Terraform Contract Job Trends

Terraform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 36 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,767 1,695 1,609
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.23% 5.22% 3.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.69% 33.30% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,955 1,182 1,184
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £455 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £627 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 13
10th Percentile £40.18 £27.50 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.63 £45.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.24 £56.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.06% -9.68% -20.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.13 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £78.70 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £80.83 £74.00
% change year-on-year -13.40% +9.23% -5.13%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 7,151 5,090 5,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.52% 15.68% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,892 3,370 3,869
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 70 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.36
25th Percentile £21.88 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% +19.23% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.66 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £77.62 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £59.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.29% +47.50% -13.38%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in the UK

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terraform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terraform

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +3 2,305 £528 +0.57% 598
London +2 1,224 £550 +1.57% 291
UK excluding London +12 1,110 £510 -2.86% 415
Work from Home -2 824 £525 - 330
North of England +22 497 £500 - 121
Yorkshire +3 243 £500 - 31
North West +42 190 £525 +0.02% 69
South East -20 172 £525 +5.00% 125
Midlands -14 145 £525 +3.75% 38
South West -6 144 £550 -8.33% 72
West Midlands -17 120 £525 -2.78% 23
Scotland +2 102 £500 - 22
North East +4 79 £425 -11.46% 21
East of England -13 51 £549 +11.82% 10
East Midlands -19 23 £463 -7.50% 15
Wales -12 9 £325 +23.81% 20
Northern Ireland - 8 £446 - 13

