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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,309 1,374 1,386
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.14% 5.02% 3.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.66% 32.52% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 948 1,010
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.57% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 10
10th Percentile £54.74 £47.65 £44.75
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £55.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -17.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83.77 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.76 £79.98 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -5.30% -15.38%

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 5,972 4,225 4,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.29% 15.44% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 2,812 3,308
10th Percentile £320 £304 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £601 £611 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £520
% change year-on-year +1.98% -2.88% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 54 75
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.29
25th Percentile £35.22 £26.53 £21.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +99.09% -50.00%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.27 £54.00
90th Percentile £80.90 £82.07 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £37.75 £28.75
% change year-on-year +57.26% +31.30% -50.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 1,202 £550 +2.33% 477
North of England +22 502 £500 - 198
Yorkshire +1 233 £500 -1.23% 52
North West +47 205 £550 +7.32% 111
South East -11 189 £546 +9.25% 136
South West -1 156 £550 -8.33% 112
Midlands -15 137 £513 +2.50% 58
West Midlands -18 113 £513 -5.96% 48
North East -3 77 £425 -13.27% 36
East of England -4 52 £549 +11.82% 17
East Midlands -12 22 £488 -2.50% 10
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
1 117 (5.07%) Confluence
2 93 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (3.38%) Apache
5 37 (1.60%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.30%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.00%) nginx
8 13 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.56%) SAS
9 9 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.087%) Drupal
12 2 (0.087%) Traefik
12 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.087%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.043%) InDesign
5 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.043%) Maximo
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,308 (56.65%) AWS
2 1,140 (49.37%) Azure
3 619 (26.81%) GitHub
4 461 (19.97%) GCP
5 426 (18.45%) GitHub Actions
6 385 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 339 (14.68%) Serverless
8 277 (12.00%) Amazon S3
9 264 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 247 (10.70%) AWS Lambda
11 209 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 158 (6.84%) Entra ID
14 155 (6.71%) Azure AKS
15 143 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
16 134 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 130 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 126 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
19 117 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (4.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 256 (11.09%) Firewall
2 182 (7.88%) DNS
3 133 (5.76%) VPN
4 102 (4.42%) Network Security
5 78 (3.38%) WAN
6 70 (3.03%) BGP
7 68 (2.94%) TCP/IP
8 56 (2.43%) DHCP
9 50 (2.17%) OSPF
10 43 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.60%) VXLAN
12 32 (1.39%) VLAN
13 28 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (1.00%) BIG-IP
15 21 (0.91%) SSH
16 20 (0.87%) SSL
17 19 (0.82%) SAN
18 18 (0.78%) VSAN
19 17 (0.74%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
3 83 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 70 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 69 (2.99%) Power BI
7 68 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 64 (2.77%) BigQuery
10 62 (2.69%) DynamoDB
11 59 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
12 54 (2.34%) MongoDB
13 51 (2.21%) Delta Lake
14 47 (2.04%) Relational Database
15 40 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 39 (1.69%) Oracle Database
17 37 (1.60%) Redis
18 30 (1.30%) Metadata
19 28 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
19 28 (1.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 410 (17.76%) GitLab
2 388 (16.80%) Jenkins
3 338 (14.64%) Git
4 146 (6.32%) JIRA
5 43 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 28 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.17%) Artifactory
8 26 (1.13%) Maven
9 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (0.82%) MLflow
10 19 (0.82%) Snyk
11 13 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.56%) JUnit
12 11 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.48%) Gatling
12 11 (0.48%) MSI
13 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.43%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.39%) Mockito
15 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
General
1 415 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 349 (15.11%) Public Sector
3 284 (12.30%) Finance
4 130 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (3.68%) Banking
6 64 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (1.91%) Retail
9 27 (1.17%) Military
10 25 (1.08%) Legal
11 23 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.87%) Publishing
13 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.65%) Law
15 12 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.48%) Billing
17 10 (0.43%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.43%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 521 (22.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 407 (17.63%) Senior
3 253 (10.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 221 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
5 217 (9.40%) Architect
6 214 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
