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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,016 1,240 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.99% 5.09% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.42% 32.82% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 902 925
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £447 £475 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £656 £650
90th Percentile £695 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.38 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £61.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £77.33 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -25.00%

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 5,536 3,778 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.71% 15.52% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,835 2,613 3,174
10th Percentile £319 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £625
90th Percentile £694 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.90% -8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 34 120
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.93 £23.64 £17.74
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.38 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.05% +0.46% -52.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.44 £51.13
90th Percentile £74.20 £76.09 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1,078 £538 -4.87% 239
North of England +16 391 £500 -4.76% 118
Yorkshire +12 214 £500 -4.76% 24
South East -5 156 £505 -2.65% 129
Midlands -7 142 £525 -2.78% 44
North West +20 138 £547 +4.14% 64
South West -3 125 £575 -6.50% 59
West Midlands 0 114 £525 -6.75% 29
North East -6 48 £475 -9.52% 30
East of England -14 39 £475 -9.52% 30
East Midlands -19 27 £449 -10.30% 15
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 83 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.92%) Confluence
3 59 (2.93%) Apache
4 49 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.09%) nginx
7 15 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.099%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.099%) CMS
12 2 (0.099%) Drupal
12 2 (0.099%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.099%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Actimize
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,076 (53.37%) AWS
2 979 (48.56%) Azure
3 579 (28.72%) GitHub
4 402 (19.94%) GCP
5 380 (18.85%) GitHub Actions
6 359 (17.81%) Serverless
7 349 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
8 322 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 263 (13.05%) Amazon S3
10 255 (12.65%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
12 150 (7.44%) Azure AKS
13 144 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
14 142 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
15 132 (6.55%) OpenShift
16 126 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
17 121 (6.00%) Entra ID
18 120 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 119 (5.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 199 (9.87%) Firewall
2 136 (6.75%) DNS
3 113 (5.61%) VPN
4 98 (4.86%) Network Security
5 49 (2.43%) WAN
6 39 (1.93%) BGP
7 35 (1.74%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.49%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.34%) OSPF
10 21 (1.04%) DHCP
11 20 (0.99%) VXLAN
12 19 (0.94%) LAN
12 19 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
13 16 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
14 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 13 (0.64%) SAN
15 12 (0.60%) BIG-IP
16 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
16 11 (0.55%) SSL
17 10 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (4.27%) Data Lake
4 81 (4.02%) Power BI
5 74 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (3.32%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.83%) BigQuery
8 53 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 52 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 52 (2.58%) NoSQL
10 48 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
11 47 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (2.33%) Delta Lake
12 45 (2.23%) MongoDB
13 34 (1.69%) Relational Database
14 33 (1.64%) Redis
15 32 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
16 30 (1.49%) Big Data
17 28 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
18 27 (1.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 373 (18.50%) Jenkins
2 324 (16.07%) GitLab
3 274 (13.59%) Git
4 114 (5.65%) JIRA
5 46 (2.28%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.54%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.34%) Maven
8 26 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 18 (0.89%) MLflow
10 15 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.69%) Gatling
11 14 (0.69%) Liquibase
11 14 (0.69%) Snyk
12 11 (0.55%) JUnit
13 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.45%) git-flow
14 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
15 8 (0.40%) Gradle
15 8 (0.40%) Mockito
General
1 362 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 289 (14.34%) Public Sector
3 217 (10.76%) Finance
4 100 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (4.17%) Banking
6 55 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (0.99%) Retail
9 18 (0.89%) Legal
10 15 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 12 (0.60%) Law
12 11 (0.55%) Military
12 11 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.30%) Front Office
17 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 433 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 294 (14.58%) Senior
3 226 (11.21%) Architect
4 197 (9.77%) Azure Engineer
5 196 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 185 (9.18%) Developer
7 179 (8.88%) AWS Engineer
8 171 (8.48%) Data Engineer
9 160 (7.94%) Lead
10 153 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
11 109 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
11 109 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 108 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 95 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
