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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 55
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,788 1,318 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.51% 4.92% 3.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.07% 33.62% 28.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 919 1,052
10th Percentile £400 £406 £431
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -7.35%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 17
10th Percentile £44.22 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £62.00
Median hourly rate £58.94 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -20.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £81.00 £74.11 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -1.78% -20.00% +19.05%

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 5,099 3,920 4,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 14.63% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,546 2,537 3,467
10th Percentile £311 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £526 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -0.75% -9.79%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 52 157
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.55
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.03 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +78.60% -41.80% +13.81%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £77.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.40% -42.62% +19.95%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -1 947 £525 -12.50% 269
North of England +3 360 £500 -4.76% 193
Yorkshire -4 193 £500 - 89
South East +10 137 £503 -15.19% 294
Midlands +21 136 £539 -2.22% 112
South West +9 125 £553 -8.87% 138
West Midlands +11 120 £550 -0.18% 44
North West -8 119 £500 -4.76% 79
North East +2 52 £475 -15.93% 25
East of England -26 24 £550 +71.51% 95
East Midlands -12 16 £418 +4.24% 64
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 79 (4.42%) Confluence
2 49 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 44 (2.46%) Apache
4 43 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.96%) nginx
6 28 (1.57%) OpenStack
7 15 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.28%) SAS
9 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.17%) WordPress
11 2 (0.11%) Drupal
11 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Maximo
2 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.056%) Actimize
4 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.056%) Endur
4 1 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,039 (58.11%) AWS
2 762 (42.62%) Azure
3 507 (28.36%) GitHub
4 362 (20.25%) GCP
5 348 (19.46%) Serverless
6 327 (18.29%) GitHub Actions
7 306 (17.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 300 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
9 259 (14.49%) Amazon S3
10 226 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (9.56%) Amazon EC2
12 167 (9.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 161 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
14 153 (8.56%) Amazon ECS
15 142 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 128 (7.16%) OpenShift
17 110 (6.15%) Entra ID
18 109 (6.10%) Azure AKS
19 101 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
20 93 (5.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 195 (10.91%) Firewall
2 131 (7.33%) DNS
3 103 (5.76%) Network Security
4 102 (5.70%) VPN
5 59 (3.30%) TCP/IP
6 44 (2.46%) WAN
7 38 (2.13%) SSL
8 32 (1.79%) LAN
9 31 (1.73%) BGP
10 30 (1.68%) SD-WAN
11 27 (1.51%) DHCP
11 27 (1.51%) OSPF
12 26 (1.45%) HTTP
13 15 (0.84%) FTP
13 15 (0.84%) SMTP
13 15 (0.84%) SSH
14 13 (0.73%) MPLS
14 13 (0.73%) VXLAN
15 12 (0.67%) Wireless
16 11 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (4.64%) NoSQL
4 65 (3.64%) MongoDB
5 61 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 56 (3.13%) Power BI
7 54 (3.02%) DynamoDB
8 46 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
9 44 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (2.24%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.24%) SQL Server
11 37 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 36 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (2.01%) Redis
13 34 (1.90%) BigQuery
14 31 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (1.45%) MySQL
16 21 (1.17%) Tableau
17 19 (1.06%) Delta Lake
18 18 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 417 (23.32%) Jenkins
2 368 (20.58%) GitLab
3 254 (14.21%) Git
4 105 (5.87%) JIRA
5 52 (2.91%) SonarQube
6 46 (2.57%) Artifactory
7 31 (1.73%) Liquibase
7 31 (1.73%) Maven
8 28 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (1.51%) CircleCI
10 25 (1.40%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.29%) Gradle
12 14 (0.78%) Vagrant
13 13 (0.73%) Selenium
13 13 (0.73%) Terragrunt
14 12 (0.67%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.67%) JUnit
15 9 (0.50%) MLflow
15 9 (0.50%) Snyk
16 8 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 408 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 288 (16.11%) Public Sector
3 208 (11.63%) Finance
4 114 (6.38%) Banking
5 87 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.62%) Financial Institution
8 26 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (1.01%) Military
11 17 (0.95%) Retail
12 10 (0.56%) Marketing
12 10 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.50%) Law
14 8 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.39%) Games
15 7 (0.39%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.34%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 431 (24.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 227 (12.70%) Senior
3 206 (11.52%) AWS Engineer
4 196 (10.96%) Architect
5 158 (8.84%) Developer
6 155 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
7 150 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
8 147 (8.22%) Lead
9 140 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 124 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
