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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 80 92
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing Terraform 141 83 122
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.07% 2.58% 2.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.03% 19.35% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 70 93
10th Percentile £371 £360 £464
25th Percentile £444 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £580
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +0.86% +2.65%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £688 £698
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 £58.94 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +12.79% -30.33% -10.71%

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 640 429 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.95% 13.35% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 316 460
10th Percentile £255 £263 £205
25th Percentile £375 £380 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.05% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 34
10th Percentile £18.99 £12.80 £21.08
25th Percentile £19.00 £13.99 £30.00
Median hourly rate £43.75 £15.99 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +173.69% -66.97% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £82.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -1.33%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +17 80 £506 -22.12% 33
Berkshire +18 71 £500 -23.08% 14
Hampshire -6 52 £500 -13.04% 22
Oxfordshire -4 7 £425 - 9
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 8
Surrey -7 2 - - 10
Buckinghamshire -9 2 £550 -13.73% 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 6 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.84%) Apache
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.13%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (56.03%) AWS
2 70 (49.65%) Azure
3 38 (26.95%) GitHub
4 30 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (19.15%) OpenShift
6 23 (16.31%) Entra ID
7 22 (15.60%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (14.89%) Serverless
9 20 (14.18%) GCP
10 15 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (9.93%) IaaS
12 13 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (8.51%) Azure AKS
13 12 (8.51%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (7.80%) Amazon S3
15 10 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (6.38%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.93%) Firewall
2 12 (8.51%) DNS
3 8 (5.67%) BGP
3 8 (5.67%) LAN
3 8 (5.67%) OSPF
3 8 (5.67%) WAN
4 6 (4.26%) MPLS
4 6 (4.26%) SNMP
4 6 (4.26%) TACACS
4 6 (4.26%) Wireless
5 5 (3.55%) DHCP
5 5 (3.55%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.84%) VPN
7 3 (2.13%) Network Security
8 2 (1.42%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.42%) SSL
9 1 (0.71%) HTTP
9 1 (0.71%) Internet
9 1 (0.71%) MQTT
9 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.38%) Redis
4 8 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.26%) Couchbase
5 6 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.42%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Metadata
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.71%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (19.15%) Git
1 27 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.73%) GitLab
3 9 (6.38%) Artifactory
4 5 (3.55%) Gatling
4 5 (3.55%) JMeter
4 5 (3.55%) LoadRunner
5 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.84%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.13%) Gradle
6 3 (2.13%) Maven
7 2 (1.42%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.71%) MLflow
8 1 (0.71%) Poetry
8 1 (0.71%) Pylint
8 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.51%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (4.96%) Finance
5 3 (2.13%) Aviation
6 2 (1.42%) Banking
6 2 (1.42%) Billing
7 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.71%) Military
7 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (12.77%) Architect
2 18 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
3 14 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (8.51%) Senior
5 11 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (5.67%) Data Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Developer
8 7 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Designer
9 6 (4.26%) IP Designer
9 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.84%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.89%) Kafka
2 11 (7.80%) ARM Templates
2 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (7.09%) .NET
3 10 (7.09%) Keycloak
4 7 (4.96%) REST
4 7 (4.96%) RESTful
5 6 (4.26%) OAuth
6 5 (3.55%) ADO
6 5 (3.55%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.55%) React
6 5 (3.55%) SailPoint
7 4 (2.84%) OpenID
7 4 (2.84%) PySpark
7 4 (2.84%) SAML
7 4 (2.84%) Spring
7 4 (2.84%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.84%) Swagger
7 4 (2.84%) YAML
8 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.67%) PKI
3 7 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.26%) Replication
5 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.71%) EMV
7 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (38.30%) Linux
2 16 (11.35%) Windows
3 10 (7.09%) Unix
4 6 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.71%) CentOS
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (72.34%) CI/CD
2 92 (65.25%) DevOps
3 69 (48.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (36.17%) Containerisation
5 31 (21.99%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (17.73%) Observability
7 22 (15.60%) Agile
8 21 (14.89%) DevSecOps
8 21 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (14.18%) RBAC
10 17 (12.06%) Analytics
10 17 (12.06%) Incident Response
10 17 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (12.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (10.64%) Migration
13 13 (9.22%) High Availability
13 13 (9.22%) Microservices
13 13 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (9.22%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (48.94%) Python
2 42 (29.79%) Bash
3 35 (24.82%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.35%) Bicep
4 16 (11.35%) SQL
5 14 (9.93%) Java
6 9 (6.38%) C#
6 9 (6.38%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.96%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.55%) BeanShell
9 4 (2.84%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (2.13%) Go
10 3 (2.13%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.71%) Rust
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 54 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.77%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.93%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) CCIE
7 6 (4.26%) Degree
7 6 (4.26%) JNCIE
8 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.55%) RHCE
9 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.13%) CCNP
10 3 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.71%) CCNA
11 1 (0.71%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.93%) NCSC
2 6 (4.26%) QA
3 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.84%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.84%) NIST
3 4 (2.84%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.42%) GDPR
5 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (25.53%) Docker
2 22 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.51%) VMware NSX
4 8 (5.67%) vSphere
5 5 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.84%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (54.61%) Ansible
2 66 (46.81%) Kubernetes
3 32 (22.70%) Grafana
4 30 (21.28%) Prometheus
5 16 (11.35%) Argo
6 11 (7.80%) Puppet
7 8 (5.67%) vCenter Server
8 7 (4.96%) Istio
8 7 (4.96%) linkerd
8 7 (4.96%) Sysdig
9 4 (2.84%) Salt
10 3 (2.13%) Podman
10 3 (2.13%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.13%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.13%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.42%) logstash
11 2 (1.42%) Packer
12 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.71%) Nessus
Vendors
1 36 (25.53%) VMware
2 21 (14.89%) Red Hat
3 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
4 15 (10.64%) Splunk
5 7 (4.96%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.26%) Cisco
6 6 (4.26%) Confluent
6 6 (4.26%) F5
6 6 (4.26%) IBM
6 6 (4.26%) Juniper
6 6 (4.26%) Pure Storage
7 5 (3.55%) Citrix
7 5 (3.55%) Databricks
8 4 (2.84%) CloudEndure
8 4 (2.84%) Google
9 2 (1.42%) Mellanox
9 2 (1.42%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.42%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.71%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.71%) Veeam