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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,929 1,310 1,298
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 5.35% 3.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.53% 33.81% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,354 931 970
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +2.24% -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £559
% change year-on-year -7.08% +1.12% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £48.60
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -15.73% -26.19%
75th Percentile £81.50 £77.80 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.10 £82.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -15.73% -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 5,429 3,875 4,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.67% 15.84% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,760 2,617 3,284
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 42 135
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -17.19% -40.93%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.38 £58.38
90th Percentile £77.40 £85.02 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 1,030 £530 -7.83% 295
North of England +5 390 £500 -4.76% 147
Yorkshire +7 202 £500 -4.76% 54
South East -10 147 £500 -13.04% 146
North West +11 145 £522 -0.57% 71
Midlands -5 141 £525 -2.51% 33
South West -5 122 £550 -10.57% 74
West Midlands -3 116 £531 -9.74% 27
North East -2 48 £475 -9.52% 23
East Midlands -24 24 £447 -8.31% 5
East of England -34 18 £494 +2.07% 34
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 81 (4.20%) Confluence
2 71 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 62 (3.21%) Apache
4 50 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.66%) nginx
6 21 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.10%) Weka
5 1 (0.052%) InDesign
5 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.41%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.052%) Actimize
4 1 (0.052%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.052%) Endur
4 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,057 (54.80%) AWS
2 896 (46.45%) Azure
3 559 (28.98%) GitHub
4 401 (20.79%) GCP
5 367 (19.03%) Serverless
6 347 (17.99%) GitHub Actions
7 339 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
8 337 (17.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 260 (13.48%) Amazon S3
10 242 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
11 201 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (8.29%) Amazon EC2
13 140 (7.26%) OpenShift
14 139 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 137 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
16 135 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 129 (6.69%) Azure AKS
18 128 (6.64%) Azure Monitor
18 128 (6.64%) Entra ID
19 110 (5.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 195 (10.11%) Firewall
2 145 (7.52%) DNS
3 111 (5.75%) VPN
4 101 (5.24%) Network Security
5 47 (2.44%) WAN
6 41 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.66%) BGP
7 32 (1.66%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.61%) DHCP
9 28 (1.45%) LAN
10 23 (1.19%) OSPF
11 18 (0.93%) VXLAN
12 17 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
13 15 (0.78%) SSL
14 12 (0.62%) VLAN
15 11 (0.57%) SAN
15 11 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
16 10 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
16 10 (0.52%) OpenVPN
17 9 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 73 (3.78%) Power BI
5 60 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
6 58 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 58 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 51 (2.64%) SQL Server
8 49 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (2.44%) BigQuery
11 46 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (2.33%) DynamoDB
13 41 (2.13%) Delta Lake
14 34 (1.76%) Redis
15 33 (1.71%) Relational Database
16 26 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (1.14%) Tableau
18 21 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
19 20 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 401 (20.79%) Jenkins
2 355 (18.40%) GitLab
3 261 (13.53%) Git
4 101 (5.24%) JIRA
5 46 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 29 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 25 (1.30%) Liquibase
9 20 (1.04%) CircleCI
10 19 (0.98%) Maven
11 17 (0.88%) MLflow
12 15 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 10 (0.52%) JUnit
13 10 (0.52%) Terragrunt
14 8 (0.41%) git-flow
14 8 (0.41%) Snyk
15 7 (0.36%) Gradle
15 7 (0.36%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 389 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 296 (15.34%) Public Sector
3 213 (11.04%) Finance
4 104 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (5.18%) Banking
6 51 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 19 (0.98%) Retail
10 17 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.62%) Military
12 11 (0.57%) Law
12 11 (0.57%) Legal
13 8 (0.41%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.36%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.26%) Billing
15 5 (0.26%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.26%) Publishing
16 4 (0.21%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 415 (21.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 257 (13.32%) Senior
3 230 (11.92%) Architect
4 189 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
5 187 (9.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 179 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
7 167 (8.66%) Lead
8 160 (8.29%) Developer
8 160 (8.29%) Platform Engineer
9 142 (7.36%) Data Engineer
10 113 (5.86%) GCP Engineer
11 106 (5.50%) AWS DevOps
12 97 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 93 (4.82%) Software Engineer