11 117 (6.54%) Data Engineer
12 106 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 101 (5.65%) Software Engineer
14 86 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 84 (4.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 81 (4.53%) GCP Engineer
17 73 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 69 (3.86%) Site Engineer
19 61 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
20 60 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (10.07%) Kafka
2 117 (6.54%) REST
3 111 (6.21%) Node.js
4 98 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
5 97 (5.43%) React
5 97 (5.43%) RESTful
6 79 (4.42%) ARM Templates
7 77 (4.31%) .NET
8 64 (3.58%) OAuth
8 64 (3.58%) Spring Boot
9 62 (3.47%) Spring
10 54 (3.02%) YAML
11 47 (2.63%) PySpark
12 44 (2.46%) AngularJS
13 43 (2.40%) OpenID
14 36 (2.01%) OAuth2
15 35 (1.96%) AWS CDK
16 31 (1.73%) FastAPI
17 28 (1.57%) Keycloak
17 28 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 310 (17.34%) Cloud Native
2 104 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (3.97%) Public Cloud
4 68 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 65 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 39 (2.18%) Private Cloud
8 35 (1.96%) Replication
9 29 (1.62%) NHS
9 29 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.45%) PKI
11 25 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.40%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.12%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.67%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (0.62%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 347 (19.41%) Linux
2 156 (8.72%) Windows
3 53 (2.96%) Unix
3 53 (2.96%) VMS
4 45 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
8 14 (0.78%) CentOS
9 5 (0.28%) Solaris
9 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.17%) zOS
11 2 (0.11%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.056%) MVS
12 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,215 (67.95%) CI/CD
2 1,144 (63.98%) DevOps
3 1,124 (62.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 482 (26.96%) Containerisation
5 389 (21.76%) Agile
6 303 (16.95%) Observability
7 253 (14.15%) Microservices
8 251 (14.04%) Migration
8 251 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 247 (13.81%) Platform Engineering
10 226 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 215 (12.02%) Software Engineering
12 192 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 189 (10.57%) Analytics
14 187 (10.46%) DevSecOps
15 186 (10.40%) AI
16 182 (10.18%) Test Automation
17 167 (9.34%) Cloud Security
18 159 (8.89%) Mentoring
19 152 (8.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 907 (50.73%) Python
2 293 (16.39%) Bash
3 251 (14.04%) SQL
4 239 (13.37%) PowerShell
5 225 (12.58%) Java
6 135 (7.55%) Go
7 132 (7.38%) Bicep
8 111 (6.21%) JavaScript
9 91 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 83 (4.64%) C#
11 53 (2.96%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.73%) Groovy
13 24 (1.34%) Ruby
14 17 (0.95%) Perl
15 15 (0.84%) Scala
16 9 (0.50%) Rust
17 8 (0.45%) C
18 7 (0.39%) C++
18 7 (0.39%) PHP
19 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 632 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 531 (29.70%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.38%) AWS Certification
4 115 (6.43%) Degree
5 113 (6.32%) Azure Certification
6 103 (5.76%) DV Cleared
7 73 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (2.74%) Master's Degree
9 45 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 37 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 29 (1.62%) CISSP
14 22 (1.23%) CCNP
15 21 (1.17%) CCIE
16 19 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 17 (0.95%) CISM
18 13 (0.73%) JNCIE
19 9 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.91%) GDPR
2 61 (3.41%) QA
3 57 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 52 (2.91%) NCSC
5 52 (2.91%) NIST
6 28 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 12 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.39%) GRC
11 7 (0.39%) SLA
12 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.22%) HL7
14 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.17%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.11%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 594 (33.22%) Docker
2 100 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 73 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (1.62%) VMware NSX
5 29 (1.62%) vSphere
6 26 (1.45%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.89%) Squid
7 16 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.78%) DFS Replication
9 10 (0.56%) KVM
10 9 (0.50%) Dovecot
10 9 (0.50%) Postfix
10 9 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.22%) Lustre
11 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.17%) GPFS
12 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 752 (42.06%) Kubernetes
2 536 (29.98%) Ansible
3 286 (16.00%) Grafana
4 255 (14.26%) Prometheus
5 62 (3.47%) Argo
6 54 (3.02%) Puppet
7 40 (2.24%) Istio
8 39 (2.18%) Packer
8 39 (2.18%) Progress Chef
9 32 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.06%) Consul
10 19 (1.06%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.01%) Podman
12 17 (0.95%) Kibana
13 15 (0.84%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.78%) Nessus
15 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
16 12 (0.67%) Rancher
17 10 (0.56%) logstash
18 9 (0.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 244 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 153 (8.56%) Google
3 122 (6.82%) Splunk
4 120 (6.71%) Databricks
5 109 (6.10%) VMware
6 66 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 63 (3.52%) F5
8 51 (2.85%) ServiceNow
9 48 (2.68%) Palo Alto
10 43 (2.40%) Dynatrace
11 42 (2.35%) Cisco
12 41 (2.29%) Oracle
13 38 (2.13%) CheckPoint
14 28 (1.57%) IBM
15 24 (1.34%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.06%) OpenAI
16 19 (1.06%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.01%) Juniper
17 18 (1.01%) SolarWinds
18 17 (0.95%) Dell