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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,373 1,388 1,366
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.19% 4.99% 4.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.10% 32.35% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 960 986
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £458 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 11
10th Percentile £56.60 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.19 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £81.46 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%

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 6,069 4,291 4,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.44% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,131 2,856 3,199
10th Percentile £325 £301 £310
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 61 68
10th Percentile £20.50 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £83.62 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -37.63%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 1,229 £550 +0.46% 613
North of England +11 507 £505 -2.88% 207
Yorkshire -4 231 £500 -2.44% 55
South East -4 213 £560 +11.94% 182
North West +40 199 £575 +9.52% 116
South West +7 173 £550 -8.33% 105
Midlands -13 130 £513 -2.38% 72
West Midlands -23 107 £525 -2.23% 42
North East -4 91 £425 -18.27% 37
East of England -5 52 £525 +8.81% 22
East Midlands -9 22 £475 -2.56% 30
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
1 115 (4.85%) Confluence
2 91 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.33%) Apache
4 41 (1.73%) Jupyter
5 29 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 21 (0.88%) nginx
7 13 (0.55%) SAS
8 12 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.34%) IIS
9 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.21%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.084%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.042%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.042%) Traefik
14 1 (0.042%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,360 (57.31%) AWS
2 1,196 (50.40%) Azure
3 655 (27.60%) GitHub
4 473 (19.93%) GCP
5 461 (19.43%) GitHub Actions
6 428 (18.04%) Azure DevOps
7 347 (14.62%) Serverless
8 272 (11.46%) Amazon S3
9 266 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 256 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
11 215 (9.06%) Amazon EKS
12 188 (7.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 169 (7.12%) Entra ID
14 160 (6.74%) Azure AKS
15 145 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
16 140 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 132 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
18 126 (5.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 120 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (3.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 274 (11.55%) Firewall
2 200 (8.43%) DNS
3 133 (5.60%) VPN
4 107 (4.51%) Network Security
5 85 (3.58%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.33%) WAN
7 76 (3.20%) DHCP
8 68 (2.87%) BGP
9 47 (1.98%) OSPF
10 45 (1.90%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.60%) VLAN
12 36 (1.52%) VXLAN
13 29 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 28 (1.18%) VSAN
15 26 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.05%) SSL
17 24 (1.01%) BIG-IP
18 22 (0.93%) SSH
19 18 (0.76%) Internet
20 17 (0.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 81 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
5 72 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 70 (2.95%) Data Lake
7 66 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 66 (2.78%) Power BI
8 65 (2.74%) DynamoDB
9 64 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
10 61 (2.57%) BigQuery
11 59 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (2.02%) Delta Lake
13 47 (1.98%) Redis
14 46 (1.94%) Relational Database
15 41 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 41 (1.73%) MySQL
16 38 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
17 37 (1.56%) Oracle Database
18 35 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 433 (18.25%) GitLab
2 390 (16.43%) Jenkins
3 352 (14.83%) Git
4 146 (6.15%) JIRA
5 43 (1.81%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 30 (1.26%) Maven
7 25 (1.05%) Artifactory
8 22 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.76%) Snyk
10 17 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.67%) MLflow
12 14 (0.59%) Terragrunt
13 13 (0.55%) MSI
14 12 (0.51%) Selenium
15 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.46%) Gatling
15 11 (0.46%) JUnit
16 8 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 443 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 355 (14.96%) Public Sector
3 312 (13.15%) Finance
4 138 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.88%) Banking
6 67 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.11%) Retail
9 26 (1.10%) Military
10 22 (0.93%) Legal
10 22 (0.93%) Publishing
11 21 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.63%) Law
14 14 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.55%) Local Government
16 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
17 11 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 503 (21.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 427 (17.99%) Senior
3 271 (11.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
4 220 (9.27%) Platform Engineer
5 215 (9.06%) AWS Engineer
5 215 (9.06%) Developer
6 213 (8.98%) Architect
7 208 (8.77%) Lead
8 161 (6.78%) Data Engineer
8 161 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 104 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
10 100 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
