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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 -21
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,988 1,293 1,284
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.22% 5.29% 3.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.79% 33.32% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 927 963
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £443 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -7.08%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £558
% change year-on-year -4.72% -1.17% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 9
10th Percentile £46.25 £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 £80.50 £68.13 £68.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £78.58 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%

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 5,555 3,881 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.60% 15.87% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,824 2,657 3,273
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £747 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 41 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.24 £21.05 £17.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £77.50 £68.19
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.75
% change year-on-year +107.94% -16.69% -44.78%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 1,069 £533 -7.39% 284
North of England +14 395 £500 -4.76% 148
Yorkshire +7 212 £500 -4.76% 48
South East -2 149 £500 -9.09% 143
North West +15 147 £525 - 72
Midlands -1 147 £525 -2.51% 36
South West -9 123 £550 -10.57% 82
West Midlands +6 122 £525 -6.75% 25
North East -8 40 £466 -11.24% 29
East Midlands -19 24 £447 -8.31% 11
East of England -34 24 £475 -10.38% 40
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 88 (4.43%) Confluence
2 75 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 65 (3.27%) Apache
4 53 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.66%) nginx
6 21 (1.06%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.25%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.15%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.10%) CMS
11 2 (0.10%) Drupal
11 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) Endur
4 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,077 (54.18%) AWS
2 933 (46.93%) Azure
3 579 (29.12%) GitHub
4 415 (20.88%) GCP
5 385 (19.37%) Serverless
6 365 (18.36%) GitHub Actions
7 353 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
8 342 (17.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 266 (13.38%) Amazon S3
10 256 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
11 198 (9.96%) Amazon EKS
12 161 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (7.29%) OpenShift
14 141 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
15 140 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 136 (6.84%) Azure AKS
17 135 (6.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 130 (6.54%) Azure Monitor
19 125 (6.29%) Entra ID
20 109 (5.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 202 (10.16%) Firewall
2 146 (7.34%) DNS
3 121 (6.09%) VPN
4 103 (5.18%) Network Security
5 52 (2.62%) WAN
6 41 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.81%) BGP
8 34 (1.71%) SD-WAN
9 29 (1.46%) DHCP
10 27 (1.36%) LAN
11 24 (1.21%) OSPF
12 19 (0.96%) VXLAN
13 17 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
14 14 (0.70%) SSL
15 13 (0.65%) VLAN
16 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
16 11 (0.55%) SAN
16 11 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
17 10 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
18 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (4.33%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.77%) Power BI
5 64 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
5 64 (3.22%) NoSQL
6 58 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 53 (2.67%) BigQuery
7 53 (2.67%) DynamoDB
8 51 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
8 51 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 49 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (2.06%) Delta Lake
12 35 (1.76%) Redis
12 35 (1.76%) Relational Database
13 26 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
15 22 (1.11%) Metadata
15 22 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 419 (21.08%) Jenkins
2 355 (17.86%) GitLab
3 278 (13.98%) Git
4 113 (5.68%) JIRA
5 49 (2.46%) Artifactory
6 30 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.31%) Liquibase
9 23 (1.16%) Maven
10 19 (0.96%) CircleCI
11 18 (0.91%) MLflow
12 15 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.65%) Gatling
14 10 (0.50%) JUnit
14 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.45%) git-flow
15 9 (0.45%) Snyk
16 7 (0.35%) Gradle
16 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 397 (19.97%) Social Skills
2 295 (14.84%) Public Sector
3 227 (11.42%) Finance
4 105 (5.28%) Banking
5 104 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.11%) Retail
10 19 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.60%) Legal
13 11 (0.55%) Military
14 10 (0.50%) Law
15 8 (0.40%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.35%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.35%) Publishing
17 6 (0.30%) Games
18 5 (0.25%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 429 (21.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 268 (13.48%) Senior
3 239 (12.02%) Architect
4 188 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
5 187 (9.41%) Azure Engineer
6 185 (9.31%) AWS Engineer
7 168 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
8 166 (8.35%) Developer
