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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 68 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 -28
Contract jobs citing Terraform 145 88 128
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.71% 2.99% 2.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.45% 22.34% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 71 93
10th Percentile £391 £400 £425
25th Percentile £417 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £733 £688 £685
England median daily rate £525 £570 £558
% change year-on-year -7.89% +2.24% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £66.97 £44.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +50.49% -28.23% -26.19%

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 709 394 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.24% 13.41% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 286 483
10th Percentile £255 £304 £205
25th Percentile £382 £405 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +6.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £575
90th Percentile £660 £675 £643
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £15.93
25th Percentile £32.50 £13.99 £24.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £15.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +244.07% -66.35% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68.75 £17.98 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.60 £19.17 £69.73
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year +107.55% -16.54% -41.39%

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 March 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 March 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 -11 74 £500 -11.11% 49
Berkshire -5 59 £500 -16.67% 17
Hampshire -7 59 £500 -13.04% 21
Buckinghamshire -19 10 £464 -6.88% 20
Oxfordshire -8 5 £550 - 12
Surrey -10 5 £505 - 9
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 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 5 (3.45%) Confluence
2 4 (2.76%) Apache
2 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.76%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.38%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (58.62%) Azure
2 78 (53.79%) AWS
3 40 (27.59%) GitHub
4 29 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (18.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (18.62%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (17.24%) Entra ID
7 21 (14.48%) GCP
8 20 (13.79%) OpenShift
9 16 (11.03%) Serverless
10 15 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (8.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (8.97%) IaaS
12 12 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (8.28%) Azure AKS
13 11 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (6.90%) Amazon S3
14 10 (6.90%) PaaS
14 10 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.48%) Firewall
2 16 (11.03%) DNS
3 12 (8.28%) VPN
4 6 (4.14%) Network Security
4 6 (4.14%) WAN
5 5 (3.45%) BGP
5 5 (3.45%) DHCP
5 5 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.45%) OSPF
5 5 (3.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.07%) LAN
6 3 (2.07%) SSL
7 2 (1.38%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.69%) HTTP
8 1 (0.69%) MQTT
8 1 (0.69%) Multicast
8 1 (0.69%) NGFW
8 1 (0.69%) SNMP
8 1 (0.69%) VoIP
8 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.59%) Redis
3 6 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.38%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.38%) Power BI
5 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.69%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.69%) Parquet
6 1 (0.69%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (19.31%) Git
2 24 (16.55%) GitLab
3 22 (15.17%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.21%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.14%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.45%) Gatling
6 5 (3.45%) JIRA
6 5 (3.45%) JMeter
6 5 (3.45%) LoadRunner
6 5 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.07%) Gradle
7 3 (2.07%) Jaeger
7 3 (2.07%) Maven
8 1 (0.69%) MLflow
8 1 (0.69%) NUnit
8 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.21%) Finance
5 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Aviation
6 3 (2.07%) Banking
6 3 (2.07%) Military
7 2 (1.38%) Billing
7 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.38%) Legal
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Publishing
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (18.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (17.93%) Architect
3 19 (13.10%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (9.66%) Senior
5 11 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Developer
6 10 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Site Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.45%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) Kafka
2 12 (8.28%) .NET
2 12 (8.28%) ARM Templates
3 11 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (7.59%) Keycloak
4 9 (6.21%) REST
5 8 (5.52%) OAuth
5 8 (5.52%) React
6 7 (4.83%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.14%) OpenID
7 6 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (4.14%) YAML
8 5 (3.45%) Loki
9 4 (2.76%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.76%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.76%) Next.js
9 4 (2.76%) RESTful
9 4 (2.76%) SAML
9 4 (2.76%) Spring
9 4 (2.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.59%) PKI
3 8 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.69%) Chip and PIN
10 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.69%) EMV
10 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (33.10%) Linux
2 18 (12.41%) Windows
3 8 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.07%) CentOS
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (70.34%) CI/CD
2 86 (59.31%) DevOps
3 83 (57.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (33.79%) Containerisation
5 32 (22.07%) Platform Engineering
6 29 (20.00%) Observability
7 28 (19.31%) Agile
8 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.86%) DevSecOps
10 22 (15.17%) RBAC
10 22 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (13.79%) Analytics
12 18 (12.41%) Incident Response
12 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (12.41%) Migration
13 17 (11.72%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (10.34%) GitOps
15 14 (9.66%) Microservices
16 13 (8.97%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 62 (42.76%) Python
2 40 (27.59%) Bash
3 38 (26.21%) PowerShell
4 18 (12.41%) Bicep
5 12 (8.28%) SQL
6 10 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.21%) Java
8 8 (5.52%) C#
9 5 (3.45%) Go
10 3 (2.07%) BeanShell
10 3 (2.07%) PHP
11 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.69%) Rust
12 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (45.52%) Security Cleared
2 52 (35.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.03%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.97%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.21%) Degree
6 8 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.83%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.45%) CCNP
8 5 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.45%) RHCE
9 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.69%) CCDA
12 1 (0.69%) CCDP
12 1 (0.69%) CCIE
12 1 (0.69%) CCIP
12 1 (0.69%) CCNA
12 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) NCSC
2 7 (4.83%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.14%) GDPR
4 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.76%) QA
6 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.07%) GRC
6 3 (2.07%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.69%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (26.90%) Docker
2 21 (14.48%) Active Directory
3 20 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (7.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (5.52%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.52%) vSphere
6 7 (4.83%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (49.66%) Kubernetes
2 68 (46.90%) Ansible
3 41 (28.28%) Grafana
4 38 (26.21%) Prometheus
5 18 (12.41%) Argo
6 11 (7.59%) Istio
7 10 (6.90%) Puppet
8 8 (5.52%) linkerd
8 8 (5.52%) vCenter Server
9 7 (4.83%) Sysdig
10 5 (3.45%) Rancher
11 3 (2.07%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.38%) Packer
12 2 (1.38%) Podman
12 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.69%) Avamar
13 1 (0.69%) CASB
13 1 (0.69%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (23.45%) VMware
2 26 (17.93%) Microsoft
3 20 (13.79%) Red Hat
4 13 (8.97%) Splunk
5 6 (4.14%) Citrix
5 6 (4.14%) Pure Storage
6 4 (2.76%) CloudEndure
6 4 (2.76%) Databricks
6 4 (2.76%) Mellanox
6 4 (2.76%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.07%) Cisco
8 2 (1.38%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.38%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.38%) Google
8 2 (1.38%) Oracle
8 2 (1.38%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.38%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.69%) Arista
9 1 (0.69%) Meraki