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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 65 78
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 156 90 135
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.66% 3.02% 2.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.48% 25.21% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 69 99
10th Percentile £400 £400 -
25th Percentile £416 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -9.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £650
90th Percentile £718 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%

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 694 357 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.84% 11.96% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 265 514
10th Percentile £263 £316 £213
25th Percentile £400 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year - +3.95% -10.72%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £606
90th Percentile £714 £663 £654
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 14
10th Percentile £42.05 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £21.98 £17.91
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.99 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +171.00% -44.22% -26.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.99 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.40 £27.20 £55.25
England median hourly rate £57.63 £28.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +105.83% +8.67% -55.19%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -10 88 £525 +5.00% 40
Berkshire -11 59 £500 - 15
Hampshire -4 51 £513 -6.90% 37
Buckinghamshire -15 24 £550 +30.80% 14
Surrey -11 9 £505 -8.18% 6
West Sussex -10 5 £725 +123.08% 2
Oxfordshire - 5 £550 - 11
East Sussex -6 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 9 (5.77%) Confluence
2 5 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.56%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.92%) Apache
4 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 103 (66.03%) Azure
2 79 (50.64%) AWS
3 34 (21.79%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (20.51%) GitHub
5 27 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (14.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (14.10%) Entra ID
6 22 (14.10%) GCP
7 16 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (8.97%) Azure AKS
8 14 (8.97%) Azure Key Vault
8 14 (8.97%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 13 (8.33%) PaaS
10 12 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (7.05%) Serverless
12 9 (5.77%) IaaS
13 8 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.49%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.38%) Firewall
2 13 (8.33%) VPN
3 11 (7.05%) DNS
4 7 (4.49%) Network Security
4 7 (4.49%) WAN
5 6 (3.85%) BGP
5 6 (3.85%) OSPF
6 5 (3.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.21%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.56%) DHCP
7 4 (2.56%) LAN
8 3 (1.92%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.28%) MPLS
9 2 (1.28%) NGFW
9 2 (1.28%) VXLAN
10 1 (0.64%) HTTP
10 1 (0.64%) Internet
10 1 (0.64%) IPv6
10 1 (0.64%) SSL
10 1 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.05%) Redis
3 4 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.92%) Power BI
5 2 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.28%) Big Data
5 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.28%) DocumentDB
5 2 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.28%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (17.31%) Git
2 20 (12.82%) GitLab
3 11 (7.05%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.77%) JIRA
5 7 (4.49%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.56%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.92%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.28%) Gradle
9 2 (1.28%) Maven
9 2 (1.28%) NUnit
10 1 (0.64%) MLflow
10 1 (0.64%) MSI
10 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (16.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.77%) Finance
5 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.92%) Aviation
6 3 (1.92%) Banking
6 3 (1.92%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.92%) Military
7 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Automotive
8 1 (0.64%) Publishing
8 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (22.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.82%) Architect
4 15 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (9.62%) Senior
5 11 (7.05%) Developer
5 11 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (3.85%) Site Engineer
9 5 (3.21%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.62%) .NET
1 15 (9.62%) Kafka
2 11 (7.05%) ARM Templates
2 11 (7.05%) Keycloak
3 10 (6.41%) React
4 8 (5.13%) Loki
5 7 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (4.49%) REST
6 6 (3.85%) YAML
7 4 (2.56%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.56%) Next.js
7 4 (2.56%) OAuth
8 3 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.92%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (1.92%) Entity Framework
8 3 (1.92%) Node.js
8 3 (1.92%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.33%) PKI
3 10 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.64%) IoT
10 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.72%) Linux
2 22 (14.10%) Windows
3 11 (7.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.92%) CentOS
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (67.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 95 (60.90%) CI/CD
3 89 (57.05%) DevOps
4 45 (28.85%) Containerisation
5 38 (24.36%) Agile
6 34 (21.79%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (21.15%) Observability
8 24 (15.38%) DevSecOps
8 24 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (11.54%) Analytics
11 18 (11.54%) Migration
12 17 (10.90%) Cloud Security
12 17 (10.90%) GitOps
12 17 (10.90%) Incident Response
13 16 (10.26%) Test Automation
14 14 (8.97%) Infrastructure Automation
15 13 (8.33%) Microservices
15 13 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 57 (36.54%) Python
2 40 (25.64%) PowerShell
3 31 (19.87%) Bash
4 23 (14.74%) Bicep
5 14 (8.97%) SQL
6 11 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.77%) C#
8 8 (5.13%) Java
9 6 (3.85%) Go
9 6 (3.85%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.28%) BeanShell
10 2 (1.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 69 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 52 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.46%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.05%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.13%) Degree
7 6 (3.85%) CCNP
7 6 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.21%) RHCE
9 4 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.28%) CCIE
11 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.64%) CCDA
12 1 (0.64%) CCDP
12 1 (0.64%) CCIP
12 1 (0.64%) CCNA
12 1 (0.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.54%) NCSC
2 7 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.21%) GDPR
3 5 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.56%) GRC
4 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 38 (24.36%) Docker
2 20 (12.82%) Active Directory
3 19 (12.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (12.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.13%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.28%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (44.23%) Kubernetes
2 61 (39.10%) Ansible
3 32 (20.51%) Grafana
4 29 (18.59%) Prometheus
5 13 (8.33%) Argo
6 12 (7.69%) Istio
7 11 (7.05%) Puppet
8 8 (5.13%) linkerd
9 7 (4.49%) Rancher
10 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.28%) Podman
11 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.28%) WMI
12 1 (0.64%) CASB
12 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.64%) Packer
12 1 (0.64%) Salt
12 1 (0.64%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.87%) VMware
3 15 (9.62%) Splunk
4 14 (8.97%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.85%) Citrix
6 4 (2.56%) Cisco
6 4 (2.56%) CloudEndure
6 4 (2.56%) Databricks
6 4 (2.56%) Mellanox
6 4 (2.56%) NVIDIA
6 4 (2.56%) Oracle
7 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.28%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.28%) Google
8 2 (1.28%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.64%) Arista
9 1 (0.64%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) Virgin Media