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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,036 1,257 1,237
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.06% 5.17% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.80% 33.14% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 914 918
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £443 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £656 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.38 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £61.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £77.33 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -25.00%

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 5,532 3,793 4,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.74% 15.61% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,822 2,626 3,145
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £625
90th Percentile £697 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 34 118
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.33 £23.64 £17.73
Median hourly rate £57.00 £27.38 £26.38
Median % change year-on-year +108.22% +3.76% -54.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.44 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.10 £76.09 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +113.61% -11.83% -47.83%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 1,093 £538 -5.49% 237
North of England +14 398 £500 -4.76% 115
Yorkshire +10 218 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -12 155 £505 -2.65% 122
North West +20 140 £527 +0.31% 65
Midlands 0 140 £525 -4.72% 38
South West -6 124 £550 -10.57% 57
West Midlands +1 112 £525 -8.70% 27
North East -4 49 £475 -9.52% 30
East of England -25 38 £475 -9.52% 31
East Midlands -26 27 £450 -10.00% 11
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 91 (4.47%) Confluence
2 84 (4.13%) Apache Spark
3 58 (2.85%) Apache
4 52 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.72%) nginx
6 21 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.54%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.098%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.098%) CMS
12 2 (0.098%) Drupal
12 2 (0.098%) Traefik
12 2 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.098%) Weka
6 1 (0.049%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.049%) Actimize
3 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (53.83%) AWS
2 979 (48.08%) Azure
3 581 (28.54%) GitHub
4 405 (19.89%) GCP
5 378 (18.57%) GitHub Actions
6 361 (17.73%) Serverless
7 351 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
8 333 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 269 (13.21%) Amazon S3
10 259 (12.72%) AWS Lambda
11 195 (9.58%) Amazon EKS
12 151 (7.42%) Azure AKS
13 148 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
14 146 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 143 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
16 135 (6.63%) OpenShift
17 125 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
18 120 (5.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 120 (5.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 119 (5.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 197 (9.68%) Firewall
2 136 (6.68%) DNS
3 113 (5.55%) VPN
4 100 (4.91%) Network Security
5 49 (2.41%) WAN
6 40 (1.96%) BGP
7 35 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.47%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.38%) OSPF
10 21 (1.03%) VXLAN
11 20 (0.98%) DHCP
12 19 (0.93%) LAN
12 19 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
13 17 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
14 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 13 (0.64%) BIG-IP
15 13 (0.64%) SAN
16 11 (0.54%) OpenVPN
16 11 (0.54%) SSL
17 10 (0.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (4.32%) Data Lake
4 83 (4.08%) Power BI
5 74 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
6 64 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.80%) BigQuery
8 55 (2.70%) DynamoDB
9 53 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 53 (2.60%) NoSQL
10 49 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 47 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (2.31%) Delta Lake
12 44 (2.16%) MongoDB
13 35 (1.72%) Relational Database
14 33 (1.62%) Redis
15 32 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
16 30 (1.47%) Big Data
17 28 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
18 27 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 377 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 327 (16.06%) GitLab
3 284 (13.95%) Git
4 126 (6.19%) JIRA
5 45 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.33%) Maven
8 18 (0.88%) CircleCI
8 18 (0.88%) MLflow
9 17 (0.83%) Gatling
10 15 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.69%) Liquibase
11 14 (0.69%) Snyk
12 10 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.49%) JUnit
12 10 (0.49%) Terragrunt
13 9 (0.44%) git-flow
14 8 (0.39%) Gradle
15 7 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 375 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 296 (14.54%) Public Sector
3 219 (10.76%) Finance
4 102 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (4.17%) Banking
6 55 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.03%) Retail
9 19 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.83%) Legal
11 13 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.59%) Health Technology
12 12 (0.59%) Law
13 11 (0.54%) Military
14 9 (0.44%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.39%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.34%) Publishing
17 6 (0.29%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.29%) Front Office
18 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 436 (21.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 294 (14.44%) Senior
3 230 (11.30%) Architect
4 198 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
5 196 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 185 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 185 (9.09%) Developer
7 172 (8.45%) Data Engineer
8 161 (7.91%) Lead
9 155 (7.61%) Platform Engineer
