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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 36 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,025 1,271 1,231
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.11% 5.18% 3.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.70% 33.12% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 923 916
10th Percentile £400 £401 £423
25th Percentile £438 £475 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.00% -6.46%
75th Percentile £614 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.12% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 9
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.38 £43.65
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.25 £68.13 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.30 £78.58 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -12.50% -20.00%

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 5,517 3,838 4,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.92% 15.64% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,823 2,662 3,161
10th Percentile £319 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £419 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £695 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 35 121
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.65 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -9.17% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.75
% change year-on-year +107.94% -13.98% -46.52%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 1,094 £530 -7.83% 296
North of England +11 388 £500 -4.76% 150
Yorkshire +13 217 £500 -4.76% 31
South East -2 157 £500 -2.44% 118
Midlands -2 137 £525 -4.72% 42
North West +13 135 £525 +0.05% 82
South West -9 123 £550 -10.57% 71
West Midlands 0 110 £525 -8.70% 30
North East -9 43 £475 -9.09% 37
East of England -21 34 £475 -9.95% 42
East Midlands -24 26 £449 -10.30% 12
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 87 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 84 (4.15%) Confluence
3 63 (3.11%) Apache
4 59 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.73%) nginx
6 21 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.30%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.099%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.099%) CMS
12 2 (0.099%) Drupal
12 2 (0.099%) Traefik
12 2 (0.099%) 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 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.099%) Weka
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Maximo
2 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.049%) Actimize
4 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (53.78%) AWS
2 972 (48.00%) Azure
3 571 (28.20%) GitHub
4 405 (20.00%) GCP
5 371 (18.32%) Serverless
6 370 (18.27%) GitHub Actions
7 357 (17.63%) Azure DevOps
8 334 (16.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 277 (13.68%) Amazon S3
10 265 (13.09%) AWS Lambda
11 198 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
12 149 (7.36%) Amazon EC2
13 147 (7.26%) Azure AKS
14 145 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
15 137 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 137 (6.77%) OpenShift
16 124 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 123 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
18 119 (5.88%) Entra ID
19 117 (5.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 186 (9.19%) Firewall
2 137 (6.77%) DNS
3 112 (5.53%) VPN
4 101 (4.99%) Network Security
5 46 (2.27%) WAN
6 36 (1.78%) BGP
7 35 (1.73%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 26 (1.28%) DHCP
10 25 (1.23%) OSPF
11 24 (1.19%) LAN
12 19 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
12 19 (0.94%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.64%) SAN
14 12 (0.59%) SSL
14 12 (0.59%) VLAN
15 11 (0.54%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
17 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 9 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
3 87 (4.30%) Data Lake
4 77 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
5 76 (3.75%) Power BI
6 63 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.86%) BigQuery
8 56 (2.77%) NoSQL
9 55 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 54 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 51 (2.52%) MongoDB
12 49 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
13 47 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 46 (2.27%) Delta Lake
15 37 (1.83%) Relational Database
16 35 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
17 33 (1.63%) Redis
18 30 (1.48%) Tableau
19 28 (1.38%) Big Data
19 28 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 376 (18.57%) Jenkins
2 316 (15.60%) GitLab
3 281 (13.88%) Git
4 121 (5.98%) JIRA
5 47 (2.32%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.28%) Maven
9 19 (0.94%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.89%) MLflow
11 17 (0.84%) Gatling
12 15 (0.74%) Liquibase
12 15 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.59%) Snyk
14 11 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.44%) git-flow
15 9 (0.44%) JUnit
15 9 (0.44%) Terragrunt
16 7 (0.35%) Gradle
16 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 377 (18.62%) Social Skills
2 291 (14.37%) Public Sector
3 216 (10.67%) Finance
4 107 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (4.30%) Banking
6 57 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.04%) Retail
10 17 (0.84%) Legal
11 15 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.59%) Law
12 12 (0.59%) Military
13 11 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.44%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.35%) Publishing
17 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.30%) Front Office
18 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 437 (21.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 286 (14.12%) Senior
3 236 (11.65%) Architect
4 197 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
5 193 (9.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 184 (9.09%) Developer
7 182 (8.99%) AWS Engineer
