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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 72 96
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 -34
Contract jobs citing Terraform 149 91 124
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.91% 2.90% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.99% 22.36% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 74 87
10th Percentile £361 £400 £463
25th Percentile £419 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £611 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.57% -6.56%
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 710 407 701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.85% 12.98% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 290 485
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £373 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £580
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% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

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 7 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 7 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 -5 78 £506 -11.96% 46
Berkshire +6 65 £513 -21.15% 18
Hampshire -6 60 £500 -13.04% 17
Buckinghamshire -18 8 £398 -20.14% 17
Oxfordshire -6 5 £425 - 11
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 6
Surrey -9 4 £603 - 19
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 (2.68%) Apache
1 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.68%) ArcGIS
1 4 (2.68%) Confluence
2 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (55.03%) Azure
2 81 (54.36%) AWS
3 43 (28.86%) GitHub
4 31 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (18.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (18.12%) Entra ID
5 27 (18.12%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (14.77%) OpenShift
7 21 (14.09%) GCP
8 18 (12.08%) Serverless
9 15 (10.07%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (10.07%) IaaS
10 14 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (9.40%) Azure AKS
11 13 (8.72%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (7.38%) PaaS
13 10 (6.71%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (6.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.09%) Firewall
2 15 (10.07%) DNS
3 11 (7.38%) VPN
4 6 (4.03%) BGP
4 6 (4.03%) Network Security
4 6 (4.03%) OSPF
4 6 (4.03%) WAN
5 5 (3.36%) DHCP
5 5 (3.36%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.36%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.68%) LAN
7 3 (2.01%) SSL
8 2 (1.34%) MPLS
8 2 (1.34%) SNMP
8 2 (1.34%) Wireless
9 1 (0.67%) HTTP
9 1 (0.67%) IPsec
9 1 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.67%) TACACS
9 1 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.38%) Redis
3 8 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.01%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.34%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.34%) Power BI
6 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.67%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.67%) Parquet
7 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (19.46%) Git
2 25 (16.78%) GitLab
2 25 (16.78%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.04%) Artifactory
4 6 (4.03%) Robot Framework
5 5 (3.36%) Gatling
5 5 (3.36%) JMeter
5 5 (3.36%) LoadRunner
5 5 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.68%) JIRA
7 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.01%) Gradle
7 3 (2.01%) Jaeger
7 3 (2.01%) Maven
8 1 (0.67%) MLflow
8 1 (0.67%) NUnit
8 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.37%) Finance
5 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.01%) Aviation
6 3 (2.01%) Banking
6 3 (2.01%) Military
7 2 (1.34%) Billing
8 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Publishing
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (16.78%) Architect
3 18 (12.08%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (8.72%) Senior
5 12 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (6.71%) Developer
8 9 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Site Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.36%) Infrastructure Architect
12 5 (3.36%) Network Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) Kafka
2 14 (9.40%) .NET
3 12 (8.05%) ARM Templates
4 11 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (7.38%) Keycloak
5 9 (6.04%) REST
6 8 (5.37%) OAuth
6 8 (5.37%) React
7 7 (4.70%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.03%) OpenID
8 6 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (4.03%) YAML
9 5 (3.36%) Loki
9 5 (3.36%) SailPoint
10 4 (2.68%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.68%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.68%) RESTful
10 4 (2.68%) SAML
10 4 (2.68%) Spring
10 4 (2.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.38%) PKI
3 9 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.70%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.36%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.01%) Replication
10 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.67%) Chip and PIN
11 1 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.67%) EMV
11 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (36.91%) Linux
2 19 (12.75%) Windows
3 9 (6.04%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.68%) Unix
5 3 (2.01%) CentOS
5 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (73.15%) CI/CD
2 95 (63.76%) DevOps
3 82 (55.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (36.24%) Containerisation
5 34 (22.82%) Platform Engineering
6 28 (18.79%) Observability
7 26 (17.45%) Agile
8 24 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.44%) DevSecOps
9 23 (15.44%) RBAC
10 22 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (12.75%) Analytics
11 19 (12.75%) Migration
12 18 (12.08%) Incident Response
13 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure Automation
13 17 (11.41%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (10.07%) GitOps
16 14 (9.40%) Microservices
17 13 (8.72%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.31%) Python
2 43 (28.86%) Bash
2 43 (28.86%) PowerShell
3 17 (11.41%) Bicep
4 14 (9.40%) SQL
5 11 (7.38%) Java
6 10 (6.71%) C#
6 10 (6.71%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.36%) BeanShell
8 4 (2.68%) Go
9 3 (2.01%) PHP
9 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.67%) Rust
11 1 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (45.64%) Security Cleared
2 54 (36.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.74%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.07%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.04%) Degree
6 8 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.03%) CCNP
9 5 (3.36%) RHCE
10 4 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.34%) CCIE
12 2 (1.34%) CCNA
12 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.67%) CCDA
13 1 (0.67%) CCDP
13 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.07%) NCSC
2 7 (4.70%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.03%) GDPR
4 5 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.68%) NIST
5 4 (2.68%) QA
6 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.01%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.67%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (26.17%) Docker
2 25 (16.78%) Active Directory
3 20 (13.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (5.37%) vSphere
5 7 (4.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (4.03%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (48.99%) Ansible
1 73 (48.99%) Kubernetes
2 40 (26.85%) Grafana
3 37 (24.83%) Prometheus
4 18 (12.08%) Argo
5 12 (8.05%) Puppet
6 11 (7.38%) Istio
7 8 (5.37%) linkerd
7 8 (5.37%) vCenter Server
8 7 (4.70%) Sysdig
9 5 (3.36%) Rancher
10 4 (2.68%) Progress Chef
11 3 (2.01%) Podman
12 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.34%) Packer
13 1 (0.67%) CASB
13 1 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.67%) logstash
13 1 (0.67%) Salt
13 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (22.82%) VMware
2 25 (16.78%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.09%) Red Hat
4 14 (9.40%) Splunk
5 6 (4.03%) Citrix
5 6 (4.03%) Pure Storage
6 5 (3.36%) Databricks
7 4 (2.68%) Cisco
7 4 (2.68%) CloudEndure
7 4 (2.68%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.68%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.01%) Confluent
8 3 (2.01%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.01%) Google
8 3 (2.01%) IBM
9 2 (1.34%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.34%) Juniper
9 2 (1.34%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.34%) Zscaler