
8 75 (3.11%) Red Hat
9 73 (3.02%) ServiceNow
10 60 (2.48%) Palo Alto
11 43 (1.78%) F5
12 37 (1.53%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.41%) Arista
14 32 (1.33%) Informatica
15 29 (1.20%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.20%) Zscaler
16 25 (1.04%) Foundry
17 24 (0.99%) CyberArk
18 22 (0.91%) Aruba