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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 71 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 137 111 164
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.22% 2.79% 3.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.35% 20.63% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 88 123
10th Percentile £375 £360 £475
25th Percentile £418 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £658
90th Percentile £645 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £71.20 - £68.19
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £76.53
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -0.99%

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 613 538 698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.40% 13.53% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 401 469
10th Percentile £255 £263 £205
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £573 £613 £623
90th Percentile £636 £675 £689
England median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 32
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.13 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.69 £30.00
Median hourly rate £36.39 £35.08 £49.07
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -28.50% -7.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £37.69 £68.97
90th Percentile £85.70 £45.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.02% -24.03% +34.83%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +30 80 £513 -18.00% 40
Berkshire +32 68 £506 -19.00% 16
Hampshire -5 52 £500 -13.04% 24
Oxfordshire -6 7 £413 - 16
Buckinghamshire -1 5 £600 -5.88% 9
West Sussex -12 2 £510 -7.27% 5
Surrey +3 1 - - 5
Kent - 1 £615 - 2
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 6 (4.38%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.65%) Apache
3 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.73%) CMS
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) Drupal
4 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (54.01%) AWS
2 63 (45.99%) Azure
3 40 (29.20%) GitHub
4 28 (20.44%) OpenShift
5 27 (19.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (14.60%) Serverless
8 18 (13.14%) Entra ID
9 17 (12.41%) GCP
10 15 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (9.49%) Amazon S3
13 12 (8.76%) IaaS
14 10 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (6.57%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (5.84%) Azure AKS
16 8 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.68%) DNS
2 9 (6.57%) DHCP
2 9 (6.57%) Firewall
3 8 (5.84%) LAN
4 6 (4.38%) BGP
4 6 (4.38%) MPLS
4 6 (4.38%) OSPF
4 6 (4.38%) SNMP
4 6 (4.38%) TACACS
4 6 (4.38%) WAN
4 6 (4.38%) Wireless
5 5 (3.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.19%) SSL
6 3 (2.19%) VPN
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.46%) Junos
8 1 (0.73%) MQTT
8 1 (0.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.22%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.30%) Redis
4 7 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.38%) Couchbase
6 3 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.46%) Metadata
7 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.73%) MySQL
8 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (20.44%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.79%) GitLab
3 20 (14.60%) Git
4 7 (5.11%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.65%) Gatling
5 5 (3.65%) JMeter
5 5 (3.65%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.19%) Gradle
7 3 (2.19%) Maven
7 3 (2.19%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.46%) MSI
9 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.73%) MLflow
9 1 (0.73%) Mocha
9 1 (0.73%) Poetry
9 1 (0.73%) Pylint
9 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.84%) Finance
5 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.46%) Banking
7 2 (1.46%) Billing
7 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.73%) Aviation
8 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (21.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (14.60%) Architect
3 11 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (8.03%) Senior
4 9 (6.57%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (5.11%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) Designer
7 6 (4.38%) IP Designer
8 5 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (3.65%) Developer
8 5 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.87%) Kafka
2 15 (10.95%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (7.30%) Keycloak
3 10 (7.30%) YAML
4 9 (6.57%) RESTful
5 7 (5.11%) .NET
5 7 (5.11%) OAuth
6 6 (4.38%) ADO
6 6 (4.38%) OpenID
6 6 (4.38%) REST
6 6 (4.38%) SailPoint
7 5 (3.65%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.65%) SAML
7 5 (3.65%) Spring
7 5 (3.65%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.65%) Swagger
8 4 (2.92%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.92%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.19%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (5.11%) PKI
3 6 (4.38%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.38%) Replication
4 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.19%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (40.15%) Linux
2 16 (11.68%) Windows
3 13 (9.49%) Unix
4 7 (5.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.46%) CentOS
7 2 (1.46%) VMS
8 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (70.07%) CI/CD
2 87 (63.50%) DevOps
3 64 (46.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (34.31%) Containerisation
5 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (21.17%) Agile
7 27 (19.71%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (13.87%) Migration
8 19 (13.87%) RBAC
9 18 (13.14%) Observability
10 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (10.95%) Incident Response
11 15 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (10.22%) DevSecOps
12 14 (10.22%) Microservices
12 14 (10.22%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (9.49%) Analytics
13 13 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (9.49%) High Availability
13 13 (9.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (48.18%) Python
2 37 (27.01%) Bash
3 36 (26.28%) PowerShell
4 18 (13.14%) SQL
5 15 (10.95%) Java
6 9 (6.57%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.84%) C#
8 7 (5.11%) Bicep
8 7 (5.11%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.65%) BeanShell
9 5 (3.65%) PHP
10 4 (2.92%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (2.19%) Go
11 3 (2.19%) VB
12 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.73%) Rust
12 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 40 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.87%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.22%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.38%) CCIE
7 6 (4.38%) JNCIE
8 5 (3.65%) Degree
9 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.92%) RHCE
10 3 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.73%) CCNA
12 1 (0.73%) CCNP
12 1 (0.73%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) NCSC
2 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.65%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.92%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.92%) QA
3 4 (2.92%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.73%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (27.01%) Docker
2 23 (16.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (16.06%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.76%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.84%) vSphere
6 4 (2.92%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.19%) NFS
8 1 (0.73%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (56.20%) Ansible
2 60 (43.80%) Kubernetes
3 30 (21.90%) Grafana
4 27 (19.71%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.30%) Argo
6 9 (6.57%) Puppet
7 7 (5.11%) Sysdig
7 7 (5.11%) vCenter Server
8 6 (4.38%) Packer
9 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.19%) Podman
10 3 (2.19%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.19%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.19%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.19%) Salt
10 3 (2.19%) WSUS
11 2 (1.46%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.46%) Kibana
11 2 (1.46%) logstash
11 2 (1.46%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (21.90%) VMware
2 20 (14.60%) Red Hat
3 19 (13.87%) Microsoft
4 15 (10.95%) Splunk
5 8 (5.84%) Cisco
5 8 (5.84%) F5
5 8 (5.84%) Juniper
6 7 (5.11%) IBM
7 6 (4.38%) Citrix
7 6 (4.38%) Confluent
7 6 (4.38%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.38%) Pure Storage
8 5 (3.65%) Google
9 4 (2.92%) CloudEndure
9 4 (2.92%) Databricks
10 2 (1.46%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.73%) Dell
11 1 (0.73%) JDA
11 1 (0.73%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.73%) UiPath