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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 57 60
Rank change year-on-year -25 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 171 111 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.64% 3.28% 3.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.36% 23.37% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 75 128
10th Percentile £359 £400 -
25th Percentile £406 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £650
90th Percentile £709 £622 £688
England median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.68 - -
25th Percentile £57.64 - -
Median hourly rate £63.10 - -
75th Percentile £66.38 - -
90th Percentile £67.03 - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +24.37% -22.50% -10.26%

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 732 475 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.28% 14.02% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 324 555
10th Percentile £306 £254 £254
25th Percentile £403 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £709 £629 £675
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.38% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 6 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £18.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.15 £17.56
Median hourly rate £59.37 £30.39 £37.33
Median % change year-on-year +95.38% -18.61% -32.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.44 £48.75
90th Percentile - £69.00 £52.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -43.18%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -13 93 £550 +10.00% 37
Hampshire -5 63 £543 +5.85% 29
Berkshire -18 54 £460 -8.00% 10
Buckinghamshire -12 32 £560 +12.51% 9
Surrey -16 14 £503 -10.67% 6
Oxfordshire - 7 £550 - 18
East Sussex -6 1 £459 -3.37% 1
West Sussex -19 1 - - 8
Home Counties - 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 12 (7.02%) Confluence
2 5 (2.92%) Apache
2 5 (2.92%) nginx
3 3 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.75%) IIS
3 3 (1.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) NetSuite
1 4 (2.34%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (64.91%) Azure
2 82 (47.95%) AWS
3 33 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (18.13%) GCP
5 30 (17.54%) GitHub
6 27 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (12.28%) Entra ID
8 19 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (8.19%) Azure AKS
10 12 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (6.43%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (5.85%) Serverless
13 8 (4.68%) PaaS
13 8 (4.68%) Route 53
14 7 (4.09%) IaaS
14 7 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.92%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 33 (19.30%) Firewall
2 27 (15.79%) DNS
3 16 (9.36%) VPN
4 11 (6.43%) Network Security
4 11 (6.43%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.26%) DHCP
6 8 (4.68%) BGP
6 8 (4.68%) WAN
7 7 (4.09%) DNSSEC
7 7 (4.09%) OSPF
8 6 (3.51%) LAN
8 6 (3.51%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.92%) MPLS
9 5 (2.92%) VLAN
10 4 (2.34%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.34%) MQTT
11 3 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (1.75%) IPsec
11 3 (1.75%) SAN
11 3 (1.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.34%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.34%) Power BI
3 4 (2.34%) Redis
4 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.75%) DocumentDB
4 3 (1.75%) MySQL
4 3 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.17%) Big Data
5 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (11.70%) Git
2 17 (9.94%) GitLab
3 12 (7.02%) JIRA
4 8 (4.68%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.68%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.34%) Jaeger
6 4 (2.34%) NUnit
7 3 (1.75%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.58%) MLflow
9 1 (0.58%) MSI
9 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.36%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.09%) Finance
8 5 (2.92%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.34%) Billing
9 4 (2.34%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.75%) Military
10 3 (1.75%) Publishing
11 2 (1.17%) Automotive
11 2 (1.17%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Legal
11 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (13.45%) Architect
4 22 (12.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (11.70%) Senior
6 13 (7.60%) Developer
6 13 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.09%) Lead
9 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Analyst
11 5 (2.92%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.19%) .NET
2 12 (7.02%) ARM Templates
3 11 (6.43%) Kafka
3 11 (6.43%) REST
3 11 (6.43%) YAML
4 8 (4.68%) React
5 7 (4.09%) Keycloak
5 7 (4.09%) OAuth
5 7 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (4.09%) RESTful
6 6 (3.51%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.51%) Loki
6 6 (3.51%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 5 (2.92%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.34%) JSON
8 4 (2.34%) LDAP
8 4 (2.34%) NHibernate
8 4 (2.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.26%) PKI
4 9 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.34%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.17%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Chip and PIN
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.58%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.05%) Linux
2 32 (18.71%) Windows
3 13 (7.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.92%) CentOS
5 3 (1.75%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (73.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 93 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 74 (43.27%) DevOps
4 43 (25.15%) Agile
5 36 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 34 (19.88%) Observability
7 33 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (15.20%) DevSecOps
9 26 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (13.45%) Cloud Security
11 22 (12.87%) Migration
12 21 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (11.70%) Zero Trust
14 18 (10.53%) Incident Response
14 18 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 16 (9.36%) Analytics
15 16 (9.36%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (9.36%) Test Automation
16 15 (8.77%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (40.94%) Python
2 53 (30.99%) PowerShell
3 33 (19.30%) Bash
4 24 (14.04%) Bicep
5 13 (7.60%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.02%) SQL
7 8 (4.68%) C#
7 8 (4.68%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.51%) Go
9 5 (2.92%) Java
10 4 (2.34%) C
10 4 (2.34%) Rust
10 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.17%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.17%) Scala
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 69 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 52 (30.41%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.60%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.60%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.85%) Degree
6 9 (5.26%) CCNP
6 9 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.92%) CCIE
9 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.17%) CCNA
10 2 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.58%) CCDA
11 1 (0.58%) CCDE
11 1 (0.58%) CCDP
11 1 (0.58%) CISSP
11 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.09%) NCSC
1 7 (4.09%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.92%) GDPR
3 4 (2.34%) GRC
4 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.58%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 40 (23.39%) Docker
2 28 (16.37%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (9.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.51%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.75%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.75%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 54 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 49 (28.65%) Ansible
3 28 (16.37%) Grafana
4 24 (14.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.02%) Puppet
6 6 (3.51%) Istio
6 6 (3.51%) Rancher
7 5 (2.92%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.34%) Argo
8 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.34%) Podman
8 4 (2.34%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.34%) WMI
9 3 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.75%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.75%) Packer
9 3 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.17%) linkerd
11 1 (0.58%) CASB
11 1 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 50 (29.24%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.04%) VMware
3 12 (7.02%) Cisco
4 11 (6.43%) Google
5 7 (4.09%) F5
5 7 (4.09%) Infoblox
5 7 (4.09%) Splunk
6 6 (3.51%) NVIDIA
6 6 (3.51%) Oracle
6 6 (3.51%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.51%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.34%) Databricks
7 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.34%) Juniper
7 4 (2.34%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.34%) Sage
7 4 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.34%) Tenable
8 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.75%) SolarWinds