Terraform Contract Job Trends in London

Terraform
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 30 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,074 782 761
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.19% 6.18% 4.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.18% 38.92% 34.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 553 574
10th Percentile £394 £405 £414
25th Percentile £450 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% -8.40%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £757
England median daily rate £525 £565 £558
% change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £48.25 £40.45 £49.40
25th Percentile £53.73 £42.25 £53.38
Median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% -19.17% -28.65%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 -
90th Percentile - £53.35 -
England median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.52% -19.17% -23.08%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,487 2,009 2,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.34% 15.88% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 1,386 1,595
10th Percentile £350 £368 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 42
10th Percentile £22.41 £23.59 £13.62
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% +2.88% -61.05%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £59.69
90th Percentile - £63.25 £66.55
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -51.51%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Terraform job vacancy trend in London

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in London

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Terraform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Terraform

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in London

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London -1 128 £544 +2.40% 93
South London +11 37 £519 -5.72% 1
West London -1 29 £603 +6.64% 9
East London -3 6 £523 -9.33% 8
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 54 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 48 (4.47%) Confluence
3 42 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (3.26%) Apache
5 28 (2.61%) nginx
6 13 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.47%) SAS
8 4 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.19%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.093%) Appian
10 1 (0.093%) CMS
10 1 (0.093%) FileNet
10 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.093%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.093%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.093%) Actimize
1 1 (0.093%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.093%) Maximo
1 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 600 (55.87%) AWS
2 535 (49.81%) Azure
3 323 (30.07%) GitHub
4 235 (21.88%) Serverless
5 221 (20.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 209 (19.46%) Azure DevOps
7 205 (19.09%) GitHub Actions
8 202 (18.81%) GCP
9 190 (17.69%) Amazon S3
10 170 (15.83%) AWS Lambda
11 131 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (8.19%) Amazon ECS
14 87 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
15 83 (7.73%) Azure AKS
16 78 (7.26%) Power Platform
17 77 (7.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 72 (6.70%) Azure Monitor
19 65 (6.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 61 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 88 (8.19%) Firewall
2 61 (5.68%) DNS
3 48 (4.47%) VPN
4 46 (4.28%) Network Security
5 20 (1.86%) WAN
6 19 (1.77%) BGP
7 18 (1.68%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.93%) OpenVPN
9 10 (0.93%) OSPF
10 8 (0.74%) LAN
10 8 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.74%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.47%) DHCP
12 5 (0.47%) DMZ
13 4 (0.37%) IGMP
13 4 (0.37%) Multicast
13 4 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.08%) Data Lake
2 63 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
4 58 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
5 56 (5.21%) Power BI
6 45 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (3.91%) BigQuery
8 39 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 32 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (2.79%) Delta Lake
12 26 (2.42%) DynamoDB
13 21 (1.96%) MongoDB
13 21 (1.96%) NoSQL
13 21 (1.96%) Tableau
14 19 (1.77%) Mixpanel
14 19 (1.77%) OLTP
14 19 (1.77%) Relational Database
15 18 (1.68%) Redis
16 17 (1.58%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 164 (15.27%) GitLab
2 160 (14.90%) Jenkins
3 150 (13.97%) Git
4 56 (5.21%) JIRA
5 26 (2.42%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.40%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.40%) MLflow
7 14 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.84%) Liquibase
9 8 (0.74%) git-flow
9 8 (0.74%) Snyk
9 8 (0.74%) Terragrunt
10 7 (0.65%) JUnit
10 7 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.37%) Ant
12 4 (0.37%) Mockito
12 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 196 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 153 (14.25%) Finance
2 153 (14.25%) Public Sector
3 55 (5.12%) Banking
4 45 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (1.49%) Retail
8 13 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.47%) Front Office
10 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.47%) Law
10 5 (0.47%) Military
11 4 (0.37%) Games
11 4 (0.37%) Legal
11 4 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.28%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 225 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 175 (16.29%) Senior
3 132 (12.29%) Architect
