Terraform Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Terraform
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 10 38
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 -11
Contract jobs citing Terraform 4 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 4.55% 12.15% 0.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% 43.33% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £421 -
25th Percentile £513 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -5.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £525
90th Percentile £645 £583 -
South West median daily rate £555 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.48% -4.17% +9.09%

All Systems Management Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 16 30 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 18.18% 28.04% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 14
10th Percentile £270 £223 £358
25th Percentile £494 £229 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £378 £498
Median % change year-on-year +41.06% -24.12% -0.50%
75th Percentile £557 £446 £534
90th Percentile £585 £549 £542
South West median daily rate £550 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in Dorset

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Dorset over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Dorset

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Blandford Forum - 3 £525 -
Poole - 1 £650 - 2
Terraform
South West

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Packer
2 3 (75.00%) Podman
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware