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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 65 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Terraform 122 134 182
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.15% 3.21% 3.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.61% 21.93% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 104 137
10th Percentile £369 £372 £466
25th Percentile £418 £475 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £584 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% -2.75% +6.19%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £613 £696 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -19.93% -3.31% +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 592 611 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.30% 14.66% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 457 495
10th Percentile £255 £265 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +5.39%
75th Percentile £565 £613 £625
90th Percentile £615 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 29
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.15 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.97 £26.13 £30.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% -29.75% +44.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £37.37 £68.63
90th Percentile £86.32 £44.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%

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 7 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 7 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 +15 71 £513 -18.00% 315
Berkshire +22 57 £485 -22.40% 251
Hampshire -18 43 £500 -10.71% 58
Buckinghamshire +4 7 £600 -4.95% 23
Oxfordshire -3 7 £413 - 41
Kent - 4 £430 - 8
Surrey +3 3 £635 - 15
Middlesex -7 1 £500 -20.00% 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 (4.92%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.10%) Apache
3 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.82%) CMS
4 1 (0.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.82%) Drupal
4 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.08%) Azure
2 51 (41.80%) AWS
3 35 (28.69%) GitHub
4 22 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (18.03%) OpenShift
5 16 (13.11%) Entra ID
6 15 (12.30%) Serverless
7 14 (11.48%) IaaS
8 13 (10.66%) GCP
9 12 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (8.20%) Azure AKS
10 10 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (6.56%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.74%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (5.74%) OCI
13 6 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.02%) DNS
2 10 (8.20%) LAN
3 7 (5.74%) BGP
3 7 (5.74%) OSPF
4 6 (4.92%) MPLS
4 6 (4.92%) SNMP
4 6 (4.92%) TACACS
4 6 (4.92%) WAN
4 6 (4.92%) Wireless
5 5 (4.10%) DHCP
5 5 (4.10%) Firewall
6 4 (3.28%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (3.28%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (3.28%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (3.28%) Junos
7 3 (2.46%) SSL
8 2 (1.64%) HTTP
8 2 (1.64%) VPN
9 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.82%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (5.74%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.74%) Redis
3 6 (4.92%) Couchbase
4 4 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.64%) Metadata
5 2 (1.64%) MySQL
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.82%) Power BI
6 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (18.85%) Jenkins
2 17 (13.93%) GitLab
3 8 (6.56%) Git
4 6 (4.92%) Artifactory
5 5 (4.10%) Gatling
5 5 (4.10%) JMeter
5 5 (4.10%) LoadRunner
5 5 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.28%) MSI
6 4 (3.28%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.82%) Gradle
8 1 (0.82%) JIRA
8 1 (0.82%) Maven
8 1 (0.82%) MLflow
8 1 (0.82%) Mocha
8 1 (0.82%) Poetry
8 1 (0.82%) Pylint
8 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (4.92%) Finance
4 4 (3.28%) Retail
5 2 (1.64%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.64%) Billing
5 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (19.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (11.48%) Architect
3 11 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (7.38%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (6.56%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Designer
7 6 (4.92%) IP Designer
7 6 (4.92%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Lead
9 4 (3.28%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.11%) Kafka
2 11 (9.02%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.38%) YAML
4 8 (6.56%) ADO
5 7 (5.74%) .NET
5 7 (5.74%) OAuth
5 7 (5.74%) REST
5 7 (5.74%) RESTful
6 6 (4.92%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.92%) Keycloak
6 6 (4.92%) OpenID
6 6 (4.92%) SailPoint
7 5 (4.10%) GraphQL
7 5 (4.10%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.10%) SAML
7 5 (4.10%) Swagger
8 4 (3.28%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.46%) Node.js
9 3 (2.46%) PySpark
10 2 (1.64%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.92%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.92%) Replication
3 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.28%) PKI
5 3 (2.46%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (33.61%) Linux
2 13 (10.66%) Unix
2 13 (10.66%) Windows
3 8 (6.56%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.28%) CentOS
7 2 (1.64%) VMS
8 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (63.93%) CI/CD
1 78 (63.93%) DevOps
2 56 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (25.41%) Containerisation
4 24 (19.67%) Agile
5 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (13.11%) Observability
8 15 (12.30%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (11.48%) Migration
9 14 (11.48%) RBAC
10 13 (10.66%) Incident Response
11 12 (9.84%) High Availability
12 11 (9.02%) Analytics
12 11 (9.02%) Immutable Infrastructure
12 11 (9.02%) Load Balancing
13 10 (8.20%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (8.20%) Network Virtualisation
13 10 (8.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.46%) Python
2 34 (27.87%) PowerShell
3 28 (22.95%) Bash
4 18 (14.75%) SQL
5 13 (10.66%) Bicep
6 12 (9.84%) Java
7 8 (6.56%) C#
7 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.74%) PHP
8 7 (5.74%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.10%) BeanShell
9 5 (4.10%) VB
10 4 (3.28%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (2.46%) Go
12 2 (1.64%) Korn
12 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.48%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.20%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.74%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.92%) CCIE
6 6 (4.92%) JNCIE
7 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.82%) CCNA
9 1 (0.82%) CCNP
9 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.82%) Degree
9 1 (0.82%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.28%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.28%) HIPAA
1 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.28%) NIST
1 4 (3.28%) SLA
1 4 (3.28%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.46%) QA
3 2 (1.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.82%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.82%) HL7
4 1 (0.82%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.82%) NCSC
4 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (22.13%) Docker
2 21 (17.21%) Active Directory
3 20 (16.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (9.84%) VMware NSX
5 8 (6.56%) vSphere
6 3 (2.46%) NFS
6 3 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.82%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.82%) Firmware
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (50.00%) Ansible
2 47 (38.52%) Kubernetes
3 22 (18.03%) Grafana
4 21 (17.21%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.56%) vCenter Server
6 7 (5.74%) Argo
7 6 (4.92%) Packer
8 5 (4.10%) Sysdig
9 4 (3.28%) FortiGate
9 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.28%) WMI
10 3 (2.46%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.46%) Puppet
10 3 (2.46%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.46%) Salt
10 3 (2.46%) WSUS
11 2 (1.64%) Kibana
11 2 (1.64%) logstash
12 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (19.67%) VMware
2 18 (14.75%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.66%) Red Hat
4 12 (9.84%) Splunk
5 11 (9.02%) Cisco
6 10 (8.20%) F5
6 10 (8.20%) Juniper
7 7 (5.74%) IBM
8 6 (4.92%) Confluent
8 6 (4.92%) Fortinet
8 6 (4.92%) Google
8 6 (4.92%) Pure Storage
9 4 (3.28%) Citrix
10 3 (2.46%) Databricks
11 2 (1.64%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.82%) Dell
12 1 (0.82%) JDA
12 1 (0.82%) LogRhythm
12 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow