Terraform Contract Job Trends in the South East

Terraform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 60 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 182 114 181
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.78% 3.32% 3.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.23% 23.70% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 76 134
10th Percentile £361 £400 -
25th Percentile £410 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.66% -4.58%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £647
90th Percentile £710 £621 £688
England median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.99 - -
25th Percentile £60.92 - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.87% -15.36% -10.26%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 751 481 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.45% 14.02% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 323 557
10th Percentile £310 £253 £281
25th Percentile £406 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £608
90th Percentile £700 £622 £675
England median daily rate £524 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 7 10
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.87 £15.80
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.44 £24.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.77 £37.33
Median % change year-on-year +98.35% -12.22% -32.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.00 £49.69
90th Percentile - £85.65 £53.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in the South East

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the South East over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Terraform

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley -9 101 £550 +10.00% 29
Hampshire -14 67 £575 +12.20% 21
Berkshire -18 55 £460 -8.00% 9
Buckinghamshire -6 39 £560 -2.61% 10
Surrey -13 15 £503 -10.67% 8
Oxfordshire -18 7 £550 +4.76% 10
East Sussex -3 1 £459 -3.37% 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (7.14%) Confluence
2 6 (3.30%) Apache
2 6 (3.30%) nginx
3 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.65%) IIS
3 3 (1.65%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) NetSuite
1 4 (2.20%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 123 (67.58%) Azure
2 84 (46.15%) AWS
3 35 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (17.03%) GCP
4 31 (17.03%) GitHub
5 29 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (13.19%) Entra ID
7 19 (10.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (9.89%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 12 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (6.04%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.95%) Serverless
13 8 (4.40%) PaaS
13 8 (4.40%) Route 53
14 7 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (3.85%) IaaS
15 6 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (2.75%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.88%) Firewall
2 34 (18.68%) DNS
3 21 (11.54%) VPN
4 16 (8.79%) TCP/IP
5 15 (8.24%) DHCP
6 13 (7.14%) Network Security
7 8 (4.40%) BGP
7 8 (4.40%) WAN
8 7 (3.85%) DNSSEC
8 7 (3.85%) OSPF
9 6 (3.30%) LAN
9 6 (3.30%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.75%) MPLS
10 5 (2.75%) SSH
10 5 (2.75%) VLAN
11 4 (2.20%) BIG-IP
11 4 (2.20%) MQTT
12 3 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (1.65%) IPsec
12 3 (1.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.20%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.20%) Power BI
3 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.65%) DocumentDB
3 3 (1.65%) MySQL
3 3 (1.65%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.65%) Redis
3 3 (1.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.10%) Big Data
4 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.55%) Parquet
5 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (10.44%) Git
2 18 (9.89%) GitLab
3 13 (7.14%) JIRA
4 8 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.40%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.20%) Jaeger
6 4 (2.20%) NUnit
7 3 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.65%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.55%) MLflow
8 1 (0.55%) MSI
8 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.95%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.85%) Finance
8 5 (2.75%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.20%) Billing
9 4 (2.20%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.20%) Military
10 3 (1.65%) Publishing
11 2 (1.10%) Automotive
11 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Legal
11 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (17.03%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (13.74%) Cloud Engineer
2 25 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (13.19%) Senior
4 23 (12.64%) Architect
5 18 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.14%) Developer
8 11 (6.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Lead
10 7 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.89%) ARM Templates
2 14 (7.69%) .NET
3 11 (6.04%) REST
4 10 (5.49%) Kafka
4 10 (5.49%) YAML
5 8 (4.40%) React
6 7 (3.85%) OAuth
6 7 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.85%) RESTful
7 6 (3.30%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.30%) Keycloak
7 6 (3.30%) Loki
7 6 (3.30%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.75%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.75%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 5 (2.75%) Entity Framework
9 4 (2.20%) JSON
9 4 (2.20%) LDAP
9 4 (2.20%) NHibernate
9 4 (2.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.49%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.95%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.95%) PKI
6 8 (4.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (3.30%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.20%) ARM Cortex
9 4 (2.20%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 45 (24.73%) Linux
2 42 (23.08%) Windows
3 19 (10.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.75%) CentOS
4 5 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.65%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (72.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 96 (52.75%) CI/CD
3 77 (42.31%) DevOps
4 45 (24.73%) Agile
5 37 (20.33%) Observability
6 36 (19.78%) Containerisation
7 34 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (17.03%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (15.93%) DevSecOps
11 27 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (13.19%) Cloud Security
13 23 (12.64%) Migration
14 21 (11.54%) Analytics
14 21 (11.54%) Zero Trust
15 18 (9.89%) Incident Response
15 18 (9.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 17 (9.34%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (9.34%) Software Engineering
17 16 (8.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (40.11%) Python
2 63 (34.62%) PowerShell
3 40 (21.98%) Bash
4 31 (17.03%) Bicep
5 13 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.59%) SQL
7 8 (4.40%) C#
7 8 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.30%) Go
9 5 (2.75%) Java
10 4 (2.20%) C
10 4 (2.20%) Rust
10 4 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.10%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.10%) Scala
12 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 76 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 53 (29.12%) SC Cleared
3 30 (16.48%) DV Cleared
4 15 (8.24%) AWS Certification
5 13 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 12 (6.59%) Degree
7 9 (4.95%) CCNP
7 9 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.75%) CCIE
10 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.10%) CCNA
11 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.55%) CCDA
12 1 (0.55%) CCDE
12 1 (0.55%) CCDP
12 1 (0.55%) CCIP
12 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) NCSC
2 7 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.75%) GDPR
4 4 (2.20%) GRC
5 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 41 (22.53%) Docker
2 34 (18.68%) Active Directory
3 18 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (8.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.30%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.30%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.65%) Dovecot
8 3 (1.65%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 55 (30.22%) Ansible
2 54 (29.67%) Kubernetes
3 26 (14.29%) Grafana
4 22 (12.09%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.69%) Puppet
6 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.40%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.30%) Istio
7 6 (3.30%) Rancher
8 5 (2.75%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.20%) Argo
9 4 (2.20%) Podman
9 4 (2.20%) SCCM
9 4 (2.20%) WMI
10 3 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.65%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.65%) Packer
10 3 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.10%) linkerd
12 1 (0.55%) CASB
Vendors
1 58 (31.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.74%) VMware
3 12 (6.59%) Cisco
4 11 (6.04%) Google
5 7 (3.85%) F5
5 7 (3.85%) Infoblox
6 6 (3.30%) NVIDIA
6 6 (3.30%) Oracle
6 6 (3.30%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.30%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.30%) Splunk
7 5 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.20%) Databricks
8 4 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.20%) Juniper
8 4 (2.20%) PagerDuty
8 4 (2.20%) Sage
8 4 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.20%) Tenable