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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,277 1,375 1,392
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.07% 5.01% 3.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.15% 32.42% 29.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 949 1,014
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £529 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 11
10th Percentile £54.37 £47.65 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +0.81% -20.51%

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 5,969 4,241 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.30% 15.46% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,079 2,816 3,350
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £421 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +1.50% -1.57% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £35.22 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £39.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% +24.80% -45.65%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 1,196 £550 +0.46% 275
North of England +20 487 £500 -1.23% 131
Yorkshire 0 231 £500 -2.44% 34
North West +42 193 £550 +4.76% 75
South East -21 182 £550 +10.00% 118
South West -4 149 £550 -8.33% 75
Midlands -7 138 £519 +3.75% 37
West Midlands -22 113 £525 -2.23% 27
North East -2 76 £425 -13.27% 23
East of England -1 52 £549 +9.86% 8
East Midlands -13 23 £475 -5.00% 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
1 119 (5.23%) Confluence
2 90 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (3.29%) Apache
5 37 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.23%) nginx
8 13 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.57%) SAS
9 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.088%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.088%) Drupal
12 2 (0.088%) Traefik
12 2 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.044%) InDesign
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.088%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.088%) Endur
2 2 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,290 (56.65%) AWS
2 1,121 (49.23%) Azure
3 611 (26.83%) GitHub
4 454 (19.94%) GCP
5 418 (18.36%) GitHub Actions
6 370 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
7 343 (15.06%) Serverless
8 287 (12.60%) Amazon S3
9 261 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 252 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
11 199 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
12 163 (7.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 151 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (6.46%) Entra ID
15 145 (6.37%) Azure AKS
16 137 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 131 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 119 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
19 111 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (4.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 251 (11.02%) Firewall
2 179 (7.86%) DNS
3 131 (5.75%) VPN
4 102 (4.48%) Network Security
5 77 (3.38%) WAN
6 67 (2.94%) BGP
6 67 (2.94%) TCP/IP
7 47 (2.06%) DHCP
7 47 (2.06%) OSPF
8 41 (1.80%) SD-WAN
9 35 (1.54%) VXLAN
10 30 (1.32%) VLAN
11 28 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 27 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
13 23 (1.01%) BIG-IP
14 19 (0.83%) SAN
14 19 (0.83%) SSH
15 18 (0.79%) SSL
16 17 (0.75%) IPsec
17 16 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
4 76 (3.34%) Data Lake
5 70 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 69 (3.03%) Power BI
7 68 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.81%) BigQuery
9 60 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
10 59 (2.59%) DynamoDB
11 57 (2.50%) NoSQL
12 50 (2.20%) Delta Lake
12 50 (2.20%) MongoDB
13 46 (2.02%) Relational Database
14 39 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (1.71%) Oracle Database
15 33 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
15 33 (1.45%) Redis
16 29 (1.27%) Big Data
17 28 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 405 (17.79%) GitLab
2 376 (16.51%) Jenkins
3 324 (14.23%) Git
4 152 (6.68%) JIRA
5 44 (1.93%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 23 (1.01%) Maven
9 19 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.79%) MLflow
11 17 (0.75%) Snyk
12 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.48%) Gatling
14 10 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.44%) JUnit
14 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.44%) MSI
15 9 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 412 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 336 (14.76%) Public Sector
3 277 (12.17%) Finance
4 126 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (3.86%) Banking
6 69 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (1.76%) Retail
9 26 (1.14%) Legal
9 26 (1.14%) Military
10 21 (0.92%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (0.70%) Publishing
13 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.66%) Law
14 11 (0.48%) Billing
14 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 508 (22.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 395 (17.35%) Senior
3 254 (11.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 223 (9.79%) Architect
5 221 (9.71%) AWS Engineer
6 213 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
7 201 (8.83%) Platform Engineer
8 191 (8.39%) Lead
9 180 (7.91%) Developer
10 178 (7.82%) Data Engineer
11 149 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 107 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
13 99 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 99 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
14 98 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 98 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
