Terraform Contracts in the South East

Terraform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 61 57
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 107 174 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.37% 3.06% 3.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.10% 22.51% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 129 177
10th Percentile £400 - £481
25th Percentile £419 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £695
90th Percentile £619 £688 £739
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -22.50% -10.26% -

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 444 773 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.98% 13.59% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 561 533
10th Percentile £260 £250 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £645
90th Percentile £631 £675 £705
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 19
10th Percentile - £14.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.33 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -32.12% +152.87%
75th Percentile £32.77 £48.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £46.11 £52.10 £73.97
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% -43.18% +150.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the South East

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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 2 July 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 +24 52 £500 -16.67% 303
Berkshire +17 41 £500 -20.00% 198
Hampshire -5 34 £519 +15.28% 132
Buckinghamshire +10 11 £421 -26.87% 60
Surrey +27 8 £563 -15.09% 74
East Sussex +3 6 £475 -26.92% 35
Kent - 5 £430 - 31
Middlesex +2 2 £500 -20.00% 1
West Sussex -7 1 £325 -43.48% 50
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.67%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) Apache
3 2 (1.87%) Camunda
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (61.68%) Azure
2 51 (47.66%) AWS
3 23 (21.50%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (21.50%) GitHub
4 13 (12.15%) Azure AKS
4 13 (12.15%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (11.21%) Entra ID
6 9 (8.41%) Serverless
7 7 (6.54%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.54%) IaaS
7 7 (6.54%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.61%) PaaS
8 6 (5.61%) SaaS
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.67%) Azure Storage
9 5 (4.67%) GCP
10 4 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (7.48%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (7.48%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (7.48%) Junos
2 8 (7.48%) LAN
3 6 (5.61%) Firewall
4 5 (4.67%) Network Security
4 5 (4.67%) VPN
5 4 (3.74%) BGP
5 4 (3.74%) DHCP
5 4 (3.74%) DNS
5 4 (3.74%) OSPF
5 4 (3.74%) WAN
6 3 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.80%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.87%) HTTP
8 1 (0.93%) SAN
8 1 (0.93%) SMS
8 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.67%) Big Data
3 5 (4.67%) Redis
4 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.80%) Power BI
4 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.87%) DocumentDB
5 2 (1.87%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.93%) Metadata
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Parquet
6 1 (0.93%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.95%) GitLab
3 14 (13.08%) JIRA
4 10 (9.35%) Git
5 9 (8.41%) Cucumber
5 9 (8.41%) REST Assured
5 9 (8.41%) Selenium
5 9 (8.41%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.74%) MSI
7 4 (3.74%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.87%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.87%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
General
1 30 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (11.21%) Finance
3 8 (7.48%) Law
4 5 (4.67%) Police
4 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.87%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 26 (24.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (11.21%) Network Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Developer
3 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Architect
5 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Lead
5 7 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.89%) REST
2 15 (14.02%) ARM Templates
3 12 (11.21%) .NET
4 9 (8.41%) Java EE
5 8 (7.48%) Kafka
6 7 (6.54%) .NET Core
6 7 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (6.54%) Keycloak
6 7 (6.54%) YAML
7 6 (5.61%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.67%) ADO
8 5 (4.67%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (3.74%) OAuth
10 3 (2.80%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.80%) Node.js
10 3 (2.80%) React
10 3 (2.80%) Web Services
11 2 (1.87%) JSON
11 2 (1.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.54%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.74%) PKI
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.56%) Linux
2 18 (16.82%) Windows
3 14 (13.08%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.67%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.74%) CentOS
8 3 (2.80%) Unix
9 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (63.55%) DevOps
2 56 (52.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (42.06%) CI/CD
4 31 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (28.04%) Agile
5 30 (28.04%) Containerisation
6 20 (18.69%) Configuration Management
7 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
8 15 (14.02%) Software Engineering
9 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (13.08%) Observability
9 14 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (13.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (12.15%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (10.28%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (10.28%) Migration
12 10 (9.35%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (8.41%) Load Balancing
13 9 (8.41%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 40 (37.38%) Python
2 35 (32.71%) PowerShell
3 16 (14.95%) Bash
3 16 (14.95%) SQL
4 14 (13.08%) Bicep
5 12 (11.21%) Java
6 10 (9.35%) C#
7 8 (7.48%) VB
8 5 (4.67%) PHP
9 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.87%) Korn
11 1 (0.93%) C++
11 1 (0.93%) Go
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (37.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.95%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.80%) CCNP
6 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) NCSC
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.93%) HL7
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) JSP 440
System Software
1 24 (22.43%) Docker
2 12 (11.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.80%) NFS
6 1 (0.93%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.93%) Firmware
6 1 (0.93%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) XenApp
6 1 (0.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (50.47%) Ansible
2 45 (42.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (13.08%) Grafana
3 14 (13.08%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.41%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (8.41%) Podman
5 8 (7.48%) FortiGate
6 5 (4.67%) Packer
7 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.74%) Puppet
7 4 (3.74%) WMI
8 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.80%) WSUS
9 2 (1.87%) Kibana
9 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.93%) Rancher
10 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.15%) Cisco
3 11 (10.28%) Citrix
4 8 (7.48%) Databricks
4 8 (7.48%) F5
4 8 (7.48%) VMware
5 6 (5.61%) Juniper
5 6 (5.61%) Splunk
6 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.80%) Google
7 3 (2.80%) Mellanox
7 3 (2.80%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.87%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.87%) UiPath
9 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.93%) Dell KACE
9 1 (0.93%) Meraki
9 1 (0.93%) New Relic
9 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds