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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 70 104
Rank change year-on-year +5 +34 -34
Contract jobs citing Terraform 145 92 112
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.05% 2.93% 2.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.51% 21.80% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 76 83
10th Percentile £366 £360 £500
25th Percentile £425 £500 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -2.13% +3.98%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £653
90th Percentile £738 £688 £700
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 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%

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 674 422 666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.17% 13.44% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 306 455
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £380 £395 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +1.42% -6.10%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £642
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 33
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £23.70
25th Percentile £23.50 £13.99 £30.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -12.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £42.03
% change year-on-year +101.92% -38.14% -16.88%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +4 82 £513 -18.00% 28
Berkshire +15 71 £506 -22.12% 9
Hampshire -6 54 £500 -13.04% 22
Oxfordshire -7 7 £425 - 8
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 5
Buckinghamshire -12 4 £550 +10.50% 11
Surrey -12 2 - - 10
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 (2.76%) Apache
1 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.07%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.07%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (53.79%) Azure
2 77 (53.10%) AWS
3 37 (25.52%) GitHub
4 31 (21.38%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (17.93%) Entra ID
7 24 (16.55%) GCP
7 24 (16.55%) OpenShift
8 21 (14.48%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (13.79%) Serverless
10 16 (11.03%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (10.34%) Azure AKS
11 15 (10.34%) IaaS
12 14 (9.66%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (6.90%) Amazon S3
14 10 (6.90%) PaaS
14 10 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.41%) Firewall
2 13 (8.97%) DNS
3 8 (5.52%) BGP
3 8 (5.52%) OSPF
3 8 (5.52%) VPN
3 8 (5.52%) WAN
4 6 (4.14%) LAN
4 6 (4.14%) Network Security
5 5 (3.45%) DHCP
5 5 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.45%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.76%) MPLS
6 4 (2.76%) SNMP
6 4 (2.76%) Wireless
7 3 (2.07%) TACACS
8 2 (1.38%) SSL
9 1 (0.69%) HTTP
9 1 (0.69%) Internet
9 1 (0.69%) IPv6
9 1 (0.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.90%) Redis
4 8 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.14%) Couchbase
5 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.38%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) Metadata
8 1 (0.69%) Power BI
8 1 (0.69%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (18.62%) Git
1 27 (18.62%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.86%) GitLab
3 9 (6.21%) Artifactory
4 5 (3.45%) Gatling
4 5 (3.45%) JMeter
4 5 (3.45%) LoadRunner
4 5 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.76%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.76%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.07%) Gradle
6 3 (2.07%) Maven
7 2 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.69%) JIRA
8 1 (0.69%) MLflow
8 1 (0.69%) Poetry
8 1 (0.69%) Pylint
8 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.52%) Finance
5 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Aviation
6 3 (2.07%) Banking
7 2 (1.38%) Billing
7 2 (1.38%) Military
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Legal
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (15.17%) Architect
3 20 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (9.66%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (8.97%) Senior
6 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (5.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Developer
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.45%) Network Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Site Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.86%) Kafka
2 12 (8.28%) ARM Templates
3 11 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.90%) .NET
4 10 (6.90%) Keycloak
5 7 (4.83%) OAuth
5 7 (4.83%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.83%) React
5 7 (4.83%) REST
6 5 (3.45%) ADO
6 5 (3.45%) OpenID
6 5 (3.45%) SailPoint
7 4 (2.76%) Next.js
7 4 (2.76%) PySpark
7 4 (2.76%) RESTful
7 4 (2.76%) Spring
7 4 (2.76%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.76%) YAML
8 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.52%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.52%) PKI
3 7 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.14%) Replication
5 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.69%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.69%) EMV
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (36.55%) Linux
2 15 (10.34%) Windows
3 9 (6.21%) Unix
4 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (71.72%) CI/CD
2 92 (63.45%) DevOps
3 75 (51.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (37.24%) Containerisation
5 33 (22.76%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (15.86%) Agile
6 23 (15.86%) Observability
7 22 (15.17%) DevSecOps
7 22 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (14.48%) RBAC
9 19 (13.10%) Analytics
9 19 (13.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (12.41%) Migration
11 16 (11.03%) Incident Response
12 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (9.66%) Microservices
14 13 (8.97%) High Availability
14 13 (8.97%) Log Analytics
14 13 (8.97%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.52%) Python
2 38 (26.21%) Bash
3 32 (22.07%) PowerShell
4 20 (13.79%) Bicep
5 13 (8.97%) SQL
6 11 (7.59%) Java
7 9 (6.21%) C#
8 8 (5.52%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.83%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.45%) BeanShell
11 3 (2.07%) PHP
11 3 (2.07%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.69%) Rust
12 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (44.14%) Security Cleared
2 54 (37.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.72%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.66%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (6.21%) Degree
6 8 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.14%) Azure Certification
8 6 (4.14%) CCNP
9 5 (3.45%) RHCE
10 4 (2.76%) CCIE
11 3 (2.07%) JNCIE
11 3 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.38%) CCNA
12 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.69%) CCDA
13 1 (0.69%) CCDP
13 1 (0.69%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) NCSC
2 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 4 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.76%) NIST
4 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.07%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.07%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (26.21%) Docker
2 23 (15.86%) Active Directory
3 18 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.90%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.52%) vSphere
6 6 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.45%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (49.66%) Ansible
2 69 (47.59%) Kubernetes
3 35 (24.14%) Grafana
4 32 (22.07%) Prometheus
5 17 (11.72%) Argo
6 11 (7.59%) Puppet
7 8 (5.52%) Istio
7 8 (5.52%) linkerd
7 8 (5.52%) vCenter Server
8 7 (4.83%) Sysdig
9 3 (2.07%) Podman
9 3 (2.07%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.38%) logstash
10 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.38%) Packer
10 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.69%) Avamar
11 1 (0.69%) CASB
11 1 (0.69%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (22.07%) VMware
2 21 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.48%) Red Hat
3 15 (10.34%) Splunk
4 6 (4.14%) Cisco
4 6 (4.14%) Citrix
4 6 (4.14%) Confluent
4 6 (4.14%) IBM
4 6 (4.14%) Pure Storage
5 5 (3.45%) Databricks
5 5 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.45%) Google
6 4 (2.76%) CloudEndure
6 4 (2.76%) Juniper
6 4 (2.76%) Mellanox
6 4 (2.76%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.07%) F5
8 2 (1.38%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.38%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.38%) Zscaler