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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 40 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,046 1,198 1,300
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.90% 4.99% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.89% 31.66% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 854 969
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £736 £739
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -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 5,546 3,784 4,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.27% 15.77% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,812 2,577 3,289
10th Percentile £316 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.34% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 38 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% -3.33% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 1,106 £550 - 387
North of England +26 423 £500 -2.44% 176
Yorkshire +10 214 £500 -4.76% 41
North West +33 159 £519 +3.81% 101
South East -19 152 £509 +1.75% 150
Midlands -17 128 £518 -3.85% 37
South West -10 113 £550 -10.57% 70
West Midlands -13 105 £525 -4.55% 27
North East +2 62 £450 -10.00% 34
East of England -22 43 £475 -5.00% 32
East Midlands -21 22 £449 -10.30% 10
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 90 (4.40%) Confluence
2 88 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 67 (3.27%) Apache
4 65 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.22%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.08%) nginx
8 11 (0.54%) SAS
9 9 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.15%) CMS
13 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.098%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.098%) Drupal
14 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 2 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.049%) Endur
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,105 (54.01%) AWS
2 1,005 (49.12%) Azure
3 584 (28.54%) GitHub
4 430 (21.02%) GCP
5 395 (19.31%) GitHub Actions
6 351 (17.16%) Serverless
7 349 (17.06%) Azure DevOps
8 269 (13.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 262 (12.81%) Amazon S3
10 253 (12.37%) AWS Lambda
11 203 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
12 166 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 142 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (6.94%) Azure AKS
14 139 (6.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 130 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 124 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
17 123 (6.01%) Entra ID
18 105 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
19 102 (4.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 209 (10.22%) Firewall
2 139 (6.79%) DNS
3 113 (5.52%) VPN
4 103 (5.03%) Network Security
5 70 (3.42%) WAN
6 52 (2.54%) BGP
7 43 (2.10%) SD-WAN
8 39 (1.91%) OSPF
9 36 (1.76%) TCP/IP
10 34 (1.66%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
12 23 (1.12%) BIG-IP
13 22 (1.08%) 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
16 15 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (0.68%) SSL
18 11 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
3 77 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
3 77 (3.76%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.62%) Power BI
5 65 (3.18%) SQL Server
6 61 (2.98%) BigQuery
7 54 (2.64%) MongoDB
8 52 (2.54%) Delta Lake
8 52 (2.54%) DynamoDB
9 51 (2.49%) NoSQL
10 47 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.81%) Redis
13 32 (1.56%) Relational Database
14 30 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
14 30 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.42%) Big Data
16 24 (1.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 376 (18.38%) Jenkins
2 368 (17.99%) GitLab
3 274 (13.39%) Git
4 130 (6.35%) JIRA
5 45 (2.20%) Artifactory
6 39 (1.91%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.32%) 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
1 362 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 283 (13.83%) Public Sector
3 225 (11.00%) Finance
4 97 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (4.50%) Banking
6 56 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (1.86%) 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%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (0.49%) 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
1 461 (22.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 321 (15.69%) Senior
3 225 (11.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 217 (10.61%) Architect
5 208 (10.17%) Azure Engineer
6 189 (9.24%) AWS Engineer
7 165 (8.06%) Data Engineer
8 162 (7.92%) Developer
9 155 (7.58%) Lead
10 150 (7.33%) Platform Engineer
11 117 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (5.57%) GCP Engineer
13 94 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
14 86 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 86 (4.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 76 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
16 75 (3.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 73 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 68 (3.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.60%) Kafka
2 110 (5.38%) Node.js
3 104 (5.08%) React
4 103 (5.03%) .NET
5 101 (4.94%) REST
6 93 (4.55%) PySpark
7 76 (3.71%) OAuth
8 73 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
9 68 (3.32%) ARM Templates
10 63 (3.08%) RESTful
10 63 (3.08%) YAML
11 62 (3.03%) Spring
12 61 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
13 59 (2.88%) Spring Boot
14 56 (2.74%) OpenID
15 51 (2.49%) OAuth2
16 44 (2.15%) JSON
17 42 (2.05%) AngularJS
18 41 (2.00%) AWS CDK
19 29 (1.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 473 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 91 (4.45%) Data Centre
4 88 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 75 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 45 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 35 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.61%) Private Cloud
10 31 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.52%) Replication
11 28 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 26 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
12 26 (1.27%) PKI
13 25 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.03%) NHS
16 18 (0.88%) Clustering
17 17 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 302 (14.76%) Linux
2 159 (7.77%) Windows
3 66 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.81%) VMS
6 26 (1.27%) 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%) Solaris
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,396 (68.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,394 (68.13%) CI/CD
3 1,253 (61.24%) DevOps
4 478 (23.36%) Containerisation
5 462 (22.58%) Agile
6 425 (20.77%) Observability
7 366 (17.89%) Platform Engineering
8 261 (12.76%) AI
9 259 (12.66%) Migration
10 237 (11.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 233 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
12 228 (11.14%) Analytics
13 212 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 209 (10.22%) Test Automation
15 203 (9.92%) Cloud Security
15 203 (9.92%) Software Engineering
16 199 (9.73%) Infrastructure Automation
17 195 (9.53%) Microservices
18 192 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 179 (8.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 922 (45.06%) Python
2 330 (16.13%) SQL
3 303 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 296 (14.47%) Bash
5 234 (11.44%) Java
6 185 (9.04%) Bicep
7 118 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 104 (5.08%) C#
9 101 (4.94%) TypeScript
10 79 (3.86%) Go
11 50 (2.44%) Scala
12 36 (1.76%) Groovy
12 36 (1.76%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.93%) Ruby
14 15 (0.73%) Rust
15 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.39%) R
17 7 (0.34%) C
17 7 (0.34%) Perl
17 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 721 (35.24%) Security Cleared
2 595 (29.08%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.23%) Azure Certification
4 126 (6.16%) DV Cleared
5 100 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 80 (3.91%) Degree
7 61 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.37%) CCNP
13 26 (1.27%) CISSP
14 15 (0.73%) CCNA
15 13 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.59%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.49%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.08%) QA
3 56 (2.74%) GDPR
4 49 (2.39%) NIST
5 46 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.32%) NCSC
9 15 (0.73%) SLA
10 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.49%) GRC
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 549 (26.83%) Docker
2 94 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 75 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 35 (1.71%) 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
10 10 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.24%) Firmware
13 3 (0.15%) Ceph
13 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.15%) Postfix
14 2 (0.098%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.098%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.098%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 780 (38.12%) Kubernetes
2 477 (23.31%) Ansible
3 262 (12.81%) Grafana
4 230 (11.24%) Prometheus
5 81 (3.96%) Argo
6 45 (2.20%) Istio
7 44 (2.15%) Puppet
8 36 (1.76%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.37%) Packer
10 27 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 22 (1.08%) Kibana
13 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.83%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.59%) Consul
15 12 (0.59%) Podman
15 12 (0.59%) Rancher
16 11 (0.54%) HAProxy
16 11 (0.54%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 295 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 202 (9.87%) Google
3 121 (5.91%) Databricks
4 117 (5.72%) Splunk
5 105 (5.13%) VMware
6 92 (4.50%) Red Hat
7 80 (3.91%) Oracle
8 63 (3.08%) Dynatrace
9 54 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 51 (2.49%) Cisco
11 47 (2.30%) Palo Alto
12 34 (1.66%) F5
13 32 (1.56%) Arista
14 27 (1.32%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.12%) IBM
17 22 (1.08%) Aruba
17 22 (1.08%) Pure Storage
18 21 (1.03%) Zscaler
19 16 (0.78%) Okta