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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,465 1,445 1,386
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.30% 5.17% 4.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.93% 20.18% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,726 994 977
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% -3.48%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £737
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £62.24 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.02 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

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 9,886 7,159 8,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.62% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,508 4,850 5,253
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 171 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.61 £35.50
25th Percentile £53.43 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +6 1,306 £550 +4.76% 1,315
North of England +3 506 £500 - 330
Yorkshire -10 225 £514 +1.48% 81
South East 0 221 £575 +14.89% 219
South West +7 193 £550 - 211
North West +18 192 £573 +14.50% 204
Midlands -37 120 £477 -13.27% 139
North East -4 101 £425 -18.27% 45
West Midlands -30 94 £512 -7.00% 87
East of England -16 46 £549 +13.85% 81
East Midlands -4 25 £409 -16.15% 52
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
1 106 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.26%) Confluence
3 99 (4.02%) Apache Spark
4 96 (3.89%) Apache
5 49 (1.99%) Jupyter
6 41 (1.66%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.14%) nginx
8 11 (0.45%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) IIS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.081%) Traefik
14 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.041%) NUKE
6 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) 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 1,409 (57.16%) AWS
2 1,234 (50.06%) Azure
3 647 (26.25%) GitHub
4 517 (20.97%) GCP
5 453 (18.38%) GitHub Actions
6 437 (17.73%) Azure DevOps
7 346 (14.04%) Serverless
8 294 (11.93%) Amazon S3
9 258 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
10 256 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 240 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
12 222 (9.01%) Entra ID
13 211 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 166 (6.73%) Azure AKS
15 159 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
16 158 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
17 148 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 136 (5.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 131 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
20 104 (4.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 274 (11.12%) Firewall
2 198 (8.03%) DNS
3 132 (5.35%) Network Security
4 131 (5.31%) VPN
5 91 (3.69%) TCP/IP
6 85 (3.45%) DHCP
7 73 (2.96%) WAN
8 66 (2.68%) BGP
9 48 (1.95%) OSPF
10 44 (1.78%) SD-WAN
10 44 (1.78%) VLAN
11 33 (1.34%) VSAN
12 29 (1.18%) VXLAN
13 28 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.10%) SSH
15 26 (1.05%) SSL
16 24 (0.97%) BIG-IP
17 18 (0.73%) Internet
18 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (3.53%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 74 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
7 72 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 71 (2.88%) SQL Server
9 67 (2.72%) BigQuery
10 66 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 66 (2.68%) DynamoDB
11 65 (2.64%) Power BI
12 54 (2.19%) Redis
13 53 (2.15%) MySQL
14 51 (2.07%) Relational Database
15 50 (2.03%) Metadata
16 47 (1.91%) Delta Lake
17 43 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
18 39 (1.58%) Big Data
19 33 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 480 (19.47%) GitLab
2 385 (15.62%) Jenkins
3 383 (15.54%) Git
4 131 (5.31%) JIRA
5 42 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.34%) Maven
7 32 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 22 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 21 (0.85%) Claude Code
11 20 (0.81%) Selenium
12 19 (0.77%) Snyk
13 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
14 15 (0.61%) JUnit
15 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.49%) MSI
17 11 (0.45%) MLflow
18 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 10 (0.41%) Cucumber
19 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 509 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 354 (14.36%) Public Sector
3 351 (14.24%) Finance
4 164 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (4.71%) Banking
6 72 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (1.91%) Retail
8 46 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (1.50%) Military
10 26 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.81%) Legal
12 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (0.73%) Law
13 18 (0.73%) Publishing
14 17 (0.69%) Local Government
15 15 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.61%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.49%) Billing
17 11 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 541 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 448 (18.17%) Senior
3 268 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 239 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
5 222 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
5 222 (9.01%) Platform Engineer
6 220 (8.92%) Developer
7 214 (8.68%) Architect
8 203 (8.24%) Lead
9 185 (7.51%) Data Engineer
10 164 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 109 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
12 106 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
13 103 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 100 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 100 (4.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 99 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 97 (3.94%) Security Engineer
