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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,455 1,440 1,399
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.27% 5.15% 4.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.80% 20.17% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,724 993 988
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -4.26%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £727
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 10
10th Percentile £58.43 £42.10 £54.13
25th Percentile £63.88 £51.25 £59.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.84 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

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 9,900 7,138 8,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.55% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,515 4,847 5,356
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £446 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 173 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +5 1,294 £550 +4.76% 1,511
North of England +6 509 £500 - 336
Yorkshire -10 234 £513 +1.18% 90
South East -7 223 £575 +14.89% 303
North West +22 188 £575 +15.00% 200
South West +8 188 £550 - 221
Midlands -29 119 £477 -13.27% 135
North East -5 99 £425 -17.48% 48
West Midlands -34 93 £511 -7.18% 85
East of England -25 46 £550 +11.89% 80
East Midlands -3 25 £409 -16.15% 50
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
1 106 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.24%) Confluence
3 96 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 93 (3.79%) Apache
5 49 (2.00%) Jupyter
6 39 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.14%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) IIS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.081%) Traefik
14 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.041%) NUKE
6 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) 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 1,407 (57.31%) AWS
2 1,224 (49.86%) Azure
3 652 (26.56%) GitHub
4 506 (20.61%) GCP
5 459 (18.70%) GitHub Actions
6 437 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
7 348 (14.18%) Serverless
8 285 (11.61%) Amazon S3
9 259 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
10 253 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 231 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
12 216 (8.80%) Entra ID
13 203 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 166 (6.76%) Azure AKS
15 154 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
16 149 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
17 141 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 133 (5.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 125 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
20 100 (4.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 272 (11.08%) Firewall
2 195 (7.94%) DNS
3 129 (5.25%) VPN
4 122 (4.97%) Network Security
5 89 (3.63%) TCP/IP
6 83 (3.38%) DHCP
7 75 (3.05%) WAN
8 66 (2.69%) BGP
9 48 (1.96%) OSPF
10 45 (1.83%) SD-WAN
11 42 (1.71%) VLAN
12 32 (1.30%) VSAN
13 29 (1.18%) VXLAN
14 28 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
16 26 (1.06%) SSH
17 25 (1.02%) SSL
18 24 (0.98%) BIG-IP
19 18 (0.73%) Internet
20 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (3.58%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
6 73 (2.97%) MongoDB
7 71 (2.89%) NoSQL
8 70 (2.85%) DynamoDB
9 69 (2.81%) SQL Server
10 67 (2.73%) BigQuery
11 66 (2.69%) Power BI
12 65 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 54 (2.20%) Redis
14 52 (2.12%) MySQL
15 49 (2.00%) Relational Database
16 45 (1.83%) Delta Lake
17 44 (1.79%) Metadata
18 42 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
19 36 (1.47%) Big Data
20 33 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 470 (19.14%) GitLab
2 376 (15.32%) Git
2 376 (15.32%) Jenkins
3 131 (5.34%) JIRA
4 42 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 29 (1.18%) Maven
6 29 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 21 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 21 (0.86%) Claude Code
8 20 (0.81%) Selenium
9 19 (0.77%) Snyk
10 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
11 15 (0.61%) JUnit
12 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.53%) MLflow
14 12 (0.49%) MSI
15 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (0.41%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 500 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 357 (14.54%) Public Sector
3 346 (14.09%) Finance
4 162 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (4.60%) Banking
6 73 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (1.91%) Retail
9 36 (1.47%) Military
10 24 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (0.73%) Law
12 18 (0.73%) Legal
12 18 (0.73%) Publishing
13 16 (0.65%) Local Government
14 15 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.57%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.49%) Billing
16 12 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 535 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 444 (18.09%) Senior
3 267 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 239 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
5 226 (9.21%) Developer
6 224 (9.12%) Platform Engineer
7 222 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
8 218 (8.88%) Architect
9 202 (8.23%) Lead
10 183 (7.45%) Data Engineer
11 164 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
12 105 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
