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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 38 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,903 1,344 1,298
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.38% 5.22% 3.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.40% 34.34% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 934 984
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £703 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 14
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £60.50
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £67.36 £77.26
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -

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 5,375 3,914 4,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 15.19% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,721 2,561 3,320
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 41 141
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.76% -36.25% -21.57%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 1,013 £525 -12.50% 248
North of England +1 382 £500 -4.76% 122
Yorkshire -2 207 £500 -4.76% 31
Midlands +12 148 £538 +7.50% 34
South East +2 148 £500 -13.04% 134
North West -5 131 £500 -6.10% 69
West Midlands +9 123 £540 -2.00% 27
South West -3 119 £550 -10.57% 50
North East -5 47 £475 -12.84% 22
East Midlands -17 24 £438 -7.89% 7
East of England -32 20 £550 +34.15% 18
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 73 (3.84%) Confluence
2 65 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.05%) Apache
4 50 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.84%) nginx
6 25 (1.31%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) Actimize
4 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.053%) Endur
4 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,064 (55.91%) AWS
2 844 (44.35%) Azure
3 527 (27.69%) GitHub
4 388 (20.39%) GCP
5 355 (18.65%) Serverless
6 330 (17.34%) GitHub Actions
7 323 (16.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 319 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
9 252 (13.24%) Amazon S3
10 226 (11.88%) AWS Lambda
11 181 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
13 149 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (7.30%) OpenShift
15 138 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 136 (7.15%) Amazon ECS
17 125 (6.57%) Azure AKS
17 125 (6.57%) Entra ID
18 124 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
19 105 (5.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 191 (10.04%) Firewall
2 140 (7.36%) DNS
3 111 (5.83%) VPN
4 105 (5.52%) Network Security
5 51 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 43 (2.26%) WAN
7 29 (1.52%) SD-WAN
8 28 (1.47%) BGP
8 28 (1.47%) DHCP
8 28 (1.47%) LAN
9 26 (1.37%) SSL
10 22 (1.16%) OSPF
11 16 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
12 13 (0.68%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (0.53%) HTTP
14 10 (0.53%) SAN
14 10 (0.53%) VLAN
15 9 (0.47%) MPLS
15 9 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (4.10%) Data Lake
4 72 (3.78%) Power BI
5 69 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 58 (3.05%) MongoDB
7 55 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
8 54 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (2.42%) BigQuery
10 46 (2.42%) SQL Server
11 41 (2.15%) DynamoDB
12 40 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (1.89%) Relational Database
14 35 (1.84%) Redis
15 32 (1.68%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (1.21%) Tableau
18 20 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 415 (21.81%) Jenkins
2 376 (19.76%) GitLab
3 257 (13.50%) Git
4 92 (4.83%) JIRA
5 46 (2.42%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.73%) Liquibase
7 32 (1.68%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.37%) Maven
10 23 (1.21%) CircleCI
11 19 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.79%) MLflow
13 14 (0.74%) Gradle
14 13 (0.68%) JUnit
15 11 (0.58%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.53%) Selenium
16 10 (0.53%) Snyk
17 9 (0.47%) Gatling
18 8 (0.42%) Postman
19 7 (0.37%) JMeter
General
1 413 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 301 (15.82%) Public Sector
3 212 (11.14%) Finance
4 100 (5.25%) Banking
5 97 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 20 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (1.05%) Retail
10 18 (0.95%) Military
11 11 (0.58%) Law
12 8 (0.42%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.37%) Legal
14 6 (0.32%) Billing
14 6 (0.32%) Marketing
14 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 436 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 255 (13.40%) Senior
3 216 (11.35%) Architect
4 199 (10.46%) AWS Engineer
5 171 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 169 (8.88%) Azure Engineer
7 167 (8.78%) Lead
8 163 (8.57%) Developer
9 152 (7.99%) Platform Engineer
10 141 (7.41%) Data Engineer
11 112 (5.89%) AWS DevOps
12 105 (5.52%) Software Engineer
13 102 (5.36%) GCP Engineer
14 96 (5.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 94 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 78 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 77 (4.05%) Site Engineer
18 73 (3.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 68 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
19 68 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.93%) Kafka
2 127 (6.67%) REST
3 121 (6.36%) Node.js
4 103 (5.41%) React
