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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 39 45
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,434 1,430 1,374
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.25% 5.14% 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.67% 20.54% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 990 993
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £457 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% -4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 8 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £46.68 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £84.02 £67.49 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -10.26%

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 9,865 6,963 8,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.26% 25.03% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,764 5,521
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 163 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.38
25th Percentile £50.56 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.30 £71.60 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +4 1,278 £550 +3.53% 946
North of England +6 507 £500 -2.44% 220
Yorkshire -7 233 £513 - 69
South East -1 218 £561 +12.14% 229
North West +28 192 £555 +8.29% 108
South West -2 192 £553 -0.36% 128
Midlands -32 125 £488 -10.55% 93
West Midlands -33 103 £513 -6.82% 58
North East -4 94 £425 -16.67% 44
East of England -22 50 £537 +7.43% 54
East Midlands -4 21 £425 -15.00% 35
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
1 116 (4.77%) Confluence
2 101 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (3.99%) Apache Spark
4 85 (3.49%) Apache
5 44 (1.81%) Jupyter
6 39 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.03%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) IIS
12 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.082%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.082%) PowerExchange
15 2 (0.082%) WebSphere
16 1 (0.041%) MQSeries
16 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.041%) Houdini
4 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.041%) NUKE
4 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.082%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.082%) Endur
2 2 (0.082%) 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 1,386 (56.94%) AWS
2 1,232 (50.62%) Azure
3 670 (27.53%) GitHub
4 480 (19.72%) GCP
5 474 (19.47%) GitHub Actions
6 441 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
7 362 (14.87%) Serverless
8 282 (11.59%) Amazon S3
9 265 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
10 260 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 222 (9.12%) Amazon EKS
12 199 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 185 (7.60%) Entra ID
14 165 (6.78%) Azure AKS
15 149 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
16 145 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
17 138 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 127 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
18 127 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 98 (4.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 280 (11.50%) Firewall
2 204 (8.38%) DNS
3 132 (5.42%) VPN
4 116 (4.77%) Network Security
5 87 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 81 (3.33%) DHCP
7 75 (3.08%) WAN
8 63 (2.59%) BGP
9 46 (1.89%) OSPF
10 45 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 41 (1.68%) VLAN
12 32 (1.31%) VSAN
13 31 (1.27%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (1.03%) SSH
16 24 (0.99%) BIG-IP
17 23 (0.94%) SSL
18 17 (0.70%) Internet
18 17 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 77 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
6 75 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 74 (3.04%) DynamoDB
7 74 (3.04%) NoSQL
8 69 (2.83%) Power BI
9 68 (2.79%) MongoDB
10 64 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 61 (2.51%) BigQuery
12 48 (1.97%) MySQL
12 48 (1.97%) Redis
13 46 (1.89%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.89%) Relational Database
14 43 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
15 42 (1.73%) Metadata
16 37 (1.52%) Big Data
17 35 (1.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 455 (18.69%) GitLab
2 394 (16.19%) Jenkins
3 368 (15.12%) Git
4 146 (6.00%) JIRA
5 45 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.36%) Maven
7 31 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (0.94%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.82%) Claude Code
11 19 (0.78%) Snyk
12 17 (0.70%) Selenium
12 17 (0.70%) Terragrunt
13 16 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.58%) MLflow
15 13 (0.53%) JUnit
16 12 (0.49%) MSI
17 10 (0.41%) Mockito
18 9 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
General
1 480 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 356 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 326 (13.39%) Finance
4 145 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (4.03%) Banking
6 72 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (2.10%) Retail
9 34 (1.40%) Military
10 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.82%) Legal
11 20 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.78%) Publishing
13 16 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (0.66%) Law
14 15 (0.62%) Local Government
15 13 (0.53%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.53%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 533 (21.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 437 (17.95%) Senior
3 264 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 234 (9.61%) Azure Engineer
5 227 (9.33%) Platform Engineer
6 222 (9.12%) Developer
7 221 (9.08%) AWS Engineer
8 209 (8.59%) Architect
9 205 (8.42%) Lead
10 177 (7.27%) Data Engineer
11 163 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 102 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
