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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing Terraform 162 102 163
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.66% 3.38% 2.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.86% 24.34% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 70 120
10th Percentile £400 £400 -
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £641
90th Percentile £722 £639 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 679 419 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.16% 13.86% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 296 570
10th Percentile £306 £263 £250
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 12
10th Percentile £16.75 - £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -34.88% -29.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £49.06
90th Percentile - - £52.70
England median hourly rate £58.94 £42.25 £30.75
% change year-on-year +39.49% +37.40% -43.24%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 82 £550 +10.00% 25
Hampshire +3 64 £519 -3.49% 37
Berkshire -21 47 £500 - 10
Buckinghamshire -16 29 £550 +30.80% 4
Surrey -13 13 £500 -11.11% 8
Oxfordshire - 6 £575 - 11
West Sussex -19 3 £725 +123.08% 2
East Sussex -8 1 £459 -3.37% 1
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 10 (6.17%) Confluence
2 4 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.85%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.85%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.85%) IIS
3 3 (1.85%) nginx
3 3 (1.85%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.23%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 107 (66.05%) Azure
2 73 (45.06%) AWS
3 34 (20.99%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (19.75%) GitHub
5 28 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (14.81%) Entra ID
7 20 (12.35%) GCP
8 15 (9.26%) Azure AKS
9 14 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.64%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (8.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (7.41%) PaaS
12 11 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.79%) Serverless
13 10 (6.17%) IaaS
14 9 (5.56%) OpenShift
15 7 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.81%) Firewall
2 13 (8.02%) VPN
3 10 (6.17%) DNS
3 10 (6.17%) Network Security
4 8 (4.94%) WAN
5 7 (4.32%) BGP
5 7 (4.32%) OSPF
6 5 (3.09%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.09%) LAN
7 4 (2.47%) MQTT
7 4 (2.47%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.85%) MPLS
8 3 (1.85%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.23%) BIG-IP
9 2 (1.23%) NGFW
9 2 (1.23%) SAN
10 1 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.62%) Multicast
10 1 (0.62%) NAS
10 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (4.94%) Redis
2 4 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.85%) DocumentDB
3 3 (1.85%) MySQL
3 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.85%) Power BI
3 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.23%) Big Data
4 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (12.35%) GitLab
2 19 (11.73%) Git
3 10 (6.17%) JIRA
4 8 (4.94%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.70%) Jenkins
7 5 (3.09%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.47%) Jaeger
8 4 (2.47%) NUnit
9 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.62%) MLflow
9 1 (0.62%) MSI
9 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.70%) Finance
5 6 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.47%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.47%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.85%) Military
7 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.23%) Automotive
8 2 (1.23%) Aviation
8 2 (1.23%) Billing
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) Legal
8 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (19.14%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (9.26%) Senior
5 14 (8.64%) Architect
5 14 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.79%) Developer
8 10 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.88%) .NET
2 15 (9.26%) Kafka
3 13 (8.02%) ARM Templates
4 11 (6.79%) Keycloak
4 11 (6.79%) React
5 8 (4.94%) Loki
5 8 (4.94%) YAML
6 7 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (4.32%) REST
7 6 (3.70%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.09%) ASP.NET
8 5 (3.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 5 (3.09%) Entity Framework
8 5 (3.09%) OAuth
9 4 (2.47%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.47%) NHibernate
9 4 (2.47%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.47%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (2.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.17%) PKI
3 10 (6.17%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.94%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.70%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.47%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.62%) Chip and PIN
11 1 (0.62%) EMV
11 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.60%) Linux
2 26 (16.05%) Windows
3 15 (9.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.70%) CentOS
5 4 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.62%) VMS
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (72.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 92 (56.79%) CI/CD
3 79 (48.77%) DevOps
4 41 (25.31%) Agile
5 38 (23.46%) Containerisation
6 33 (20.37%) Observability
7 27 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 27 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (12.35%) Migration
10 20 (12.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (11.73%) Cloud Security
11 19 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (9.88%) Analytics
12 16 (9.88%) Test Automation
13 14 (8.64%) GitOps
13 14 (8.64%) Incident Response
13 14 (8.64%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (8.64%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 62 (38.27%) Python
2 43 (26.54%) PowerShell
3 31 (19.14%) Bash
4 27 (16.67%) Bicep
5 13 (8.02%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.02%) SQL
6 10 (6.17%) C#
7 8 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.70%) Go
9 5 (3.09%) Java
10 4 (2.47%) Rust
10 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.23%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.23%) Scala
12 1 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 71 (43.83%) Security Cleared
2 55 (33.95%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.20%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.64%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.17%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.94%) Degree
7 7 (4.32%) CCNP
7 7 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.85%) CCIE
9 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.62%) CCDA
11 1 (0.62%) CCDP
11 1 (0.62%) CCIP
11 1 (0.62%) CCNA
11 1 (0.62%) CISSP
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.02%) NCSC
2 7 (4.32%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.09%) GDPR
4 4 (2.47%) GRC
5 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.85%) QA
6 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.62%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (22.84%) Docker
2 24 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (9.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.09%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.85%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.85%) Postfix
7 3 (1.85%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 55 (33.95%) Ansible
3 33 (20.37%) Grafana
4 29 (17.90%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.64%) Puppet
6 10 (6.17%) Argo
6 10 (6.17%) Istio
7 6 (3.70%) linkerd
7 6 (3.70%) Rancher
8 5 (3.09%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.47%) Podman
9 4 (2.47%) WMI
10 3 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.85%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.62%) CASB
12 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 36 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.43%) VMware
3 11 (6.79%) Red Hat
3 11 (6.79%) Splunk
4 9 (5.56%) Cisco
5 8 (4.94%) NVIDIA
6 6 (3.70%) Oracle
7 5 (3.09%) F5
8 4 (2.47%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.47%) Juniper
8 4 (2.47%) Mellanox
8 4 (2.47%) Tenable
9 3 (1.85%) Databricks
9 3 (1.85%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.23%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.23%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.23%) Sage
10 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.23%) Zscaler