Terraform Contracts in England

Terraform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 53 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,307 1,382 2,281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.01% 3.70% 4.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.91% 29.43% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,021 1,729
10th Percentile £400 £413 £456
25th Percentile £455 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 28
10th Percentile £27.28 £46.25 £54.06
25th Percentile £42.25 £50.88 £69.56
Median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -10.26% -
75th Percentile £63.44 £74.44 £88.30
90th Percentile £79.13 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £62.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -20.51% +106.62%

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 4,096 4,696 7,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.69% 12.56% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,382 5,149
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 96 161
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in England

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in England.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in England

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in England.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in England

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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 3 July 2025. 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 +14 786 £532 -5.80% 1,001
North of England +1 152 £500 -3.85% 328
South East -1 107 £500 -13.04% 202
South West +21 88 £615 +11.82% 119
Yorkshire +13 87 £513 +7.89% 88
Midlands +31 76 £519 -1.05% 100
West Midlands +18 55 £550 +4.76% 77
North West -17 48 £513 -6.82% 208
East of England +41 37 £500 -11.11% 79
East Midlands +15 21 £500 +11.11% 22
North East +11 20 £480 - 32
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 55 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (4.13%) Confluence
4 51 (3.90%) Apache
5 29 (2.22%) nginx
6 9 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.31%) Documentum
9 4 (0.31%) FileNet
9 4 (0.31%) IIS
9 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.15%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.15%) Mule
12 1 (0.077%) CMS
12 1 (0.077%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) SAP PM
1 3 (0.23%) Shopify
2 2 (0.15%) Endur
3 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 741 (56.69%) AWS
2 557 (42.62%) Azure
3 267 (20.43%) GitHub
4 218 (16.68%) Serverless
5 208 (15.91%) GCP
6 202 (15.46%) Azure DevOps
7 176 (13.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 145 (11.09%) GitHub Actions
9 128 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
10 117 (8.95%) Amazon S3
11 88 (6.73%) Azure AKS
11 88 (6.73%) Entra ID
12 84 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 73 (5.59%) PaaS
16 63 (4.82%) OpenShift
16 63 (4.82%) SaaS
17 61 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 60 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 129 (9.87%) Firewall
2 108 (8.26%) DNS
3 82 (6.27%) VPN
4 47 (3.60%) TCP/IP
5 45 (3.44%) Network Security
6 28 (2.14%) HTTP
7 27 (2.07%) DHCP
8 23 (1.76%) WAN
9 19 (1.45%) LAN
10 17 (1.30%) NGFW
11 14 (1.07%) BGP
12 12 (0.92%) SSH
13 11 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (0.84%) Internet
13 11 (0.84%) OSPF
13 11 (0.84%) SSL
14 10 (0.77%) Junos
15 9 (0.69%) SMTP
16 8 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
16 8 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (4.67%) NoSQL
4 43 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 42 (3.21%) Power BI
6 41 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
6 41 (3.14%) Big Data
7 40 (3.06%) MongoDB
8 36 (2.75%) SQL Server
9 32 (2.45%) BigQuery
9 32 (2.45%) DynamoDB
10 31 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (2.07%) MySQL
12 23 (1.76%) Hadoop
13 22 (1.68%) Relational Database
14 21 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
15 20 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
17 16 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 251 (19.20%) Jenkins
2 222 (16.99%) GitLab
3 171 (13.08%) Git
4 97 (7.42%) JIRA
5 48 (3.67%) Artifactory
6 39 (2.98%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.84%) CircleCI
7 24 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.68%) Maven
9 21 (1.61%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.61%) Selenium
10 19 (1.45%) Terragrunt
11 15 (1.15%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.07%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.92%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.77%) Gradle
14 10 (0.77%) Vagrant
15 9 (0.69%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 274 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 207 (15.84%) Finance
3 158 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 89 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (5.43%) Banking
6 29 (2.22%) Marketing
7 24 (1.84%) Retail
7 24 (1.84%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.22%) Front Office
10 15 (1.15%) Military
11 14 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (0.99%) Law
12 13 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.92%) Electronics
13 12 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.54%) Legal
17 6 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 335 (25.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 179 (13.70%) Senior
3 155 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
4 151 (11.55%) Architect
5 144 (11.02%) Developer
6 119 (9.10%) Azure Engineer
7 106 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
8 97 (7.42%) Lead
9 95 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 92 (7.04%) Data Engineer
11 91 (6.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 87 (6.66%) Platform Engineer
