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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,392 1,386 1,368
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.22% 4.99% 4.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.10% 32.32% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 959 988
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 11
10th Percentile £56.60 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.19 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £81.46 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%

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 6,118 4,289 4,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.34% 15.43% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,156 2,855 3,199
10th Percentile £325 £301 £310
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.78%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £693 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +4.22% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 61 68
10th Percentile £20.73 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £43.98 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%
75th Percentile £73.19 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £82.91 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.31 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.85% +2.62% -37.63%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +3 1,239 £550 +0.92% 802
North of England +9 514 £500 -3.85% 223
Yorkshire -3 236 £500 -2.44% 55
South East -9 213 £560 +11.94% 177
North West +41 201 £575 +9.52% 134
South West +5 174 £550 -8.33% 124
Midlands -13 131 £519 -1.19% 63
West Midlands -24 107 £525 -2.23% 37
North East -4 91 £425 -18.27% 35
East of England -6 52 £525 +8.81% 34
East Midlands -10 22 £475 -2.56% 26
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
1 115 (4.81%) Confluence
2 93 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 80 (3.34%) Apache
5 41 (1.71%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.92%) nginx
8 13 (0.54%) SAS
9 12 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) IIS
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.21%) CMS
13 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.084%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
14 2 (0.084%) Traefik
15 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
15 1 (0.042%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,368 (57.19%) AWS
2 1,201 (50.21%) Azure
3 662 (27.68%) GitHub
4 479 (20.03%) GCP
5 463 (19.36%) GitHub Actions
6 430 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
7 351 (14.67%) Serverless
8 276 (11.54%) Amazon S3
9 269 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 258 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
11 218 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
12 189 (7.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 169 (7.07%) Entra ID
14 162 (6.77%) Azure AKS
15 147 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
16 142 (5.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 133 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
18 129 (5.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 122 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
20 94 (3.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 275 (11.50%) Firewall
2 203 (8.49%) DNS
3 134 (5.60%) VPN
4 107 (4.47%) Network Security
5 86 (3.60%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.30%) WAN
7 77 (3.22%) DHCP
8 68 (2.84%) BGP
9 47 (1.96%) OSPF
10 45 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.59%) VLAN
12 36 (1.51%) VXLAN
13 29 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 28 (1.17%) VSAN
15 26 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.05%) SSL
17 24 (1.00%) BIG-IP
18 22 (0.92%) SSH
19 18 (0.75%) Internet
20 17 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
4 83 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 72 (3.01%) Data Lake
5 72 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 67 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 66 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 66 (2.76%) Power BI
8 65 (2.72%) DynamoDB
9 64 (2.68%) BigQuery
10 60 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 49 (2.05%) Delta Lake
12 47 (1.96%) Redis
13 46 (1.92%) Relational Database
14 42 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
15 40 (1.67%) MySQL
16 38 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
17 37 (1.55%) Oracle Database
18 36 (1.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 435 (18.19%) GitLab
2 396 (16.56%) Jenkins
3 355 (14.84%) Git
4 146 (6.10%) JIRA
5 43 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.25%) Maven
8 25 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.75%) Snyk
11 17 (0.71%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.71%) MLflow
12 16 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.59%) Terragrunt
14 13 (0.54%) MSI
15 12 (0.50%) Selenium
16 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.46%) Gatling
16 11 (0.46%) JUnit
17 8 (0.33%) Mockito
General
1 446 (18.65%) Social Skills
2 357 (14.92%) Public Sector
3 312 (13.04%) Finance
4 140 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.85%) Banking
6 67 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.09%) Retail
9 26 (1.09%) Military
10 22 (0.92%) Legal
10 22 (0.92%) Publishing
11 21 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 15 (0.63%) Law
13 14 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.54%) Local Government
15 12 (0.50%) Billing
15 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 508 (21.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 428 (17.89%) Senior
3 274 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 221 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