10 110 (5.40%) GCP Engineer
11 108 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 106 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 100 (4.91%) AWS DevOps
14 88 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 88 (4.32%) Site Engineer
15 74 (3.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 74 (3.63%) Software Engineer
16 68 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 62 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (8.79%) Kafka
2 122 (5.99%) Node.js
3 107 (5.26%) React
4 104 (5.11%) .NET
5 100 (4.91%) REST
6 80 (3.93%) PySpark
7 72 (3.54%) OpenTelemetry
7 72 (3.54%) RESTful
8 70 (3.44%) ARM Templates
9 68 (3.34%) OAuth
9 68 (3.34%) Spring
10 64 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
11 61 (3.00%) Spring Boot
12 53 (2.60%) AngularJS
12 53 (2.60%) YAML
13 50 (2.46%) OpenID
14 40 (1.96%) OAuth2
15 39 (1.92%) AWS CDK
16 36 (1.77%) JSON
17 28 (1.38%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 412 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 104 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 93 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 73 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 49 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 41 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.62%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.47%) NHS
10 29 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.42%) PKI
11 28 (1.38%) Replication
12 27 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.98%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.79%) Clustering
18 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 332 (16.31%) Linux
2 150 (7.37%) Windows
3 46 (2.26%) VMS
4 43 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.62%) Unix
6 14 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.44%) CentOS
8 7 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.098%) Debian
9 2 (0.098%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.098%) zOS
10 1 (0.049%) AIX
10 1 (0.049%) Android
10 1 (0.049%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.049%) Rocky
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,356 (66.60%) CI/CD
2 1,316 (64.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,205 (59.18%) DevOps
4 499 (24.51%) Containerisation
5 458 (22.50%) Agile
6 404 (19.84%) Observability
7 333 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
8 277 (13.61%) Migration
9 259 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
10 256 (12.57%) Analytics
11 247 (12.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 230 (11.30%) AI
13 218 (10.71%) Microservices
14 211 (10.36%) Software Engineering
15 209 (10.27%) Test Automation
16 201 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 191 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
18 188 (9.23%) Cloud Security
19 181 (8.89%) DevSecOps
20 176 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 938 (46.07%) Python
2 335 (16.45%) SQL
3 281 (13.80%) Bash
4 274 (13.46%) PowerShell
5 234 (11.49%) Java
6 182 (8.94%) Bicep
7 123 (6.04%) JavaScript
8 115 (5.65%) C#
9 114 (5.60%) TypeScript
10 89 (4.37%) Go
11 47 (2.31%) Scala
12 42 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.67%) Groovy
13 34 (1.67%) Ruby
14 14 (0.69%) Rust
15 8 (0.39%) C
16 7 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.34%) R
17 6 (0.29%) Perl
17 6 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 739 (36.30%) Security Cleared
2 624 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 140 (6.88%) Azure Certification
4 116 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 112 (5.50%) AWS Certification
6 75 (3.68%) Degree
7 66 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.42%) CCNP
13 25 (1.23%) CISSP
14 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.69%) CCNA
16 14 (0.69%) OCP
17 13 (0.64%) CCIE
17 13 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 68 (3.34%) GDPR
3 65 (3.19%) QA
4 52 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.50%) NIST
6 36 (1.77%) NCSC
7 34 (1.67%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) SLA
10 12 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.54%) GRC
11 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.39%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.25%) HL7
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.098%) PSD2
16 2 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 562 (27.60%) Docker
2 90 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.87%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.42%) vSphere
8 25 (1.23%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.54%) Squid
10 7 (0.34%) KVM
10 7 (0.34%) NFS
11 6 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.25%) Firmware
12 5 (0.25%) Lustre
12 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.20%) GPFS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.098%) Ceph
14 2 (0.098%) Corosync
14 2 (0.098%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 812 (39.88%) Kubernetes
2 494 (24.26%) Ansible
3 282 (13.85%) Grafana
4 240 (11.79%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.93%) Argo
6 47 (2.31%) Istio
7 45 (2.21%) Puppet
8 38 (1.87%) Packer
9 36 (1.77%) Progress Chef
10 28 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.18%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.13%) Consul
12 23 (1.13%) Kibana
13 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.83%) Rancher
15 12 (0.59%) Podman
16 11 (0.54%) linkerd
17 9 (0.44%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 321 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 181 (8.89%) Google
3 139 (6.83%) Databricks
4 125 (6.14%) Splunk
5 109 (5.35%) VMware
6 86 (4.22%) Red Hat
7 64 (3.14%) Oracle
8 57 (2.80%) Dynatrace
9 53 (2.60%) ServiceNow
10 44 (2.16%) Cisco
11 31 (1.52%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.33%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.23%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.18%) F5
14 24 (1.18%) IBM
15 20 (0.98%) Arista
15 20 (0.98%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.93%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.79%) PagerDuty
17 16 (0.79%) SolarWinds