13 101 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 100 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 99 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 98 (3.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 95 (3.87%) Security Engineer
18 85 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
18 85 (3.46%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (7.98%) Kafka
2 175 (7.13%) REST
3 114 (4.64%) .NET
4 110 (4.48%) React
5 103 (4.20%) OAuth
6 101 (4.11%) ARM Templates
6 101 (4.11%) RESTful
7 98 (3.99%) PySpark
8 86 (3.50%) Node.js
9 75 (3.05%) YAML
10 68 (2.77%) OAuth2
11 66 (2.69%) OpenID
12 65 (2.65%) Spring
13 64 (2.61%) Spring Boot
14 58 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
15 49 (2.00%) JSON
16 42 (1.71%) HTML
16 42 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
17 37 (1.51%) AWS CDK
17 37 (1.51%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 587 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 114 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (4.24%) Data Centre
5 94 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 86 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.50%) Security Posture
7 80 (3.26%) Public Cloud
8 57 (2.32%) PKI
9 55 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 53 (2.16%) Replication
11 52 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
13 43 (1.75%) Private Cloud
14 42 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.43%) Management Information System
16 34 (1.38%) NHS
17 33 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
18 27 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 447 (18.21%) Linux
2 246 (10.02%) Windows
3 87 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.67%) Unix
6 39 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.18%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.081%) Android
15 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.081%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,816 (73.97%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,676 (68.27%) CI/CD
3 1,412 (57.52%) DevOps
4 625 (25.46%) Observability
5 604 (24.60%) Agile
6 603 (24.56%) Containerisation
7 568 (23.14%) Platform Engineering
8 425 (17.31%) AI
9 343 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 323 (13.16%) Migration
11 316 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 316 (12.87%) Test Automation
12 312 (12.71%) Cloud Security
13 304 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
14 301 (12.26%) Software Engineering
15 290 (11.81%) DevSecOps
16 280 (11.41%) Analytics
17 273 (11.12%) Infrastructure Automation
18 268 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 247 (10.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,213 (49.41%) Python
2 471 (19.19%) PowerShell
3 452 (18.41%) Bash
4 374 (15.23%) SQL
5 286 (11.65%) Java
6 285 (11.61%) Bicep
7 141 (5.74%) JavaScript
8 131 (5.34%) C#
9 124 (5.05%) TypeScript
10 97 (3.95%) Go
11 51 (2.08%) Groovy
12 46 (1.87%) Scala
13 44 (1.79%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 12 (0.49%) C
17 10 (0.41%) Rust
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.37%) R
19 8 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 877 (35.72%) Security Cleared
2 706 (28.76%) SC Cleared
3 202 (8.23%) DV Cleared
4 169 (6.88%) Azure Certification
5 162 (6.60%) AWS Certification
6 104 (4.24%) Degree
7 66 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 55 (2.24%) CISSP
10 53 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 51 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.18%) CCNP
14 20 (0.81%) CISM
15 19 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 19 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.61%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.87%) QA
3 59 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.20%) NIST
5 53 (2.16%) NCSC
6 51 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.71%) GDPR
8 24 (0.98%) WCAG
9 20 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.45%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.20%) HL7
15 5 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 686 (27.94%) Docker
2 171 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 47 (1.91%) vSphere
7 42 (1.71%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 35 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 6 (0.24%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.16%) Firmware
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,002 (40.81%) Kubernetes
2 589 (23.99%) Ansible
3 300 (12.22%) Grafana
4 239 (9.74%) Prometheus
5 81 (3.30%) Argo
6 60 (2.44%) Puppet
7 52 (2.12%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.63%) Packer
10 29 (1.18%) Istio
11 27 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 26 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.94%) Kibana
14 22 (0.90%) Kustomize
15 19 (0.77%) Kubeflow
16 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
17 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
18 15 (0.61%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.61%) SCCM
19 14 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 473 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 228 (9.29%) Google
3 156 (6.35%) VMware
4 143 (5.82%) Databricks
5 140 (5.70%) Splunk
6 99 (4.03%) Oracle
7 90 (3.67%) Dynatrace
8 85 (3.46%) Cisco
9 77 (3.14%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.65%) Red Hat
11 63 (2.57%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.59%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.55%) F5
14 34 (1.38%) Arista
15 33 (1.34%) Zscaler
16 30 (1.22%) Fortinet
17 29 (1.18%) Informatica
18 28 (1.14%) CyberArk
18 28 (1.14%) Okta
19 24 (0.98%) Foundry