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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 74 83
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing Terraform 156 88 132
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.67% 2.92% 2.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.51% 24.18% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 66 95
10th Percentile £397 £406 £425
25th Percentile £412 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.68% -8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £650
90th Percentile £719 £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 £48.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -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 693 364 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.88% 12.09% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 268 504
10th Percentile £263 £318 £209
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% -12.52%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £600
90th Percentile £714 £663 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 17
10th Percentile £42.05 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £21.98 £23.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +171.00% -49.51% -22.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.99 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £27.20 £66.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £27.38 £27.25
% change year-on-year +110.05% +0.46% -52.61%

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 1 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 1 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 -7 87 £513 +2.50% 39
Berkshire -13 59 £500 - 13
Hampshire -9 53 £503 -8.80% 35
Buckinghamshire -11 23 £550 +30.80% 14
Surrey -15 8 £505 -8.18% 3
Oxfordshire - 5 £550 - 12
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 1
East Sussex -4 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 8 (5.13%) Confluence
2 6 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.56%) Apache
3 4 (2.56%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 100 (64.10%) Azure
2 81 (51.92%) AWS
3 34 (21.79%) GitHub
4 33 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (14.10%) Entra ID
7 22 (14.10%) GCP
8 16 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.97%) Azure AKS
9 14 (8.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (8.97%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 13 (8.33%) PaaS
11 12 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (7.69%) Serverless
12 10 (6.41%) IaaS
13 9 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (5.77%) Amazon S3
14 8 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.38%) Firewall
2 13 (8.33%) VPN
3 11 (7.05%) DNS
4 7 (4.49%) Network Security
4 7 (4.49%) WAN
5 6 (3.85%) BGP
5 6 (3.85%) OSPF
6 5 (3.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.21%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.56%) DHCP
7 4 (2.56%) LAN
8 3 (1.92%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.28%) MPLS
9 2 (1.28%) NGFW
9 2 (1.28%) VXLAN
10 1 (0.64%) HTTP
10 1 (0.64%) Internet
10 1 (0.64%) IPv6
10 1 (0.64%) SSL
10 1 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.05%) Redis
3 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.92%) Power BI
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.28%) Big Data
6 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.28%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.28%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.64%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (17.95%) Git
2 21 (13.46%) GitLab
3 11 (7.05%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.13%) JIRA
5 6 (3.85%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.21%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.56%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.92%) Gradle
8 3 (1.92%) Maven
9 2 (1.28%) Gatling
9 2 (1.28%) JMeter
9 2 (1.28%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.28%) NUnit
10 1 (0.64%) MLflow
10 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.90%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.77%) Finance
5 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.92%) Aviation
6 3 (1.92%) Banking
6 3 (1.92%) Military
7 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Automotive
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Publishing
8 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (21.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (14.10%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.82%) Architect
4 16 (10.26%) Senior
5 15 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.69%) Developer
7 11 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Site Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
13 5 (3.21%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.62%) .NET
1 15 (9.62%) Kafka
2 11 (7.05%) Keycloak
3 10 (6.41%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.41%) React
4 8 (5.13%) Loki
5 7 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (4.49%) REST
6 6 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.85%) YAML
7 4 (2.56%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.56%) Next.js
7 4 (2.56%) OAuth
7 4 (2.56%) Spring
7 4 (2.56%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.92%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.92%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.92%) Entity Framework
8 3 (1.92%) Node.js
8 3 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.05%) PKI
3 10 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.64%) IoT
10 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.00%) Linux
2 20 (12.82%) Windows
3 9 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.92%) CentOS
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 99 (63.46%) CI/CD
3 90 (57.69%) DevOps
4 46 (29.49%) Containerisation
5 36 (23.08%) Agile
6 33 (21.15%) Observability
6 33 (21.15%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (15.38%) DevSecOps
8 23 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (14.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 22 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (12.18%) Analytics
10 19 (12.18%) Incident Response
11 18 (11.54%) Migration
12 17 (10.90%) Cloud Security
12 17 (10.90%) GitOps
13 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (8.97%) Microservices
14 14 (8.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (36.54%) Python
2 37 (23.72%) PowerShell
3 32 (20.51%) Bash
4 23 (14.74%) Bicep
5 15 (9.62%) SQL
6 11 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.77%) C#
8 8 (5.13%) Java
9 6 (3.85%) Go
9 6 (3.85%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.28%) BeanShell
10 2 (1.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 53 (33.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.18%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.41%) Azure Certification
6 9 (5.77%) Degree
7 8 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.85%) CCNP
9 6 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.21%) RHCE
11 4 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.28%) CCIE
13 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.64%) CCDA
14 1 (0.64%) CCDP
14 1 (0.64%) CCIP
14 1 (0.64%) CCNA
14 1 (0.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.54%) NCSC
2 7 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.21%) GDPR
3 5 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.56%) GRC
4 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 38 (24.36%) Docker
2 19 (12.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (11.54%) Active Directory
4 16 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.28%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (44.87%) Kubernetes
2 63 (40.38%) Ansible
3 37 (23.72%) Grafana
4 33 (21.15%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.69%) Argo
5 12 (7.69%) Istio
5 12 (7.69%) Puppet
6 8 (5.13%) linkerd
7 7 (4.49%) Rancher
8 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.92%) Sysdig
9 2 (1.28%) Podman
9 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.64%) CASB
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.64%) Packer
10 1 (0.64%) Salt
10 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.95%) VMware
3 15 (9.62%) Splunk
4 14 (8.97%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.85%) Citrix
6 4 (2.56%) Cisco
6 4 (2.56%) CloudEndure
6 4 (2.56%) Databricks
6 4 (2.56%) Mellanox
6 4 (2.56%) NVIDIA
6 4 (2.56%) Oracle
7 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.28%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.28%) Google
8 2 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.28%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.64%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) Meraki