8 166 (8.35%) Lead
9 147 (7.39%) Data Engineer
10 119 (5.99%) GCP Engineer
11 102 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 101 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
13 95 (4.78%) Software Engineer
14 86 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 85 (4.28%) Site Engineer
16 82 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 78 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 64 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 63 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (9.71%) Kafka
2 128 (6.44%) Node.js
3 126 (6.34%) REST
4 106 (5.33%) React
5 96 (4.83%) .NET
6 92 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
7 83 (4.18%) ARM Templates
8 81 (4.07%) RESTful
9 68 (3.42%) PySpark
10 65 (3.27%) OAuth
11 62 (3.12%) OpenTelemetry
12 58 (2.92%) Spring
13 57 (2.87%) YAML
14 54 (2.72%) AngularJS
15 51 (2.57%) Spring Boot
16 43 (2.16%) OpenID
17 40 (2.01%) AWS CDK
18 35 (1.76%) JSON
18 35 (1.76%) OAuth2
19 29 (1.46%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 361 (18.16%) Cloud Native
2 109 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 67 (3.37%) Public Cloud
6 61 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.51%) NHS
10 29 (1.46%) Private Cloud
11 28 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.36%) PKI
12 27 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.11%) Replication
14 17 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (0.86%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.70%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.65%) Clustering
16 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 352 (17.71%) Linux
2 162 (8.15%) Windows
3 51 (2.57%) VMS
4 44 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.81%) Unix
7 12 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.40%) CentOS
9 6 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) Android
14 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.050%) Rocky
14 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,350 (67.91%) CI/CD
2 1,274 (64.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,214 (61.07%) DevOps
4 517 (26.01%) Containerisation
5 444 (22.33%) Agile
6 382 (19.22%) Observability
7 309 (15.54%) Platform Engineering
8 275 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
9 267 (13.43%) Migration
10 252 (12.68%) Analytics
11 230 (11.57%) Microservices
12 226 (11.37%) Infrastructure Automation
13 221 (11.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 219 (11.02%) AI
15 216 (10.87%) Software Engineering
16 193 (9.71%) Test Automation
17 189 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 184 (9.26%) Cloud Security
19 178 (8.95%) DevSecOps
20 175 (8.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 962 (48.39%) Python
2 317 (15.95%) Bash
3 312 (15.69%) SQL
4 281 (14.13%) PowerShell
5 211 (10.61%) Java
6 169 (8.50%) Bicep
7 116 (5.84%) Go
8 114 (5.73%) JavaScript
9 111 (5.58%) TypeScript
10 106 (5.33%) C#
11 46 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.76%) Scala
13 34 (1.71%) Ruby
14 28 (1.41%) Groovy
15 15 (0.75%) Rust
16 9 (0.45%) C
17 8 (0.40%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 698 (35.11%) Security Cleared
2 575 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.64%) Azure Certification
4 130 (6.54%) AWS Certification
5 111 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 100 (5.03%) Degree
7 74 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.96%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.56%) CCNP
13 31 (1.56%) CISSP
14 20 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.80%) CCIE
17 15 (0.75%) CISM
18 14 (0.70%) OCP
19 13 (0.65%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 79 (3.97%) GDPR
3 69 (3.47%) QA
4 62 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 58 (2.92%) NIST
6 44 (2.21%) NCSC
7 35 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.55%) GRC
12 10 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 590 (29.68%) Docker
2 98 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 85 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (2.26%) vSphere
6 37 (1.86%) VMware NSX
7 35 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 34 (1.71%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.50%) Squid
10 7 (0.35%) KVM
11 6 (0.30%) NFS
12 5 (0.25%) Firmware
12 5 (0.25%) Lustre
12 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.20%) GPFS
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.10%) Ceph
15 2 (0.10%) HDFS
16 1 (0.050%) iptables
Systems Management
1 812 (40.85%) Kubernetes
2 521 (26.21%) Ansible
3 293 (14.74%) Grafana
4 258 (12.98%) Prometheus
5 81 (4.07%) Argo
6 48 (2.41%) Istio
7 41 (2.06%) Puppet
8 39 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 38 (1.91%) Packer
10 31 (1.56%) vCenter Server
11 30 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.06%) Consul
13 17 (0.86%) Rancher
14 15 (0.75%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.75%) Podman
15 14 (0.70%) Kibana
16 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
18 9 (0.45%) Sysdig
19 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 306 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 188 (9.46%) Google
3 149 (7.49%) Databricks
4 131 (6.59%) Splunk
5 125 (6.29%) VMware
6 94 (4.73%) Red Hat
7 59 (2.97%) Oracle
8 47 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 46 (2.31%) Dynatrace
10 42 (2.11%) Cisco
11 34 (1.71%) Pure Storage
12 32 (1.61%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.36%) F5
14 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.26%) IBM
15 21 (1.06%) Atlassian
15 21 (1.06%) SolarWinds
16 17 (0.86%) Citrix
17 16 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty