Terraform Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Terraform
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 24 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Terraform 11 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 4.60% 3.25% -
As % of the Systems Management category 44.00% 40.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.63% - -
75th Percentile £519 £446 -
90th Percentile £540 £474 -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £551 £450
% change year-on-year -6.90% +22.33% -18.18%

All Systems Management Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 25 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.46% 8.13% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 7
10th Percentile £416 £353 £408
25th Percentile £460 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +1.06% -6.00%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £560
90th Percentile £625 £600 -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £450
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - -
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £19.97 £15.00
% change year-on-year +137.86% +33.13% -73.59%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Terraform

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) GitHub
2 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
3 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (81.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Kafka
1 9 (81.82%) Keycloak
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) ModSecurity
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
4 8 (72.73%) GitOps
4 8 (72.73%) Observability
5 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
5 5 (45.45%) SBOM
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
7 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (9.09%) Change Management
8 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
8 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Grafana
3 9 (81.82%) Ansible
3 9 (81.82%) Argo
3 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
4 6 (54.55%) Istio
4 6 (54.55%) linkerd
5 2 (18.18%) Rancher
6 1 (9.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Splunk
1 9 (81.82%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian