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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 65 90
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -28
Contract jobs citing Terraform 147 91 128
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.78% 3.04% 2.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.62% 23.10% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 75 90
10th Percentile £387 £400 £425
25th Percentile £423 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £602 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £668
England median daily rate £525 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
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 £52.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -15.73% -26.23%

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 713 394 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.50% 13.16% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 285 476
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £380 £402 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +7.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £569 £615 £575
90th Percentile £660 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 25
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £17.85
25th Percentile £25.00 £13.99 £24.00
Median hourly rate £51.86 £15.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +224.43% -66.35% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68.13 £17.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £69.45
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -18.46% -37.66%

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 16 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 16 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 -13 75 £513 -10.87% 42
Hampshire -7 61 £500 -13.04% 19
Berkshire -9 61 £513 -21.15% 13
Buckinghamshire -18 9 £402 -19.24% 18
Oxfordshire -8 5 £550 - 11
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 4
Surrey -11 4 £603 - 14
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 5 (3.40%) Confluence
2 4 (2.72%) Apache
2 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.72%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.36%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 84 (57.14%) Azure
2 79 (53.74%) AWS
3 44 (29.93%) GitHub
4 31 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (19.05%) Entra ID
5 28 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (14.29%) OpenShift
8 20 (13.61%) GCP
9 16 (10.88%) Serverless
10 15 (10.20%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (9.52%) IaaS
12 13 (8.84%) Azure AKS
12 13 (8.84%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (6.80%) Amazon S3
14 10 (6.80%) PaaS
14 10 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (6.12%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.29%) Firewall
2 15 (10.20%) DNS
3 10 (6.80%) VPN
4 6 (4.08%) Network Security
5 5 (3.40%) BGP
5 5 (3.40%) DHCP
5 5 (3.40%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.40%) OSPF
5 5 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.40%) WAN
6 3 (2.04%) LAN
6 3 (2.04%) SSL
7 1 (0.68%) HTTP
7 1 (0.68%) Internet
7 1 (0.68%) IPsec
7 1 (0.68%) IPv6
7 1 (0.68%) MPLS
7 1 (0.68%) SNMP
7 1 (0.68%) VoIP
7 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.48%) Redis
3 6 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.36%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.36%) Power BI
5 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Parquet
6 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (19.05%) Git
2 24 (16.33%) GitLab
3 22 (14.97%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.12%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.08%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.40%) Gatling
6 5 (3.40%) JIRA
6 5 (3.40%) JMeter
6 5 (3.40%) LoadRunner
6 5 (3.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.04%) Gradle
7 3 (2.04%) Jaeger
7 3 (2.04%) Maven
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) NUnit
8 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.44%) Finance
5 3 (2.04%) Aviation
5 3 (2.04%) Banking
5 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.04%) Military
6 2 (1.36%) Billing
6 2 (1.36%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (17.01%) Architect
3 19 (12.93%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (8.84%) Senior
5 11 (7.48%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.80%) Developer
6 10 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Site Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.40%) Infrastructure Architect
12 4 (2.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.88%) Kafka
2 13 (8.84%) .NET
3 12 (8.16%) ARM Templates
4 11 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (7.48%) Keycloak
5 9 (6.12%) REST
6 8 (5.44%) OAuth
6 8 (5.44%) React
7 7 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.08%) OpenID
8 6 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (4.08%) YAML
9 5 (3.40%) Loki
9 5 (3.40%) SailPoint
10 4 (2.72%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.72%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.72%) RESTful
10 4 (2.72%) SAML
10 4 (2.72%) Spring
10 4 (2.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.48%) PKI
3 8 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.40%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.40%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.68%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.68%) EMV
9 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (34.01%) Linux
2 18 (12.24%) Windows
3 8 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.04%) CentOS
4 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 91 (61.90%) DevOps
3 83 (56.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (35.37%) Containerisation
5 32 (21.77%) Platform Engineering
6 28 (19.05%) Agile
6 28 (19.05%) Observability
7 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (16.33%) RBAC
9 23 (15.65%) DevSecOps
10 22 (14.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (13.61%) Analytics
12 18 (12.24%) Incident Response
12 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (12.24%) Migration
13 17 (11.56%) Infrastructure Automation
13 17 (11.56%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (10.20%) GitOps
15 14 (9.52%) Microservices
16 13 (8.84%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 63 (42.86%) Python
2 41 (27.89%) Bash
2 41 (27.89%) PowerShell
3 18 (12.24%) Bicep
4 14 (9.52%) SQL
5 11 (7.48%) Java
6 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.12%) C#
8 5 (3.40%) BeanShell
9 4 (2.72%) Go
10 3 (2.04%) PHP
11 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (45.58%) Security Cleared
2 53 (36.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.84%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.12%) Degree
6 8 (5.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.40%) CCNP
8 5 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.40%) RHCE
9 4 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.68%) CCDA
12 1 (0.68%) CCIE
12 1 (0.68%) CCIP
12 1 (0.68%) CCNA
12 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.20%) NCSC
2 7 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.08%) GDPR
4 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.72%) QA
6 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.04%) GRC
6 3 (2.04%) NIST
7 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.68%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (27.21%) Docker
2 24 (16.33%) Active Directory
3 18 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (5.44%) vSphere
6 7 (4.76%) VMware NSX
7 6 (4.08%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (48.98%) Kubernetes
2 69 (46.94%) Ansible
3 40 (27.21%) Grafana
4 37 (25.17%) Prometheus
5 18 (12.24%) Argo
6 12 (8.16%) Puppet
7 11 (7.48%) Istio
8 8 (5.44%) linkerd
8 8 (5.44%) vCenter Server
9 7 (4.76%) Sysdig
10 5 (3.40%) Rancher
11 4 (2.72%) Progress Chef
12 3 (2.04%) Podman
13 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.36%) Packer
13 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.68%) Nessus
14 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (21.77%) VMware
2 27 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 13 (8.84%) Splunk
5 6 (4.08%) Citrix
5 6 (4.08%) Pure Storage
6 5 (3.40%) Databricks
7 4 (2.72%) CloudEndure
7 4 (2.72%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.72%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.04%) Cisco
9 2 (1.36%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.36%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.36%) Google
9 2 (1.36%) Oracle
9 2 (1.36%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.36%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.68%) Arista
10 1 (0.68%) Meraki