14 87 (4.32%) Site Engineer
15 84 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 74 (3.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 74 (3.67%) Software Engineer
17 67 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 62 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.78%) Kafka
2 123 (6.10%) Node.js
3 109 (5.41%) React
4 105 (5.21%) .NET
5 102 (5.06%) REST
6 78 (3.87%) PySpark
7 73 (3.62%) RESTful
8 72 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
9 70 (3.47%) Spring
10 68 (3.37%) ARM Templates
11 66 (3.27%) OAuth
12 65 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
13 63 (3.13%) Spring Boot
14 54 (2.68%) AngularJS
15 53 (2.63%) YAML
16 50 (2.48%) OpenID
17 40 (1.98%) OAuth2
18 39 (1.93%) AWS CDK
19 37 (1.84%) JSON
20 28 (1.39%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 411 (20.39%) Cloud Native
2 101 (5.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 74 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 49 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 40 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.64%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.49%) NHS
9 30 (1.49%) PKI
10 29 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 28 (1.39%) Replication
12 23 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.04%) AI Agents
13 21 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.79%) Clustering
15 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 321 (15.92%) Linux
2 154 (7.64%) Windows
3 45 (2.23%) VMS
3 45 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.44%) Unix
6 14 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.45%) CentOS
8 7 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.099%) Debian
10 2 (0.099%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.099%) zOS
11 1 (0.050%) AIX
11 1 (0.050%) Android
11 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.050%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,350 (66.96%) CI/CD
2 1,319 (65.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,199 (59.47%) DevOps
4 504 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 448 (22.22%) Agile
6 406 (20.14%) Observability
7 330 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
8 272 (13.49%) Migration
9 255 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
10 252 (12.50%) Analytics
11 246 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 231 (11.46%) AI
13 217 (10.76%) Microservices
14 214 (10.62%) Software Engineering
15 209 (10.37%) Test Automation
16 205 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 191 (9.47%) Infrastructure Automation
18 188 (9.33%) Cloud Security
19 181 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 180 (8.93%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 927 (45.98%) Python
2 331 (16.42%) SQL
3 280 (13.89%) Bash
4 277 (13.74%) PowerShell
5 237 (11.76%) Java
6 182 (9.03%) Bicep
7 128 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 120 (5.95%) TypeScript
9 117 (5.80%) C#
10 89 (4.41%) Go
11 50 (2.48%) Scala
12 42 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.69%) Groovy
13 34 (1.69%) Ruby
14 14 (0.69%) Rust
15 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.35%) C
16 7 (0.35%) R
17 6 (0.30%) Perl
17 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 721 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 605 (30.01%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.89%) Azure Certification
4 115 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 111 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 76 (3.77%) Degree
7 64 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 59 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.39%) CCNP
13 25 (1.24%) CISSP
14 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.69%) CCNA
16 14 (0.69%) OCP
17 13 (0.64%) CISM
17 13 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 67 (3.32%) GDPR
3 64 (3.17%) QA
4 51 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.48%) NIST
6 36 (1.79%) NCSC
7 35 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) SLA
10 12 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.55%) GRC
12 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.25%) HL7
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.099%) PSD2
System Software
1 549 (27.23%) Docker
2 94 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.88%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.34%) vSphere
8 23 (1.14%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.55%) Squid
10 7 (0.35%) KVM
10 7 (0.35%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) Lustre
11 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) GPFS
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.099%) Ceph
13 2 (0.099%) Corosync
13 2 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 804 (39.88%) Kubernetes
2 491 (24.36%) Ansible
3 277 (13.74%) Grafana
4 235 (11.66%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.92%) Argo
6 48 (2.38%) Puppet
7 47 (2.33%) Istio
8 35 (1.74%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.49%) Packer
10 28 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.14%) Kibana
11 23 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.84%) FortiGate
13 17 (0.84%) Rancher
14 16 (0.79%) Consul
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
15 11 (0.55%) Podman
16 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 326 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 180 (8.93%) Google
3 136 (6.75%) Databricks
4 125 (6.20%) Splunk
5 109 (5.41%) VMware
6 85 (4.22%) Red Hat
7 65 (3.22%) Oracle
8 58 (2.88%) Dynatrace
9 53 (2.63%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.03%) Cisco
11 30 (1.49%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.34%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.24%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.14%) IBM
15 22 (1.09%) F5
16 20 (0.99%) Arista
16 20 (0.99%) OpenAI
17 17 (0.84%) Citrix
18 16 (0.79%) PagerDuty
18 16 (0.79%) SolarWinds