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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 37 55
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,045 1,196 1,307
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.91% 4.97% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.82% 31.51% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 856 976
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £736 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 8
10th Percentile £40.73 £26.60 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £52.94
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.58
90th Percentile £79.90 £80.40 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -22.52%

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 5,554 3,796 4,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 15.76% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,820 2,593 3,308
10th Percentile £316 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £625
90th Percentile £688 £712 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 37 93
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.29 £21.39 £20.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% +36.36% -50.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +91.30% -4.17% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 1,096 £545 -0.91% 377
North of England +24 434 £500 -3.15% 175
Yorkshire +17 227 £488 -7.14% 43
North West +30 157 £522 +4.41% 95
South East -19 152 £509 +1.75% 134
Midlands -13 128 £518 -4.12% 35
South West -10 111 £550 -10.57% 76
West Midlands -12 105 £525 -4.63% 26
North East -2 60 £453 -12.98% 37
East of England -24 43 £475 -5.00% 30
East Midlands -24 22 £449 -10.30% 9
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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 85 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 64 (3.13%) Apache
4 61 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 21 (1.03%) Jupyter
7 20 (0.98%) nginx
8 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.49%) SAS
9 9 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.098%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.098%) Drupal
13 2 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.098%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
5 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.049%) Endur
4 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (53.59%) AWS
2 1,005 (49.14%) Azure
3 581 (28.41%) GitHub
4 436 (21.32%) GCP
5 392 (19.17%) GitHub Actions
6 350 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
7 349 (17.07%) Serverless
8 271 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 258 (12.62%) Amazon S3
10 253 (12.37%) AWS Lambda
11 199 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
12 159 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 142 (6.94%) Azure AKS
14 141 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
15 139 (6.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 130 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 125 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
18 123 (6.01%) Entra ID
19 119 (5.82%) OpenShift
20 106 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 205 (10.02%) Firewall
2 137 (6.70%) DNS
3 110 (5.38%) VPN
4 101 (4.94%) Network Security
5 66 (3.23%) WAN
6 50 (2.44%) BGP
7 42 (2.05%) SD-WAN
8 38 (1.86%) OSPF
9 36 (1.76%) TCP/IP
10 33 (1.61%) VXLAN
11 26 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
12 22 (1.08%) BIG-IP
13 21 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.88%) DHCP
14 18 (0.88%) SAN
15 17 (0.83%) LAN
15 17 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
15 17 (0.83%) SSL
16 14 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (3.81%) Data Lake
4 76 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
5 74 (3.62%) Power BI
6 65 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 62 (3.03%) BigQuery
8 52 (2.54%) Delta Lake
8 52 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 50 (2.44%) DynamoDB
11 47 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
13 40 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (1.71%) Redis
15 32 (1.56%) Relational Database
16 30 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (1.42%) Big Data
17 29 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
18 24 (1.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 377 (18.44%) Jenkins
2 364 (17.80%) GitLab
3 273 (13.35%) Git
4 127 (6.21%) JIRA
5 45 (2.20%) Artifactory
6 38 (1.86%) SonarQube
7 25 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.17%) Maven
9 17 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (0.78%) Snyk
11 15 (0.73%) MLflow
12 14 (0.68%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.64%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.59%) Gatling
15 11 (0.54%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.49%) git-flow
16 10 (0.49%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.39%) Gradle
17 8 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 357 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 281 (13.74%) Public Sector
3 222 (10.86%) Finance
4 96 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.55%) Banking
6 55 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.17%) Retail
9 21 (1.03%) Legal
10 17 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.83%) Military
11 14 (0.68%) Law
12 10 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.44%) Publishing
13 9 (0.44%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.39%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 455 (22.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 316 (15.45%) Senior
3 221 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 217 (10.61%) Architect
5 204 (9.98%) Azure Engineer
6 187 (9.14%) AWS Engineer
7 166 (8.12%) Data Engineer
8 161 (7.87%) Developer
9 155 (7.58%) Lead
10 148 (7.24%) Platform Engineer
11 117 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (5.57%) GCP Engineer
13 92 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