8 168 (8.30%) Data Engineer
9 163 (8.05%) Lead
10 157 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
11 114 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
12 105 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 103 (5.09%) AWS DevOps
14 96 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 90 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 86 (4.25%) Site Engineer
17 84 (4.15%) Software Engineer
18 73 (3.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 70 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 63 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.33%) Kafka
2 128 (6.32%) Node.js
3 113 (5.58%) React
4 110 (5.43%) .NET
5 104 (5.14%) REST
6 80 (3.95%) PySpark
7 75 (3.70%) ARM Templates
8 70 (3.46%) OAuth
8 70 (3.46%) RESTful
9 67 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
9 67 (3.31%) Spring
10 66 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 60 (2.96%) Spring Boot
12 55 (2.72%) YAML
13 53 (2.62%) AngularJS
14 48 (2.37%) OpenID
15 39 (1.93%) AWS CDK
15 39 (1.93%) OAuth2
16 36 (1.78%) JSON
17 33 (1.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 402 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 95 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 70 (3.46%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.48%) NHS
10 28 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.38%) PKI
11 26 (1.28%) Replication
12 25 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 19 (0.94%) AI Agents
15 17 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (0.79%) Clustering
17 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 334 (16.49%) Linux
2 146 (7.21%) Windows
3 47 (2.32%) VMS
4 45 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 33 (1.63%) Unix
7 15 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.44%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.099%) Debian
10 2 (0.099%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.099%) zOS
11 1 (0.049%) AIX
11 1 (0.049%) Android
11 1 (0.049%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.049%) Rocky
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,346 (66.47%) CI/CD
2 1,303 (64.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,194 (58.96%) DevOps
4 495 (24.44%) Containerisation
5 455 (22.47%) Agile
6 392 (19.36%) Observability
7 325 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
8 273 (13.48%) Migration
9 268 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
10 258 (12.74%) Analytics
11 235 (11.60%) AI
12 233 (11.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 223 (11.01%) Microservices
14 215 (10.62%) Software Engineering
15 207 (10.22%) Test Automation
16 199 (9.83%) Infrastructure Automation
17 197 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 183 (9.04%) Cloud Security
18 183 (9.04%) DevSecOps
19 171 (8.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 942 (46.52%) Python
2 336 (16.59%) SQL
3 285 (14.07%) Bash
4 275 (13.58%) PowerShell
5 234 (11.56%) Java
6 180 (8.89%) Bicep
7 126 (6.22%) JavaScript
8 119 (5.88%) C#
9 116 (5.73%) TypeScript
10 91 (4.49%) Go
11 49 (2.42%) Scala
12 43 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.73%) Ruby
14 31 (1.53%) Groovy
15 14 (0.69%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) C
17 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.35%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 721 (35.60%) Security Cleared
2 605 (29.88%) SC Cleared
3 142 (7.01%) Azure Certification
4 122 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 115 (5.68%) DV Cleared
6 81 (4.00%) Degree
7 66 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 48 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 32 (1.58%) CCNP
13 30 (1.48%) CISSP
14 18 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.84%) CCIE
16 16 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
17 14 (0.69%) OCP
18 13 (0.64%) CCNA
18 13 (0.64%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.75%) GDPR
3 64 (3.16%) QA
4 59 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 58 (2.86%) NIST
6 38 (1.88%) NCSC
7 37 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) SLA
10 12 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.49%) GRC
13 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.25%) HL7
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 2 (0.099%) PSD2
17 2 (0.099%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 567 (28.00%) Docker
2 91 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.83%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 29 (1.43%) vSphere
8 11 (0.54%) Squid
9 8 (0.40%) KVM
10 7 (0.35%) NFS
11 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.25%) Firmware
12 5 (0.25%) Lustre
12 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.20%) GPFS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.15%) Ceph
15 2 (0.099%) Corosync
15 2 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 804 (39.70%) Kubernetes
2 489 (24.15%) Ansible
3 270 (13.33%) Grafana
4 234 (11.56%) Prometheus
5 81 (4.00%) Argo
6 50 (2.47%) Istio
7 45 (2.22%) Puppet
8 38 (1.88%) Packer
9 36 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 28 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.14%) Kibana
13 22 (1.09%) Consul
14 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.84%) Rancher
15 16 (0.79%) FortiGate
16 12 (0.59%) Podman
17 11 (0.54%) linkerd
18 9 (0.44%) HAProxy
18 9 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 325 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 185 (9.14%) Google
3 146 (7.21%) Databricks
4 120 (5.93%) Splunk
5 112 (5.53%) VMware
6 89 (4.40%) Red Hat
7 59 (2.91%) Oracle
8 54 (2.67%) ServiceNow
9 46 (2.27%) Cisco
10 43 (2.12%) Dynatrace
11 28 (1.38%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.33%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.23%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.19%) IBM
15 20 (0.99%) F5
15 20 (0.99%) SolarWinds
16 19 (0.94%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.94%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.79%) Citrix
17 16 (0.79%) PagerDuty