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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 65 72
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing Terraform 161 90 135
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.70% 2.99% 2.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.17% 24.73% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 67 100
10th Percentile £400 £400 -
25th Percentile £413 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £650
90th Percentile £714 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +75.38% -41.94% -20.51%

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 695 364 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.66% 12.08% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 267 520
10th Percentile £278 £269 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £607
90th Percentile £725 £661 £656
England median daily rate £509 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -3.05% +0.72% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 2 14
10th Percentile £31.25 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £43.11 £21.98 £17.91
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.99 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.16% -44.22% -26.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.99 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.20 £27.20 £55.25
England median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +101.79% +8.67% -50.75%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 93 £513 +2.50% 41
Berkshire -15 61 £500 - 18
Hampshire -2 49 £513 -6.82% 39
Buckinghamshire -14 27 £550 +30.80% 12
Surrey -7 11 £505 -8.18% 4
West Sussex -13 5 £725 +123.08% 3
Oxfordshire - 5 £550 - 11
East Sussex -5 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 (6.21%) Confluence
2 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.48%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.24%) Apache
4 2 (1.24%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 107 (66.46%) Azure
2 80 (49.69%) AWS
3 35 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (18.63%) GitHub
5 26 (16.15%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 22 (13.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (13.66%) GCP
8 16 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (9.94%) Azure AKS
9 15 (9.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (9.32%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (8.07%) PaaS
11 12 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (7.45%) OpenShift
12 10 (6.21%) IaaS
12 10 (6.21%) Serverless
13 8 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.73%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.53%) Firewall
2 14 (8.70%) VPN
3 12 (7.45%) DNS
4 8 (4.97%) WAN
5 7 (4.35%) BGP
5 7 (4.35%) Network Security
5 7 (4.35%) OSPF
6 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.11%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (3.11%) LAN
8 4 (2.48%) DHCP
8 4 (2.48%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.86%) MPLS
9 3 (1.86%) VXLAN
10 2 (1.24%) NGFW
11 1 (0.62%) Internet
11 1 (0.62%) IPv6
11 1 (0.62%) MQTT
11 1 (0.62%) Multicast
11 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.21%) Redis
3 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.86%) DocumentDB
4 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.86%) Power BI
5 2 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.24%) Big Data
5 2 (1.24%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.24%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.62%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (16.77%) Git
2 19 (11.80%) GitLab
3 12 (7.45%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.21%) JIRA
5 7 (4.35%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.48%) Jaeger
7 4 (2.48%) NUnit
8 2 (1.24%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.62%) Gradle
9 1 (0.62%) Maven
9 1 (0.62%) MLflow
9 1 (0.62%) MSI
9 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (14.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.18%) Public Sector
3 17 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.59%) Finance
5 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.48%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.86%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.86%) Aviation
7 3 (1.86%) Military
8 2 (1.24%) Automotive
8 2 (1.24%) Banking
8 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Publishing
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (21.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (16.77%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (13.04%) Architect
4 16 (9.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (9.94%) Senior
5 15 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Developer
7 11 (6.83%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.73%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.73%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.56%) .NET
2 14 (8.70%) Kafka
3 12 (7.45%) React
4 11 (6.83%) ARM Templates
5 10 (6.21%) Keycloak
6 9 (5.59%) REST
7 8 (4.97%) Loki
8 7 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (3.73%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.73%) YAML
10 5 (3.11%) ASP.NET
10 5 (3.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 5 (3.11%) Entity Framework
11 4 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (2.48%) Next.js
11 4 (2.48%) NHibernate
11 4 (2.48%) OAuth
12 3 (1.86%) JSON
12 3 (1.86%) Node.js
12 3 (1.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.07%) PKI
3 11 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.97%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.73%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.73%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.36%) Linux
2 22 (13.66%) Windows
3 11 (6.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.86%) CentOS
5 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.62%) VMS
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (68.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 98 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 89 (55.28%) DevOps
4 44 (27.33%) Containerisation
5 39 (24.22%) Agile
6 33 (20.50%) Observability
6 33 (20.50%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (14.91%) DevSecOps
8 24 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (11.80%) Migration
11 18 (11.18%) Analytics
11 18 (11.18%) Cloud Security
12 17 (10.56%) Incident Response
13 16 (9.94%) GitOps
13 16 (9.94%) Test Automation
14 13 (8.07%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (8.07%) RBAC
14 13 (8.07%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.40%) Python
2 42 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 31 (19.25%) Bash
4 25 (15.53%) Bicep
5 15 (9.32%) SQL
6 14 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.83%) C#
8 8 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.35%) Java
10 6 (3.73%) Go
11 2 (1.24%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.24%) Scala
12 1 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (42.24%) Security Cleared
2 51 (31.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.83%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.97%) Degree
7 7 (4.35%) CCNP
7 7 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.11%) RHCE
10 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.86%) CCIE
11 3 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.62%) CCDA
13 1 (0.62%) CCDP
13 1 (0.62%) CCIP
13 1 (0.62%) CCNA
13 1 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.56%) NCSC
2 7 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.11%) GDPR
3 5 (3.11%) QA
4 4 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.48%) GRC
4 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.62%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 40 (24.84%) Docker
2 21 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 19 (11.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (11.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.97%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 60 (37.27%) Ansible
3 32 (19.88%) Grafana
4 27 (16.77%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.45%) Argo
6 11 (6.83%) Istio
6 11 (6.83%) Puppet
7 7 (4.35%) linkerd
7 7 (4.35%) Rancher
8 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.86%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.24%) Podman
9 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.24%) WMI
10 1 (0.62%) CASB
10 1 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.62%) Packer
10 1 (0.62%) Salt
10 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.63%) VMware
3 14 (8.70%) Splunk
4 13 (8.07%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.73%) Citrix
5 6 (3.73%) Oracle
6 5 (3.11%) Cisco
7 4 (2.48%) CloudEndure
7 4 (2.48%) Databricks
7 4 (2.48%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.48%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.86%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.86%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.24%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.24%) F5
9 2 (1.24%) Google
9 2 (1.24%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.62%) Arista
10 1 (0.62%) Virgin Media