11 97 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 96 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 95 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 95 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
14 85 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 85 (3.58%) Network Engineer
15 77 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (7.37%) Kafka
2 164 (6.91%) REST
3 120 (5.06%) .NET
4 114 (4.80%) React
5 95 (4.00%) Node.js
6 91 (3.83%) RESTful
7 86 (3.62%) PySpark
8 83 (3.50%) ARM Templates
9 78 (3.29%) OAuth
10 76 (3.20%) YAML
11 59 (2.49%) Spring
12 56 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (2.32%) Spring Boot
14 52 (2.19%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.11%) JSON
15 50 (2.11%) OpenID
15 50 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
16 44 (1.85%) HTML
17 38 (1.60%) AngularJS
17 38 (1.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 566 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 151 (6.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 79 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 70 (2.95%) Public Cloud
8 68 (2.87%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.23%) PKI
10 50 (2.11%) Replication
11 47 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.85%) AI Agents
14 43 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
15 35 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.43%) NHS
17 30 (1.26%) Management Information System
18 24 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 424 (17.87%) Linux
2 249 (10.49%) Windows
3 86 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (3.50%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.31%) Unix
7 30 (1.26%) VMS
8 19 (0.80%) AIX
9 15 (0.63%) CentOS
10 12 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.084%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,704 (71.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,595 (67.21%) CI/CD
3 1,372 (57.82%) DevOps
4 585 (24.65%) Agile
5 572 (24.10%) Containerisation
6 553 (23.30%) Observability
7 523 (22.04%) Platform Engineering
8 372 (15.68%) AI
9 304 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 290 (12.22%) Migration
11 287 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 287 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
12 283 (11.93%) Test Automation
13 265 (11.17%) Cloud Security
14 264 (11.13%) Software Engineering
15 256 (10.79%) Analytics
16 245 (10.32%) Infrastructure Automation
17 241 (10.16%) DevSecOps
18 235 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 231 (9.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,131 (47.66%) Python
2 450 (18.96%) PowerShell
3 438 (18.46%) Bash
4 366 (15.42%) SQL
5 276 (11.63%) Java
6 258 (10.87%) Bicep
7 143 (6.03%) JavaScript
8 135 (5.69%) C#
9 126 (5.31%) TypeScript
10 75 (3.16%) Go
11 51 (2.15%) Scala
12 48 (2.02%) Groovy
13 36 (1.52%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.63%) Rust
15 13 (0.55%) Ruby
16 12 (0.51%) Perl
16 12 (0.51%) R
17 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 859 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 696 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 184 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 161 (6.78%) Azure Certification
5 135 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 93 (3.92%) Degree
7 65 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 51 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (1.73%) CISSP
11 38 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.31%) CCNP
13 19 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 15 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 15 (0.63%) VCAP
16 14 (0.59%) CCNA
17 13 (0.55%) CISM
18 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.01%) Data Quality
2 79 (3.33%) QA
3 53 (2.23%) GDPR
4 49 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.02%) NIST
6 47 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.94%) NCSC
8 21 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.88%) WCAG
9 11 (0.46%) SLA
10 8 (0.34%) GRC
11 7 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.25%) HL7
13 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.21%) PSD2
13 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.084%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 640 (26.97%) Docker
2 153 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 114 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.94%) Hyper-V
7 44 (1.85%) vSphere
8 41 (1.73%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.59%) Squid
12 10 (0.42%) KVM
13 9 (0.38%) NFS
14 7 (0.29%) Firmware
15 6 (0.25%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 927 (39.06%) Kubernetes
2 562 (23.68%) Ansible
3 291 (12.26%) Grafana
4 247 (10.41%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.71%) Argo
6 62 (2.61%) Puppet
7 50 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.64%) Packer
9 36 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (1.43%) Istio
11 25 (1.05%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.76%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.76%) Kibana
16 16 (0.67%) Podman
17 15 (0.63%) VxRail
18 14 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 422 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 212 (8.93%) Google
3 152 (6.41%) VMware
4 137 (5.77%) Splunk
5 129 (5.44%) Databricks
6 106 (4.47%) Oracle
7 80 (3.37%) Dynatrace
8 79 (3.33%) Red Hat
9 75 (3.16%) ServiceNow
10 71 (2.99%) Cisco
11 60 (2.53%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.85%) F5
13 34 (1.43%) Arista
13 34 (1.43%) OpenAI
14 32 (1.35%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.26%) Informatica
15 30 (1.26%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.01%) Foundry
17 22 (0.93%) Aruba