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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,372 1,380 1,367
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.20% 4.99% 4.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.04% 32.36% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 953 984
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 11
10th Percentile £56.60 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.19 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £81.46 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%

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 6,076 4,265 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 15.43% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,127 2,838 3,210
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £691 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 61 67
10th Percentile £20.65 £18.87 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.11 £26.45 £24.59
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +43.42% -23.26%
75th Percentile £72.50 £66.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.96 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +75.38% -4.00% -31.82%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +3 1,230 £550 +1.10% 1,251
North of England +10 510 £505 -2.88% 284
Yorkshire -4 234 £500 -2.44% 76
South East -8 211 £560 +11.89% 216
North West +43 201 £575 +9.52% 164
South West +4 173 £550 -8.33% 155
Midlands -12 129 £526 +0.19% 88
West Midlands -20 107 £525 -2.23% 46
North East -5 89 £425 -18.27% 45
East of England -4 52 £525 +8.81% 50
East Midlands -15 20 £500 +2.56% 42
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
1 115 (4.85%) Confluence
2 92 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.37%) Apache
4 41 (1.73%) Jupyter
5 29 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 23 (0.97%) nginx
7 13 (0.55%) SAS
8 12 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.34%) IIS
9 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.21%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.084%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.084%) Traefik
14 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.042%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,358 (57.25%) AWS
2 1,191 (50.21%) Azure
3 655 (27.61%) GitHub
4 476 (20.07%) GCP
5 459 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
6 421 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
7 348 (14.67%) Serverless
8 276 (11.64%) Amazon S3
9 269 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 257 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
11 215 (9.06%) Amazon EKS
12 187 (7.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 168 (7.08%) Entra ID
14 159 (6.70%) Azure AKS
15 146 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (5.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 131 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
18 127 (5.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 122 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (3.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 274 (11.55%) Firewall
2 203 (8.56%) DNS
3 134 (5.65%) VPN
4 106 (4.47%) Network Security
5 86 (3.63%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.33%) WAN
7 77 (3.25%) DHCP
8 68 (2.87%) BGP
9 47 (1.98%) OSPF
10 45 (1.90%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.60%) VLAN
12 36 (1.52%) VXLAN
13 29 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 28 (1.18%) VSAN
15 26 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.05%) SSL
17 24 (1.01%) BIG-IP
18 22 (0.93%) SSH
19 18 (0.76%) Internet
20 16 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (3.46%) SQL Server
5 70 (2.95%) Data Lake
5 70 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 65 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 65 (2.74%) Power BI
7 64 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 63 (2.66%) BigQuery
9 60 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 48 (2.02%) Delta Lake
11 47 (1.98%) Redis
12 46 (1.94%) Relational Database
13 42 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (1.64%) MySQL
15 37 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
15 37 (1.56%) Oracle Database
16 35 (1.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 431 (18.17%) GitLab
2 395 (16.65%) Jenkins
3 350 (14.76%) Git
4 146 (6.16%) JIRA
5 43 (1.81%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.31%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.26%) Maven
8 26 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.76%) Snyk
11 17 (0.72%) MLflow
12 16 (0.67%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.59%) Terragrunt
14 13 (0.55%) MSI
15 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.46%) Gatling
15 11 (0.46%) JUnit
15 11 (0.46%) Selenium
16 8 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 443 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 350 (14.76%) Public Sector
3 306 (12.90%) Finance
4 139 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (3.84%) Banking
6 64 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.11%) Retail
9 26 (1.10%) Military
10 22 (0.93%) Legal
10 22 (0.93%) Publishing
11 21 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 15 (0.63%) Law
13 14 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.55%) Local Government
15 12 (0.51%) Billing
15 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 503 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 427 (18.00%) Senior
3 271 (11.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (9.27%) Platform Engineer
5 217 (9.15%) AWS Engineer
5 217 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
6 213 (8.98%) Architect
