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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,500 1,466 1,415
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.37% 5.25% 4.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.25% 20.61% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,749 1,009 990
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 9
10th Percentile £58.69 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £63.88 £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 £84.84 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -2.33%

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 9,900 7,112 7,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.48% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,509 4,807 5,152
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £449 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 171 159
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.43 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +9.62%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 1,346 £550 +2.33% 1,287
North of England -3 504 £500 - 323
South East +3 224 £575 +15.00% 232
Yorkshire -13 221 £513 +2.50% 98
North West +16 194 £560 +21.08% 173
South West +10 194 £550 - 134
Midlands -35 116 £480 -10.86% 103
North East -5 98 £425 -18.27% 52
West Midlands -50 91 £513 -6.82% 59
East of England -19 41 £550 +15.79% 83
East Midlands 0 24 £413 -13.16% 44
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
1 109 (4.36%) Confluence
2 107 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 99 (3.96%) Apache Spark
4 98 (3.92%) Apache
5 49 (1.96%) Jupyter
6 42 (1.68%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.44%) nginx
8 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.52%) SAS
9 10 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.080%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.080%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.080%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
6 1 (0.040%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.080%) Endur
2 2 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.040%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.040%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,413 (56.52%) AWS
2 1,241 (49.64%) Azure
3 677 (27.08%) GitHub
4 524 (20.96%) GCP
5 473 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
6 449 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
7 347 (13.88%) Serverless
8 292 (11.68%) Amazon S3
9 258 (10.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 254 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
11 250 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
12 244 (9.76%) Entra ID
13 211 (8.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 176 (7.04%) Azure AKS
15 175 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
16 161 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
17 153 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 142 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
19 139 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 113 (4.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 286 (11.44%) Firewall
2 213 (8.52%) DNS
3 140 (5.60%) Network Security
4 139 (5.56%) VPN
5 98 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 92 (3.68%) DHCP
7 76 (3.04%) WAN
8 68 (2.72%) BGP
9 48 (1.92%) OSPF
10 47 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 44 (1.76%) VLAN
12 32 (1.28%) VSAN
13 29 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.16%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.08%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.08%) SSH
14 27 (1.08%) SSL
15 25 (1.00%) BIG-IP
16 22 (0.88%) Internet
17 17 (0.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (3.52%) Data Lake
5 80 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 74 (2.96%) NoSQL
8 70 (2.80%) BigQuery
9 69 (2.76%) DynamoDB
10 68 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
11 67 (2.68%) Power BI
12 63 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (2.24%) Redis
14 55 (2.20%) Relational Database
15 54 (2.16%) Metadata
16 52 (2.08%) MySQL
17 47 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
17 47 (1.88%) Delta Lake
18 41 (1.64%) Big Data
19 36 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 489 (19.56%) GitLab
2 414 (16.56%) Jenkins
3 396 (15.84%) Git
4 129 (5.16%) JIRA
5 40 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.36%) Maven
8 30 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 25 (1.00%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.84%) Selenium
11 20 (0.80%) Artifactory
12 19 (0.76%) Snyk
13 16 (0.64%) Terragrunt
14 15 (0.60%) JUnit
15 14 (0.56%) Cucumber
15 14 (0.56%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.48%) MLflow
16 12 (0.48%) MSI
17 10 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 9 (0.36%) Mockito
General
1 530 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 371 (14.84%) Finance
3 360 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 171 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (5.04%) Banking
6 70 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (1.84%) Retail
8 45 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (1.44%) Military
10 27 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.80%) Legal
11 20 (0.80%) Publishing
12 18 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (0.72%) Law
12 18 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.68%) Local Government
14 16 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.64%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.60%) Police
16 13 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 558 (22.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 458 (18.32%) Senior
3 270 (10.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 243 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
5 229 (9.16%) Architect
6 228 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
6 228 (9.12%) Platform Engineer
7 224 (8.96%) Developer
8 195 (7.80%) Lead
9 178 (7.12%) Data Engineer
10 168 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 115 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
12 109 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
