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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 64 49
Rank change year-on-year -12 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 198 112 179
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.98% 3.20% 3.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.54% 22.86% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 73 132
10th Percentile £369 £400 -
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.66% -4.58%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £613 £686
England median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.43% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £58.30 - -
25th Percentile £64.19 - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -15.54% -5.13%

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 746 490 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.21% 14.00% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 328 534
10th Percentile £310 £266 £278
25th Percentile £413 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £608
90th Percentile £714 £623 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 7 10
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.87 £21.63
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.44 £30.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.77 £37.08
Median % change year-on-year +98.35% -11.63% -32.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.00 £47.56
90th Percentile £70.40 £85.65 £53.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +18.18% +56.77% -31.55%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 0 114 £550 +10.00% 53
Hampshire -6 68 £575 +12.20% 21
Berkshire -6 65 £500 - 19
Buckinghamshire -9 43 £560 -2.61% 16
Surrey -11 17 £503 -10.67% 8
Oxfordshire -14 6 £550 +4.76% 18
East Sussex -4 1 £459 -3.37% 2
Middlesex -16 1 - - 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 17 (8.59%) Confluence
2 7 (3.54%) Apache
2 7 (3.54%) nginx
3 3 (1.52%) IIS
3 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (0.51%) Houdini
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.51%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) NetSuite
1 4 (2.02%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (67.68%) Azure
2 93 (46.97%) AWS
3 42 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (18.69%) GCP
4 37 (18.69%) GitHub
5 34 (17.17%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (14.65%) Entra ID
7 22 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (9.09%) Azure AKS
10 15 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (5.05%) PaaS
13 9 (4.55%) IaaS
13 9 (4.55%) Serverless
14 8 (4.04%) Azure API Management
14 8 (4.04%) Route 53
15 7 (3.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (21.21%) Firewall
2 39 (19.70%) DNS
3 23 (11.62%) VPN
4 18 (9.09%) DHCP
4 18 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.57%) Network Security
6 7 (3.54%) BGP
6 7 (3.54%) DNSSEC
6 7 (3.54%) WAN
7 6 (3.03%) LAN
7 6 (3.03%) OSPF
7 6 (3.03%) SD-WAN
7 6 (3.03%) SSH
8 5 (2.53%) MPLS
8 5 (2.53%) VLAN
9 4 (2.02%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.02%) MQTT
10 3 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.52%) IPsec
10 3 (1.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.02%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.02%) DocumentDB
3 4 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.02%) Power BI
4 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.52%) MySQL
4 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.52%) Redis
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.01%) Big Data
5 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.01%) Parquet
6 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.51%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 23 (11.62%) GitLab
2 20 (10.10%) Git
3 15 (7.58%) JIRA
4 13 (6.57%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.54%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.02%) Jaeger
6 4 (2.02%) NUnit
7 3 (1.52%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.51%) MSI
8 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 50 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.05%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.04%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.03%) Finance
7 4 (2.02%) Billing
7 4 (2.02%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.02%) Publishing
8 3 (1.52%) Military
9 2 (1.01%) Automotive
9 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Legal
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (14.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (12.63%) Senior
4 24 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.11%) Architect
6 21 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (9.60%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (9.09%) Developer
9 11 (5.56%) Lead
10 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (3.54%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.54%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 17 (8.59%) .NET
2 17 (8.59%) REST
3 11 (5.56%) RESTful
4 10 (5.05%) .NET Framework
4 10 (5.05%) OAuth
4 10 (5.05%) React
4 10 (5.05%) YAML
5 9 (4.55%) Entity Framework
6 8 (4.04%) Kafka
6 8 (4.04%) SAML
7 6 (3.03%) ASP.NET
7 6 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 6 (3.03%) Keycloak
7 6 (3.03%) Loki
7 6 (3.03%) OAuth2
7 6 (3.03%) OpenID
7 6 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.53%) JSON
8 5 (2.53%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 29 (14.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (7.07%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.57%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.55%) PKI
7 8 (4.04%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.03%) ARM Cortex
8 6 (3.03%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 52 (26.26%) Linux
2 48 (24.24%) Windows
3 23 (11.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.53%) CentOS
6 4 (2.02%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (71.72%) Infrastructure as Code
2 106 (53.54%) CI/CD
3 89 (44.95%) DevOps
4 51 (25.76%) Agile
5 41 (20.71%) Containerisation
5 41 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (19.70%) Observability
6 39 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
6 39 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (15.15%) DevSecOps
9 28 (14.14%) Cloud Security
10 27 (13.64%) Analytics
11 23 (11.62%) Zero Trust
12 22 (11.11%) Migration
13 21 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (10.10%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (10.10%) Incident Response
14 20 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 20 (10.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (42.42%) Python
2 72 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 43 (21.72%) Bash
4 36 (18.18%) Bicep
5 16 (8.08%) SQL
6 15 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.06%) C#
8 9 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.03%) Go
10 5 (2.53%) Java
11 4 (2.02%) C
11 4 (2.02%) Rust
11 4 (2.02%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.01%) BeanShell
12 2 (1.01%) Scala
13 1 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 84 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 58 (29.29%) SC Cleared
3 31 (15.66%) DV Cleared
4 19 (9.60%) AWS Certification
5 17 (8.59%) Azure Certification
6 13 (6.57%) Degree
7 9 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (4.04%) CCNP
9 6 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.53%) CCIE
11 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.01%) CCNA
13 2 (1.01%) CISSP
13 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.51%) CCDA
14 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.05%) NCSC
2 6 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.53%) GDPR
3 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.02%) GRC
4 4 (2.02%) QA
5 2 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 47 (23.74%) Docker
2 40 (20.20%) Active Directory
3 18 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (3.54%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (3.03%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.52%) Dovecot
8 3 (1.52%) Postfix
9 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (31.82%) Ansible
1 63 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.14%) Grafana
3 21 (10.61%) Prometheus
4 15 (7.58%) Puppet
5 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.03%) Istio
6 6 (3.03%) Rancher
6 6 (3.03%) SCCM
6 6 (3.03%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.53%) Argo
8 4 (2.02%) Packer
8 4 (2.02%) Podman
8 4 (2.02%) WMI
9 3 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.52%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.51%) CASB
10 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 63 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.64%) VMware
3 17 (8.59%) Google
4 11 (5.56%) Cisco
5 9 (4.55%) Splunk
6 8 (4.04%) Oracle
6 8 (4.04%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.54%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (3.54%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.54%) F5
7 7 (3.54%) Infoblox
7 7 (3.54%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.03%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.53%) NVIDIA
9 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.53%) Tenable
10 4 (2.02%) Juniper
10 4 (2.02%) PagerDuty
10 4 (2.02%) Sage
10 4 (2.02%) Tanium