7 207 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
8 197 (8.53%) Developer
9 195 (8.45%) Lead
10 175 (7.58%) Data Engineer
11 150 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 109 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 100 (4.33%) GCP Engineer
14 99 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
15 97 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 95 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 82 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 81 (3.51%) Network Engineer
19 79 (3.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (7.49%) Kafka
2 152 (6.58%) REST
3 111 (4.81%) .NET
4 107 (4.63%) React
5 100 (4.33%) Node.js
6 97 (4.20%) PySpark
7 86 (3.72%) RESTful
8 78 (3.38%) OAuth
9 77 (3.33%) ARM Templates
10 71 (3.07%) YAML
11 63 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 60 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
13 59 (2.56%) Spring
14 56 (2.43%) Spring Boot
15 54 (2.34%) OAuth2
16 50 (2.17%) JSON
16 50 (2.17%) OpenID
17 37 (1.60%) AngularJS
17 37 (1.60%) HTML
18 35 (1.52%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 550 (23.82%) Cloud Native
2 136 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 123 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 81 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 79 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.43%) Security Posture
9 41 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.78%) PKI
10 40 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 37 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.56%) Replication
13 33 (1.43%) Private Cloud
14 32 (1.39%) NHS
15 31 (1.34%) AI Agents
16 30 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (1.08%) Management Information System
19 24 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 387 (16.76%) Linux
2 223 (9.66%) Windows
3 84 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.39%) VMS
6 30 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.21%) Unix
8 17 (0.74%) AIX
9 12 (0.52%) CentOS
10 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.087%) Solaris
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,626 (70.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,550 (67.13%) CI/CD
3 1,357 (58.77%) DevOps
4 570 (24.69%) Agile
5 565 (24.47%) Containerisation
6 504 (21.83%) Observability
7 476 (20.61%) Platform Engineering
8 333 (14.42%) AI
9 287 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (12.13%) Migration
11 272 (11.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 256 (11.09%) Test Automation
13 255 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 251 (10.87%) Analytics
15 247 (10.70%) Software Engineering
16 245 (10.61%) Cloud Security
17 224 (9.70%) Microservices
17 224 (9.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 222 (9.61%) Infrastructure Automation
19 211 (9.14%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,079 (46.73%) Python
2 401 (17.37%) Bash
3 382 (16.54%) PowerShell
4 350 (15.16%) SQL
5 266 (11.52%) Java
6 239 (10.35%) Bicep
7 137 (5.93%) JavaScript
8 123 (5.33%) TypeScript
9 121 (5.24%) C#
10 83 (3.59%) Go
11 50 (2.17%) Scala
12 48 (2.08%) Groovy
13 33 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.74%) Rust
15 16 (0.69%) Ruby
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 10 (0.43%) R
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
20 7 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 825 (35.73%) Security Cleared
2 672 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 172 (7.45%) DV Cleared
4 152 (6.58%) Azure Certification
5 120 (5.20%) AWS Certification
6 87 (3.77%) Degree
7 64 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.34%) CCNP
13 30 (1.30%) CISSP
14 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.69%) CCNA
16 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (0.43%) CCIE
18 10 (0.43%) OCP
18 10 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.03%) QA
3 49 (2.12%) GDPR
4 46 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.69%) NCSC
6 38 (1.65%) NIST
7 37 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.78%) WCAG
10 10 (0.43%) SLA
11 9 (0.39%) GRC
12 7 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.22%) HL7
14 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.13%) PSD2
15 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 624 (27.02%) Docker
2 140 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 100 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 41 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.78%) vSphere
7 40 (1.73%) VMware NSX
8 19 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
9 16 (0.69%) Squid
9 16 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.48%) NFS
11 9 (0.39%) KVM
12 5 (0.22%) Ceph
12 5 (0.22%) Firmware
13 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.13%) Postfix
14 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 881 (38.16%) Kubernetes
2 531 (23.00%) Ansible
3 289 (12.52%) Grafana
4 245 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 95 (4.11%) Argo
6 57 (2.47%) Puppet
7 44 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.52%) Packer
9 33 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.34%) Istio
11 29 (1.26%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 18 (0.78%) Kibana
14 18 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
15 17 (0.74%) Data Guard
15 17 (0.74%) Podman
16 16 (0.69%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
17 12 (0.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 382 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 198 (8.58%) Google
3 133 (5.76%) Splunk
3 133 (5.76%) VMware
4 123 (5.33%) Databricks
5 102 (4.42%) Oracle
6 85 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 73 (3.16%) Dynatrace
8 68 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 67 (2.90%) Cisco
10 61 (2.64%) Palo Alto
11 42 (1.82%) F5
12 35 (1.52%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.47%) Arista
14 30 (1.30%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.30%) Zscaler
15 24 (1.04%) Aruba
15 24 (1.04%) Informatica
16 22 (0.95%) Foundry
16 22 (0.95%) Juniper