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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 73 101
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 -34
Contract jobs citing Terraform 144 96 109
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.00% 3.03% 1.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.30% 22.27% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 79
10th Percentile £374 £356 £494
25th Percentile £425 £500 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -0.86% +1.18%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £690
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £72.40 - £68.19
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%

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 676 431 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.07% 13.59% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 309 467
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £578
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 33
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £23.70
25th Percentile £23.50 £13.99 £30.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -12.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +100.94% -33.75% -16.67%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +3 80 £513 -18.00% 26
Berkshire +10 70 £500 -21.57% 9
Hampshire -7 55 £500 -13.04% 18
Oxfordshire -8 5 £425 - 6
Buckinghamshire -13 5 £538 +7.99% 11
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 5
Surrey -10 2 - - 13
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 4 (2.78%) Apache
1 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (54.86%) Azure
2 74 (51.39%) AWS
3 39 (27.08%) GitHub
4 32 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (20.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (18.75%) Entra ID
7 23 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (15.97%) OpenShift
8 21 (14.58%) GCP
9 19 (13.19%) Serverless
10 17 (11.81%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (11.11%) Azure AKS
11 16 (11.11%) IaaS
12 15 (10.42%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (7.64%) PaaS
15 10 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (6.25%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.50%) Firewall
2 14 (9.72%) DNS
3 9 (6.25%) VPN
4 7 (4.86%) BGP
4 7 (4.86%) OSPF
4 7 (4.86%) WAN
5 6 (4.17%) Network Security
6 5 (3.47%) DHCP
6 5 (3.47%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.47%) LAN
6 5 (3.47%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.08%) MPLS
7 3 (2.08%) SNMP
7 3 (2.08%) Wireless
8 2 (1.39%) SSL
8 2 (1.39%) TACACS
9 1 (0.69%) HTTP
9 1 (0.69%) Internet
9 1 (0.69%) IPv6
9 1 (0.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.94%) Redis
4 7 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.17%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.39%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.39%) Power BI
7 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.69%) Parquet
8 1 (0.69%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.75%) Git
3 24 (16.67%) GitLab
4 9 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.47%) Gatling
5 5 (3.47%) JMeter
5 5 (3.47%) LoadRunner
5 5 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.78%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.08%) Gradle
7 3 (2.08%) Maven
8 2 (1.39%) JIRA
9 1 (0.69%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.69%) MLflow
9 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.03%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.86%) Finance
5 5 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Aviation
6 3 (2.08%) Banking
6 3 (2.08%) Military
7 2 (1.39%) Billing
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Legal
8 1 (0.69%) Publishing
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (16.67%) Architect
3 20 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Senior
6 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (6.25%) Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.47%) Network Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Site Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.28%) Kafka
2 13 (9.03%) ARM Templates
3 11 (7.64%) .NET
3 11 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.94%) Keycloak
5 8 (5.56%) OAuth
5 8 (5.56%) React
5 8 (5.56%) REST
6 7 (4.86%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.17%) OpenID
8 5 (3.47%) SailPoint
9 4 (2.78%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.78%) ADO
9 4 (2.78%) Next.js
9 4 (2.78%) RESTful
9 4 (2.78%) SAML
9 4 (2.78%) Spring
9 4 (2.78%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.78%) YAML
10 3 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.56%) PKI
3 7 (4.86%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.17%) Replication
5 5 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.69%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.69%) EMV
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (36.11%) Linux
2 15 (10.42%) Windows
3 7 (4.86%) Unix
4 6 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (73.61%) CI/CD
2 90 (62.50%) DevOps
3 78 (54.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 33 (22.92%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (16.67%) Observability
7 23 (15.97%) Agile
7 23 (15.97%) DevSecOps
8 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.28%) RBAC
9 21 (14.58%) Analytics
10 19 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (12.50%) Migration
12 16 (11.11%) Incident Response
13 15 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (10.42%) Log Analytics
14 14 (9.72%) Microservices
14 14 (9.72%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (9.03%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 64 (44.44%) Python
2 38 (26.39%) Bash
3 34 (23.61%) PowerShell
4 21 (14.58%) Bicep
5 13 (9.03%) SQL
6 11 (7.64%) Java
7 9 (6.25%) C#
8 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.86%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.47%) BeanShell
11 3 (2.08%) PHP
12 1 (0.69%) Go
12 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.69%) Rust
12 1 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 54 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 15 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.25%) Degree
6 8 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.86%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.17%) CCNP
9 5 (3.47%) RHCE
10 3 (2.08%) CCIE
10 3 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.39%) CCNA
11 2 (1.39%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.69%) CCIP
12 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.42%) NCSC
2 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.78%) NIST
3 4 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.78%) QA
4 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (27.08%) Docker
2 24 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.56%) vSphere
6 7 (4.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (49.31%) Kubernetes
2 70 (48.61%) Ansible
3 36 (25.00%) Grafana
4 33 (22.92%) Prometheus
5 17 (11.81%) Argo
6 11 (7.64%) Puppet
7 9 (6.25%) Istio
8 8 (5.56%) linkerd
8 8 (5.56%) vCenter Server
9 7 (4.86%) Sysdig
10 3 (2.08%) Podman
10 3 (2.08%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.39%) logstash
11 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.39%) Packer
11 2 (1.39%) Rancher
11 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.69%) CASB
12 1 (0.69%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (21.53%) VMware
2 22 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.58%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.03%) Splunk
5 6 (4.17%) Citrix
5 6 (4.17%) Confluent
5 6 (4.17%) IBM
5 6 (4.17%) Pure Storage
6 5 (3.47%) Cisco
6 5 (3.47%) Databricks
7 4 (2.78%) CloudEndure
7 4 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.78%) Google
7 4 (2.78%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.78%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.08%) Juniper
9 2 (1.39%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.39%) F5
9 2 (1.39%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.39%) Zscaler