7 210 (8.85%) Developer
8 205 (8.64%) Lead
9 164 (6.91%) Data Engineer
10 160 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
12 100 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
13 99 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
14 97 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 96 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 96 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 86 (3.63%) Network Engineer
17 83 (3.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 75 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (7.42%) Kafka
2 164 (6.91%) REST
3 120 (5.06%) .NET
4 115 (4.85%) React
5 96 (4.05%) Node.js
6 90 (3.79%) RESTful
7 87 (3.67%) PySpark
8 83 (3.50%) ARM Templates
9 77 (3.25%) OAuth
10 73 (3.08%) YAML
11 59 (2.49%) Spring
12 56 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (2.32%) Spring Boot
14 51 (2.15%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.11%) JSON
15 50 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
16 49 (2.07%) OpenID
17 42 (1.77%) HTML
18 39 (1.64%) AngularJS
19 36 (1.52%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 564 (23.78%) Cloud Native
2 149 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 70 (2.95%) Public Cloud
8 68 (2.87%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.23%) PKI
10 50 (2.11%) Replication
11 46 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
13 43 (1.81%) AI Agents
14 42 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 34 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
15 34 (1.43%) Private Cloud
16 33 (1.39%) NHS
17 29 (1.22%) Management Information System
18 24 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 426 (17.96%) Linux
2 247 (10.41%) Windows
3 88 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 82 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.31%) Unix
7 29 (1.22%) VMS
8 19 (0.80%) AIX
9 15 (0.63%) CentOS
10 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.084%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,697 (71.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,591 (67.07%) CI/CD
3 1,374 (57.93%) DevOps
4 579 (24.41%) Agile
5 567 (23.90%) Containerisation
6 548 (23.10%) Observability
7 519 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
8 370 (15.60%) AI
9 304 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 287 (12.10%) Migration
10 287 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
11 286 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 281 (11.85%) Test Automation
13 266 (11.21%) Software Engineering
14 265 (11.17%) Cloud Security
15 257 (10.83%) Analytics
16 241 (10.16%) Infrastructure Automation
17 239 (10.08%) DevSecOps
18 232 (9.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 229 (9.65%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,134 (47.81%) Python
2 445 (18.76%) PowerShell
3 438 (18.47%) Bash
4 367 (15.47%) SQL
5 275 (11.59%) Java
6 256 (10.79%) Bicep
7 144 (6.07%) JavaScript
8 133 (5.61%) C#
9 128 (5.40%) TypeScript
10 75 (3.16%) Go
11 51 (2.15%) Scala
12 48 (2.02%) Groovy
13 36 (1.52%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.67%) Rust
15 13 (0.55%) Ruby
16 12 (0.51%) Perl
16 12 (0.51%) R
17 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 861 (36.30%) Security Cleared
2 698 (29.43%) SC Cleared
3 183 (7.72%) DV Cleared
4 160 (6.75%) Azure Certification
5 136 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 93 (3.92%) Degree
7 64 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (1.73%) CISSP
12 38 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (1.31%) CCNP
14 19 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 15 (0.63%) VCAP
17 14 (0.59%) CCNA
18 13 (0.55%) CISM
19 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 79 (3.33%) QA
3 50 (2.11%) GDPR
4 47 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 47 (1.98%) NIST
5 46 (1.94%) NCSC
6 45 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 21 (0.89%) WCAG
8 11 (0.46%) SLA
9 8 (0.34%) GRC
10 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.25%) HL7
12 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.21%) PSD2
12 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.084%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 639 (26.94%) Docker
2 153 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.90%) vSphere
7 42 (1.77%) VMware NSX
8 22 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.59%) Squid
11 10 (0.42%) KVM
12 9 (0.38%) NFS
13 7 (0.30%) Firmware
14 6 (0.25%) Ceph
15 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 922 (38.87%) Kubernetes
2 563 (23.74%) Ansible
3 288 (12.14%) Grafana
4 246 (10.37%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.71%) Argo
6 62 (2.61%) Puppet
7 49 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.64%) Packer
9 36 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.48%) Istio
11 26 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.76%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.76%) Kibana
16 16 (0.67%) Podman
17 15 (0.63%) VxRail
18 14 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 418 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 211 (8.90%) Google
3 153 (6.45%) VMware
4 134 (5.65%) Splunk
5 127 (5.35%) Databricks
6 106 (4.47%) Oracle
7 81 (3.41%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.37%) Red Hat
9 75 (3.16%) ServiceNow
10 71 (2.99%) Cisco
11 60 (2.53%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.85%) F5
13 35 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 34 (1.43%) Arista
15 32 (1.35%) Fortinet
16 30 (1.26%) Informatica
16 30 (1.26%) Zscaler
17 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
18 23 (0.97%) Foundry
19 22 (0.93%) Aruba