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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 65 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 217 115 154
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.29% 3.32% 3.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.10% 18.00% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 68 120
10th Percentile £393 £400 £411
25th Percentile £455 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -12.24% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £730 £621 £688
England median daily rate £550 £525 £555
% change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% -6.13%
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 £54.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +29.03% -26.69% -5.13%

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 982 639 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.90% 18.43% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 432 551
10th Percentile £325 £293 £325
25th Percentile £431 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £561 £619
90th Percentile £725 £625 £675
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 16 29
10th Percentile £29.07 £22.78 £27.00
25th Percentile £54.84 £49.06 £56.65
Median hourly rate £68.11 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +36.22% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.13 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.44 £58.13 £74.89
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -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 14 September 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 14 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

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 14 September 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 -2 131 £561 +12.14% 110
Berkshire +3 78 £525 +6.60% 35
Hampshire -8 61 £600 +17.07% 58
Buckinghamshire +3 45 £569 -5.21% 25
Surrey -3 22 £460 -18.22% 50
Oxfordshire -20 8 £868 +65.33% 50
Middlesex -19 3 £600 +20.00% 1
East Sussex -4 2 £430 -9.58% 1
West Sussex -29 1 £322 -0.92% 9
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 (5.99%) Confluence
2 10 (4.61%) Apache
3 8 (3.69%) nginx
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.38%) IIS
4 3 (1.38%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
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
1 144 (66.36%) Azure
2 103 (47.47%) AWS
3 45 (20.74%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (18.89%) GitHub
5 38 (17.51%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (17.05%) GCP
7 28 (12.90%) Entra ID
8 25 (11.52%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (10.14%) OpenShift
10 19 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (8.29%) Serverless
12 17 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (6.45%) Azure AKS
14 12 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (5.07%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (4.15%) Azure Key Vault
17 8 (3.69%) IaaS
17 8 (3.69%) Route 53
17 8 (3.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (21.20%) DNS
2 44 (20.28%) Firewall
3 26 (11.98%) DHCP
4 25 (11.52%) TCP/IP
5 24 (11.06%) VPN
6 12 (5.53%) Network Security
7 7 (3.23%) DNSSEC
7 7 (3.23%) SSH
8 6 (2.76%) BGP
9 5 (2.30%) LAN
9 5 (2.30%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.30%) VLAN
9 5 (2.30%) WAN
10 4 (1.84%) BIG-IP
10 4 (1.84%) MPLS
10 4 (1.84%) MQTT
10 4 (1.84%) OSPF
11 3 (1.38%) SAN
11 3 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.92%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (2.30%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.30%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.30%) Power BI
4 4 (1.84%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.84%) MySQL
5 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.38%) Big Data
5 3 (1.38%) DocumentDB
5 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.92%) Parquet
7 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.46%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (16.59%) GitLab
2 29 (13.36%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.52%) Git
4 11 (5.07%) JIRA
5 7 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.38%) NUnit
9 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.46%) MSI
9 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 56 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.22%) Aerospace
4 17 (7.83%) 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%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.46%) German Language
12 1 (0.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (17.05%) Senior
2 35 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (9.22%) Lead
6 19 (8.76%) Architect
6 19 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (8.29%) Developer
8 16 (7.37%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Technical Leader
10 9 (4.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.90%) ARM Templates
2 18 (8.29%) REST
3 14 (6.45%) .NET
4 11 (5.07%) RESTful
5 9 (4.15%) OAuth
5 9 (4.15%) YAML
6 8 (3.69%) .NET Framework
6 8 (3.69%) Entity Framework
6 8 (3.69%) SAML
7 7 (3.23%) React
8 6 (2.76%) LDAP
8 6 (2.76%) OpenTofu
9 5 (2.30%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.30%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 5 (2.30%) AWS CDK
9 5 (2.30%) Kafka
9 5 (2.30%) Keycloak
9 5 (2.30%) NHibernate
9 5 (2.30%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.84%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.51%) Cloud Native
1 38 (17.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.61%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (3.23%) ARM Cortex
6 7 (3.23%) PKI
6 7 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.38%) Life Science
10 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.65%) Linux
2 53 (24.42%) Windows
3 28 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.30%) CentOS
5 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.30%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (76.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 103 (47.47%) DevOps
4 58 (26.73%) Platform Engineering
5 55 (25.35%) Agile
6 54 (24.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (23.50%) Observability
8 50 (23.04%) Containerisation
9 46 (21.20%) DevSecOps
10 43 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (14.75%) Cloud Security
11 32 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 30 (13.82%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (12.90%) Analytics
14 28 (12.90%) Test Automation
15 26 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
16 25 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (11.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 103 (47.47%) Python
2 81 (37.33%) PowerShell
3 53 (24.42%) Bash
4 40 (18.43%) Bicep
5 15 (6.91%) SQL
6 11 (5.07%) C#
6 11 (5.07%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.69%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.76%) C
8 6 (2.76%) Java
9 4 (1.84%) Rust
9 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.92%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.92%) Go
10 2 (0.92%) Groovy
10 2 (0.92%) Scala
11 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 103 (47.47%) Security Cleared
2 71 (32.72%) SC Cleared
3 35 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 23 (10.60%) 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%) 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
11 4 (1.84%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.84%) PMP
12 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.99%) NCSC
2 7 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.84%) QA
5 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.38%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (22.58%) Docker
2 41 (18.89%) Active Directory
3 19 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.07%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.76%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.38%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.38%) Postfix
8 1 (0.46%) Firmware
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (36.87%) Ansible
2 73 (33.64%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.52%) Grafana
4 17 (7.83%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.45%) Puppet
6 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (3.69%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.23%) SCCM
8 7 (3.23%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.76%) Packer
10 5 (2.30%) Argo
10 5 (2.30%) Podman
11 4 (1.84%) Istio
11 4 (1.84%) WMI
12 3 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.38%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.92%) Rancher
14 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (34.56%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.90%) VMware
3 17 (7.83%) Google
4 11 (5.07%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.61%) Cisco
6 8 (3.69%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (3.69%) Oracle
7 7 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.23%) F5
7 7 (3.23%) Infoblox
7 7 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.23%) Splunk
8 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.30%) Tanium
8 5 (2.30%) Tenable
9 4 (1.84%) Databricks
9 4 (1.84%) NVIDIA
9 4 (1.84%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.84%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.84%) Sage