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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,034 1,262 1,237
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.06% 5.16% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.83% 33.13% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 921 918
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £656 £650
90th Percentile £699 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 7
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.38 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%
75th Percentile £79.00 £61.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.33 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -25.00%

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 5,522 3,809 4,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.75% 15.57% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,814 2,644 3,145
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £625
90th Percentile £695 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 35 118
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.28 £22.30 £17.73
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £26.38
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% +3.29% -54.12%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.22 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%

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 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 28 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 28 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 +1 1,091 £538 -5.29% 288
North of England +15 394 £500 -4.76% 156
Yorkshire +7 216 £490 -6.67% 31
South East -14 156 £500 -2.44% 156
Midlands -3 140 £525 -4.72% 61
North West +24 139 £525 +0.05% 90
South West -6 124 £550 -10.57% 83
West Midlands 0 112 £525 -8.70% 38
North East -8 48 £475 -9.09% 35
East of England -19 39 £475 -9.52% 39
East Midlands -24 27 £450 -10.00% 23
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 90 (4.42%) Confluence
2 83 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 58 (2.85%) Apache
4 54 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.72%) nginx
6 21 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.49%) 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 (0.098%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.098%) CMS
12 2 (0.098%) Drupal
12 2 (0.098%) Traefik
12 2 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.098%) Weka
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.049%) Actimize
3 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1,099 (54.03%) AWS
2 978 (48.08%) Azure
3 580 (28.52%) GitHub
4 398 (19.57%) GCP
5 378 (18.58%) GitHub Actions
6 370 (18.19%) Serverless
7 355 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
8 334 (16.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 273 (13.42%) Amazon S3
10 265 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
11 197 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
12 151 (7.42%) Azure AKS
13 148 (7.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 148 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
15 135 (6.64%) OpenShift
16 128 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
17 120 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 119 (5.85%) Entra ID
19 118 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 193 (9.49%) Firewall
2 137 (6.74%) DNS
3 113 (5.56%) VPN
4 100 (4.92%) Network Security
5 46 (2.26%) WAN
6 37 (1.82%) BGP
7 36 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.33%) SD-WAN
9 25 (1.23%) OSPF
10 21 (1.03%) DHCP
11 19 (0.93%) LAN
11 19 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
11 19 (0.93%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
13 13 (0.64%) SAN
13 13 (0.64%) SSL
14 11 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (0.54%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.49%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
3 87 (4.28%) Data Lake
4 80 (3.93%) Power BI
5 76 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
6 65 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.85%) DynamoDB
8 56 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 56 (2.75%) BigQuery
9 55 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 49 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 47 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.26%) Delta Lake
13 45 (2.21%) MongoDB
14 33 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
14 33 (1.62%) Relational Database
15 31 (1.52%) Redis
16 29 (1.43%) Big Data
16 29 (1.43%) Tableau
17 28 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 376 (18.49%) Jenkins
2 321 (15.78%) GitLab
3 282 (13.86%) Git
4 125 (6.15%) JIRA
5 45 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.28%) Maven
8 18 (0.88%) CircleCI
8 18 (0.88%) MLflow
9 17 (0.84%) Gatling
10 15 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.69%) Liquibase
12 13 (0.64%) Snyk
13 10 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.44%) git-flow
14 9 (0.44%) JUnit
14 9 (0.44%) Terragrunt
15 7 (0.34%) Gradle
15 7 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 377 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 295 (14.50%) Public Sector
3 216 (10.62%) Finance
4 105 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (4.18%) Banking
6 57 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.08%) Retail
9 19 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.84%) Legal
11 13 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.59%) Health Technology
12 12 (0.59%) Military
13 11 (0.54%) Law
14 9 (0.44%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.34%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.34%) Publishing
16 6 (0.29%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.29%) Front Office
17 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 441 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 292 (14.36%) Senior
3 234 (11.50%) Architect
4 199 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
5 194 (9.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 186 (9.14%) AWS Engineer
7 182 (8.95%) Developer
8 168 (8.26%) Data Engineer
9 159 (7.82%) Lead
10 155 (7.62%) Platform Engineer
11 109 (5.36%) GCP Engineer
