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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 60 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 115 152 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.34% 3.33% 3.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.82% 23.10% 27.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 119 155
10th Percentile £400 £410 £480
25th Percentile £423 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £695
90th Percentile £621 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -4.98% -6.75% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £58.60
25th Percentile - - £61.19
Median hourly rate - - £71.90
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.13% +2.97%

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 504 658 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.64% 14.41% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 498 500
10th Percentile £261 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £658
90th Percentile £633 £675 £738
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 24
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £22.09
25th Percentile £18.97 £30.00 £45.05
Median hourly rate £30.39 £36.17 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% -34.25% +22.22%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.25 £72.35
90th Percentile £84.99 £53.90 £76.53
England median hourly rate £37.75 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.63% -23.81% +119.57%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +28 64 £501 -19.92% 55
Berkshire +32 52 £493 -21.20% 33
Hampshire -20 32 £513 +7.89% 15
Surrey +12 8 £563 -13.46% 14
Buckinghamshire +4 7 £600 -4.00% 13
Oxfordshire -5 5 £525 -12.50% 12
East Sussex - 4 £475 - 1
Kent - 4 £430 - 3
Middlesex -5 2 £500 -20.00% 3
West Sussex -8 1 £325 -39.53% 2
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.48%) Apache
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.74%) Confluence
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) Drupal
4 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (52.17%) Azure
2 50 (43.48%) AWS
3 19 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.52%) GitHub
4 14 (12.17%) Azure AKS
4 14 (12.17%) OpenShift
5 13 (11.30%) GCP
5 13 (11.30%) Serverless
6 11 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (7.83%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (7.83%) Entra ID
9 8 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.96%) IaaS
10 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.22%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (5.22%) OCI
11 5 (4.35%) PaaS
12 4 (3.48%) Azure Storage
12 4 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) LAN
2 10 (8.70%) BGP
2 10 (8.70%) OSPF
2 10 (8.70%) WAN
3 7 (6.09%) Wireless
4 6 (5.22%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (5.22%) MPLS
4 6 (5.22%) SNMP
4 6 (5.22%) TACACS
4 6 (5.22%) VPN
5 5 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (4.35%) Firewall
5 5 (4.35%) Junos
6 4 (3.48%) DHCP
6 4 (3.48%) DNS
6 4 (3.48%) Network Security
7 3 (2.61%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.74%) HTTP
9 1 (0.87%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.22%) Redis
4 5 (4.35%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.61%) Power BI
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.74%) Metadata
6 2 (1.74%) MySQL
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (19.13%) GitLab
1 22 (19.13%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.57%) JIRA
3 10 (8.70%) SonarQube
4 9 (7.83%) Cucumber
4 9 (7.83%) REST Assured
4 9 (7.83%) Selenium
5 7 (6.09%) Git
6 5 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.48%) MSI
7 4 (3.48%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.87%) MLflow
9 1 (0.87%) Mocha
9 1 (0.87%) Poetry
9 1 (0.87%) Pylint
General
1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.96%) Law
4 7 (6.09%) Finance
5 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Police
7 3 (2.61%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 9 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Architect
4 8 (6.96%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Developer
5 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Lead
5 7 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Designer
6 6 (5.22%) IP Designer
7 5 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) ARM Templates
2 14 (12.17%) Kafka
3 12 (10.43%) REST
4 10 (8.70%) ADO
5 9 (7.83%) Java EE
5 9 (7.83%) YAML
6 6 (5.22%) .NET
6 6 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (5.22%) RESTful
7 5 (4.35%) Keycloak
8 4 (3.48%) Node.js
8 4 (3.48%) Swagger
9 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.61%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.61%) OAuth
9 3 (2.61%) PySpark
10 2 (1.74%) Jinja
10 2 (1.74%) JSON
10 2 (1.74%) OpenID
10 2 (1.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.35%) Replication
4 4 (3.48%) PKI
4 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.61%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.22%) Linux
2 14 (12.17%) Windows
3 12 (10.43%) Unix
4 10 (8.70%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.87%) DevOps
2 62 (53.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 32 (27.83%) Containerisation
5 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (22.61%) Agile
7 18 (15.65%) Test Automation
8 16 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (12.17%) Migration
10 14 (12.17%) Observability
10 14 (12.17%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (11.30%) Configuration Management
12 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
13 11 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (8.70%) High Availability
15 9 (7.83%) Network Virtualisation
15 9 (7.83%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.35%) Python
2 27 (23.48%) PowerShell
3 20 (17.39%) Bash
4 17 (14.78%) SQL
5 15 (13.04%) Bicep
6 14 (12.17%) Java
7 7 (6.09%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.22%) C#
8 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.35%) VB
10 4 (3.48%) Go
10 4 (3.48%) PHP
10 4 (3.48%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.74%) Korn
11 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.87%) PromQL
12 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.78%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.22%) CCIE
5 6 (5.22%) JNCIE
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.48%) CCNP
7 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.87%) CCNA
8 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.87%) Degree
8 1 (0.87%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) SLA
2 4 (3.48%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.48%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.61%) QA
4 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.87%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.87%) HL7
5 1 (0.87%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (23.48%) Docker
2 16 (13.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (11.30%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.22%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.61%) NFS
7 1 (0.87%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.87%) Firmware
7 1 (0.87%) vSphere
7 1 (0.87%) XenApp
7 1 (0.87%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (51.30%) Ansible
2 51 (44.35%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.17%) Grafana
4 12 (10.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.83%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (7.83%) Podman
6 5 (4.35%) FortiGate
6 5 (4.35%) Packer
7 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.48%) WMI
8 3 (2.61%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.61%) Rundeck
8 3 (2.61%) Salt
8 3 (2.61%) WSUS
9 2 (1.74%) Kibana
9 2 (1.74%) logstash
10 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.87%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.87%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) VMware
2 17 (14.78%) Microsoft
3 16 (13.91%) Cisco
4 11 (9.57%) F5
4 11 (9.57%) Juniper
4 11 (9.57%) Splunk
5 6 (5.22%) Citrix
5 6 (5.22%) Fortinet
5 6 (5.22%) Google
5 6 (5.22%) IBM
5 6 (5.22%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.35%) Confluent
7 4 (3.48%) Databricks
8 3 (2.61%) Mellanox
8 3 (2.61%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.74%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.87%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.87%) Dell KACE
10 1 (0.87%) Meraki