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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 60 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 163 105 174
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.60% 3.37% 3.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.52% 24.53% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 70 129
10th Percentile £390 £400 -
25th Percentile £411 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £650
90th Percentile £724 £620 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 693 428 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.06% 13.73% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 297 561
10th Percentile £306 £258 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £641 £675
England median daily rate £514 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 3 14
10th Percentile £16.75 £28.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £30.39 £17.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £37.33
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -12.22% -32.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.89 £48.75
90th Percentile - £50.55 £52.10
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +14.29% +68.00% -41.42%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -16 90 £550 +10.00% 32
Hampshire +1 59 £543 +4.58% 28
Berkshire -18 52 £540 +7.95% 11
Buckinghamshire -18 31 £555 +31.99% 5
Surrey -20 12 £503 -10.67% 7
Oxfordshire - 7 £550 - 16
West Sussex -16 2 £725 +123.08% 6
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 10 (6.13%) Confluence
2 3 (1.84%) Apache
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.84%) IIS
2 3 (1.84%) nginx
2 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.84%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (1.23%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.84%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 108 (66.26%) Azure
2 77 (47.24%) AWS
3 31 (19.02%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (17.79%) GCP
5 27 (16.56%) GitHub
6 24 (14.72%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (13.50%) Entra ID
8 18 (11.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (7.36%) Azure AKS
9 12 (7.36%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (6.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (6.13%) PaaS
11 10 (6.13%) Serverless
12 9 (5.52%) IaaS
13 8 (4.91%) Route 53
14 7 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (3.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.63%) Firewall
2 21 (12.88%) DNS
3 15 (9.20%) VPN
4 10 (6.13%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.52%) Network Security
6 8 (4.91%) BGP
6 8 (4.91%) WAN
7 7 (4.29%) DHCP
7 7 (4.29%) DNSSEC
7 7 (4.29%) OSPF
8 6 (3.68%) LAN
8 6 (3.68%) SD-WAN
9 5 (3.07%) MPLS
9 5 (3.07%) VLAN
10 4 (2.45%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.45%) MQTT
11 3 (1.84%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (1.84%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (1.84%) SAN
11 3 (1.84%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.45%) Power BI
2 4 (2.45%) Redis
3 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.84%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.84%) DocumentDB
3 3 (1.84%) MySQL
3 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.23%) Big Data
4 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.61%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (10.43%) Git
2 16 (9.82%) GitLab
3 10 (6.13%) JIRA
4 8 (4.91%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.68%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.45%) Jaeger
6 4 (2.45%) NUnit
6 4 (2.45%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) MSI
7 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.98%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.29%) Finance
5 7 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.07%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.45%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.84%) Billing
8 3 (1.84%) Military
9 2 (1.23%) Automotive
9 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Publishing
10 1 (0.61%) Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (17.79%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (14.72%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (14.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (13.50%) Architect
5 18 (11.04%) Senior
6 13 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.36%) Developer
8 11 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Lead
12 6 (3.68%) .NET Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.20%) .NET
2 14 (8.59%) ARM Templates
3 11 (6.75%) Kafka
4 9 (5.52%) React
5 8 (4.91%) REST
5 8 (4.91%) YAML
6 7 (4.29%) Keycloak
6 7 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (3.68%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.68%) Loki
7 6 (3.68%) OAuth
8 5 (3.07%) ASP.NET
8 5 (3.07%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 5 (3.07%) Entity Framework
8 5 (3.07%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.07%) RESTful
9 4 (2.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.45%) gRPC
9 4 (2.45%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.13%) PKI
5 9 (5.52%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.52%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.52%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (3.68%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Chip and PIN
11 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.61%) EMV
11 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.25%) Linux
2 30 (18.40%) Windows
3 14 (8.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.07%) CentOS
5 3 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (74.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 87 (53.37%) CI/CD
3 69 (42.33%) DevOps
4 41 (25.15%) Agile
5 33 (20.25%) Containerisation
6 31 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (18.40%) Observability
8 24 (14.72%) DevSecOps
8 24 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (12.88%) Migration
11 20 (12.27%) Cloud Security
11 20 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (11.04%) Incident Response
13 17 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (10.43%) Zero Trust
14 16 (9.82%) Test Automation
15 15 (9.20%) Analytics
15 15 (9.20%) Root Cause Analysis
16 14 (8.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (38.65%) Python
2 48 (29.45%) PowerShell
3 30 (18.40%) Bash
4 25 (15.34%) Bicep
5 13 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.98%) SQL
6 9 (5.52%) C#
7 8 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.68%) Go
9 5 (3.07%) Java
10 4 (2.45%) Rust
10 4 (2.45%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.84%) C
12 2 (1.23%) BeanShell
12 2 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (42.33%) Security Cleared
2 51 (31.29%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.72%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.98%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.75%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.13%) Degree
7 8 (4.91%) CCNP
7 8 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.07%) CCIE
10 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.61%) CCDA
12 1 (0.61%) CCDP
12 1 (0.61%) CCIP
12 1 (0.61%) CCNA
12 1 (0.61%) CISSP
12 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.13%) NCSC
2 7 (4.29%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.07%) GDPR
4 4 (2.45%) GRC
5 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 37 (22.70%) Docker
2 26 (15.95%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (9.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.68%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.68%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.84%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.84%) Postfix
8 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (29.45%) Ansible
1 48 (29.45%) Kubernetes
2 27 (16.56%) Grafana
3 23 (14.11%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.36%) Puppet
5 6 (3.68%) Istio
5 6 (3.68%) Rancher
6 5 (3.07%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.45%) Argo
7 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.45%) Podman
7 4 (2.45%) WMI
8 3 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.84%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.23%) linkerd
9 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.61%) CASB
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 45 (27.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.50%) VMware
3 11 (6.75%) Cisco
4 10 (6.13%) Google
5 7 (4.29%) F5
5 7 (4.29%) Infoblox
5 7 (4.29%) Splunk
6 6 (3.68%) NVIDIA
6 6 (3.68%) Oracle
6 6 (3.68%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.45%) Databricks
7 4 (2.45%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.45%) Juniper
7 4 (2.45%) Tenable
8 3 (1.84%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.84%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.84%) Sage
8 3 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.84%) SolarWinds