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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 78 87
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing Terraform 141 95 121
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.23% 2.75% 2.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.82% 21.02% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 78 88
10th Percentile £395 £360 £463
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £566
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +3.31% -1.95%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £698 £691 £679
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.23% -7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £72.40 - £68.19
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 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +7.15% -16.67% -0.99%

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 618 452 654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.15% 13.11% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 334 446
10th Percentile £260 £260 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.68% -2.14%
75th Percentile £569 £611 £600
90th Percentile £646 £675 £675
England median daily rate £512 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -3.49% -1.85% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 30
10th Percentile - £14.39 £23.96
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.98 £30.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.99 £52.37
Median % change year-on-year +76.02% -48.47% -4.79%
75th Percentile £80.00 £36.50 £69.66
90th Percentile £86.00 £37.40 £76.53
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.94% -42.62% +24.07%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +28 83 £513 -18.81% 83
Berkshire +28 74 £506 -20.59% 53
Hampshire -10 51 £500 -13.04% 29
Oxfordshire -5 7 £413 - 13
West Sussex - 4 £725 - 13
Buckinghamshire -6 2 £600 +0.84% 17
Surrey -10 2 - - 17
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 6 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.84%) Apache
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.13%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) Drupal
4 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (57.45%) AWS
2 66 (46.81%) Azure
3 40 (28.37%) GitHub
4 28 (19.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (19.86%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (19.15%) OpenShift
6 21 (14.89%) GCP
6 21 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (14.89%) Serverless
7 20 (14.18%) Entra ID
8 13 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (9.22%) IaaS
9 12 (8.51%) Amazon S3
9 12 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (7.80%) Azure AKS
11 10 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (7.09%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (6.38%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.51%) DNS
1 12 (8.51%) Firewall
2 8 (5.67%) BGP
2 8 (5.67%) LAN
2 8 (5.67%) OSPF
2 8 (5.67%) WAN
3 6 (4.26%) MPLS
3 6 (4.26%) SNMP
3 6 (4.26%) TACACS
3 6 (4.26%) Wireless
4 5 (3.55%) DHCP
4 5 (3.55%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.84%) VPN
6 3 (2.13%) Network Security
6 3 (2.13%) SSL
7 2 (1.42%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.71%) HTTP
8 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.71%) Internet
8 1 (0.71%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.22%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.09%) Redis
4 7 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.26%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Metadata
8 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.71%) MySQL
8 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (20.57%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.15%) GitLab
3 24 (17.02%) Git
4 8 (5.67%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.55%) Gatling
5 5 (3.55%) JMeter
5 5 (3.55%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.13%) Gradle
7 3 (2.13%) Maven
7 3 (2.13%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.71%) MLflow
8 1 (0.71%) Mocha
8 1 (0.71%) Poetry
8 1 (0.71%) Pylint
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (4.26%) Finance
4 3 (2.13%) Aviation
5 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.42%) Banking
5 2 (1.42%) Billing
5 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (14.18%) Architect
3 16 (11.35%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (9.22%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.51%) Senior
6 10 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (5.67%) Developer
8 7 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Designer
9 6 (4.26%) IP Designer
10 5 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.48%) Kafka
2 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (7.09%) Keycloak
4 9 (6.38%) .NET
4 9 (6.38%) RESTful
5 7 (4.96%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.96%) REST
6 6 (4.26%) ADO
6 6 (4.26%) OAuth
7 5 (3.55%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.55%) OpenID
7 5 (3.55%) React
7 5 (3.55%) SailPoint
7 5 (3.55%) Spring
7 5 (3.55%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.55%) Swagger
7 5 (3.55%) YAML
8 4 (2.84%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.84%) SAML
9 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.67%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.96%) PKI
4 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.26%) Replication
5 4 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (39.01%) Linux
2 14 (9.93%) Windows
3 10 (7.09%) Unix
4 5 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.71%) CentOS
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (72.34%) CI/CD
2 94 (66.67%) DevOps
3 66 (46.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (36.88%) Containerisation
5 30 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (17.73%) Agile
7 24 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.31%) Observability
9 20 (14.18%) DevSecOps
9 20 (14.18%) RBAC
10 17 (12.06%) Incident Response
10 17 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (11.35%) Analytics
11 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure Automation
11 16 (11.35%) Migration
11 16 (11.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (10.64%) Microservices
13 13 (9.22%) High Availability
13 13 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (49.65%) Python
2 40 (28.37%) Bash
3 32 (22.70%) PowerShell
4 17 (12.06%) SQL
5 15 (10.64%) Java
6 12 (8.51%) Bicep
7 11 (7.80%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.09%) C#
9 7 (4.96%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.55%) BeanShell
11 4 (2.84%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (2.13%) Go
12 3 (2.13%) PHP
13 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.71%) Rust
13 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (42.55%) Security Cleared
2 53 (37.59%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.48%) AWS Certification
4 13 (9.22%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (5.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) CCIE
7 6 (4.26%) Degree
7 6 (4.26%) JNCIE
8 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.55%) RHCE
9 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.13%) CCNP
9 3 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.71%) CCNA
10 1 (0.71%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.22%) NCSC
2 7 (4.96%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) NIST
4 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.84%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.84%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.71%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (27.66%) Docker
2 21 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (13.48%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.51%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.67%) vSphere
6 4 (2.84%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (56.03%) Ansible
2 69 (48.94%) Kubernetes
3 31 (21.99%) Grafana
4 28 (19.86%) Prometheus
5 16 (11.35%) Argo
6 11 (7.80%) Puppet
7 8 (5.67%) vCenter Server
8 7 (4.96%) Sysdig
9 6 (4.26%) Istio
9 6 (4.26%) linkerd
10 3 (2.13%) Podman
10 3 (2.13%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.13%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.13%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.13%) Salt
10 3 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.42%) logstash
11 2 (1.42%) Packer
12 1 (0.71%) Rancher
12 1 (0.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (24.11%) VMware
2 23 (16.31%) Red Hat
3 15 (10.64%) Splunk
4 13 (9.22%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.96%) IBM
6 6 (4.26%) Cisco
6 6 (4.26%) Confluent
6 6 (4.26%) F5
6 6 (4.26%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.26%) Juniper
6 6 (4.26%) Pure Storage
7 5 (3.55%) Google
8 4 (2.84%) Citrix
8 4 (2.84%) CloudEndure
8 4 (2.84%) Databricks
9 2 (1.42%) Mellanox
9 2 (1.42%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.42%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.71%) Dell
10 1 (0.71%) Tenable