14 89 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 85 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 75 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 72 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 71 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 70 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 67 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (8.46%) Kafka
2 110 (5.38%) Node.js
3 105 (5.13%) React
4 104 (5.09%) .NET
5 96 (4.69%) REST
6 91 (4.45%) PySpark
7 76 (3.72%) OAuth
8 74 (3.62%) OpenTelemetry
9 67 (3.28%) ARM Templates
10 65 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.08%) YAML
12 62 (3.03%) RESTful
13 61 (2.98%) Spring
14 57 (2.79%) Spring Boot
15 56 (2.74%) OpenID
16 51 (2.49%) OAuth2
17 43 (2.10%) JSON
18 42 (2.05%) AngularJS
19 40 (1.96%) AWS CDK
20 29 (1.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 466 (22.79%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 85 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 54 (2.64%) Public Cloud
7 44 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 36 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 34 (1.66%) Private Cloud
10 32 (1.56%) Replication
11 31 (1.52%) PKI
12 30 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 28 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
15 25 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 25 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
16 21 (1.03%) NHS
17 18 (0.88%) Clustering
18 16 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 309 (15.11%) Linux
2 156 (7.63%) Windows
3 65 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.91%) VMS
6 25 (1.22%) Unix
7 23 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.68%) CentOS
9 8 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.098%) AIX
14 2 (0.098%) Debian
14 2 (0.098%) Rocky
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.098%) zOS
15 1 (0.049%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (68.36%) CI/CD
2 1,387 (67.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,251 (61.17%) DevOps
4 477 (23.33%) Containerisation
5 451 (22.05%) Agile
6 426 (20.83%) Observability
7 361 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
8 267 (13.06%) Migration
9 261 (12.76%) AI
10 238 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
10 238 (11.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 229 (11.20%) Analytics
12 208 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 206 (10.07%) Cloud Security
14 203 (9.93%) Test Automation
15 200 (9.78%) Software Engineering
16 198 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
17 195 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 193 (9.44%) Microservices
19 181 (8.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 929 (45.43%) Python
2 331 (16.19%) SQL
3 306 (14.96%) PowerShell
4 304 (14.87%) Bash
5 231 (11.30%) Java
6 186 (9.10%) Bicep
7 117 (5.72%) JavaScript
8 106 (5.18%) C#
9 100 (4.89%) TypeScript
10 81 (3.96%) Go
11 50 (2.44%) Scala
12 37 (1.81%) Groovy
13 35 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.12%) Ruby
15 14 (0.68%) Rust
16 8 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.39%) R
17 7 (0.34%) Perl
17 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 704 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 577 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.19%) Azure Certification
4 119 (5.82%) DV Cleared
5 99 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 79 (3.86%) Degree
7 59 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 42 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.52%) CISSP
13 27 (1.32%) CCNP
14 14 (0.68%) CCNA
15 13 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 13 (0.64%) CISM
15 13 (0.64%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.49%) OCP
17 10 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 62 (3.03%) QA
3 57 (2.79%) GDPR
4 49 (2.40%) NIST
5 45 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.32%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.27%) NCSC
9 15 (0.73%) SLA
10 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.49%) GRC
12 7 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) WCAG
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.15%) HL7
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 542 (26.50%) Docker
2 95 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 36 (1.76%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.37%) vSphere
8 22 (1.08%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.93%) Squid
10 10 (0.49%) KVM
10 10 (0.49%) NFS
11 8 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.24%) Firmware
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.15%) Ceph
13 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.15%) Postfix
14 2 (0.098%) Corosync
14 2 (0.098%) GPFS
14 2 (0.098%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 792 (38.73%) Kubernetes
2 487 (23.81%) Ansible
3 266 (13.01%) Grafana
4 234 (11.44%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.91%) Argo
6 45 (2.20%) Istio
6 45 (2.20%) Puppet
7 37 (1.81%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.32%) Packer
8 27 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.12%) Kibana
9 23 (1.12%) vCenter Server
10 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.83%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.59%) Consul
12 12 (0.59%) Rancher
13 11 (0.54%) HAProxy
13 11 (0.54%) Kustomize
13 11 (0.54%) Podman
14 10 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 299 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 203 (9.93%) Google
3 123 (6.01%) Databricks
4 116 (5.67%) Splunk
5 102 (4.99%) VMware
6 93 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.67%) Oracle
8 61 (2.98%) Dynatrace
9 54 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.44%) Cisco
11 44 (2.15%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.61%) F5
13 30 (1.47%) Arista
14 28 (1.37%) OpenAI
15 24 (1.17%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.08%) Pure Storage
17 21 (1.03%) Aruba
17 21 (1.03%) IBM
18 20 (0.98%) Zscaler
19 16 (0.78%) Okta