4 128 (11.92%) Data Engineer
5 127 (11.82%) Azure Engineer
6 116 (10.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 110 (10.24%) AWS Engineer
8 99 (9.22%) Lead
9 88 (8.19%) Developer
10 84 (7.82%) Platform Engineer
11 64 (5.96%) AWS DevOps
12 57 (5.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 56 (5.21%) GCP Engineer
14 55 (5.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 45 (4.19%) Site Engineer
15 45 (4.19%) Software Engineer
16 36 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 36 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 36 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
16 36 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (11.55%) Kafka
2 80 (7.45%) Node.js
3 63 (5.87%) React
4 61 (5.68%) PySpark
5 49 (4.56%) REST
6 48 (4.47%) OAuth
7 46 (4.28%) .NET
8 42 (3.91%) AngularJS
9 38 (3.54%) RESTful
9 38 (3.54%) Spring
10 34 (3.17%) Spring Boot
11 33 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 32 (2.98%) ARM Templates
13 31 (2.89%) OpenID
14 26 (2.42%) AWS CDK
15 23 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (1.96%) Great Expectations
17 19 (1.77%) OAuth2
18 17 (1.58%) YAML
19 16 (1.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 229 (21.32%) Cloud Native
2 47 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (2.89%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.12%) Replication
10 11 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.02%) Security Posture
11 10 (0.93%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.74%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.56%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 118 (10.99%) Linux
2 53 (4.93%) Windows
3 25 (2.33%) VMS
4 17 (1.58%) Unix
5 9 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) zOS
9 1 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.093%) Android
9 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.093%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (67.97%) Infrastructure as Code
2 728 (67.78%) CI/CD
3 644 (59.96%) DevOps
4 243 (22.63%) Containerisation
5 224 (20.86%) Agile
6 213 (19.83%) Observability
7 178 (16.57%) Platform Engineering
8 170 (15.83%) Analytics
9 168 (15.64%) AI
10 163 (15.18%) Migration
11 129 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (11.82%) Microservices
13 126 (11.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 119 (11.08%) Data Engineering
15 118 (10.99%) Software Engineering
16 111 (10.34%) Data Modelling
17 108 (10.06%) ETL
18 107 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
19 97 (9.03%) Data Pipeline
20 96 (8.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 507 (47.21%) Python
2 220 (20.48%) SQL
3 131 (12.20%) Bash
4 122 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 115 (10.71%) Java
6 92 (8.57%) Bicep
7 59 (5.49%) C#
8 55 (5.12%) JavaScript
9 53 (4.93%) TypeScript
10 48 (4.47%) Go
11 26 (2.42%) Scala
12 22 (2.05%) Ruby
13 12 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) C
15 5 (0.47%) Groovy
15 5 (0.47%) Rust
16 4 (0.37%) R
17 3 (0.28%) Cypher
17 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 394 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 362 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.36%) Azure Certification
4 57 (5.31%) AWS Certification
5 41 (3.82%) Degree
6 35 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 25 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.93%) CCNP
12 10 (0.93%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.56%) CISSP
15 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.47%) CCSP
16 4 (0.37%) CCIE
16 4 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.54%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.28%) GDPR
3 32 (2.98%) QA
4 24 (2.23%) NIST
5 16 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.21%) NCSC
7 11 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.65%) SLA
9 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.19%) GRC
11 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 2 (0.19%) SEPA
11 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 290 (27.00%) Docker
2 32 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.93%) Squid
6 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.56%) vSphere
7 2 (0.19%) Lustre
7 2 (0.19%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.093%) Ceph
8 1 (0.093%) GPFS
8 1 (0.093%) HDFS
8 1 (0.093%) iptables
8 1 (0.093%) KVM
8 1 (0.093%) NFS
8 1 (0.093%) Samba
8 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 383 (35.66%) Kubernetes
2 168 (15.64%) Ansible
3 103 (9.59%) Grafana
4 98 (9.12%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.79%) Argo
6 22 (2.05%) Puppet
7 19 (1.77%) Packer
8 18 (1.68%) Consul
8 18 (1.68%) Istio
9 15 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (1.30%) FortiGate
11 11 (1.02%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.84%) Rancher
14 8 (0.74%) Kibana
15 7 (0.65%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.37%) Pingdom
16 4 (0.37%) Salt
16 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
17 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 157 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 109 (10.15%) Databricks
3 103 (9.59%) Google
4 42 (3.91%) Splunk
5 28 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.05%) Oracle
7 21 (1.96%) VMware
8 19 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.58%) Cisco
9 17 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.21%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.21%) PagerDuty
11 12 (1.12%) IBM
11 12 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.84%) Arista
14 8 (0.74%) F5
14 8 (0.74%) Juniper
15 7 (0.65%) Citrix