12 109 (4.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 103 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 101 (4.04%) Security Engineer
15 100 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 99 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 84 (3.36%) GCP Engineer
17 84 (3.36%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (8.00%) REST
2 197 (7.88%) Kafka
3 115 (4.60%) .NET
4 113 (4.52%) ARM Templates
5 111 (4.44%) OAuth
6 108 (4.32%) React
7 101 (4.04%) RESTful
8 89 (3.56%) PySpark
9 81 (3.24%) Node.js
10 79 (3.16%) YAML
11 77 (3.08%) OpenID
12 70 (2.80%) OAuth2
13 69 (2.76%) Spring
14 68 (2.72%) Spring Boot
15 59 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
16 52 (2.08%) JSON
17 45 (1.80%) AWS CDK
18 44 (1.76%) FastAPI
19 43 (1.72%) SAML
20 42 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 583 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 156 (6.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (4.36%) Onboarding
5 108 (4.32%) Data Centre
6 90 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 85 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 81 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 61 (2.44%) PKI
10 59 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
11 58 (2.32%) AI Agents
12 56 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
13 53 (2.12%) Replication
14 50 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
15 45 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
16 41 (1.64%) Management Information System
17 39 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
17 39 (1.56%) Private Cloud
18 31 (1.24%) NHS
19 27 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 470 (18.80%) Linux
2 265 (10.60%) Windows
3 96 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 88 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.72%) Unix
6 40 (1.60%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.20%) VMS
8 19 (0.76%) AIX
8 19 (0.76%) CentOS
9 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.36%) macOS
12 6 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.080%) Android
16 2 (0.080%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.080%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,852 (74.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,732 (69.28%) CI/CD
3 1,470 (58.80%) DevOps
4 653 (26.12%) Observability
5 611 (24.44%) Containerisation
6 598 (23.92%) Platform Engineering
7 597 (23.88%) Agile
8 447 (17.88%) AI
9 362 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 343 (13.72%) Migration
11 328 (13.12%) Cloud Security
12 325 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 324 (12.96%) Test Automation
14 314 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
15 310 (12.40%) Software Engineering
16 299 (11.96%) DevSecOps
17 295 (11.80%) Analytics
18 292 (11.68%) Infrastructure Automation
19 289 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 277 (11.08%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,252 (50.08%) Python
2 501 (20.04%) PowerShell
3 484 (19.36%) Bash
4 403 (16.12%) SQL
5 303 (12.12%) Bicep
6 290 (11.60%) Java
7 147 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 130 (5.20%) C#
9 129 (5.16%) TypeScript
10 102 (4.08%) Go
11 59 (2.36%) Groovy
12 51 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.76%) Scala
14 18 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.60%) Perl
16 14 (0.56%) C
17 10 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.40%) Rust
18 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 908 (36.32%) Security Cleared
2 715 (28.60%) SC Cleared
3 212 (8.48%) DV Cleared
4 173 (6.92%) AWS Certification
5 170 (6.80%) Azure Certification
6 115 (4.60%) Degree
7 71 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 63 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 59 (2.36%) CISSP
10 51 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.12%) CCNP
14 22 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 22 (0.88%) CISM
15 18 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.60%) VCAP
18 14 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 14 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.92%) QA
3 60 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 52 (2.08%) NIST
5 49 (1.96%) GDPR
5 49 (1.96%) NCSC
6 24 (0.96%) WCAG
7 19 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.40%) SLA
10 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.24%) PSD2
12 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.20%) HL7
12 5 (0.20%) SEPA
13 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 719 (28.76%) Docker
2 188 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 113 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.00%) vSphere
6 38 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 38 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.52%) VMware NSX
7 36 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
9 14 (0.56%) Squid
10 8 (0.32%) KVM
11 6 (0.24%) Ceph
11 6 (0.24%) NFS
12 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
12 5 (0.20%) Postfix
13 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.16%) Firmware
13 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,041 (41.64%) Kubernetes
2 610 (24.40%) Ansible
3 316 (12.64%) Grafana
4 245 (9.80%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.28%) Argo
6 61 (2.44%) Puppet
7 56 (2.24%) Progress Chef
8 54 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.60%) Packer
10 34 (1.36%) Istio
11 30 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (1.12%) vCenter Server
13 26 (1.04%) Kibana
14 23 (0.92%) Kustomize
15 21 (0.84%) Kubeflow
16 20 (0.80%) SCCM
17 18 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
18 17 (0.68%) Data Guard
19 14 (0.56%) VxRail
20 13 (0.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 499 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 246 (9.84%) Google
3 155 (6.20%) VMware
4 150 (6.00%) Databricks
5 142 (5.68%) Splunk
6 106 (4.24%) Oracle
7 103 (4.12%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.20%) Cisco
9 74 (2.96%) ServiceNow
10 69 (2.76%) Red Hat
11 66 (2.64%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.64%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.56%) F5
14 34 (1.36%) Arista
15 33 (1.32%) Zscaler
16 29 (1.16%) CyberArk
16 29 (1.16%) Informatica
17 27 (1.08%) Foundry
18 26 (1.04%) Fortinet
18 26 (1.04%) Okta