13 52 (3.98%) Python Engineer
14 50 (3.83%) Software Engineer
15 49 (3.75%) Network Engineer
16 47 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 45 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 40 (3.06%) Azure Architect
18 40 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
18 40 (3.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (8.57%) Kafka
2 72 (5.51%) Node.js
3 70 (5.36%) .NET
4 67 (5.13%) ARM Templates
5 59 (4.51%) REST
6 53 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
7 52 (3.98%) React
8 41 (3.14%) OAuth
9 37 (2.83%) Spring
10 36 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
10 36 (2.75%) PySpark
11 35 (2.68%) RESTful
12 31 (2.37%) AngularJS
13 29 (2.22%) AWS CDK
14 28 (2.14%) .NET Core
14 28 (2.14%) Spring Boot
15 27 (2.07%) YAML
16 26 (1.99%) ADO
16 26 (1.99%) OpenID
17 24 (1.84%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 155 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 55 (4.21%) Public Cloud
3 38 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 31 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 23 (1.76%) PKI
9 16 (1.22%) Anti-Spyware
10 14 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.07%) Replication
11 13 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 12 (0.92%) Hedge funds
13 11 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 276 (21.12%) Linux
2 113 (8.65%) Windows
3 64 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 57 (4.36%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.84%) Unix
6 20 (1.53%) VMS
7 14 (1.07%) CentOS
8 11 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
8 11 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.54%) Android
11 6 (0.46%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.46%) Rocky
12 5 (0.38%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.31%) Solaris
14 2 (0.15%) Debian
14 2 (0.15%) SUSE
15 1 (0.077%) AIX
15 1 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (58.38%) DevOps
2 691 (52.87%) CI/CD
3 676 (51.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 351 (26.86%) Agile
5 303 (23.18%) Containerisation
6 219 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
7 152 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 151 (11.55%) Migration
9 148 (11.32%) Configuration Management
10 145 (11.09%) Microservices
11 142 (10.86%) Software Engineering
12 122 (9.33%) Observability
13 121 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
14 111 (8.49%) Cloud Security
15 109 (8.34%) Analytics
16 108 (8.26%) Test Automation
17 107 (8.19%) Mentoring
18 104 (7.96%) High Availability
19 101 (7.73%) Data Engineering
20 91 (6.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 607 (46.44%) Python
2 227 (17.37%) PowerShell
3 202 (15.46%) SQL
4 190 (14.54%) Bash
5 189 (14.46%) Java
6 85 (6.50%) Go
7 84 (6.43%) Bicep
8 83 (6.35%) C#
9 81 (6.20%) JavaScript
10 62 (4.74%) TypeScript
11 31 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.99%) Groovy
13 22 (1.68%) Perl
13 22 (1.68%) Scala
14 17 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.84%) C++
15 11 (0.84%) PHP
16 9 (0.69%) Ruby
16 9 (0.69%) Rust
17 8 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 389 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 318 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 65 (4.97%) Degree
5 62 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 49 (3.75%) Azure Certification
7 37 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.92%) CCNP
12 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.61%) CCNA
13 8 (0.61%) VCAP
14 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.38%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.37%) GDPR
2 37 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 36 (2.75%) QA
4 29 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 21 (1.61%) NIST
7 15 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.07%) NCSC
9 13 (0.99%) SLA
10 12 (0.92%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.077%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.077%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.077%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.077%) PMO
System Software
1 394 (30.15%) Docker
2 79 (6.04%) Active Directory
3 41 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.69%) vSphere
9 8 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.54%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.31%) NFS
12 3 (0.23%) iptables
12 3 (0.23%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Ceph
13 2 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.15%) FreeRADIUS
13 2 (0.15%) Postfix
13 2 (0.15%) Squid
13 2 (0.15%) XenApp
14 1 (0.077%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 598 (45.75%) Kubernetes
2 413 (31.60%) Ansible
3 147 (11.25%) Grafana
4 137 (10.48%) Prometheus
5 98 (7.50%) Puppet
6 50 (3.83%) Progress Chef
7 37 (2.83%) Packer
8 35 (2.68%) Argo
9 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.76%) Consul
11 22 (1.68%) Podman
12 16 (1.22%) Istio
13 14 (1.07%) Kibana
14 13 (0.99%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.99%) Rancher
15 11 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.84%) vCenter Server
16 9 (0.69%) Nagios
16 9 (0.69%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 182 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.81%) Google
3 72 (5.51%) VMware
4 66 (5.05%) Databricks
5 53 (4.06%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.98%) Splunk
7 44 (3.37%) Cisco
8 28 (2.14%) Oracle
9 24 (1.84%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.68%) CheckPoint
10 22 (1.68%) ServiceNow
11 21 (1.61%) SAP
12 20 (1.53%) Citrix
13 18 (1.38%) Infoblox
14 16 (1.22%) F5
15 15 (1.15%) Dynatrace
16 14 (1.07%) IBM
16 14 (1.07%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.77%) Dell
17 10 (0.77%) Salesforce