5 99 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
6 90 (4.73%) RESTful
7 82 (4.31%) .NET
7 82 (4.31%) ARM Templates
8 69 (3.63%) OAuth
9 65 (3.42%) PySpark
10 63 (3.31%) Spring
11 59 (3.10%) Spring Boot
12 50 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
12 50 (2.63%) YAML
13 45 (2.36%) AngularJS
14 44 (2.31%) OpenID
15 38 (2.00%) OAuth2
16 32 (1.68%) AWS CDK
17 30 (1.58%) SAML
18 28 (1.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 347 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (3.68%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 45 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 37 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.73%) Private Cloud
9 32 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 31 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.58%) NHS
12 28 (1.47%) PKI
13 26 (1.37%) Replication
14 23 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (0.79%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.68%) AI Agents
17 13 (0.68%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.68%) Clustering
18 12 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 369 (19.39%) Linux
2 157 (8.25%) Windows
3 49 (2.57%) VMS
4 48 (2.52%) Unix
5 46 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (2.21%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.74%) CentOS
9 8 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.21%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.16%) Solaris
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.053%) Android
14 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.053%) Rocky
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,307 (68.68%) CI/CD
2 1,211 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,193 (62.69%) DevOps
4 504 (26.48%) Containerisation
5 406 (21.33%) Agile
6 355 (18.65%) Observability
7 273 (14.35%) Platform Engineering
8 264 (13.87%) Migration
9 263 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
10 241 (12.66%) Microservices
11 233 (12.24%) Analytics
12 228 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
13 221 (11.61%) Software Engineering
14 209 (10.98%) AI
15 204 (10.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 188 (9.88%) Cloud Security
17 184 (9.67%) Test Automation
18 181 (9.51%) DevSecOps
19 174 (9.14%) Mentoring
20 168 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 945 (49.66%) Python
2 307 (16.13%) Bash
3 288 (15.13%) SQL
4 255 (13.40%) PowerShell
5 214 (11.25%) Java
6 152 (7.99%) Bicep
7 132 (6.94%) Go
8 129 (6.78%) JavaScript
9 105 (5.52%) TypeScript
10 94 (4.94%) C#
11 53 (2.79%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.52%) Ruby
13 27 (1.42%) Groovy
14 23 (1.21%) Scala
15 17 (0.89%) Rust
16 8 (0.42%) C
16 8 (0.42%) PHP
17 6 (0.32%) C++
17 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 682 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 565 (29.69%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.30%) AWS Certification
4 121 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 116 (6.10%) Degree
6 111 (5.83%) DV Cleared
7 81 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 46 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 33 (1.73%) CISSP
14 23 (1.21%) CCNP
15 18 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.89%) CISM
17 14 (0.74%) CCIE
18 13 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
19 11 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.94%) GDPR
3 61 (3.21%) QA
4 56 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.89%) NIST
6 48 (2.52%) NCSC
7 32 (1.68%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.53%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) SLA
12 7 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) HL7
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 596 (31.32%) Docker
2 104 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 75 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 40 (2.10%) vSphere
6 32 (1.68%) VMware NSX
7 30 (1.58%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.63%) Squid
10 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.32%) KVM
12 5 (0.26%) Lustre
12 5 (0.26%) NFS
12 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.21%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.21%) GPFS
14 3 (0.16%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.16%) Postfix
15 2 (0.11%) Ceph
15 2 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 801 (42.09%) Kubernetes
2 518 (27.22%) Ansible
3 291 (15.29%) Grafana
4 252 (13.24%) Prometheus
5 70 (3.68%) Argo
6 45 (2.36%) Istio
7 41 (2.15%) Puppet
8 37 (1.94%) Packer
8 37 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.47%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.10%) Consul
11 18 (0.95%) Kibana
12 17 (0.89%) Podman
13 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 13 (0.68%) Rancher
15 12 (0.63%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.63%) logstash
16 9 (0.47%) Nagios
16 9 (0.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 285 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 172 (9.04%) Google
3 138 (7.25%) Databricks
4 127 (6.67%) Splunk
5 117 (6.15%) VMware
6 85 (4.47%) Red Hat
7 50 (2.63%) Oracle
8 49 (2.57%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.10%) Palo Alto
11 38 (2.00%) F5
12 36 (1.89%) Cisco
13 31 (1.63%) IBM
14 29 (1.52%) Pure Storage
15 26 (1.37%) CheckPoint
16 22 (1.16%) Fortinet
17 20 (1.05%) Atlassian
18 19 (1.00%) SolarWinds
19 17 (0.89%) OpenAI
20 16 (0.84%) Dell