15 94 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 80 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 77 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 76 (3.34%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.33%) Kafka
2 132 (5.80%) REST
3 108 (4.74%) .NET
4 105 (4.61%) React
5 97 (4.26%) Node.js
5 97 (4.26%) PySpark
6 77 (3.38%) OAuth
7 76 (3.34%) RESTful
8 68 (2.99%) ARM Templates
9 64 (2.81%) YAML
10 61 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 57 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (2.42%) OpenID
13 53 (2.33%) OAuth2
13 53 (2.33%) Spring
14 51 (2.24%) Spring Boot
15 45 (1.98%) JSON
16 37 (1.62%) AngularJS
17 35 (1.54%) AWS CDK
18 34 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 536 (23.54%) Cloud Native
2 129 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.30%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 77 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 67 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 53 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 39 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.67%) PKI
11 36 (1.58%) Replication
12 34 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 30 (1.32%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.32%) Private Cloud
14 28 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (1.23%) NHS
15 26 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
16 24 (1.05%) Virtual Team
17 22 (0.97%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 373 (16.38%) Linux
2 211 (9.27%) Windows
3 83 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.41%) VMS
6 28 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.14%) Unix
8 17 (0.75%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.088%) Solaris
16 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,584 (69.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,515 (66.53%) CI/CD
3 1,331 (58.45%) DevOps
4 558 (24.51%) Agile
5 547 (24.02%) Containerisation
6 481 (21.12%) Observability
7 462 (20.29%) Platform Engineering
8 323 (14.19%) AI
9 281 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
10 277 (12.17%) Migration
11 257 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 245 (10.76%) Analytics
13 243 (10.67%) Test Automation
14 242 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 241 (10.58%) Software Engineering
16 239 (10.50%) Cloud Security
17 222 (9.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 219 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
19 211 (9.27%) Microservices
20 201 (8.83%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (46.46%) Python
2 384 (16.86%) Bash
3 362 (15.90%) PowerShell
4 343 (15.06%) SQL
5 252 (11.07%) Java
6 221 (9.71%) Bicep
7 132 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 120 (5.27%) TypeScript
9 116 (5.09%) C#
10 83 (3.65%) Go
11 51 (2.24%) Scala
12 46 (2.02%) Groovy
13 33 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.75%) Rust
15 16 (0.70%) Ruby
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 10 (0.44%) R
18 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.35%) Perl
19 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 821 (36.06%) Security Cleared
2 671 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 169 (7.42%) DV Cleared
4 140 (6.15%) Azure Certification
5 120 (5.27%) AWS Certification
6 85 (3.73%) Degree
7 65 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.27%) CCNP
12 28 (1.23%) CISSP
13 18 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.70%) CCNA
15 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
17 10 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.07%) QA
3 49 (2.15%) GDPR
4 43 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.76%) NIST
6 39 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (1.67%) NCSC
8 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.70%) WCAG
10 10 (0.44%) GRC
10 10 (0.44%) SLA
11 9 (0.40%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.22%) HL7
13 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.13%) PSD2
15 2 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 606 (26.61%) Docker
2 129 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 93 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.71%) Hyper-V
7 38 (1.67%) vSphere
8 37 (1.62%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.92%) Squid
10 19 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.48%) NFS
13 7 (0.31%) KVM
14 5 (0.22%) Firmware
15 3 (0.13%) Ceph
15 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 2 (0.088%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.088%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.088%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 858 (37.68%) Kubernetes
2 514 (22.57%) Ansible
3 288 (12.65%) Grafana
4 244 (10.72%) Prometheus
5 92 (4.04%) Argo
6 56 (2.46%) Puppet
7 42 (1.84%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.49%) Packer
9 31 (1.36%) Istio
10 29 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.27%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (1.05%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.83%) Kibana
14 18 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
15 17 (0.75%) Data Guard
16 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 15 (0.66%) Podman
18 13 (0.57%) Kubeflow
19 12 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 364 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 199 (8.74%) Google
3 130 (5.71%) Splunk
4 125 (5.49%) VMware
5 123 (5.40%) Databricks
6 100 (4.39%) Oracle
7 87 (3.82%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.34%) Dynatrace
9 70 (3.07%) ServiceNow
10 64 (2.81%) Cisco
11 58 (2.55%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.76%) F5
13 34 (1.49%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.45%) Arista
15 30 (1.32%) Zscaler
16 28 (1.23%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.05%) Informatica
18 23 (1.01%) Aruba
19 22 (0.97%) Foundry
20 20 (0.88%) Juniper