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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 37 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,418 1,436 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.22% 5.17% 4.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.54% 20.64% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,684 994 984
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £457 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 8 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £46.68 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £84.02 £67.49 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -10.26%

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 9,852 6,959 8,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.04% 24.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,462 4,762 5,492
10th Percentile £380 £356 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 163 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.38
25th Percentile £50.88 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £71.60 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.62% -14.77% +0.57%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +2 1,271 £550 +3.53% 708
North of England +6 507 £500 -2.44% 184
Yorkshire -6 233 £513 - 59
South East -10 215 £560 +11.94% 189
North West +21 192 £555 +8.29% 87
South West +2 187 £553 -0.36% 117
Midlands -36 125 £494 -9.40% 72
West Midlands -30 103 £519 -5.68% 44
North East -2 94 £425 -16.67% 38
East of England -19 49 £537 +7.43% 42
East Midlands -8 21 £425 -15.00% 28
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
1 116 (4.80%) Confluence
2 99 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 85 (3.52%) Apache
5 44 (1.82%) Jupyter
6 34 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.03%) nginx
8 12 (0.50%) SAS
9 11 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) IIS
12 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.083%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.083%) PowerExchange
16 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.041%) Traefik
16 1 (0.041%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.041%) Houdini
4 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.041%) NUKE
4 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.083%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.083%) Endur
2 2 (0.083%) 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 1,382 (57.15%) AWS
2 1,221 (50.50%) Azure
3 665 (27.50%) GitHub
4 473 (19.56%) GCP
5 468 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
6 433 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
7 361 (14.93%) Serverless
8 282 (11.66%) Amazon S3
9 265 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
10 255 (10.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 218 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
12 196 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 182 (7.53%) Entra ID
14 158 (6.53%) Azure AKS
15 148 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
16 144 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
17 136 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 128 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
19 122 (5.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 96 (3.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 280 (11.58%) Firewall
2 206 (8.52%) DNS
3 134 (5.54%) VPN
4 115 (4.76%) Network Security
5 88 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 82 (3.39%) DHCP
7 77 (3.18%) WAN
8 65 (2.69%) BGP
9 47 (1.94%) OSPF
10 45 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 41 (1.70%) VLAN
12 33 (1.36%) VXLAN
13 32 (1.32%) VSAN
14 29 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (1.03%) SSH
16 24 (0.99%) BIG-IP
17 23 (0.95%) SSL
18 17 (0.70%) Internet
18 17 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
5 76 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 75 (3.10%) DynamoDB
6 75 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 74 (3.06%) NoSQL
8 69 (2.85%) Power BI
9 68 (2.81%) MongoDB
10 64 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (2.40%) BigQuery
12 48 (1.99%) MySQL
13 47 (1.94%) Redis
14 46 (1.90%) Delta Lake
14 46 (1.90%) Relational Database
15 42 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.70%) Metadata
17 37 (1.53%) Big Data
18 36 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 448 (18.53%) GitLab
2 386 (15.96%) Jenkins
3 358 (14.81%) Git
4 146 (6.04%) JIRA
5 45 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.36%) Maven
7 31 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.83%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.74%) Snyk
12 17 (0.70%) Selenium
12 17 (0.70%) Terragrunt
13 16 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.58%) MLflow
15 13 (0.54%) JUnit
16 12 (0.50%) MSI
17 10 (0.41%) Gatling
17 10 (0.41%) Mockito
18 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
General
1 474 (19.60%) Social Skills
2 355 (14.68%) Public Sector
3 323 (13.36%) Finance
4 143 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (3.97%) Banking
6 71 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (2.11%) Retail
9 33 (1.36%) Military
10 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.87%) Legal
12 20 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 19 (0.79%) Publishing
14 16 (0.66%) Law
15 15 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.62%) Local Government
16 13 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.50%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 522 (21.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 436 (18.03%) Senior
3 264 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
5 226 (9.35%) Platform Engineer
6 223 (9.22%) Developer
7 220 (9.10%) AWS Engineer
8 206 (8.52%) Lead
9 205 (8.48%) Architect
10 177 (7.32%) Data Engineer
11 165 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 102 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 101 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
