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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 39 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,988 1,224 1,252
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.84% 5.03% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.25% 32.41% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 881 936
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 7
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.66 £50.88
Median hourly rate £61.04 £36.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.54% -41.94% -20.51%
75th Percentile £75.63 £53.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.10 £79.13 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £44.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -19.09% -24.66%

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 5,484 3,777 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.53% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,599 3,218
10th Percentile £318 £311 £258
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £716 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 39 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £17.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £22.60 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +101.79% +8.67% -50.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.27 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.25 £25.77
% change year-on-year +101.83% +5.76% -52.44%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 1,065 £538 -2.27% 285
North of England +19 395 £500 -4.76% 173
Yorkshire +14 210 £489 -6.90% 43
South East -17 156 £513 +2.50% 151
North West +23 142 £528 +0.57% 96
Midlands -10 131 £525 -3.67% 38
South West -8 115 £563 -8.54% 67
West Midlands -4 109 £525 -6.75% 23
North East -5 52 £475 -9.09% 34
East of England -14 43 £494 -1.25% 29
East Midlands -26 21 £450 -10.00% 15
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 85 (4.28%) Confluence
2 81 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.87%) Apache
4 47 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.86%) nginx
7 12 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) Traefik
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Actimize
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,060 (53.32%) AWS
2 975 (49.04%) Azure
3 565 (28.42%) GitHub
4 406 (20.42%) GCP
5 371 (18.66%) GitHub Actions
6 336 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
6 336 (16.90%) Serverless
7 289 (14.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 246 (12.37%) Amazon S3
9 242 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
10 196 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
11 143 (7.19%) Azure AKS
12 142 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 139 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
14 127 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
15 124 (6.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 123 (6.19%) OpenShift
17 120 (6.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 117 (5.89%) Entra ID
19 110 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 197 (9.91%) Firewall
2 132 (6.64%) DNS
3 109 (5.48%) VPN
4 97 (4.88%) Network Security
5 60 (3.02%) WAN
6 46 (2.31%) BGP
7 39 (1.96%) SD-WAN
8 36 (1.81%) TCP/IP
9 34 (1.71%) OSPF
10 28 (1.41%) VXLAN
11 22 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
12 20 (1.01%) DHCP
12 20 (1.01%) LAN
13 19 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.91%) BIG-IP
14 18 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
15 15 (0.75%) SAN
16 13 (0.65%) SSL
17 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
18 11 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (3.97%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
4 74 (3.72%) Power BI
5 63 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 58 (2.92%) BigQuery
7 50 (2.52%) Delta Lake
7 50 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 49 (2.46%) MongoDB
9 48 (2.41%) DynamoDB
10 46 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 40 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.76%) Redis
14 33 (1.66%) Relational Database
15 32 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
16 27 (1.36%) Big Data
16 27 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
17 25 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 369 (18.56%) Jenkins
2 338 (17.00%) GitLab
3 274 (13.78%) Git
4 117 (5.89%) JIRA
5 44 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.36%) Maven
8 25 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.86%) MLflow
10 16 (0.80%) Snyk
11 15 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 15 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.65%) Gatling
13 11 (0.55%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.50%) git-flow
14 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.45%) Gradle
16 8 (0.40%) JUnit
17 7 (0.35%) Cucumber
General
1 333 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 276 (13.88%) Public Sector
3 205 (10.31%) Finance
4 93 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (4.23%) Banking
6 51 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.11%) Retail
9 19 (0.96%) Legal
10 14 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Military
12 10 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 10 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.45%) Law
14 8 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.30%) Front Office
16 6 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 438 (22.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 303 (15.24%) Senior
3 218 (10.97%) Architect
4 202 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 200 (10.06%) Azure Engineer
6 174 (8.75%) Developer
7 170 (8.55%) AWS Engineer
8 163 (8.20%) Data Engineer
9 152 (7.65%) Lead
10 139 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
