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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 63 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 190 111 178
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.88% 3.21% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.54% 23.03% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 73 132
10th Percentile £359 £400 -
25th Percentile £409 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £561
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.91% -6.46%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £638
90th Percentile £706 £613 £688
England median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £58.30 - -
25th Percentile £64.19 - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £72.00
% change year-on-year +13.87% -17.71% -7.69%

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 744 482 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.27% 13.93% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 323 543
10th Percentile £310 £253 £278
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £714 £625 £675
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 11
10th Percentile £18.40 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.44 £26.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.77 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +98.35% -9.39% -34.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.00 £45.13
90th Percentile - £85.65 £53.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +19.27% +78.69% -44.55%

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 27 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 27 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 -5 106 £550 +10.00% 33
Hampshire -6 68 £575 +12.20% 24
Berkshire -11 58 £500 - 14
Buckinghamshire -8 41 £560 -2.61% 8
Surrey -15 16 £503 -10.67% 7
Oxfordshire -16 7 £550 +4.76% 11
East Sussex -4 1 £459 -3.37% 1
Middlesex -13 1 - - 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 17 (8.95%) Confluence
2 7 (3.68%) Apache
2 7 (3.68%) nginx
3 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.58%) IIS
3 3 (1.58%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (0.53%) Houdini
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.53%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) NetSuite
1 4 (2.11%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 129 (67.89%) Azure
2 88 (46.32%) AWS
3 38 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (17.37%) GCP
5 32 (16.84%) GitHub
6 30 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (14.74%) Entra ID
8 20 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
9 19 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (9.47%) Azure AKS
11 12 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (6.32%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.74%) Azure API Management
13 9 (4.74%) PaaS
13 9 (4.74%) Serverless
14 8 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (4.21%) IaaS
14 8 (4.21%) Route 53
15 6 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.05%) Firewall
2 36 (18.95%) DNS
3 22 (11.58%) VPN
4 17 (8.95%) DHCP
4 17 (8.95%) TCP/IP
5 14 (7.37%) Network Security
6 8 (4.21%) BGP
6 8 (4.21%) WAN
7 7 (3.68%) DNSSEC
7 7 (3.68%) OSPF
8 6 (3.16%) LAN
8 6 (3.16%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.16%) SSH
9 5 (2.63%) MPLS
9 5 (2.63%) VLAN
10 4 (2.11%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.11%) MQTT
11 3 (1.58%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (1.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (1.58%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.16%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.11%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.11%) DocumentDB
3 4 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.11%) Power BI
4 3 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.58%) MySQL
4 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.58%) Redis
4 3 (1.58%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.05%) Big Data
5 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.05%) Parquet
6 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.53%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (11.05%) Git
2 18 (9.47%) GitLab
3 15 (7.89%) JIRA
4 9 (4.74%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.68%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.11%) Jaeger
6 4 (2.11%) NUnit
7 3 (1.58%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.53%) MLflow
8 1 (0.53%) MSI
General
1 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.68%) Finance
7 5 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.11%) Billing
8 4 (2.11%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.11%) Military
8 4 (2.11%) Publishing
9 2 (1.05%) Automotive
9 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
9 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (16.32%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (13.68%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (12.63%) Senior
4 23 (12.11%) Architect
5 19 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (9.47%) Developer
7 17 (8.95%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.21%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.21%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) .NET Developer
10 7 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Lead
10 7 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 18 (9.47%) .NET
3 17 (8.95%) REST
4 11 (5.79%) OAuth
4 11 (5.79%) RESTful
5 10 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 10 (5.26%) Kafka
5 10 (5.26%) React
5 10 (5.26%) YAML
6 9 (4.74%) Entity Framework
7 8 (4.21%) SAML
8 7 (3.68%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (3.16%) ASP.NET
9 6 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 6 (3.16%) Keycloak
9 6 (3.16%) Loki
9 6 (3.16%) OpenID
10 5 (2.63%) JSON
10 5 (2.63%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (7.37%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.74%) PKI
6 8 (4.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (3.16%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.63%) ARM Cortex
8 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.11%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.79%) Linux
2 46 (24.21%) Windows
3 20 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.63%) CentOS
6 4 (2.11%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (71.05%) Infrastructure as Code
2 100 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 82 (43.16%) DevOps
4 47 (24.74%) Agile
5 38 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 37 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (18.95%) Observability
8 33 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.37%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (15.26%) DevSecOps
9 29 (15.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (13.68%) Analytics
11 24 (12.63%) Cloud Security
11 24 (12.63%) Migration
12 21 (11.05%) Zero Trust
13 19 (10.00%) Test Automation
14 18 (9.47%) Incident Response
14 18 (9.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (8.95%) Deployment Automation
15 17 (8.95%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 78 (41.05%) Python
2 67 (35.26%) PowerShell
3 40 (21.05%) Bash
4 35 (18.42%) Bicep
5 16 (8.42%) SQL
6 15 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.32%) C#
8 9 (4.74%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.16%) Go
10 5 (2.63%) Java
11 4 (2.11%) C
11 4 (2.11%) Rust
11 4 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.05%) BeanShell
12 2 (1.05%) Scala
13 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 77 (40.53%) Security Cleared
2 53 (27.89%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.42%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.89%) AWS Certification
6 13 (6.84%) Degree
7 9 (4.74%) CCNP
7 9 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.63%) CCIE
10 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.05%) CCNA
11 2 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.53%) CCDA
12 1 (0.53%) CCDP
12 1 (0.53%) CCIP
12 1 (0.53%) CISSP
12 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.21%) NCSC
2 7 (3.68%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.63%) GDPR
4 4 (2.11%) GRC
5 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 43 (22.63%) Docker
2 39 (20.53%) Active Directory
3 18 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (8.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.16%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.58%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.58%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 58 (30.53%) Ansible
2 57 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 26 (13.68%) Grafana
4 22 (11.58%) Prometheus
5 15 (7.89%) Puppet
6 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.74%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.16%) Istio
7 6 (3.16%) Rancher
7 6 (3.16%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.63%) SCCM
9 4 (2.11%) Argo
9 4 (2.11%) Packer
9 4 (2.11%) Podman
9 4 (2.11%) WMI
10 3 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.58%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.05%) linkerd
12 1 (0.53%) CASB
Vendors
1 60 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.68%) VMware
3 12 (6.32%) Cisco
3 12 (6.32%) Google
4 7 (3.68%) F5
4 7 (3.68%) Infoblox
4 7 (3.68%) Oracle
4 7 (3.68%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (3.16%) NVIDIA
5 6 (3.16%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.16%) Splunk
6 5 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.11%) Databricks
7 4 (2.11%) Juniper
7 4 (2.11%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.11%) Sage
7 4 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.11%) Tanium
7 4 (2.11%) Tenable