14 100 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
15 96 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 96 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 94 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 86 (3.56%) GCP Engineer
18 84 (3.47%) Network Engineer
19 79 (3.27%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.78%) Kafka
2 163 (6.74%) REST
3 121 (5.00%) .NET
4 114 (4.71%) React
5 98 (4.05%) ARM Templates
6 95 (3.93%) PySpark
7 94 (3.89%) RESTful
8 93 (3.85%) Node.js
9 83 (3.43%) OAuth
10 79 (3.27%) YAML
11 61 (2.52%) Spring
12 58 (2.40%) Spring Boot
13 56 (2.32%) OAuth2
14 55 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
15 54 (2.23%) OpenID
16 50 (2.07%) JSON
17 46 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
18 44 (1.82%) HTML
19 39 (1.61%) CSS
20 38 (1.57%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 578 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 150 (6.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 109 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 87 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 82 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 74 (3.06%) Security Posture
8 70 (2.89%) Public Cloud
9 52 (2.15%) PKI
9 52 (2.15%) Replication
10 51 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 47 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
15 36 (1.49%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
17 34 (1.41%) NHS
18 33 (1.36%) Management Information System
19 26 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 433 (17.91%) Linux
2 246 (10.17%) Windows
3 89 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 83 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (1.61%) Unix
6 36 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 32 (1.32%) VMS
8 19 (0.79%) AIX
9 14 (0.58%) CentOS
10 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.083%) Android
16 2 (0.083%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.083%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,769 (73.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,635 (67.62%) CI/CD
3 1,393 (57.61%) DevOps
4 611 (25.27%) Agile
5 592 (24.48%) Containerisation
6 588 (24.32%) Observability
7 554 (22.91%) Platform Engineering
8 402 (16.63%) AI
9 320 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 295 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
10 295 (12.20%) Software Engineering
11 293 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 291 (12.03%) Test Automation
13 290 (11.99%) Migration
14 280 (11.58%) DevSecOps
15 275 (11.37%) Cloud Security
16 266 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
17 264 (10.92%) Analytics
18 243 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 237 (9.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,171 (48.43%) Python
2 460 (19.02%) PowerShell
3 447 (18.49%) Bash
4 368 (15.22%) SQL
5 284 (11.75%) Java
6 276 (11.41%) Bicep
7 143 (5.91%) JavaScript
8 135 (5.58%) C#
9 126 (5.21%) TypeScript
10 76 (3.14%) Go
11 52 (2.15%) Scala
12 50 (2.07%) Groovy
13 44 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.54%) Perl
16 11 (0.45%) Ruby
16 11 (0.45%) Rust
17 10 (0.41%) R
18 9 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 872 (36.06%) Security Cleared
2 708 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 194 (8.02%) DV Cleared
4 167 (6.91%) Azure Certification
5 144 (5.96%) AWS Certification
6 102 (4.22%) Degree
7 61 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 51 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (2.03%) CISSP
9 49 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.20%) CCNP
12 21 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 18 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 18 (0.74%) VCAP
14 17 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 17 (0.70%) CISM
15 14 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 88 (3.64%) QA
3 55 (2.27%) NIST
4 52 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 48 (1.99%) NCSC
7 44 (1.82%) GDPR
8 23 (0.95%) WCAG
9 17 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.45%) SLA
11 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.25%) HL7
14 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.21%) PSD2
15 4 (0.17%) GRC
15 4 (0.17%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 668 (27.63%) Docker
2 160 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 121 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 50 (2.07%) vSphere
7 47 (1.94%) Hyper-V
8 45 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 33 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.62%) Squid
12 9 (0.37%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 4 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 958 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 585 (24.19%) Ansible
3 297 (12.28%) Grafana
4 238 (9.84%) Prometheus
5 86 (3.56%) Argo
6 61 (2.52%) Puppet
7 52 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 38 (1.57%) Packer
10 33 (1.36%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.16%) Istio
12 24 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.91%) Kustomize
14 19 (0.79%) Kibana
14 19 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
15 18 (0.74%) Data Guard
15 18 (0.74%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.62%) Kubeflow
16 15 (0.62%) Podman
16 15 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 446 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 200 (8.27%) Google
3 160 (6.62%) VMware
4 140 (5.79%) Databricks
5 135 (5.58%) Splunk
6 105 (4.34%) Oracle
7 80 (3.31%) Cisco
8 78 (3.23%) Dynatrace
9 77 (3.18%) Red Hat
10 70 (2.89%) ServiceNow
11 63 (2.61%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.74%) F5
13 37 (1.53%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.36%) Arista
14 33 (1.36%) Zscaler
15 30 (1.24%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.24%) Informatica
16 25 (1.03%) CyberArk
16 25 (1.03%) Foundry
17 22 (0.91%) Aruba