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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 68 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 +32 -34
Contract jobs citing Terraform 142 93 117
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.89% 3.02% 2.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.88% 22.85% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 76 83
10th Percentile £368 £400 £465
25th Percentile £425 £500 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +0.31%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
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 £66.97 £44.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +50.49% -40.67% -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 680 407 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.84% 13.23% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 292 480
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +6.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £618 £581
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 33
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £23.70
25th Percentile £23.50 £13.99 £30.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -19.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +107.69% -35.00% -23.27%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -8 76 £513 -14.58% 65
Berkshire +7 64 £506 -19.00% 31
Hampshire -9 57 £500 -13.04% 24
Buckinghamshire -15 7 £525 -8.70% 20
Oxfordshire -8 5 £425 - 14
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 9
Surrey -6 2 - - 28
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 4 (2.82%) Apache
1 4 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.11%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.11%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.93%) Azure
2 74 (52.11%) AWS
3 40 (28.17%) GitHub
4 30 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (19.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (19.01%) Entra ID
6 24 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (15.49%) OpenShift
8 21 (14.79%) GCP
9 17 (11.97%) Serverless
10 16 (11.27%) IaaS
11 15 (10.56%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (9.86%) Azure AKS
13 13 (9.15%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (7.75%) PaaS
16 10 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (6.34%) Amazon S3
17 9 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.68%) Firewall
2 14 (9.86%) DNS
3 9 (6.34%) VPN
4 6 (4.23%) BGP
4 6 (4.23%) Network Security
4 6 (4.23%) OSPF
4 6 (4.23%) WAN
5 5 (3.52%) DHCP
5 5 (3.52%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.52%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.82%) LAN
7 2 (1.41%) MPLS
7 2 (1.41%) SNMP
7 2 (1.41%) SSL
7 2 (1.41%) Wireless
8 1 (0.70%) Internet
8 1 (0.70%) IPsec
8 1 (0.70%) IPv6
8 1 (0.70%) TACACS
8 1 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.04%) Redis
3 9 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.82%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.41%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.41%) Power BI
6 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.70%) Parquet
7 1 (0.70%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (19.01%) Git
2 26 (18.31%) Jenkins
3 24 (16.90%) GitLab
4 9 (6.34%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.52%) Gatling
5 5 (3.52%) JMeter
5 5 (3.52%) LoadRunner
5 5 (3.52%) Robot Framework
5 5 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.11%) Gradle
6 3 (2.11%) JIRA
6 3 (2.11%) Maven
7 2 (1.41%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.70%) MLflow
8 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (9.15%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.93%) Finance
4 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.11%) Aviation
5 3 (2.11%) Banking
5 3 (2.11%) Military
6 2 (1.41%) Billing
7 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.70%) Legal
7 1 (0.70%) Publishing
7 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (21.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (16.90%) Architect
3 18 (12.68%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (9.15%) Senior
5 12 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.75%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (6.34%) Developer
7 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Site Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.52%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.08%) Kafka
2 12 (8.45%) .NET
2 12 (8.45%) ARM Templates
3 11 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (7.04%) Keycloak
5 8 (5.63%) OAuth
5 8 (5.63%) React
5 8 (5.63%) REST
6 7 (4.93%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.23%) OpenID
8 5 (3.52%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (3.52%) SailPoint
9 4 (2.82%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.82%) Loki
9 4 (2.82%) Next.js
9 4 (2.82%) RESTful
9 4 (2.82%) SAML
9 4 (2.82%) Spring
9 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.34%) PKI
3 7 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.93%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.82%) Replication
6 4 (2.82%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.70%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.70%) EMV
7 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (37.32%) Linux
2 16 (11.27%) Windows
3 7 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.41%) CentOS
5 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (73.94%) CI/CD
2 90 (63.38%) DevOps
3 78 (54.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (37.32%) Containerisation
5 32 (22.54%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (18.31%) Observability
7 23 (16.20%) Agile
7 23 (16.20%) DevSecOps
8 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.49%) RBAC
9 21 (14.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (13.38%) Analytics
11 18 (12.68%) Migration
12 17 (11.97%) Incident Response
13 16 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (9.86%) GitOps
15 14 (9.86%) Microservices
16 13 (9.15%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.07%) Python
2 40 (28.17%) Bash
3 36 (25.35%) PowerShell
4 18 (12.68%) Bicep
5 13 (9.15%) SQL
6 11 (7.75%) Java
7 9 (6.34%) C#
8 8 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.52%) BeanShell
9 5 (3.52%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.11%) Go
10 3 (2.11%) PHP
11 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
11 1 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (47.18%) Security Cleared
2 54 (38.03%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.27%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.86%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.34%) Degree
6 8 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.93%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.23%) CCNP
9 5 (3.52%) RHCE
10 3 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.41%) CCIE
11 2 (1.41%) CCNA
11 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.70%) CCDA
12 1 (0.70%) CCDP
12 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.56%) NCSC
2 6 (4.23%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.52%) GDPR
3 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.82%) NIST
4 4 (2.82%) QA
5 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.70%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (25.35%) Docker
2 25 (17.61%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.63%) VMware NSX
4 8 (5.63%) vSphere
5 7 (4.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.52%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (49.30%) Ansible
1 70 (49.30%) Kubernetes
2 38 (26.76%) Grafana
3 35 (24.65%) Prometheus
4 17 (11.97%) Argo
5 11 (7.75%) Puppet
6 10 (7.04%) Istio
7 8 (5.63%) linkerd
7 8 (5.63%) vCenter Server
8 7 (4.93%) Sysdig
9 4 (2.82%) Rancher
10 3 (2.11%) Podman
10 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.41%) logstash
11 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.41%) Packer
11 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.70%) CASB
12 1 (0.70%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.70%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (21.83%) VMware
2 23 (16.20%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.79%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.15%) Splunk
5 6 (4.23%) Citrix
5 6 (4.23%) Pure Storage
6 5 (3.52%) Databricks
7 4 (2.82%) Cisco
7 4 (2.82%) CloudEndure
7 4 (2.82%) Confluent
7 4 (2.82%) Google
7 4 (2.82%) IBM
7 4 (2.82%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.82%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.11%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.41%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.41%) Juniper
9 2 (1.41%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.41%) Zscaler