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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 62 53
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 201 105 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.01% 2.97% 3.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.62% 21.47% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 66 130
10th Percentile £390 £400 £424
25th Percentile £425 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -12.28% -5.00%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £638
90th Percentile £724 £616 £675
England median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £61.74 - -
25th Percentile £65.05 - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile £70.75 - -
90th Percentile £71.43 - -
England median hourly rate £69.11 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +16.64% -19.93% -5.13%

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 755 489 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.30% 13.85% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 330 530
10th Percentile £312 £261 £278
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £625 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 7 10
10th Percentile £23.65 £18.87 £21.63
25th Percentile £36.75 £23.44 £30.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £32.77 £37.08
Median % change year-on-year +105.89% -11.63% -32.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.00 £47.56
90th Percentile £71.60 £85.65 £53.45
England median hourly rate £65.45 £54.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +20.09% +45.33% -25.00%

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 10 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in the South East over the 6 months to 10 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 10 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 +5 122 £555 +11.00% 77
Berkshire -3 71 £500 +2.56% 29
Hampshire -10 62 £588 +14.63% 42
Buckinghamshire -3 44 £560 +25.00% 23
Surrey -17 18 £503 -10.67% 17
Oxfordshire -19 7 £675 +28.57% 26
East Sussex -2 1 £459 -3.37% 3
Middlesex -17 1 - - 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 17 (8.46%) Confluence
2 9 (4.48%) Apache
3 8 (3.98%) nginx
4 3 (1.49%) IIS
4 3 (1.49%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (0.50%) Houdini
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.50%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.99%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 138 (68.66%) Azure
2 95 (47.26%) AWS
3 44 (21.89%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (19.90%) GitHub
5 37 (18.41%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (17.41%) GCP
7 28 (13.93%) Entra ID
8 23 (11.44%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (9.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (7.96%) Azure AKS
11 14 (6.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (6.47%) OpenShift
13 12 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (5.47%) Serverless
15 10 (4.98%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (4.48%) IaaS
16 9 (4.48%) PaaS
17 8 (3.98%) Route 53
18 7 (3.48%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 44 (21.89%) Firewall
2 43 (21.39%) DNS
3 25 (12.44%) VPN
4 23 (11.44%) DHCP
5 22 (10.95%) TCP/IP
6 11 (5.47%) Network Security
7 7 (3.48%) DNSSEC
8 6 (2.99%) BGP
8 6 (2.99%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.99%) SSH
8 6 (2.99%) WAN
9 5 (2.49%) LAN
9 5 (2.49%) MPLS
9 5 (2.49%) OSPF
9 5 (2.49%) VLAN
10 4 (1.99%) BIG-IP
10 4 (1.99%) MQTT
11 3 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (1.49%) SAN
11 3 (1.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (2.99%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (2.49%) Power BI
3 4 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.99%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.99%) DocumentDB
3 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.99%) MySQL
4 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.00%) Big Data
5 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.00%) Parquet
5 2 (1.00%) Redis
6 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.50%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 24 (11.94%) GitLab
2 20 (9.95%) Git
3 15 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.46%) JIRA
4 7 (3.48%) SonarQube
4 7 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.99%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.99%) NUnit
7 3 (1.49%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.50%) MSI
8 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 53 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.46%) Aerospace
3 15 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.98%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.99%) Finance
8 4 (1.99%) Billing
8 4 (1.99%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.99%) Publishing
9 3 (1.49%) Military
10 2 (1.00%) Automotive
10 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (16.42%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (13.93%) Senior
4 24 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (9.95%) Architect
6 20 (9.95%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (8.96%) Developer
8 13 (6.47%) Lead
9 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (2.99%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.94%) ARM Templates
2 17 (8.46%) .NET
2 17 (8.46%) REST
3 11 (5.47%) RESTful
4 10 (4.98%) .NET Framework
4 10 (4.98%) OAuth
4 10 (4.98%) YAML
5 9 (4.48%) Entity Framework
5 9 (4.48%) SAML
6 7 (3.48%) React
7 6 (2.99%) ASP.NET
7 6 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 6 (2.99%) Kafka
7 6 (2.99%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.99%) Loki
8 5 (2.49%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (2.49%) JSON
8 5 (2.49%) NHibernate
8 5 (2.49%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.49%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 33 (16.42%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.97%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.98%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.48%) PKI
7 8 (3.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (3.48%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.99%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (2.99%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.99%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (27.86%) Linux
2 52 (25.87%) Windows
3 27 (13.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.49%) CentOS
5 5 (2.49%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (72.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 106 (52.74%) CI/CD
3 95 (47.26%) DevOps
4 50 (24.88%) Agile
5 45 (22.39%) Platform Engineering
6 42 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (20.40%) Observability
8 39 (19.40%) Containerisation
8 39 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (16.92%) DevSecOps
10 31 (15.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (14.43%) Analytics
11 29 (14.43%) Cloud Security
12 24 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (11.44%) Test Automation
14 22 (10.95%) Migration
14 22 (10.95%) Zero Trust
15 20 (9.95%) Vulnerability Management
16 19 (9.45%) AI
16 19 (9.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 91 (45.27%) Python
2 80 (39.80%) PowerShell
3 47 (23.38%) Bash
4 36 (17.91%) Bicep
5 16 (7.96%) SQL
6 13 (6.47%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.97%) C#
8 8 (3.98%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.99%) Go
10 5 (2.49%) Java
11 4 (1.99%) C
11 4 (1.99%) Rust
11 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) BeanShell
12 2 (1.00%) Scala
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 88 (43.78%) Security Cleared
2 62 (30.85%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.93%) DV Cleared
4 20 (9.95%) AWS Certification
5 19 (9.45%) Azure Certification
6 11 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.47%) Degree
7 7 (3.48%) CCNP
8 5 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.49%) CCIE
8 5 (2.49%) CISSP
9 4 (1.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.00%) CEH
11 2 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.47%) NCSC
2 7 (3.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.99%) GRC
5 4 (1.99%) QA
6 3 (1.49%) NIST
7 2 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 47 (23.38%) Docker
2 41 (20.40%) Active Directory
3 22 (10.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (5.47%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.49%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.49%) Dovecot
8 3 (1.49%) Postfix
8 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (34.83%) Ansible
2 69 (34.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.93%) Grafana
4 21 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 15 (7.46%) Puppet
6 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.48%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.48%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.99%) Istio
8 6 (2.99%) Rancher
8 6 (2.99%) SCCM
9 5 (2.49%) Packer
10 4 (1.99%) Argo
10 4 (1.99%) Podman
10 4 (1.99%) WMI
11 3 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.49%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.50%) CASB
12 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 70 (34.83%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.42%) VMware
3 17 (8.46%) Google
4 10 (4.98%) Cisco
5 9 (4.48%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.98%) Oracle
6 8 (3.98%) Splunk
7 7 (3.48%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (3.48%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.48%) F5
7 7 (3.48%) Infoblox
7 7 (3.48%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.49%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.49%) Tanium
9 5 (2.49%) Tenable
10 4 (1.99%) Databricks
10 4 (1.99%) NVIDIA
10 4 (1.99%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.99%) Sage