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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 71 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 -35
Contract jobs citing Terraform 146 91 116
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.88% 2.96% 2.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.83% 22.58% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 74 82
10th Percentile £374 £400 £464
25th Percentile £425 £500 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -0.43% +0.43%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
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 £44.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +50.49% -40.67% -10.76%

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 701 403 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.81% 13.10% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 288 473
10th Percentile £255 £296 £205
25th Percentile £380 £400 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £613 £575
90th Percentile £660 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 29
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £21.70
25th Percentile £23.50 £13.99 £30.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.97% -66.35% -21.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +100.94% -33.75% -24.16%

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 5 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 5 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 -9 77 £513 -10.87% 64
Berkshire +2 65 £506 -22.12% 28
Hampshire -7 59 £500 -13.04% 25
Buckinghamshire -17 7 £525 +5.47% 21
Oxfordshire -8 5 £425 - 15
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 8
Surrey -6 3 £700 - 25
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 4 (2.74%) Apache
1 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.74%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (54.11%) Azure
2 76 (52.05%) AWS
3 40 (27.40%) GitHub
4 31 (21.23%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (18.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (18.49%) Entra ID
6 24 (16.44%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (15.07%) OpenShift
8 21 (14.38%) GCP
9 18 (12.33%) Serverless
10 16 (10.96%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (10.96%) IaaS
11 15 (10.27%) Azure AKS
12 14 (9.59%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (8.22%) PaaS
14 10 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (6.16%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.01%) Firewall
2 14 (9.59%) DNS
3 10 (6.85%) VPN
4 6 (4.11%) BGP
4 6 (4.11%) Network Security
4 6 (4.11%) OSPF
4 6 (4.11%) WAN
5 5 (3.42%) DHCP
5 5 (3.42%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.42%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.74%) LAN
7 2 (1.37%) MPLS
7 2 (1.37%) SNMP
7 2 (1.37%) SSL
7 2 (1.37%) Wireless
8 1 (0.68%) Internet
8 1 (0.68%) IPsec
8 1 (0.68%) IPv6
8 1 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.85%) Redis
3 9 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.74%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.37%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.37%) Power BI
6 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.68%) Parquet
7 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (19.18%) Git
2 26 (17.81%) Jenkins
3 24 (16.44%) GitLab
4 9 (6.16%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.11%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.42%) Gatling
6 5 (3.42%) JMeter
6 5 (3.42%) LoadRunner
6 5 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.74%) JIRA
8 3 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.05%) Gradle
8 3 (2.05%) Maven
9 2 (1.37%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.68%) MLflow
10 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.79%) Finance
5 4 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.05%) Aviation
6 3 (2.05%) Banking
6 3 (2.05%) Military
7 2 (1.37%) Billing
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Publishing
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (21.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (16.44%) Architect
3 19 (13.01%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (8.90%) Senior
5 12 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Developer
9 8 (5.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.11%) Site Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.42%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.70%) Kafka
2 12 (8.22%) .NET
2 12 (8.22%) ARM Templates
3 11 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.85%) Keycloak
5 8 (5.48%) OAuth
5 8 (5.48%) React
5 8 (5.48%) REST
6 7 (4.79%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.11%) OpenID
8 5 (3.42%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (3.42%) SailPoint
8 5 (3.42%) YAML
9 4 (2.74%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.74%) Loki
9 4 (2.74%) Next.js
9 4 (2.74%) RESTful
9 4 (2.74%) SAML
9 4 (2.74%) Spring
9 4 (2.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.85%) PKI
3 7 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.79%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.74%) Replication
6 4 (2.74%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.68%) EMV
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (36.99%) Linux
2 17 (11.64%) Windows
3 8 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.42%) Unix
5 3 (2.05%) CentOS
5 3 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (72.60%) CI/CD
2 92 (63.01%) DevOps
3 80 (54.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (36.99%) Containerisation
5 32 (21.92%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (17.81%) Observability
7 24 (16.44%) Agile
7 24 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (15.75%) DevSecOps
8 23 (15.75%) RBAC
9 21 (14.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (13.70%) Analytics
11 18 (12.33%) Migration
12 17 (11.64%) Incident Response
13 16 (10.96%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (10.96%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (9.59%) GitOps
14 14 (9.59%) Log Analytics
14 14 (9.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.21%) Python
2 40 (27.40%) Bash
3 38 (26.03%) PowerShell
4 19 (13.01%) Bicep
5 13 (8.90%) SQL
6 11 (7.53%) Java
7 9 (6.16%) C#
7 9 (6.16%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.42%) BeanShell
8 5 (3.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.05%) Go
9 3 (2.05%) PHP
10 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
11 1 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (46.58%) Security Cleared
2 54 (36.99%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.64%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.59%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.16%) Degree
6 8 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.11%) CCNP
9 5 (3.42%) RHCE
10 3 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.37%) CCIE
11 2 (1.37%) CCNA
11 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.68%) CCDA
12 1 (0.68%) CCDP
12 1 (0.68%) CCIP
12 1 (0.68%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.27%) NCSC
2 6 (4.11%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.42%) GDPR
3 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.74%) NIST
4 4 (2.74%) QA
5 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.68%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (25.34%) Docker
2 26 (17.81%) Active Directory
3 18 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.48%) VMware NSX
4 8 (5.48%) vSphere
5 7 (4.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.42%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (48.63%) Ansible
1 71 (48.63%) Kubernetes
2 38 (26.03%) Grafana
3 35 (23.97%) Prometheus
4 17 (11.64%) Argo
5 11 (7.53%) Puppet
6 10 (6.85%) Istio
7 8 (5.48%) linkerd
7 8 (5.48%) vCenter Server
8 7 (4.79%) Sysdig
9 4 (2.74%) Rancher
10 3 (2.05%) Podman
10 3 (2.05%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.37%) logstash
11 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.37%) Packer
11 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.68%) Nessus
12 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (21.92%) VMware
2 24 (16.44%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.38%) Red Hat
4 13 (8.90%) Splunk
5 6 (4.11%) Citrix
5 6 (4.11%) Pure Storage
6 5 (3.42%) Databricks
7 4 (2.74%) Cisco
7 4 (2.74%) CloudEndure
7 4 (2.74%) Confluent
7 4 (2.74%) Google
7 4 (2.74%) IBM
7 4 (2.74%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.74%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.37%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.37%) Juniper
9 2 (1.37%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.37%) Zscaler