14 101 (4.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 100 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
16 96 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 95 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 88 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
19 84 (3.45%) Network Engineer
20 82 (3.37%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.72%) Kafka
2 163 (6.70%) REST
3 122 (5.01%) .NET
4 113 (4.64%) React
5 103 (4.23%) ARM Templates
6 95 (3.90%) PySpark
7 94 (3.86%) Node.js
7 94 (3.86%) RESTful
8 84 (3.45%) OAuth
9 79 (3.25%) YAML
10 61 (2.51%) Spring
11 58 (2.38%) Spring Boot
12 57 (2.34%) OAuth2
13 56 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
14 55 (2.26%) OpenID
15 50 (2.05%) JSON
16 45 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
17 44 (1.81%) HTML
18 39 (1.60%) AWS CDK
18 39 (1.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 579 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 148 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 109 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.07%) Data Centre
5 94 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 84 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 74 (3.04%) Security Posture
8 73 (3.00%) Public Cloud
9 53 (2.18%) AI Agents
9 53 (2.18%) Replication
10 52 (2.14%) PKI
11 48 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
15 39 (1.60%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
17 34 (1.40%) NHS
18 33 (1.36%) Management Information System
19 28 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 436 (17.91%) Linux
2 247 (10.15%) Windows
3 89 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 85 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (1.60%) Unix
6 37 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 32 (1.31%) VMS
8 19 (0.78%) AIX
9 15 (0.62%) CentOS
10 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.082%) Android
16 2 (0.082%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.082%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,786 (73.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,654 (67.95%) CI/CD
3 1,407 (57.81%) DevOps
4 619 (25.43%) Agile
5 601 (24.69%) Containerisation
6 598 (24.57%) Observability
7 558 (22.93%) Platform Engineering
8 408 (16.76%) AI
9 327 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 300 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
11 297 (12.20%) Software Engineering
12 296 (12.16%) Migration
13 294 (12.08%) Test Automation
14 293 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 287 (11.79%) DevSecOps
16 278 (11.42%) Cloud Security
17 270 (11.09%) Infrastructure Automation
18 267 (10.97%) Analytics
19 245 (10.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 242 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (48.32%) Python
2 468 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 456 (18.73%) Bash
4 373 (15.32%) SQL
5 284 (11.67%) Bicep
5 284 (11.67%) Java
6 142 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 135 (5.55%) C#
8 125 (5.14%) TypeScript
9 77 (3.16%) Go
10 52 (2.14%) Scala
11 51 (2.10%) Groovy
12 44 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.58%) Perl
14 10 (0.41%) R
14 10 (0.41%) Ruby
14 10 (0.41%) Rust
15 9 (0.37%) C
15 9 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 881 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 714 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 197 (8.09%) DV Cleared
4 168 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 145 (5.96%) AWS Certification
6 103 (4.23%) Degree
7 61 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.01%) CISSP
11 43 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.15%) CCNP
13 21 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 17 (0.70%) CISM
15 17 (0.70%) VCAP
16 14 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.66%) QA
3 56 (2.30%) NIST
4 51 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 51 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (1.97%) NCSC
6 43 (1.77%) GDPR
7 23 (0.94%) WCAG
8 18 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.45%) SLA
10 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.25%) HL7
12 6 (0.25%) PSD2
13 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.21%) SEPA
14 4 (0.16%) GRC
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 680 (27.94%) Docker
2 161 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 119 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 50 (2.05%) vSphere
7 47 (1.93%) Hyper-V
8 44 (1.81%) VMware NSX
9 34 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.62%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 972 (39.93%) Kubernetes
2 590 (24.24%) Ansible
3 298 (12.24%) Grafana
4 239 (9.82%) Prometheus
5 86 (3.53%) Argo
6 63 (2.59%) Puppet
7 54 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 38 (1.56%) Packer
10 32 (1.31%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.15%) Istio
12 24 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.90%) Kustomize
14 19 (0.78%) Kibana
14 19 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
15 18 (0.74%) Data Guard
16 17 (0.70%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.62%) Kubeflow
17 15 (0.62%) Podman
17 15 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 454 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 204 (8.38%) Google
3 160 (6.57%) VMware
4 140 (5.75%) Databricks
5 135 (5.55%) Splunk
6 105 (4.31%) Oracle
7 82 (3.37%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.29%) Cisco
9 76 (3.12%) Red Hat
10 72 (2.96%) ServiceNow
11 63 (2.59%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.68%) F5
13 38 (1.56%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.36%) Zscaler
15 32 (1.31%) Arista
16 31 (1.27%) Fortinet
17 30 (1.23%) Informatica
18 25 (1.03%) CyberArk
19 24 (0.99%) Foundry
20 22 (0.90%) Aruba