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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,463 1,444 1,407
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.29% 5.18% 4.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.82% 20.30% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,730 999 994
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.46% -4.47%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £729
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 5 10
10th Percentile £58.43 £42.10 £54.13
25th Percentile £62.62 £51.25 £59.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.43 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

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 9,923 7,112 8,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,524 4,834 5,399
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 172 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +2.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +2 1,295 £550 +2.33% 1,524
North of England +4 513 £500 - 335
Yorkshire -8 237 £510 +0.69% 90
South East -5 221 £574 +14.59% 307
North West +18 189 £575 +15.00% 201
South West +6 188 £550 - 213
Midlands -31 121 £477 -13.27% 131
North East -5 99 £425 -17.48% 46
West Midlands -32 95 £511 -7.18% 85
East of England -21 49 £549 +11.82% 80
East Midlands +1 25 £409 -16.15% 46
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
1 106 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (4.18%) Confluence
3 96 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 93 (3.78%) Apache
5 47 (1.91%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.14%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) IIS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.081%) Traefik
13 2 (0.081%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.041%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.041%) NUKE
6 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) 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 1,411 (57.29%) AWS
2 1,228 (49.86%) Azure
3 658 (26.72%) GitHub
4 508 (20.63%) GCP
5 462 (18.76%) GitHub Actions
6 435 (17.66%) Azure DevOps
7 350 (14.21%) Serverless
8 285 (11.57%) Amazon S3
9 260 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
10 258 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 230 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
12 216 (8.77%) Entra ID
13 204 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 167 (6.78%) Azure AKS
15 155 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
16 148 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
17 142 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 134 (5.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 127 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
20 100 (4.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 273 (11.08%) Firewall
2 196 (7.96%) DNS
3 130 (5.28%) VPN
4 121 (4.91%) Network Security
5 89 (3.61%) TCP/IP
6 83 (3.37%) DHCP
7 76 (3.09%) WAN
8 67 (2.72%) BGP
9 49 (1.99%) OSPF
10 46 (1.87%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.75%) VLAN
12 32 (1.30%) VSAN
13 29 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.18%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
15 26 (1.06%) SSH
16 25 (1.02%) SSL
17 24 (0.97%) BIG-IP
18 18 (0.73%) Internet
19 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
6 73 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 72 (2.92%) DynamoDB
7 72 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.76%) SQL Server
9 67 (2.72%) BigQuery
9 67 (2.72%) Power BI
10 66 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 53 (2.15%) MySQL
11 53 (2.15%) Redis
12 47 (1.91%) Relational Database
13 46 (1.87%) Metadata
14 45 (1.83%) Delta Lake
15 44 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
16 36 (1.46%) Big Data
17 33 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 468 (19.00%) GitLab
2 378 (15.35%) Jenkins
3 375 (15.23%) Git
4 130 (5.28%) JIRA
5 45 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.26%) Maven
7 29 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (0.85%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.81%) Artifactory
9 20 (0.81%) Snyk
10 19 (0.77%) Selenium
11 17 (0.69%) Terragrunt
12 15 (0.61%) JUnit
13 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.53%) MLflow
14 12 (0.49%) MSI
15 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 500 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 356 (14.45%) Public Sector
3 346 (14.05%) Finance
4 161 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (4.55%) Banking
6 73 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.95%) Retail
9 36 (1.46%) Military
10 24 (0.97%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.81%) Publishing
12 19 (0.77%) Legal
12 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (0.73%) Law
14 16 (0.65%) Local Government
15 15 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.57%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.49%) Billing
17 12 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 534 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 443 (17.99%) Senior
3 267 (10.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 239 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
5 226 (9.18%) Developer
6 223 (9.05%) AWS Engineer
6 223 (9.05%) Platform Engineer
7 220 (8.93%) Architect
8 204 (8.28%) Lead
9 183 (7.43%) Data Engineer
10 165 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
12 104 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
13 101 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 99 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 99 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 99 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 93 (3.78%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.49%) GCP Engineer
