Terraform Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Terraform
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 33 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 42 16 21
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 10.91% 4.40% 5.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 20.00% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 11 17
10th Percentile £413 £425 £500
25th Percentile £513 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -14.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £700 £631 £738
90th Percentile £715 £633 £800
South West median daily rate £550 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -3.93% -4.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £41.30 - -
25th Percentile £49.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £75.75 - -
90th Percentile £83.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £81.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +9.46% -5.13% +6.12%

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 126 80 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 32.73% 21.98% 21.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 43 70
10th Percentile £325 £400 £475
25th Percentile £425 £443 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £736
90th Percentile £700 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £41.30 - £18.95
25th Percentile £49.25 - £40.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.89%
75th Percentile £75.75 - -
90th Percentile £83.70 - £80.80
South West median hourly rate £86.00 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +91.11% -37.93% +11.54%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Gloucestershire

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Terraform

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in Gloucestershire

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Gloucester +4 19 £700 +69.70% 15
Cheltenham +20 17 £555 +8.29% 15
Terraform
South West

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) GitHub
3 11 (26.19%) AWS
4 9 (21.43%) npm
5 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (19.05%) OpenShift
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (7.14%) GCP
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.76%) Serverless
9 1 (2.38%) dbt
9 1 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) AMQP
2 1 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.90%) InfluxDB
3 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Git
2 10 (23.81%) SonarQube
3 9 (21.43%) Maven
4 3 (7.14%) GitLab
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 7 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Backend Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Senior
7 1 (2.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) YAML
2 9 (21.43%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (2.38%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) OpenID
5 1 (2.38%) React
5 1 (2.38%) Spring
5 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) PKI
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 8 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (14.29%) CentOS
3 6 (14.29%) Windows
4 2 (4.76%) Unix
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (80.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (73.81%) CI/CD
3 24 (57.14%) DevOps
4 22 (52.38%) Test Automation
5 16 (38.10%) Containerisation
6 14 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 10 (23.81%) Microservices
7 10 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (23.81%) Regulatory Compliance
8 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (19.05%) High Availability
9 8 (19.05%) Migration
10 7 (16.67%) Agile
10 7 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
11 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
12 5 (11.90%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) Python
3 9 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) C
6 3 (7.14%) Bicep
6 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.76%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (88.10%) Security Cleared
2 28 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 19 (45.24%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) CCSP
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.38%) CISM
5 1 (2.38%) CISSP
5 1 (2.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (59.52%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (11.90%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 3 (7.14%) vSphere
4 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (40.48%) Ansible
3 10 (23.81%) Grafana
4 3 (7.14%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.76%) Podman
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) NetApp
3 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.14%) VMware
5 2 (4.76%) Dell
5 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace