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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 78 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 -9
Contract jobs citing Terraform 141 97 137
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.20% 2.70% 2.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.14% 20.42% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 79 99
10th Percentile £395 £360 £463
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £580
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £571 £675 £656
90th Percentile £678 £690 £690
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £72.40 - £68.19
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -0.99%

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 637 475 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.44% 13.23% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 352 467
10th Percentile £260 £260 £205
25th Percentile £394 £375 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -5.67% -
75th Percentile £569 £602 £615
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 30
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.39 £23.96
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.98 £30.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.99 £52.37
Median % change year-on-year +48.23% -48.47% -4.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.50 £69.66
90th Percentile £85.70 £37.40 £76.53
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +31.94%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +25 82 £500 -20.00% 305
Berkshire +21 73 £500 -20.00% 182
Hampshire -9 53 £500 -13.04% 138
Oxfordshire -5 7 £413 - 46
West Sussex - 3 £725 - 43
Buckinghamshire -2 2 £600 +0.84% 77
Surrey -9 2 - - 77
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 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.84%) Apache
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.42%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Drupal
5 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (58.16%) AWS
2 66 (46.81%) Azure
3 40 (28.37%) GitHub
4 28 (19.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (19.86%) OpenShift
5 26 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (14.89%) GCP
7 20 (14.18%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (14.18%) Serverless
8 18 (12.77%) Entra ID
9 13 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (8.51%) Amazon S3
10 12 (8.51%) IaaS
11 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.09%) Azure AKS
13 9 (6.38%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.51%) DNS
2 11 (7.80%) Firewall
3 9 (6.38%) LAN
4 8 (5.67%) BGP
4 8 (5.67%) OSPF
4 8 (5.67%) WAN
5 6 (4.26%) MPLS
5 6 (4.26%) SNMP
5 6 (4.26%) TACACS
5 6 (4.26%) Wireless
6 5 (3.55%) DHCP
6 5 (3.55%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.84%) VPN
8 3 (2.13%) Network Security
8 3 (2.13%) SSL
9 2 (1.42%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.71%) Junos
10 1 (0.71%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.22%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.09%) Redis
4 7 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.26%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Metadata
8 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.71%) MySQL
8 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (20.57%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.15%) GitLab
3 24 (17.02%) Git
4 8 (5.67%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.55%) Gatling
5 5 (3.55%) JMeter
5 5 (3.55%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.13%) Gradle
7 3 (2.13%) Maven
7 3 (2.13%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.71%) MLflow
8 1 (0.71%) Mocha
8 1 (0.71%) Poetry
8 1 (0.71%) Pylint
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.42%) Aviation
4 2 (1.42%) Banking
4 2 (1.42%) Billing
4 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (21.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (14.18%) Architect
3 15 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (8.51%) Senior
5 10 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (4.96%) Data Engineer
6 7 (4.96%) Developer
7 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Designer
7 6 (4.26%) IP Designer
8 5 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.84%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (2.84%) Network Engineer
9 4 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.48%) Kafka
2 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (7.09%) Keycloak
4 9 (6.38%) RESTful
5 8 (5.67%) .NET
6 7 (4.96%) ADO
6 7 (4.96%) REST
7 6 (4.26%) ARM Templates
7 6 (4.26%) OAuth
7 6 (4.26%) YAML
8 5 (3.55%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.55%) OpenID
8 5 (3.55%) SailPoint
8 5 (3.55%) Spring
8 5 (3.55%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.55%) Swagger
9 4 (2.84%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.84%) React
9 4 (2.84%) SAML
10 3 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.67%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.96%) PKI
4 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.26%) Replication
5 4 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (39.01%) Linux
2 14 (9.93%) Windows
3 10 (7.09%) Unix
4 5 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.71%) CentOS
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (71.63%) CI/CD
2 92 (65.25%) DevOps
3 65 (46.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (36.88%) Containerisation
5 30 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
6 27 (19.15%) Agile
7 26 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.31%) Observability
9 20 (14.18%) RBAC
10 19 (13.48%) DevSecOps
11 17 (12.06%) Incident Response
11 17 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (12.06%) Migration
12 16 (11.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (10.64%) Analytics
13 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (10.64%) Microservices
14 14 (9.93%) High Availability
15 13 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
16 12 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 72 (51.06%) Python
2 40 (28.37%) Bash
3 33 (23.40%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.35%) SQL
5 15 (10.64%) Java
6 10 (7.09%) Bicep
6 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.38%) C#
8 7 (4.96%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.55%) BeanShell
10 4 (2.84%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (2.13%) Go
11 3 (2.13%) PHP
12 2 (1.42%) VB
13 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.71%) Rust
13 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (41.84%) Security Cleared
2 51 (36.17%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.48%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.93%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (5.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) CCIE
7 6 (4.26%) Degree
7 6 (4.26%) JNCIE
8 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.55%) RHCE
9 3 (2.13%) CCNP
9 3 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.71%) CCNA
11 1 (0.71%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) NCSC
2 7 (4.96%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) NIST
4 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.84%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.84%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.71%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (27.66%) Docker
2 21 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (13.48%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.51%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.67%) vSphere
6 4 (2.84%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (57.45%) Ansible
2 69 (48.94%) Kubernetes
3 32 (22.70%) Grafana
4 29 (20.57%) Prometheus
5 16 (11.35%) Argo
6 11 (7.80%) Puppet
7 8 (5.67%) vCenter Server
8 7 (4.96%) Sysdig
9 6 (4.26%) Istio
9 6 (4.26%) linkerd
10 3 (2.13%) Podman
10 3 (2.13%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.13%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.13%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.13%) Salt
10 3 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.42%) logstash
11 2 (1.42%) Packer
12 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (24.11%) VMware
2 23 (16.31%) Red Hat
3 15 (10.64%) Splunk
4 13 (9.22%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.96%) Cisco
5 7 (4.96%) F5
5 7 (4.96%) IBM
5 7 (4.96%) Juniper
6 6 (4.26%) Confluent
6 6 (4.26%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.26%) Pure Storage
7 5 (3.55%) Citrix
7 5 (3.55%) Google
8 4 (2.84%) CloudEndure
8 4 (2.84%) Databricks
9 2 (1.42%) Mellanox
9 2 (1.42%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.42%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.71%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.71%) Veeam