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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 66 67
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 157 92 157
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.62% 3.11% 2.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.72% 23.12% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 66 116
10th Percentile £400 £400 -
25th Percentile £414 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £650
90th Percentile £713 £655 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
England median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -20.45% -15.38%

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 691 398 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.52% 13.44% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 291 555
10th Percentile £306 £263 £213
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £674
England median daily rate £507 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 12
10th Percentile £29.73 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £32.24 £21.98 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.99 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +118.89% -29.97% -41.70%
75th Percentile £69.38 £25.99 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.20 £27.20 £49.88
England median hourly rate £56.50 £33.25 £28.75
% change year-on-year +69.92% +15.65% -46.11%

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

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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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -11 86 £513 +2.50% 21
Hampshire -1 53 £513 -6.82% 34
Berkshire -17 53 £500 - 10
Buckinghamshire -16 27 £550 +30.80% 4
Surrey -18 12 £503 -10.67% 2
Oxfordshire - 6 £575 - 7
West Sussex -13 3 £725 +123.08% 3
East Sussex -7 1 £459 -3.37% 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 10 (6.37%) Confluence
2 4 (2.55%) Apache
2 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.91%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.91%) IIS
3 3 (1.91%) nginx
3 3 (1.91%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 101 (64.33%) Azure
2 73 (46.50%) AWS
3 34 (21.66%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (18.47%) GitHub
5 25 (15.92%) Entra ID
5 25 (15.92%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.10%) GCP
7 16 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (9.55%) Azure AKS
8 15 (9.55%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.92%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (7.64%) PaaS
12 11 (7.01%) IaaS
12 11 (7.01%) OpenShift
13 9 (5.73%) Serverless
13 9 (5.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (3.82%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.29%) Firewall
2 13 (8.28%) VPN
3 10 (6.37%) DNS
4 8 (5.10%) Network Security
4 8 (5.10%) WAN
5 7 (4.46%) BGP
5 7 (4.46%) OSPF
6 5 (3.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.18%) LAN
7 4 (2.55%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.91%) MPLS
8 3 (1.91%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.27%) BIG-IP
9 2 (1.27%) MQTT
9 2 (1.27%) NGFW
10 1 (0.64%) IPsec
10 1 (0.64%) IPv6
10 1 (0.64%) Multicast
10 1 (0.64%) SAN
10 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.10%) Redis
3 4 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.91%) DocumentDB
4 3 (1.91%) MySQL
4 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.91%) Power BI
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.27%) Big Data
5 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.64%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 20 (12.74%) Git
2 19 (12.10%) GitLab
3 10 (6.37%) JIRA
4 8 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.82%) Robot Framework
5 6 (3.82%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.55%) Jaeger
6 4 (2.55%) NUnit
7 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.64%) MLflow
8 1 (0.64%) MSI
8 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.19%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.37%) Finance
5 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.55%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.55%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.91%) Military
8 2 (1.27%) Automotive
8 2 (1.27%) Aviation
8 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
9 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (18.47%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (12.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (11.46%) Architect
5 12 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) Senior
6 11 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Developer
8 9 (5.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (3.82%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.19%) .NET
2 13 (8.28%) Kafka
3 12 (7.64%) ARM Templates
4 11 (7.01%) React
5 9 (5.73%) Keycloak
5 9 (5.73%) YAML
6 8 (5.10%) Loki
6 8 (5.10%) REST
7 7 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (3.82%) .NET Framework
9 5 (3.18%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.18%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 5 (3.18%) Entity Framework
10 4 (2.55%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.55%) NHibernate
10 4 (2.55%) OAuth
11 3 (1.91%) JSON
11 3 (1.91%) Node.js
11 3 (1.91%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.37%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.73%) PKI
5 8 (5.10%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.10%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.82%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.64%) Chip and PIN
10 1 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.64%) EMV
10 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.11%) Linux
2 22 (14.01%) Windows
3 14 (8.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.82%) CentOS
5 4 (2.55%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.64%) VMS
8 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (67.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (57.96%) CI/CD
3 82 (52.23%) DevOps
4 38 (24.20%) Agile
4 38 (24.20%) Containerisation
5 33 (21.02%) Observability
6 25 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
7 23 (14.65%) DevSecOps
8 21 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (12.10%) Migration
10 19 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (11.46%) Analytics
12 17 (10.83%) Cloud Security
13 16 (10.19%) Test Automation
14 15 (9.55%) Incident Response
15 14 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (8.92%) GitOps
15 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (8.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 56 (35.67%) Python
2 40 (25.48%) PowerShell
3 28 (17.83%) Bash
4 25 (15.92%) Bicep
5 13 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.28%) SQL
6 10 (6.37%) C#
7 8 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.82%) Go
9 5 (3.18%) Java
10 2 (1.27%) BeanShell
10 2 (1.27%) Rust
10 2 (1.27%) Scala
10 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (42.68%) Security Cleared
2 52 (33.12%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.74%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.64%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 8 (5.10%) Degree
7 7 (4.46%) CCNP
7 7 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.91%) CCIE
11 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.27%) RHCE
12 1 (0.64%) CCDA
12 1 (0.64%) CCIP
12 1 (0.64%) CCNA
12 1 (0.64%) CISSP
12 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.19%) NCSC
2 7 (4.46%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.18%) GDPR
4 4 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.55%) GRC
4 4 (2.55%) QA
5 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (22.29%) Docker
2 21 (13.38%) Active Directory
3 19 (12.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (9.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.91%) Dovecot
6 3 (1.91%) Postfix
7 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (38.85%) Kubernetes
2 53 (33.76%) Ansible
3 32 (20.38%) Grafana
4 27 (17.20%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.37%) Argo
5 10 (6.37%) Istio
6 9 (5.73%) Puppet
7 6 (3.82%) linkerd
7 6 (3.82%) Rancher
8 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.91%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.91%) WMI
10 2 (1.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.64%) CASB
11 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.64%) Packer
11 1 (0.64%) Salt
11 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.29%) VMware
3 14 (8.92%) Red Hat
4 11 (7.01%) Splunk
5 9 (5.73%) Cisco
6 6 (3.82%) Citrix
6 6 (3.82%) NVIDIA
6 6 (3.82%) Oracle
7 5 (3.18%) F5
8 4 (2.55%) CloudEndure
8 4 (2.55%) Databricks
8 4 (2.55%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.55%) Juniper
8 4 (2.55%) Mellanox
9 3 (1.91%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.91%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.27%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.27%) Tenable
10 2 (1.27%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.64%) Denodo