5 220 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
6 218 (9.11%) AWS Engineer
7 214 (8.95%) Developer
8 213 (8.90%) Architect
9 209 (8.74%) Lead
10 165 (6.90%) Data Engineer
11 162 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.18%) GCP Engineer
13 100 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
14 98 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 96 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 96 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 86 (3.60%) Network Engineer
17 85 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (7.36%) Kafka
2 164 (6.86%) REST
3 120 (5.02%) .NET
4 115 (4.81%) React
5 96 (4.01%) Node.js
6 91 (3.80%) RESTful
7 87 (3.64%) PySpark
8 83 (3.47%) ARM Templates
9 78 (3.26%) OAuth
10 76 (3.18%) YAML
11 59 (2.47%) Spring
12 56 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (2.30%) Spring Boot
14 52 (2.17%) OAuth2
15 51 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
16 50 (2.09%) JSON
16 50 (2.09%) OpenID
17 44 (1.84%) HTML
18 39 (1.63%) AngularJS
19 38 (1.59%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 569 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 152 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.34%) Product Ownership
7 70 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 68 (2.84%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.22%) PKI
10 50 (2.09%) Replication
11 47 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.84%) AI Agents
14 43 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
15 35 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.46%) Private Cloud
16 33 (1.38%) NHS
17 29 (1.21%) Management Information System
18 24 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 426 (17.81%) Linux
2 249 (10.41%) Windows
3 87 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.30%) Unix
7 30 (1.25%) VMS
8 19 (0.79%) AIX
9 15 (0.63%) CentOS
10 12 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.084%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,713 (71.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,609 (67.27%) CI/CD
3 1,389 (58.07%) DevOps
4 587 (24.54%) Agile
5 574 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 555 (23.20%) Observability
7 526 (21.99%) Platform Engineering
8 374 (15.64%) AI
9 307 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 292 (12.21%) Migration
11 290 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 289 (12.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 284 (11.87%) Test Automation
14 268 (11.20%) Software Engineering
15 266 (11.12%) Cloud Security
16 259 (10.83%) Analytics
17 245 (10.24%) Infrastructure Automation
18 242 (10.12%) DevSecOps
19 236 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 231 (9.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (47.74%) Python
2 450 (18.81%) PowerShell
3 440 (18.39%) Bash
4 371 (15.51%) SQL
5 277 (11.58%) Java
6 258 (10.79%) Bicep
7 146 (6.10%) JavaScript
8 135 (5.64%) C#
9 128 (5.35%) TypeScript
10 76 (3.18%) Go
11 53 (2.22%) Scala
12 48 (2.01%) Groovy
13 37 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.67%) Rust
15 13 (0.54%) Ruby
16 12 (0.50%) Perl
16 12 (0.50%) R
17 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 866 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 701 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 185 (7.73%) DV Cleared
4 161 (6.73%) Azure Certification
5 136 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 93 (3.89%) Degree
7 65 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (1.71%) CISSP
12 38 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (1.30%) CCNP
14 19 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 15 (0.63%) VCAP
17 14 (0.59%) CCNA
18 13 (0.54%) CISM
19 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.18%) Data Quality
2 80 (3.34%) QA
3 52 (2.17%) GDPR
4 50 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.01%) NIST
6 46 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.92%) NCSC
7 21 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 21 (0.88%) WCAG
8 11 (0.46%) SLA
9 8 (0.33%) GRC
10 7 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.25%) HL7
12 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.21%) PSD2
12 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.084%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 644 (26.92%) Docker
2 153 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.92%) Hyper-V
7 45 (1.88%) vSphere
8 42 (1.76%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.59%) Squid
12 10 (0.42%) KVM
13 9 (0.38%) NFS
14 7 (0.29%) Firmware
15 6 (0.25%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 934 (39.05%) Kubernetes
2 564 (23.58%) Ansible
3 293 (12.25%) Grafana
4 248 (10.37%) Prometheus
5 89 (3.72%) Argo
6 62 (2.59%) Puppet
7 49 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.63%) Packer
9 36 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.46%) Istio
11 26 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.79%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.79%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.75%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.75%) Kibana
16 16 (0.67%) Podman
17 15 (0.63%) VxRail
18 14 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 422 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 214 (8.95%) Google
3 153 (6.40%) VMware
4 138 (5.77%) Splunk
5 131 (5.48%) Databricks
6 106 (4.43%) Oracle
7 81 (3.39%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.34%) Red Hat
9 75 (3.14%) ServiceNow
10 71 (2.97%) Cisco
11 60 (2.51%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.84%) F5
13 35 (1.46%) OpenAI
14 34 (1.42%) Arista
15 32 (1.34%) Fortinet
16 30 (1.25%) Informatica
16 30 (1.25%) Zscaler
17 24 (1.00%) CyberArk
17 24 (1.00%) Foundry
18 22 (0.92%) Aruba