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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 68 83
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -23
Contract jobs citing Terraform 156 89 128
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.70% 2.97% 2.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.45% 24.32% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 67 93
10th Percentile £359 £400 £425
25th Percentile £406 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £650
90th Percentile £719 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%

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 695 366 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.04% 12.20% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 269 504
10th Percentile £263 £319 £206
25th Percentile £400 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -12.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £600
90th Percentile £706 £663 £650
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 16
10th Percentile £41.70 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £21.98 £21.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.99 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.16% -44.22% -26.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.99 £49.06
90th Percentile £79.20 £27.20 £66.25
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year +107.34% +0.93% -52.00%

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

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 88 £500 - 37
Berkshire -7 60 £500 - 16
Hampshire -12 55 £500 -9.09% 27
Buckinghamshire -15 22 £550 +30.80% 13
Surrey -17 6 £505 -8.18% 3
Oxfordshire - 6 £483 - 8
West Sussex - 5 £725 -
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 6 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.21%) Confluence
3 4 (2.56%) Apache
3 4 (2.56%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 104 (66.67%) Azure
2 78 (50.00%) AWS
3 36 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (22.44%) GitHub
5 29 (18.59%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (16.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (14.74%) Entra ID
7 23 (14.74%) GCP
8 17 (10.90%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (9.62%) Serverless
10 14 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (8.97%) Azure AKS
10 14 (8.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (8.33%) OpenShift
11 13 (8.33%) PaaS
12 10 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (6.41%) IaaS
13 9 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.77%) Amazon S3
13 9 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.38%) Firewall
2 13 (8.33%) VPN
3 11 (7.05%) DNS
4 7 (4.49%) Network Security
4 7 (4.49%) WAN
5 6 (3.85%) BGP
5 6 (3.85%) OSPF
6 5 (3.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.21%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.56%) DHCP
7 4 (2.56%) LAN
8 3 (1.92%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.92%) SSL
9 2 (1.28%) MPLS
9 2 (1.28%) NGFW
9 2 (1.28%) VXLAN
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.64%) MQTT
10 1 (0.64%) Multicast
10 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.05%) Redis
3 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.28%) Big Data
6 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.28%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.28%) Power BI
6 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.64%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.64%) Parquet
7 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (17.31%) Git
2 22 (14.10%) GitLab
3 16 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.85%) Artifactory
4 6 (3.85%) Robot Framework
5 5 (3.21%) Gatling
5 5 (3.21%) JIRA
5 5 (3.21%) JMeter
5 5 (3.21%) LoadRunner
5 5 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.56%) Jaeger
7 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.92%) Gradle
7 3 (1.92%) Maven
8 1 (0.64%) MLflow
8 1 (0.64%) NUnit
8 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (19.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.90%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.77%) Finance
5 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.92%) Aviation
6 3 (1.92%) Banking
6 3 (1.92%) Military
7 2 (1.28%) Billing
7 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Automotive
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Publishing
8 1 (0.64%) Retail
8 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (16.03%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.82%) Architect
4 17 (10.90%) Senior
5 15 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) Developer
6 11 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Site Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.90%) .NET
2 15 (9.62%) Kafka
3 13 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 11 (7.05%) Keycloak
5 9 (5.77%) React
5 9 (5.77%) REST
6 7 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.49%) OAuth
6 7 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (3.85%) Loki
7 6 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 6 (3.85%) YAML
8 5 (3.21%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.21%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.21%) OpenID
9 4 (2.56%) ASP.NET
9 4 (2.56%) Next.js
9 4 (2.56%) SAML
9 4 (2.56%) Spring
9 4 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.05%) PKI
3 10 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.64%) IoT
11 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.00%) Linux
2 20 (12.82%) Windows
3 9 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.92%) CentOS
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (67.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 103 (66.03%) CI/CD
3 88 (56.41%) DevOps
4 44 (28.21%) Containerisation
5 34 (21.79%) Agile
6 33 (21.15%) Observability
6 33 (21.15%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (17.31%) DevSecOps
9 24 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 23 (14.74%) Incident Response
11 22 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (13.46%) Analytics
13 18 (11.54%) Migration
13 18 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (10.90%) Cloud Security
14 17 (10.90%) GitOps
14 17 (10.90%) Infrastructure Automation
14 17 (10.90%) Test Automation
15 16 (10.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 60 (38.46%) Python
2 38 (24.36%) PowerShell
3 34 (21.79%) Bash
4 23 (14.74%) Bicep
5 13 (8.33%) SQL
6 11 (7.05%) C#
6 11 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.85%) Go
7 6 (3.85%) Java
8 3 (1.92%) PHP
8 3 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 53 (33.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.18%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.97%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.41%) Azure Certification
6 9 (5.77%) Degree
7 8 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.85%) CCNP
9 6 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.21%) RHCE
11 4 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.28%) CCIE
13 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.64%) CCIP
14 1 (0.64%) CCNA
14 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.54%) NCSC
2 7 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.21%) GDPR
3 5 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.56%) GRC
5 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.92%) NIST
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 37 (23.72%) Docker
2 19 (12.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (11.54%) Active Directory
4 16 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.28%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (44.23%) Kubernetes
2 64 (41.03%) Ansible
3 38 (24.36%) Grafana
4 35 (22.44%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.69%) Argo
5 12 (7.69%) Istio
6 10 (6.41%) Puppet
7 8 (5.13%) linkerd
8 7 (4.49%) Rancher
9 4 (2.56%) Sysdig
10 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.28%) Podman
11 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.64%) CASB
12 1 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.64%) Packer
12 1 (0.64%) Salt
12 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.95%) VMware
3 15 (9.62%) Splunk
4 14 (8.97%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.85%) Citrix
6 4 (2.56%) Cisco
6 4 (2.56%) CloudEndure
6 4 (2.56%) Databricks
6 4 (2.56%) Mellanox
6 4 (2.56%) NVIDIA
7 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.28%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.28%) Google
8 2 (1.28%) Oracle
8 2 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.28%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.64%) Arista
9 1 (0.64%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.64%) Virgin Media