14 87 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 86 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 80 (4.15%) Site Engineer
17 76 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 62 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
18 62 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.85%) Kafka
2 122 (6.32%) REST
3 115 (5.96%) Node.js
4 100 (5.18%) React
5 88 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
6 86 (4.46%) .NET
7 79 (4.10%) RESTful
8 76 (3.94%) ARM Templates
9 67 (3.47%) OAuth
10 66 (3.42%) PySpark
11 60 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
11 60 (3.11%) Spring
12 53 (2.75%) Spring Boot
13 51 (2.64%) YAML
14 48 (2.49%) AngularJS
15 43 (2.23%) OpenID
16 37 (1.92%) OAuth2
17 35 (1.81%) AWS CDK
18 29 (1.50%) .NET Core
18 29 (1.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 347 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 65 (3.37%) Public Cloud
6 56 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 37 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.56%) NHS
9 30 (1.56%) PKI
10 29 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.09%) Replication
13 16 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.78%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.73%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.73%) Clustering
15 14 (0.73%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 346 (17.94%) Linux
2 158 (8.19%) Windows
3 50 (2.59%) VMS
4 42 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.87%) Unix
7 12 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.52%) CentOS
9 6 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.052%) AIX
14 1 (0.052%) Android
14 1 (0.052%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.052%) Rocky
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,305 (67.65%) CI/CD
2 1,237 (64.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,191 (61.74%) DevOps
4 503 (26.08%) Containerisation
5 416 (21.57%) Agile
6 368 (19.08%) Observability
7 289 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
8 271 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
9 269 (13.95%) Migration
10 247 (12.80%) Analytics
11 231 (11.98%) Microservices
12 222 (11.51%) Infrastructure Automation
13 216 (11.20%) AI
14 212 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 204 (10.58%) Software Engineering
16 188 (9.75%) Test Automation
17 185 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
18 183 (9.49%) Cloud Security
19 175 (9.07%) Mentoring
20 173 (8.97%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 934 (48.42%) Python
2 305 (15.81%) Bash
3 303 (15.71%) SQL
4 267 (13.84%) PowerShell
5 210 (10.89%) Java
6 164 (8.50%) Bicep
7 116 (6.01%) Go
8 114 (5.91%) JavaScript
9 98 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 97 (5.03%) C#
11 44 (2.28%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.61%) Ruby
13 28 (1.45%) Scala
14 25 (1.30%) Groovy
15 15 (0.78%) Rust
16 9 (0.47%) C
17 8 (0.41%) PHP
18 6 (0.31%) C++
18 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 676 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 556 (28.82%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.74%) AWS Certification
4 125 (6.48%) Azure Certification
5 108 (5.60%) DV Cleared
6 99 (5.13%) Degree
7 72 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (2.02%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.61%) CISSP
14 29 (1.50%) CCNP
15 19 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
17 16 (0.83%) CCIE
18 15 (0.78%) CISM
19 14 (0.73%) OCP
20 12 (0.62%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (4.98%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.10%) GDPR
3 65 (3.37%) QA
4 58 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.85%) NIST
6 45 (2.33%) NCSC
7 34 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.04%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.62%) SLA
11 11 (0.57%) GRC
12 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.52%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.26%) HL7
15 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 573 (29.70%) Docker
2 102 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 85 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.38%) vSphere
6 37 (1.92%) VMware NSX
7 31 (1.61%) Hyper-V
8 30 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.47%) Squid
10 7 (0.36%) KVM
11 6 (0.31%) NFS
12 5 (0.26%) Lustre
12 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.21%) Firmware
13 4 (0.21%) GPFS
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.10%) Ceph
15 2 (0.10%) HDFS
16 1 (0.052%) iptables
Systems Management
1 794 (41.16%) Kubernetes
2 505 (26.18%) Ansible
3 287 (14.88%) Grafana
4 249 (12.91%) Prometheus
5 81 (4.20%) Argo
6 50 (2.59%) Istio
7 37 (1.92%) Packer
7 37 (1.92%) Puppet
8 34 (1.76%) Progress Chef
9 32 (1.66%) vCenter Server
10 30 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.09%) Consul
12 16 (0.83%) Rancher
13 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.73%) Kibana
14 14 (0.73%) Podman
15 13 (0.67%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.57%) linkerd
17 9 (0.47%) Sysdig
18 7 (0.36%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 295 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.49%) Google
3 142 (7.36%) Databricks
4 126 (6.53%) Splunk
4 126 (6.53%) VMware
5 90 (4.67%) Red Hat
6 55 (2.85%) Oracle
7 46 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 44 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.97%) Cisco
10 34 (1.76%) Pure Storage
11 29 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.35%) F5
13 25 (1.30%) IBM
14 23 (1.19%) Fortinet
15 21 (1.09%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.04%) Atlassian
17 17 (0.88%) Citrix
18 16 (0.83%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.83%) PagerDuty