11 111 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (5.53%) GCP Engineer
13 101 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 87 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
15 79 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 76 (3.82%) Site Engineer
17 73 (3.67%) Software Engineer
18 69 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
19 68 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 67 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (8.55%) Kafka
2 114 (5.73%) Node.js
3 103 (5.18%) React
4 102 (5.13%) .NET
5 96 (4.83%) REST
6 80 (4.02%) PySpark
7 73 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 67 (3.37%) OAuth
9 66 (3.32%) Spring
10 64 (3.22%) ARM Templates
10 64 (3.22%) RESTful
11 61 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
11 61 (3.07%) Spring Boot
12 54 (2.72%) YAML
13 50 (2.52%) OpenID
14 49 (2.46%) AngularJS
15 42 (2.11%) AWS CDK
15 42 (2.11%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.06%) JSON
17 26 (1.31%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 416 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 104 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 81 (4.07%) Data Centre
3 81 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 39 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.56%) Private Cloud
8 29 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (1.46%) PKI
9 28 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (1.41%) Replication
10 27 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
14 21 (1.06%) AI Agents
15 20 (1.01%) NHS
16 17 (0.86%) Clustering
17 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 293 (14.74%) Linux
2 139 (6.99%) Windows
3 44 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (2.16%) VMS
5 41 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.41%) Unix
7 15 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.50%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) Android
13 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,339 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 1,320 (66.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,201 (60.41%) DevOps
4 475 (23.89%) Containerisation
5 434 (21.83%) Agile
6 400 (20.12%) Observability
7 324 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
8 265 (13.33%) Migration
9 241 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 240 (12.07%) AI
11 233 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
12 229 (11.52%) Analytics
13 205 (10.31%) Software Engineering
14 198 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 195 (9.81%) Test Automation
16 186 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 184 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
17 184 (9.26%) Microservices
18 180 (9.05%) Cloud Security
19 171 (8.60%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 891 (44.82%) Python
2 322 (16.20%) SQL
3 278 (13.98%) Bash
4 276 (13.88%) PowerShell
5 226 (11.37%) Java
6 181 (9.10%) Bicep
7 121 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 113 (5.68%) C#
9 110 (5.53%) TypeScript
10 82 (4.12%) Go
11 52 (2.62%) Scala
12 40 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.76%) Groovy
14 29 (1.46%) Ruby
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.40%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
17 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 705 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 580 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.84%) Azure Certification
4 120 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 93 (4.68%) AWS Certification
6 69 (3.47%) Degree
7 61 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.46%) CCNP
13 20 (1.01%) CISSP
14 14 (0.70%) CCNA
14 14 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.70%) OCP
14 14 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
15 13 (0.65%) CCIE
15 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 65 (3.27%) QA
3 57 (2.87%) GDPR
4 47 (2.36%) NIST
5 44 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.56%) NCSC
6 31 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.65%) SLA
9 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.20%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) PSD2
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 516 (25.96%) Docker
2 88 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 69 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 35 (1.76%) Hyper-V
7 25 (1.26%) vSphere
8 21 (1.06%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.80%) Squid
10 9 (0.45%) KVM
10 9 (0.45%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.15%) Ceph
13 3 (0.15%) Lustre
13 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.10%) Corosync
14 2 (0.10%) GPFS
14 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 766 (38.53%) Kubernetes
2 476 (23.94%) Ansible
3 261 (13.13%) Grafana
4 225 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 76 (3.82%) Argo
6 46 (2.31%) Istio
7 43 (2.16%) Puppet
8 33 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.21%) Packer
9 24 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.16%) Kibana
11 21 (1.06%) vCenter Server
12 17 (0.86%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 13 (0.65%) Rancher
15 12 (0.60%) Consul
16 11 (0.55%) linkerd
17 10 (0.50%) Podman
18 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 295 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 180 (9.05%) Google
3 124 (6.24%) Databricks
4 116 (5.84%) Splunk
5 101 (5.08%) VMware
6 80 (4.02%) Red Hat
7 71 (3.57%) Oracle
8 61 (3.07%) Dynatrace
9 57 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 47 (2.36%) Cisco
11 41 (2.06%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.41%) F5
13 26 (1.31%) Arista
14 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.26%) Pure Storage
15 21 (1.06%) IBM
16 20 (1.01%) OpenAI
16 20 (1.01%) Zscaler
17 18 (0.91%) Aruba
18 16 (0.80%) Citrix