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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 73 95
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 -33
Contract jobs citing Terraform 148 83 119
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.73% 2.82% 2.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.08% 20.75% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 65 85
10th Percentile £374 £400 £425
25th Percentile £416 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -1.88%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £731 £675 £695
England median daily rate £525 £565 £560
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.89% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +25.85% -21.77% -22.50%

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 702 400 687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.95% 13.60% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 291 482
10th Percentile £260 £313 £205
25th Percentile £398 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.24% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 22
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.59 £14.96
25th Percentile £40.00 £15.99 £24.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £19.97 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +187.93% -53.56% -24.40%
75th Percentile £69.38 £23.99 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £26.39 £68.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -45.45%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -2 77 £500 - 52
Berkshire +1 61 £500 - 18
Hampshire -8 59 £500 -13.04% 18
Buckinghamshire -20 10 £464 -6.88% 21
Oxfordshire -4 6 £483 - 13
Surrey -10 5 £505 - 5
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 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 5 (3.38%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) Apache
2 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.70%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (60.81%) Azure
2 78 (52.70%) AWS
3 41 (27.70%) GitHub
4 30 (20.27%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (18.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (16.89%) Entra ID
8 21 (14.19%) GCP
9 20 (13.51%) OpenShift
10 17 (11.49%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (10.81%) Serverless
12 14 (9.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (8.78%) IaaS
14 12 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (8.11%) Azure AKS
15 11 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (6.76%) Amazon S3
16 10 (6.76%) PaaS
16 10 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.19%) Firewall
2 15 (10.14%) DNS
3 12 (8.11%) VPN
4 6 (4.05%) Network Security
4 6 (4.05%) WAN
5 5 (3.38%) BGP
5 5 (3.38%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (3.38%) OSPF
5 5 (3.38%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.70%) DHCP
7 3 (2.03%) LAN
7 3 (2.03%) SSL
8 2 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.68%) Internet
9 1 (0.68%) IPv6
9 1 (0.68%) MPLS
9 1 (0.68%) MQTT
9 1 (0.68%) NGFW
9 1 (0.68%) VoIP
9 1 (0.68%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.43%) Redis
3 6 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.35%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.35%) Power BI
5 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Parquet
6 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (18.92%) Git
2 24 (16.22%) GitLab
3 22 (14.86%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.08%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.05%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.38%) Gatling
6 5 (3.38%) JIRA
6 5 (3.38%) JMeter
6 5 (3.38%) LoadRunner
6 5 (3.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.03%) Gradle
7 3 (2.03%) Jaeger
7 3 (2.03%) Maven
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) NUnit
8 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.08%) Finance
5 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.03%) Aviation
6 3 (2.03%) Banking
6 3 (2.03%) Military
7 2 (1.35%) Billing
7 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.35%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Publishing
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (19.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (17.57%) Architect
3 20 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (10.81%) Senior
5 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.43%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (7.43%) Developer
7 10 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Site Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.81%) Kafka
2 15 (10.14%) .NET
3 12 (8.11%) ARM Templates
4 11 (7.43%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (7.43%) Keycloak
5 9 (6.08%) REST
6 8 (5.41%) OAuth
6 8 (5.41%) React
7 7 (4.73%) OAuth2
7 7 (4.73%) YAML
8 6 (4.05%) OpenID
8 6 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (3.38%) Loki
10 4 (2.70%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.70%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.70%) Next.js
10 4 (2.70%) RESTful
10 4 (2.70%) SAML
10 4 (2.70%) Spring
10 4 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.43%) PKI
3 9 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.38%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.68%) Chip and PIN
10 1 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.68%) EMV
10 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.68%) IoT
10 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (32.43%) Linux
2 20 (13.51%) Windows
3 9 (6.08%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.03%) CentOS
5 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (70.27%) CI/CD
2 87 (58.78%) DevOps
3 85 (57.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (33.11%) Containerisation
5 32 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (20.27%) Observability
7 29 (19.59%) Agile
8 25 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.54%) DevSecOps
10 22 (14.86%) Analytics
10 22 (14.86%) RBAC
10 22 (14.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (12.16%) Incident Response
11 18 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (12.16%) Migration
12 17 (11.49%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (10.14%) GitOps
13 15 (10.14%) Log Analytics
14 14 (9.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 64 (43.24%) Python
2 40 (27.03%) Bash
3 37 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 18 (12.16%) Bicep
5 12 (8.11%) SQL
6 10 (6.76%) C#
6 10 (6.76%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.41%) Java
8 5 (3.38%) Go
9 3 (2.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.35%) BeanShell
10 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (45.27%) Security Cleared
2 53 (35.81%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.81%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.78%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.08%) Degree
6 8 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.73%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.38%) CCNP
8 5 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.38%) RHCE
9 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.68%) CCDA
12 1 (0.68%) CCDP
12 1 (0.68%) CCIP
12 1 (0.68%) CCNA
12 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.14%) NCSC
2 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.05%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.38%) GDPR
4 4 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.70%) NIST
4 4 (2.70%) QA
5 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.03%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 39 (26.35%) Docker
2 20 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.41%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.73%) vSphere
6 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (48.65%) Kubernetes
2 68 (45.95%) Ansible
3 41 (27.70%) Grafana
4 38 (25.68%) Prometheus
5 18 (12.16%) Argo
6 11 (7.43%) Istio
7 10 (6.76%) Puppet
8 8 (5.41%) linkerd
9 7 (4.73%) Sysdig
9 7 (4.73%) vCenter Server
10 5 (3.38%) Rancher
11 3 (2.03%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.35%) Packer
12 2 (1.35%) Podman
12 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.68%) CASB
13 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 33 (22.30%) VMware
2 27 (18.24%) Microsoft
3 20 (13.51%) Red Hat
4 15 (10.14%) Splunk
5 6 (4.05%) Citrix
5 6 (4.05%) Pure Storage
6 5 (3.38%) Databricks
7 4 (2.70%) CloudEndure
7 4 (2.70%) Mellanox
7 4 (2.70%) NVIDIA
8 3 (2.03%) Cisco
9 2 (1.35%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.35%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.35%) Google
9 2 (1.35%) Oracle
9 2 (1.35%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.35%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.68%) Arista
10 1 (0.68%) Meraki