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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 70 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Terraform 130 120 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.13% 2.95% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.78% 21.51% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 93 134
10th Percentile £370 £360 £478
25th Percentile £418 £513 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £672
90th Percentile £647 £700 £699
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -7.02%
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 £76.53
% change year-on-year -3.85% -15.07% +1.53%

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 597 558 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.35% 13.72% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 413 484
10th Percentile £260 £276 £205
25th Percentile £375 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -6.98% +4.37%
75th Percentile £574 £613 £625
90th Percentile £627 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 32
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.13 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.69 £30.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.08 £49.07
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% -28.50% -7.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.69 £68.97
90th Percentile £86.73 £45.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.08 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% -26.14% +78.10%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +23 73 £513 -18.00% 36
Berkshire +22 61 £506 -19.00% 15
Hampshire -4 52 £500 -13.04% 22
Oxfordshire -3 7 £413 - 15
Buckinghamshire -1 5 £600 -5.88% 7
Surrey -1 2 £635 - 3
West Sussex -13 2 £510 -11.30% 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 (4.62%) Apache
1 6 (4.62%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.77%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Confluence
3 1 (0.77%) Drupal
3 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.54%) AWS
2 60 (46.15%) Azure
3 39 (30.00%) GitHub
4 26 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 22 (16.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (15.38%) Serverless
8 16 (12.31%) GCP
9 14 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.77%) Entra ID
9 14 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (9.23%) Amazon S3
11 11 (8.46%) IaaS
12 9 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (6.92%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (6.15%) Azure AKS
13 8 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (5.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.31%) DNS
2 9 (6.92%) DHCP
2 9 (6.92%) Firewall
2 9 (6.92%) LAN
3 6 (4.62%) BGP
3 6 (4.62%) MPLS
3 6 (4.62%) OSPF
3 6 (4.62%) SNMP
3 6 (4.62%) TACACS
3 6 (4.62%) WAN
3 6 (4.62%) Wireless
4 5 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (2.31%) Junos
5 3 (2.31%) SSL
5 3 (2.31%) VPN
6 1 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.77%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.15%) Redis
4 7 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.62%) Couchbase
6 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.54%) Metadata
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.77%) MySQL
8 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 21 (16.15%) GitLab
3 18 (13.85%) Git
4 8 (6.15%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.85%) Gatling
5 5 (3.85%) JMeter
5 5 (3.85%) LoadRunner
6 4 (3.08%) Robot Framework
6 4 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.31%) Gradle
7 3 (2.31%) Maven
7 3 (2.31%) MSI
8 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.77%) MLflow
8 1 (0.77%) Mocha
8 1 (0.77%) Poetry
8 1 (0.77%) Pylint
8 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.08%) Finance
4 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.31%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.54%) Banking
6 2 (1.54%) Billing
6 2 (1.54%) Retail
6 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (12.31%) Architect
3 11 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (7.69%) Senior
5 9 (6.92%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Designer
8 6 (4.62%) IP Designer
9 5 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Developer
10 4 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Network Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.85%) Kafka
2 15 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.92%) RESTful
3 9 (6.92%) YAML
4 8 (6.15%) Keycloak
5 7 (5.38%) .NET
5 7 (5.38%) OAuth
6 6 (4.62%) ADO
6 6 (4.62%) OpenID
6 6 (4.62%) REST
6 6 (4.62%) SailPoint
7 5 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.85%) SAML
7 5 (3.85%) Spring
7 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.85%) Swagger
8 4 (3.08%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.08%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.31%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.15%) PKI
3 7 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.62%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.62%) Replication
5 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.31%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (40.77%) Linux
2 17 (13.08%) Windows
3 13 (10.00%) Unix
4 8 (6.15%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.31%) CentOS
8 2 (1.54%) VMS
9 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (70.77%) CI/CD
2 84 (64.62%) DevOps
3 61 (46.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (33.08%) Containerisation
5 30 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (22.31%) Agile
7 25 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (12.31%) Observability
9 15 (11.54%) Incident Response
9 15 (11.54%) Migration
9 15 (11.54%) RBAC
10 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (10.00%) DevSecOps
11 13 (10.00%) High Availability
11 13 (10.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 13 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 65 (50.00%) Python
2 35 (26.92%) PowerShell
3 34 (26.15%) Bash
4 18 (13.85%) SQL
5 15 (11.54%) Java
6 9 (6.92%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.15%) C#
8 7 (5.38%) Bicep
8 7 (5.38%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.62%) PHP
10 5 (3.85%) BeanShell
11 4 (3.08%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (3.08%) VB
12 3 (2.31%) Go
13 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.77%) Rust
13 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (36.15%) Security Cleared
2 36 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.31%) DV Cleared
4 15 (11.54%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.62%) CCIE
6 6 (4.62%) JNCIE
7 4 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.08%) Degree
8 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.31%) RHCE
8 3 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.77%) CCNA
10 1 (0.77%) CCNP
10 1 (0.77%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (3.85%) NIST
2 4 (3.08%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.08%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.54%) NCSC
4 2 (1.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.77%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.77%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (26.92%) Docker
2 23 (17.69%) Active Directory
2 23 (17.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.23%) VMware NSX
4 8 (6.15%) vSphere
5 4 (3.08%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.31%) NFS
7 1 (0.77%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (58.46%) Ansible
2 57 (43.85%) Kubernetes
3 27 (20.77%) Grafana
4 25 (19.23%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.15%) Argo
5 8 (6.15%) Puppet
6 7 (5.38%) Sysdig
6 7 (5.38%) vCenter Server
7 6 (4.62%) Packer
8 4 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.31%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.31%) Podman
9 3 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.31%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.31%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.31%) Salt
9 3 (2.31%) WMI
9 3 (2.31%) WSUS
10 2 (1.54%) Kibana
10 2 (1.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 29 (22.31%) VMware
2 19 (14.62%) Microsoft
3 18 (13.85%) Red Hat
4 14 (10.77%) Splunk
5 9 (6.92%) Cisco
5 9 (6.92%) F5
5 9 (6.92%) Juniper
6 7 (5.38%) IBM
7 6 (4.62%) Confluent
7 6 (4.62%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.62%) Pure Storage
8 5 (3.85%) Google
9 3 (2.31%) Citrix
9 3 (2.31%) Databricks
10 1 (0.77%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.77%) Dell
10 1 (0.77%) JDA
10 1 (0.77%) Tenable
10 1 (0.77%) UiPath
10 1 (0.77%) Veeam