17 85 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
18 84 (3.41%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (8.03%) Kafka
2 182 (7.38%) REST
3 108 (4.38%) .NET
4 106 (4.30%) ARM Templates
4 106 (4.30%) OAuth
4 106 (4.30%) React
5 101 (4.10%) RESTful
6 94 (3.81%) PySpark
7 83 (3.37%) Node.js
8 77 (3.12%) YAML
9 71 (2.88%) OpenID
10 69 (2.80%) OAuth2
11 65 (2.64%) Spring
12 64 (2.60%) Spring Boot
13 60 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
14 50 (2.03%) JSON
15 42 (1.70%) HTML
15 42 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
16 39 (1.58%) Keycloak
17 38 (1.54%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 584 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 147 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.30%) Data Centre
5 98 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 87 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.53%) Security Posture
7 79 (3.20%) Public Cloud
8 60 (2.43%) PKI
9 57 (2.31%) AI Agents
10 54 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
11 53 (2.15%) Replication
12 52 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
13 48 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
14 44 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
15 42 (1.70%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
17 34 (1.38%) Management Information System
18 32 (1.30%) NHS
19 27 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 452 (18.34%) Linux
2 248 (10.06%) Windows
3 89 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 88 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.74%) Unix
6 41 (1.66%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.22%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.081%) Android
15 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.081%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,825 (74.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,686 (68.40%) CI/CD
3 1,426 (57.85%) DevOps
4 626 (25.40%) Observability
5 610 (24.75%) Containerisation
6 599 (24.30%) Agile
7 580 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
8 433 (17.57%) AI
9 349 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 326 (13.23%) Migration
11 321 (13.02%) Test Automation
12 315 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 312 (12.66%) Cloud Security
14 307 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
15 299 (12.13%) Software Engineering
16 295 (11.97%) DevSecOps
17 282 (11.44%) Analytics
18 277 (11.24%) Infrastructure Automation
19 274 (11.12%) Stakeholder Management
20 250 (10.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,225 (49.70%) Python
2 476 (19.31%) PowerShell
3 459 (18.62%) Bash
4 389 (15.78%) SQL
5 291 (11.81%) Java
6 288 (11.68%) Bicep
7 142 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 126 (5.11%) C#
9 117 (4.75%) TypeScript
10 100 (4.06%) Go
11 52 (2.11%) Groovy
12 47 (1.91%) Shell Script
13 45 (1.83%) Scala
14 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 13 (0.53%) C
17 10 (0.41%) Rust
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.37%) R
19 8 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 888 (36.02%) Security Cleared
2 705 (28.60%) SC Cleared
3 204 (8.28%) DV Cleared
4 170 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 164 (6.65%) AWS Certification
6 109 (4.42%) Degree
7 67 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.27%) CISSP
10 52 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 42 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.14%) CCNP
14 20 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (0.81%) CISM
15 19 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.61%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 97 (3.94%) QA
3 58 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.19%) NIST
5 52 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 50 (2.03%) NCSC
7 43 (1.74%) GDPR
8 24 (0.97%) WCAG
9 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.45%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.20%) HL7
15 5 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 690 (27.99%) Docker
2 175 (7.10%) Active Directory
3 116 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.95%) vSphere
6 47 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (1.66%) Hyper-V
8 39 (1.58%) VMware NSX
9 36 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.32%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 6 (0.24%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.16%) Firmware
15 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,021 (41.42%) Kubernetes
2 599 (24.30%) Ansible
3 308 (12.49%) Grafana
4 246 (9.98%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.33%) Argo
6 63 (2.56%) Puppet
7 54 (2.19%) Progress Chef
8 50 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (1.66%) Packer
10 32 (1.30%) Istio
11 28 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 26 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.93%) Kibana
14 22 (0.89%) Kustomize
15 19 (0.77%) Kubeflow
16 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
17 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
18 15 (0.61%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.61%) SCCM
19 14 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 471 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 234 (9.49%) Google
3 157 (6.37%) VMware
4 144 (5.84%) Databricks
5 139 (5.64%) Splunk
6 98 (3.98%) Oracle
7 92 (3.73%) Dynatrace
8 84 (3.41%) Cisco
9 78 (3.16%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.64%) Palo Alto
10 65 (2.64%) Red Hat
11 40 (1.62%) OpenAI
12 38 (1.54%) F5
13 34 (1.38%) Arista
14 33 (1.34%) Zscaler
15 30 (1.22%) Informatica
16 29 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 28 (1.14%) CyberArk
17 28 (1.14%) Okta
18 24 (0.97%) Foundry