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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 66 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 217 110 169
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.27% 3.10% 3.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.66% 17.08% 20.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 67 129
10th Percentile £393 £406 £410
25th Percentile £450 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £501 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -12.19% -5.08%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £730 £616 £678
England median daily rate £543 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £61.74 - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.74 - -
75th Percentile £71.00 - -
90th Percentile £77.52 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -10.23% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,002 644 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.11% 18.16% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 438 559
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £431 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £558 £624
90th Percentile £717 £625 £673
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 20 33
10th Percentile £38.25 £20.09 £27.15
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.42 £54.85
Median hourly rate £69.11 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +38.22% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.08 £58.69 £73.89
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.72% -12.34% -3.10%

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

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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 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in the South East over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

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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 31 August 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 +15 137 £560 +11.89% 43
Berkshire +15 80 £521 +4.20% 18
Hampshire -10 59 £588 +14.63% 30
Buckinghamshire +1 48 £563 -13.46% 13
Surrey -9 19 £460 -18.22% 15
Oxfordshire -17 9 £809 +54.10% 12
East Sussex -4 2 £430 -9.58% 1
Middlesex -19 2 £600 +20.00% 1
West Sussex -22 1 £322 -0.92% 2
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 14 (6.45%) Confluence
2 10 (4.61%) Apache
3 8 (3.69%) nginx
4 3 (1.38%) IIS
4 3 (1.38%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (0.46%) Houdini
1 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.46%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.84%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.46%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 149 (68.66%) Azure
2 104 (47.93%) AWS
3 46 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (19.35%) GitHub
5 39 (17.97%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (17.05%) GCP
7 28 (12.90%) Entra ID
8 25 (11.52%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (9.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (8.76%) OpenShift
11 17 (7.83%) Serverless
12 16 (7.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (6.91%) Azure AKS
14 14 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (5.07%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (4.15%) Azure Key Vault
18 8 (3.69%) IaaS
18 8 (3.69%) Route 53
18 8 (3.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 48 (22.12%) Firewall
2 47 (21.66%) DNS
3 26 (11.98%) DHCP
3 26 (11.98%) VPN
4 25 (11.52%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.53%) Network Security
6 7 (3.23%) DNSSEC
6 7 (3.23%) SSH
7 6 (2.76%) BGP
8 5 (2.30%) LAN
8 5 (2.30%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.30%) VLAN
8 5 (2.30%) WAN
9 4 (1.84%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.84%) MPLS
9 4 (1.84%) MQTT
9 4 (1.84%) OSPF
10 3 (1.38%) SAN
10 3 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (2.30%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.30%) Power BI
3 4 (1.84%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.84%) DocumentDB
3 4 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.84%) MySQL
4 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.92%) Big Data
5 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.92%) Redis
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.46%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 31 (14.29%) GitLab
2 24 (11.06%) Git
3 23 (10.60%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.53%) JIRA
5 7 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.84%) NUnit
9 2 (0.92%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.92%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.46%) MSI
10 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 58 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.22%) Aerospace
4 19 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.61%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.76%) Finance
9 4 (1.84%) Billing
9 4 (1.84%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.84%) Military
10 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Publishing
11 2 (0.92%) Automotive
11 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (16.59%) Cloud Engineer
1 36 (16.59%) Senior
2 33 (15.21%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (11.06%) Platform Engineer
4 22 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (9.22%) Architect
6 17 (7.83%) Developer
6 17 (7.83%) Lead
7 14 (6.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 10 (4.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.69%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.23%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.90%) ARM Templates
2 18 (8.29%) REST
3 16 (7.37%) .NET
4 11 (5.07%) RESTful
4 11 (5.07%) YAML
5 9 (4.15%) .NET Framework
5 9 (4.15%) OAuth
6 8 (3.69%) Entity Framework
6 8 (3.69%) SAML
7 7 (3.23%) React
8 6 (2.76%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 6 (2.76%) Kafka
8 6 (2.76%) Keycloak
9 5 (2.30%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (2.30%) NHibernate
9 5 (2.30%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.84%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.84%) gRPC
10 4 (1.84%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 38 (17.51%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.53%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.07%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.15%) PKI
7 8 (3.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (3.23%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.30%) AI Agents
10 5 (2.30%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.38%) Life Science
12 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (26.73%) Linux
2 54 (24.88%) Windows
3 30 (13.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.30%) CentOS
5 5 (2.30%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.84%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (75.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 120 (55.30%) CI/CD
3 103 (47.47%) DevOps
4 57 (26.27%) Platform Engineering
5 56 (25.81%) Agile
6 52 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (23.04%) Observability
8 47 (21.66%) Containerisation
9 42 (19.35%) DevSecOps
9 42 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 32 (14.75%) Cloud Security
12 31 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (13.36%) Analytics
14 26 (11.98%) Test Automation
14 26 (11.98%) Zero Trust
15 25 (11.52%) Migration
16 24 (11.06%) Deployment Automation
16 24 (11.06%) Software Engineering
16 24 (11.06%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (47.47%) Python
2 87 (40.09%) PowerShell
3 53 (24.42%) Bash
4 41 (18.89%) Bicep
5 16 (7.37%) SQL
6 12 (5.53%) C#
6 12 (5.53%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.69%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.30%) Java
9 4 (1.84%) C
9 4 (1.84%) Rust
9 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.38%) Go
11 2 (0.92%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.92%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 101 (46.54%) Security Cleared
2 72 (33.18%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.75%) DV Cleared
4 22 (10.14%) AWS Certification
5 19 (8.76%) Azure Certification
6 13 (5.99%) Degree
7 12 (5.53%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.23%) CISSP
9 6 (2.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.76%) CCNP
10 5 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.84%) CCIE
11 4 (1.84%) CEH
11 4 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.99%) NCSC
2 8 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.84%) GDPR
4 4 (1.84%) QA
5 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.92%) GRC
6 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (23.50%) Docker
2 40 (18.43%) Active Directory
3 22 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (5.53%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.76%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.38%) Dovecot
8 3 (1.38%) Postfix
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 79 (36.41%) Ansible
2 76 (35.02%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.44%) Grafana
4 19 (8.76%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.91%) Puppet
6 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.15%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.23%) SCCM
7 7 (3.23%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.30%) Istio
8 5 (2.30%) Packer
9 4 (1.84%) Argo
9 4 (1.84%) Podman
9 4 (1.84%) WMI
10 3 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.38%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.38%) Rancher
10 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (36.41%) Microsoft
2 31 (14.29%) VMware
3 17 (7.83%) Google
4 10 (4.61%) Cisco
4 10 (4.61%) Oracle
4 10 (4.61%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.69%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (3.69%) Splunk
6 7 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.23%) F5
6 7 (3.23%) Infoblox
6 7 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.30%) Tanium
7 5 (2.30%) Tenable
8 4 (1.84%) NVIDIA
8 4 (1.84%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.84%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.84%) Sage
9 3 (1.38%) Juniper