12 108 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 102 (5.01%) AWS DevOps
13 102 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 90 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 88 (4.33%) Site Engineer
16 77 (3.79%) Software Engineer
17 74 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 72 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 64 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (8.80%) Kafka
2 126 (6.19%) Node.js
3 109 (5.36%) .NET
3 109 (5.36%) React
4 104 (5.11%) REST
5 79 (3.88%) PySpark
6 74 (3.64%) ARM Templates
7 71 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
8 70 (3.44%) OAuth
9 69 (3.39%) RESTful
10 66 (3.24%) Spring
11 64 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
12 59 (2.90%) Spring Boot
13 53 (2.61%) YAML
14 52 (2.56%) AngularJS
15 50 (2.46%) OpenID
16 41 (2.02%) AWS CDK
17 40 (1.97%) OAuth2
18 36 (1.77%) JSON
19 32 (1.57%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 410 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 94 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 73 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 72 (3.54%) Data Centre
6 50 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 41 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.67%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.47%) NHS
11 29 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.38%) PKI
12 28 (1.38%) Replication
13 25 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.98%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.79%) Clustering
18 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 332 (16.32%) Linux
2 149 (7.33%) Windows
3 47 (2.31%) VMS
4 44 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.62%) Unix
6 15 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.49%) CentOS
8 7 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.098%) Debian
9 2 (0.098%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.098%) zOS
10 1 (0.049%) AIX
10 1 (0.049%) Android
10 1 (0.049%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.049%) Rocky
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,353 (66.52%) CI/CD
2 1,311 (64.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,202 (59.10%) DevOps
4 499 (24.53%) Containerisation
5 459 (22.57%) Agile
6 402 (19.76%) Observability
7 333 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
8 276 (13.57%) Migration
9 265 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
10 258 (12.68%) Analytics
11 244 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 233 (11.46%) AI
13 220 (10.82%) Microservices
14 212 (10.42%) Software Engineering
15 208 (10.23%) Test Automation
16 199 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 195 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
18 188 (9.24%) Cloud Security
19 183 (9.00%) DevSecOps
20 171 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 942 (46.31%) Python
2 333 (16.37%) SQL
3 285 (14.01%) Bash
4 274 (13.47%) PowerShell
5 230 (11.31%) Java
6 180 (8.85%) Bicep
7 125 (6.15%) JavaScript
8 119 (5.85%) C#
9 115 (5.65%) TypeScript
10 89 (4.38%) Go
11 47 (2.31%) Scala
12 42 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.67%) Groovy
13 34 (1.67%) Ruby
14 14 (0.69%) Rust
15 8 (0.39%) C
16 7 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.34%) PHP
17 6 (0.29%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 739 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 624 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.83%) Azure Certification
4 116 (5.70%) AWS Certification
4 116 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 75 (3.69%) Degree
6 66 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 58 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.43%) CCNP
12 26 (1.28%) CISSP
13 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
14 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 15 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.69%) CCNA
15 14 (0.69%) OCP
16 13 (0.64%) CCIE
16 13 (0.64%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.44%) GDPR
3 65 (3.20%) QA
4 54 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.56%) NIST
6 37 (1.82%) NCSC
7 33 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) SLA
10 12 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.54%) GRC
11 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.39%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.25%) HL7
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.098%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.098%) PSD2
System Software
1 567 (27.88%) Docker
2 90 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.87%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.43%) vSphere
8 25 (1.23%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.54%) Squid
10 8 (0.39%) KVM
11 7 (0.34%) NFS
12 6 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
13 5 (0.25%) Lustre
13 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.20%) GPFS
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.15%) Ceph
16 2 (0.098%) Corosync
16 2 (0.098%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 811 (39.87%) Kubernetes
2 494 (24.29%) Ansible
3 279 (13.72%) Grafana
4 238 (11.70%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.88%) Argo
6 47 (2.31%) Istio
7 45 (2.21%) Puppet
8 39 (1.92%) Packer
9 36 (1.77%) Progress Chef
10 28 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.13%) Consul
12 23 (1.13%) Kibana
13 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.84%) Rancher
15 12 (0.59%) Podman
16 11 (0.54%) linkerd
17 9 (0.44%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 324 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 182 (8.95%) Google
3 139 (6.83%) Databricks
4 125 (6.15%) Splunk
5 109 (5.36%) VMware
6 86 (4.23%) Red Hat
7 63 (3.10%) Oracle
8 56 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 53 (2.61%) ServiceNow
10 44 (2.16%) Cisco
11 28 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.33%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.23%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.18%) IBM
15 21 (1.03%) F5
16 20 (0.98%) Atlassian
17 19 (0.93%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.84%) Arista
19 16 (0.79%) Citrix
19 16 (0.79%) SolarWinds