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 129 (4.66%) Confluence
2 105 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 84 (3.04%) Apache
4 83 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.41%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 29 (1.05%) nginx
8 15 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.51%) SAS
10 9 (0.33%) IIS
10 9 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.11%) CMS
14 2 (0.072%) Apache Synapse
14 2 (0.072%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.072%) Drupal
14 2 (0.072%) Traefik
14 2 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.036%) InDesign
6 1 (0.036%) Weka
6 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.18%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.072%) Endur
3 2 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.036%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.036%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.036%) Maximo
4 1 (0.036%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.036%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,577 (56.99%) AWS
2 1,305 (47.16%) Azure
3 747 (27.00%) GitHub
4 552 (19.95%) GCP
5 509 (18.40%) GitHub Actions
6 444 (16.05%) Azure DevOps
7 428 (15.47%) Serverless
8 357 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 343 (12.40%) Amazon S3
10 310 (11.20%) AWS Lambda
11 277 (10.01%) Amazon EKS
12 208 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 188 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
14 179 (6.47%) Azure AKS
15 168 (6.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 160 (5.78%) Entra ID
17 159 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 149 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
19 137 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
20 124 (4.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 258 (9.32%) Firewall
2 180 (6.51%) DNS
3 136 (4.92%) VPN
4 127 (4.59%) Network Security
5 84 (3.04%) WAN
6 74 (2.67%) BGP
7 54 (1.95%) TCP/IP
8 53 (1.92%) OSPF
9 46 (1.66%) SD-WAN
10 39 (1.41%) VXLAN
11 37 (1.34%) DHCP
12 31 (1.12%) Ethernet VPN
13 27 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 26 (0.94%) VLAN
15 25 (0.90%) BIG-IP
16 21 (0.76%) SAN
17 20 (0.72%) SSL
18 19 (0.69%) LAN
19 17 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
20 15 (0.54%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
3 105 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (3.25%) Power BI
5 88 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 85 (3.07%) DynamoDB
7 82 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 80 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 70 (2.53%) BigQuery
10 67 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
11 65 (2.35%) MongoDB
12 64 (2.31%) NoSQL
13 58 (2.10%) Delta Lake
14 56 (2.02%) Relational Database
15 46 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 44 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
17 43 (1.55%) Oracle Database
18 41 (1.48%) MySQL
19 40 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
20 39 (1.41%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 477 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 473 (17.09%) GitLab
3 383 (13.84%) Git
4 173 (6.25%) JIRA
5 55 (1.99%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 26 (0.94%) Maven
9 23 (0.83%) Claude Code
10 22 (0.80%) Snyk
11 20 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
12 19 (0.69%) MLflow
13 14 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.43%) Gatling
14 12 (0.43%) JUnit
15 11 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.36%) Liquibase
16 10 (0.36%) MSI
16 10 (0.36%) Terragrunt
17 8 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 503 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 421 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 324 (11.71%) Finance
4 141 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (3.83%) Banking
6 73 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (1.34%) Retail
9 34 (1.23%) Legal
10 24 (0.87%) Military
11 23 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 21 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (0.72%) Publishing
14 17 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 17 (0.61%) Law
15 15 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.43%) Billing
16 12 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.36%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 643 (23.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 455 (16.44%) Senior
3 318 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
4 299 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 292 (10.55%) Architect
6 253 (9.14%) Azure Engineer
7 238 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
8 230 (8.31%) Developer
9 223 (8.06%) Lead
10 204 (7.37%) Data Engineer
11 160 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 151 (5.46%) AWS DevOps
13 141 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 133 (4.81%) GCP Engineer
15 124 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 106 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
17 102 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 102 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 101 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 85 (3.07%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (7.23%) Kafka
2 168 (6.07%) REST
3 139 (5.02%) .NET
4 127 (4.59%) Node.js
5 122 (4.41%) React
6 114 (4.12%) PySpark
7 98 (3.54%) OAuth
8 96 (3.47%) RESTful
9 86 (3.11%) Spring
10 82 (2.96%) Spring Boot
11 76 (2.75%) ARM Templates
12 73 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
12 73 (2.64%) YAML
13 70 (2.53%) AWS CDK
13 70 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
14 68 (2.46%) OpenID
15 66 (2.39%) OAuth2
16 54 (1.95%) JSON
17 42 (1.52%) AngularJS
18 39 (1.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 644 (23.27%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 114 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 105 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 89 (3.22%) Public Cloud
7 85 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 52 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 50 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 48 (1.73%) Security Posture
11 45 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 41 (1.48%) PKI
13 38 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.37%) Replication
14 37 (1.34%) Private Cloud
15 36 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.23%) NHS
17 31 (1.12%) Virtual Team
18 28 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
18 28 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 417 (15.07%) Linux
2 220 (7.95%) Windows
3 82 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 62 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 40 (1.45%) VMS
6 38 (1.37%) Unix
7 26 (0.94%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.51%) AIX
9 13 (0.47%) CentOS
10 9 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 9 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.29%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.072%) Debian
16 2 (0.072%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,905 (68.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,872 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 1,645 (59.45%) DevOps
4 686 (24.79%) Containerisation
5 643 (23.24%) Agile
6 577 (20.85%) Observability
7 572 (20.67%) Platform Engineering
8 372 (13.44%) AI
9 334 (12.07%) Migration
10 325 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
11 296 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 293 (10.59%) Test Automation
13 286 (10.34%) Analytics
14 279 (10.08%) Microservices
15 276 (9.97%) Cloud Security
16 275 (9.94%) Software Engineering
17 274 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 272 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 265 (9.58%) Infrastructure Automation
20 243 (8.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,250 (45.18%) Python
2 417 (15.07%) Bash
3 395 (14.28%) SQL
4 371 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 319 (11.53%) Java
6 257 (9.29%) Bicep
7 148 (5.35%) JavaScript
8 144 (5.20%) TypeScript
9 142 (5.13%) C#
10 104 (3.76%) Go
11 54 (1.95%) Scala
12 51 (1.84%) Groovy
13 50 (1.81%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.80%) Ruby
15 18 (0.65%) Rust
16 11 (0.40%) C
16 11 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.33%) R
18 8 (0.29%) Perl
19 7 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 965 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 806 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 159 (5.75%) DV Cleared
4 154 (5.57%) Azure Certification
5 150 (5.42%) AWS Certification
6 109 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 92 (3.32%) Degree
8 56 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 48 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (1.08%) CCNP
12 30 (1.08%) CISSP
13 21 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (0.65%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 17 (0.61%) CCNA
16 12 (0.43%) OCP
16 12 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
16 12 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 73 (2.64%) QA
3 65 (2.35%) GDPR
4 51 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.66%) NIST
6 44 (1.59%) NCSC
7 43 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (1.19%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.72%) SLA
10 17 (0.61%) WCAG
11 14 (0.51%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.43%) GRC
13 8 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.29%) HL7
14 7 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.14%) PSD2
17 3 (0.11%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 727 (26.27%) Docker
2 131 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 102 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 72 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.41%) vSphere
7 37 (1.34%) Hyper-V
8 35 (1.26%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.76%) Squid
10 19 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
12 12 (0.43%) NFS
13 9 (0.33%) KVM
14 6 (0.22%) Firmware
15 3 (0.11%) Ceph
15 3 (0.11%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.11%) Postfix
15 3 (0.11%) zsh
16 2 (0.072%) HDFS
16 2 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,065 (38.49%) Kubernetes
2 583 (21.07%) Ansible
3 342 (12.36%) Grafana
4 303 (10.95%) Prometheus
5 104 (3.76%) Argo
6 58 (2.10%) Puppet
7 53 (1.92%) Istio
8 43 (1.55%) Progress Chef
9 38 (1.37%) Packer
10 33 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 30 (1.08%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.83%) FortiGate
12 23 (0.83%) Kibana
12 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.65%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
14 17 (0.61%) Data Guard
15 14 (0.51%) Consul
15 14 (0.51%) Podman
16 12 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 416 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 254 (9.18%) Google
3 154 (5.57%) Databricks
4 143 (5.17%) Splunk
5 132 (4.77%) VMware
6 116 (4.19%) Oracle
7 86 (3.11%) Red Hat
8 85 (3.07%) Dynatrace
9 67 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 61 (2.20%) Cisco
11 59 (2.13%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.45%) F5
13 37 (1.34%) OpenAI
14 34 (1.23%) Arista
15 31 (1.12%) Zscaler
16 30 (1.08%) Okta
17 27 (0.98%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.98%) Informatica
18 26 (0.94%) Foundry
19 23 (0.83%) Aruba