17 85 (3.45%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (8.00%) Kafka
2 175 (7.11%) REST
3 116 (4.71%) .NET
4 109 (4.43%) React
5 105 (4.26%) OAuth
6 102 (4.14%) ARM Templates
7 99 (4.02%) RESTful
8 98 (3.98%) PySpark
9 91 (3.69%) Node.js
10 77 (3.13%) YAML
11 69 (2.80%) OAuth2
12 67 (2.72%) OpenID
13 65 (2.64%) Spring
14 64 (2.60%) Spring Boot
15 56 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
16 53 (2.15%) JSON
17 42 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
18 41 (1.66%) HTML
19 38 (1.54%) AWS CDK
19 38 (1.54%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 586 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 147 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 95 (3.86%) Onboarding
6 86 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 85 (3.45%) Security Posture
8 80 (3.25%) Public Cloud
9 57 (2.31%) PKI
10 55 (2.23%) AI Agents
11 54 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
12 52 (2.11%) Replication
13 50 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.75%) Private Cloud
15 42 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
16 35 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
16 35 (1.42%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.34%) NHS
18 28 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 445 (18.07%) Linux
2 246 (9.99%) Windows
3 88 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.62%) Unix
6 39 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.18%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.081%) Android
15 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.081%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,822 (73.97%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,679 (68.17%) CI/CD
3 1,409 (57.21%) DevOps
4 625 (25.38%) Observability
5 603 (24.48%) Containerisation
6 601 (24.40%) Agile
7 562 (22.82%) Platform Engineering
8 422 (17.13%) AI
9 341 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 324 (13.15%) Migration
11 315 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 314 (12.75%) Test Automation
13 311 (12.63%) Cloud Security
14 306 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
15 298 (12.10%) Software Engineering
16 291 (11.81%) DevSecOps
17 280 (11.37%) Analytics
18 274 (11.12%) Infrastructure Automation
19 265 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
20 249 (10.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,216 (49.37%) Python
2 475 (19.29%) PowerShell
3 452 (18.35%) Bash
4 376 (15.27%) SQL
5 289 (11.73%) Java
6 287 (11.65%) Bicep
7 141 (5.72%) JavaScript
8 133 (5.40%) C#
9 123 (4.99%) TypeScript
10 96 (3.90%) Go
11 53 (2.15%) Groovy
12 46 (1.87%) Scala
13 45 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 12 (0.49%) C
17 10 (0.41%) Rust
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.37%) R
18 9 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 876 (35.57%) Security Cleared
2 706 (28.66%) SC Cleared
3 200 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 171 (6.94%) Azure Certification
5 161 (6.54%) AWS Certification
6 105 (4.26%) Degree
7 65 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 55 (2.23%) CISSP
10 54 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
11 53 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 42 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.18%) CCNP
14 20 (0.81%) CISM
14 20 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.61%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.86%) QA
3 60 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.19%) NIST
5 53 (2.15%) NCSC
6 50 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 44 (1.79%) GDPR
8 24 (0.97%) WCAG
9 20 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.45%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.24%) PSD2
14 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.20%) HL7
14 5 (0.20%) SEPA
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 685 (27.81%) Docker
2 172 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 116 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 47 (1.91%) vSphere
7 43 (1.75%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.54%) VMware NSX
9 35 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.32%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 6 (0.24%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.16%) Firmware
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,000 (40.60%) Kubernetes
2 589 (23.91%) Ansible
3 299 (12.14%) Grafana
4 237 (9.62%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.25%) Argo
6 60 (2.44%) Puppet
7 51 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 39 (1.58%) Packer
10 29 (1.18%) Istio
11 27 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 26 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.93%) Kibana
14 22 (0.89%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
16 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
16 17 (0.69%) Kubeflow
17 16 (0.65%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.61%) Podman
18 15 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 475 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 228 (9.26%) Google
3 157 (6.37%) VMware
4 142 (5.77%) Databricks
5 138 (5.60%) Splunk
6 101 (4.10%) Oracle
7 89 (3.61%) Dynatrace
8 87 (3.53%) Cisco
9 77 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.64%) Red Hat
11 64 (2.60%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.58%) F5
12 39 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.38%) Arista
13 34 (1.38%) Zscaler
14 31 (1.26%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.18%) Informatica
16 28 (1.14%) CyberArk
16 28 (1.14%) Okta
17 24 (0.97%) Foundry