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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 62 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 125 133 180
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.07% 3.23% 3.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.01% 22.43% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 103 137
10th Percentile £380 £368 £466
25th Percentile £418 £513 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £674
90th Percentile £621 £698 £699
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £71.20 - £68.19
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £76.53
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £72.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -13.19% -5.92% +1.53%

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 595 593 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.62% 14.40% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 441 490
10th Percentile £255 £267 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +4.88%
75th Percentile £565 £613 £625
90th Percentile £618 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 29
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.15 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.13 £30.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -31.63% -5.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.73 £44.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.83 £48.70
% change year-on-year -4.98% -24.37% +89.42%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +24 73 £519 -17.00% 53
Berkshire +19 59 £513 -18.00% 23
Hampshire -11 47 £500 -13.04% 33
Buckinghamshire -1 7 £600 -5.88% 7
Oxfordshire -7 7 £413 - 24
Surrey +3 2 £635 - 9
Middlesex -5 1 £500 -20.00% 1
West Sussex -10 1 £725 +26.09% 7
Kent - 1 £615 - 4
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 (4.80%) Apache
1 6 (4.80%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.80%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) Drupal
3 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.80%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.40%) AWS
2 56 (44.80%) Azure
3 37 (29.60%) GitHub
4 23 (18.40%) OpenShift
5 21 (16.80%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (14.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (12.80%) Serverless
8 14 (11.20%) GCP
9 13 (10.40%) Entra ID
10 12 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (9.60%) IaaS
11 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
12 9 (7.20%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (7.20%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (6.40%) Azure AKS
14 7 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.60%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (5.60%) OCI
15 6 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.00%) DNS
2 10 (8.00%) Firewall
3 9 (7.20%) DHCP
3 9 (7.20%) LAN
4 7 (5.60%) BGP
4 7 (5.60%) OSPF
5 6 (4.80%) MPLS
5 6 (4.80%) SNMP
5 6 (4.80%) TACACS
5 6 (4.80%) WAN
5 6 (4.80%) Wireless
6 4 (3.20%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (2.40%) Junos
7 3 (2.40%) SSL
7 3 (2.40%) VPN
8 2 (1.60%) HTTP
9 1 (0.80%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.40%) Redis
4 7 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.60%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.80%) Couchbase
6 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.60%) Metadata
8 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.80%) MySQL
8 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (17.60%) Jenkins
2 21 (16.80%) GitLab
3 10 (8.00%) Git
4 8 (6.40%) Artifactory
5 5 (4.00%) Gatling
5 5 (4.00%) JMeter
5 5 (4.00%) LoadRunner
5 5 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.20%) MSI
6 4 (3.20%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.60%) Gradle
7 2 (1.60%) Maven
8 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.80%) JIRA
8 1 (0.80%) MLflow
8 1 (0.80%) Mocha
8 1 (0.80%) Poetry
8 1 (0.80%) Pylint
8 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.00%) Finance
5 4 (3.20%) Retail
6 3 (2.40%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.60%) Billing
7 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.80%) Aviation
8 1 (0.80%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (10.40%) Architect
3 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (7.20%) Senior
6 8 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Designer
8 6 (4.80%) IP Designer
9 5 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Developer
10 4 (3.20%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.60%) Kafka
2 13 (10.40%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.20%) YAML
4 8 (6.40%) RESTful
5 7 (5.60%) .NET
5 7 (5.60%) ADO
5 7 (5.60%) Keycloak
5 7 (5.60%) OAuth
6 6 (4.80%) OpenID
6 6 (4.80%) REST
6 6 (4.80%) SailPoint
7 5 (4.00%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.00%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.00%) SAML
7 5 (4.00%) Swagger
8 4 (3.20%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.40%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.40%) PySpark
9 3 (2.40%) Spring
9 3 (2.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) PKI
2 7 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.80%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.80%) Replication
4 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.40%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (38.40%) Linux
2 17 (13.60%) Windows
3 13 (10.40%) Unix
4 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.20%) CentOS
8 2 (1.60%) VMS
9 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (69.60%) CI/CD
2 81 (64.80%) DevOps
3 60 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (28.80%) Containerisation
5 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.00%) Agile
7 23 (18.40%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (12.80%) Observability
9 15 (12.00%) Migration
10 14 (11.20%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (11.20%) RBAC
11 13 (10.40%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 13 (10.40%) Incident Response
11 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (9.60%) DevSecOps
12 12 (9.60%) High Availability
13 11 (8.80%) Analytics
14 10 (8.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 66 (52.80%) Python
2 34 (27.20%) PowerShell
3 33 (26.40%) Bash
4 18 (14.40%) SQL
5 13 (10.40%) Java
6 9 (7.20%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.40%) Bicep
7 8 (6.40%) C#
8 7 (5.60%) PHP
8 7 (5.60%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.00%) BeanShell
10 4 (3.20%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (3.20%) VB
11 3 (2.40%) Go
12 2 (1.60%) Korn
13 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (33.60%) Security Cleared
2 33 (26.40%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.20%) AWS Certification
4 13 (10.40%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.80%) CCIE
6 6 (4.80%) JNCIE
7 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.60%) Degree
10 1 (0.80%) CCNA
10 1 (0.80%) CCNP
10 1 (0.80%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) HIPAA
1 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.20%) NIST
1 4 (3.20%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.40%) QA
3 2 (1.60%) GDPR
3 2 (1.60%) NCSC
3 2 (1.60%) SLA
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.80%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (24.80%) Docker
2 24 (19.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (18.40%) Active Directory
4 12 (9.60%) VMware NSX
5 8 (6.40%) vSphere
6 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.40%) NFS
8 1 (0.80%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.80%) Firmware
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (54.40%) Ansible
2 52 (41.60%) Kubernetes
3 25 (20.00%) Grafana
4 23 (18.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.40%) Argo
5 8 (6.40%) vCenter Server
6 7 (5.60%) Sysdig
7 6 (4.80%) Packer
8 4 (3.20%) Puppet
8 4 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.20%) WMI
9 3 (2.40%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.40%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.40%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.40%) Salt
9 3 (2.40%) WSUS
10 2 (1.60%) Kibana
10 2 (1.60%) logstash
11 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (24.00%) VMware
2 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.20%) Red Hat
4 13 (10.40%) Splunk
5 10 (8.00%) Cisco
6 9 (7.20%) F5
6 9 (7.20%) Juniper
7 7 (5.60%) Google
7 7 (5.60%) IBM
8 6 (4.80%) Confluent
8 6 (4.80%) Fortinet
8 6 (4.80%) Pure Storage
9 3 (2.40%) Citrix
9 3 (2.40%) Databricks
10 2 (1.60%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.80%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.80%) Dell
11 1 (0.80%) JDA
11 1 (0.80%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow