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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 67 81
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 156 88 130
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.68% 2.94% 2.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.51% 24.24% 18.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 67 95
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £406 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £650
90th Percentile £719 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%

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 693 363 704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.91% 12.12% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 267 501
10th Percentile £263 £318 £208
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% -12.48%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £600
90th Percentile £711 £663 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 16
10th Percentile £42.05 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £21.98 £21.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.99 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.16% -44.22% -29.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.99 £49.06
90th Percentile £78.40 £27.20 £66.25
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £26.38
% change year-on-year +107.34% +3.29% -54.12%

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 April 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 28 April 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 -5 87 £500 - 40
Berkshire -8 60 £500 - 15
Hampshire -10 55 £500 -9.09% 36
Buckinghamshire -13 22 £550 +30.80% 13
Surrey -16 6 £505 -8.18% 9
West Sussex - 5 £725 - 1
Oxfordshire - 5 £550 - 12
East Sussex -4 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 7 (4.49%) Confluence
2 6 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.56%) Apache
3 4 (2.56%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 104 (66.67%) Azure
2 78 (50.00%) AWS
3 36 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (21.15%) GitHub
5 28 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (14.74%) Entra ID
7 23 (14.74%) GCP
8 17 (10.90%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (9.62%) Serverless
10 14 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (8.97%) Azure AKS
10 14 (8.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (8.33%) OpenShift
11 13 (8.33%) PaaS
12 10 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (6.41%) IaaS
13 9 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (5.77%) Amazon S3
14 8 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.38%) Firewall
2 13 (8.33%) VPN
3 11 (7.05%) DNS
4 7 (4.49%) Network Security
4 7 (4.49%) WAN
5 6 (3.85%) BGP
5 6 (3.85%) OSPF
6 5 (3.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.21%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.56%) DHCP
7 4 (2.56%) LAN
8 3 (1.92%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.92%) SSL
9 2 (1.28%) MPLS
9 2 (1.28%) NGFW
9 2 (1.28%) VXLAN
10 1 (0.64%) HTTP
10 1 (0.64%) Internet
10 1 (0.64%) IPv6
10 1 (0.64%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.05%) Redis
3 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.92%) Power BI
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.28%) Big Data
6 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.28%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.64%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (17.31%) Git
2 22 (14.10%) GitLab
3 15 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.49%) JIRA
5 6 (3.85%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.21%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.21%) Gatling
6 5 (3.21%) JMeter
6 5 (3.21%) LoadRunner
6 5 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.56%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.92%) Gradle
8 3 (1.92%) Maven
9 1 (0.64%) MLflow
9 1 (0.64%) NUnit
9 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (18.59%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.90%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.77%) Finance
5 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.92%) Aviation
6 3 (1.92%) Banking
6 3 (1.92%) Military
7 2 (1.28%) Billing
7 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Automotive
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Publishing
8 1 (0.64%) Retail
8 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (16.03%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.82%) Architect
4 18 (11.54%) Senior
5 15 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) Developer
6 11 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Site Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.90%) .NET
2 15 (9.62%) Kafka
3 13 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 11 (7.05%) Keycloak
5 9 (5.77%) React
5 9 (5.77%) REST
6 7 (4.49%) OAuth
6 7 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.85%) Loki
7 6 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 6 (3.85%) YAML
8 5 (3.21%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.21%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.21%) OpenID
9 4 (2.56%) ASP.NET
9 4 (2.56%) Next.js
9 4 (2.56%) SAML
9 4 (2.56%) Spring
9 4 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.05%) PKI
3 10 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.64%) IoT
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.36%) Linux
2 20 (12.82%) Windows
3 9 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.92%) CentOS
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 102 (65.38%) CI/CD
3 88 (56.41%) DevOps
4 44 (28.21%) Containerisation
5 35 (22.44%) Agile
6 34 (21.79%) Observability
7 33 (21.15%) Platform Engineering
8 27 (17.31%) DevSecOps
8 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (14.10%) Analytics
10 22 (14.10%) Incident Response
10 22 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (11.54%) Migration
11 18 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (10.90%) Cloud Security
12 17 (10.90%) GitOps
12 17 (10.90%) Test Automation
13 16 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (10.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 61 (39.10%) Python
2 38 (24.36%) PowerShell
3 34 (21.79%) Bash
4 23 (14.74%) Bicep
5 14 (8.97%) SQL
6 11 (7.05%) C#
6 11 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.85%) Go
7 6 (3.85%) Java
8 3 (1.92%) PHP
8 3 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 53 (33.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.18%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.41%) Azure Certification
6 9 (5.77%) Degree
7 8 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.85%) CCNP
9 6 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.21%) RHCE
11 4 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.28%) CCIE
13 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.64%) CCDA
14 1 (0.64%) CCDP
14 1 (0.64%) CCIP
14 1 (0.64%) CCNA
14 1 (0.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.54%) NCSC
2 7 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.21%) GDPR
3 5 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.56%) GRC
4 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 37 (23.72%) Docker
2 19 (12.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (11.54%) Active Directory
4 16 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.28%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 64 (41.03%) Ansible
3 38 (24.36%) Grafana
4 34 (21.79%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.69%) Argo
5 12 (7.69%) Istio
6 10 (6.41%) Puppet
7 8 (5.13%) linkerd
8 7 (4.49%) Rancher
9 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.92%) Sysdig
10 2 (1.28%) Podman
10 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.64%) CASB
11 1 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.64%) Packer
11 1 (0.64%) Salt
11 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.95%) VMware
3 15 (9.62%) Splunk
4 14 (8.97%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.85%) Citrix
6 4 (2.56%) Cisco
6 4 (2.56%) CloudEndure
6 4 (2.56%) Databricks
6 4 (2.56%) Mellanox
6 4 (2.56%) NVIDIA
7 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle
7 3 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.28%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.28%) Google
8 2 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.28%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.64%) Arista
9 1 (0.64%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.64%) Meraki