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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 72 66
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 134 111 165
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.20% 2.81% 3.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.22% 20.79% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 88 124
10th Percentile £371 £360 £478
25th Percentile £418 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £657
90th Percentile £646 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.57% -7.91%
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 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -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 603 534 701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.39% 13.52% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 399 472
10th Percentile £255 £262 £205
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.32% +1.67%
75th Percentile £573 £613 £621
90th Percentile £637 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 32
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.13 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.69 £30.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £35.08 £49.07
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -28.50% -7.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £37.69 £68.97
90th Percentile £86.00 £45.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £38.75 £36.17 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.15% -21.69% +62.04%

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 2 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 2 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 +28 78 £513 -18.00% 37
Berkshire +29 66 £506 -19.00% 12
Hampshire -2 52 £500 -13.04% 28
Oxfordshire -4 7 £413 - 17
Buckinghamshire -1 5 £600 -5.88% 9
West Sussex -11 2 £510 -7.27% 4
Surrey +3 1 - - 3
Kent - 1 £615 - 10
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 (4.48%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.73%) Apache
3 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Drupal
4 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (52.99%) AWS
2 62 (46.27%) Azure
3 40 (29.85%) GitHub
4 27 (20.15%) OpenShift
5 25 (18.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (14.93%) Serverless
8 17 (12.69%) Entra ID
9 16 (11.94%) GCP
10 15 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.96%) Amazon S3
13 11 (8.21%) IaaS
14 9 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (6.72%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.97%) Azure AKS
16 7 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (5.22%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.94%) DNS
2 9 (6.72%) DHCP
2 9 (6.72%) Firewall
3 8 (5.97%) LAN
4 6 (4.48%) BGP
4 6 (4.48%) MPLS
4 6 (4.48%) OSPF
4 6 (4.48%) SNMP
4 6 (4.48%) TACACS
4 6 (4.48%) WAN
4 6 (4.48%) Wireless
5 5 (3.73%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.24%) SSL
6 3 (2.24%) VPN
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.49%) Junos
8 1 (0.75%) MQTT
8 1 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.46%) Redis
4 7 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.22%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.48%) Couchbase
6 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.49%) Metadata
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.75%) MySQL
8 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (20.15%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.16%) GitLab
3 18 (13.43%) Git
4 7 (5.22%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.73%) Gatling
5 5 (3.73%) JMeter
5 5 (3.73%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.24%) Gradle
7 3 (2.24%) Maven
7 3 (2.24%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.49%) MSI
9 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.75%) MLflow
9 1 (0.75%) Mocha
9 1 (0.75%) Poetry
9 1 (0.75%) Pylint
9 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.22%) Finance
5 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.49%) Banking
7 2 (1.49%) Billing
7 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Aviation
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (13.43%) Architect
3 11 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (8.21%) Senior
4 9 (6.72%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (4.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.48%) Designer
7 6 (4.48%) IP Designer
8 5 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (3.73%) Developer
8 5 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.99%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.99%) Lead
9 4 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.18%) Kafka
2 15 (11.19%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (7.46%) Keycloak
3 10 (7.46%) YAML
4 9 (6.72%) RESTful
5 7 (5.22%) .NET
5 7 (5.22%) OAuth
6 6 (4.48%) ADO
6 6 (4.48%) OpenID
6 6 (4.48%) REST
6 6 (4.48%) SailPoint
7 5 (3.73%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.73%) SAML
7 5 (3.73%) Spring
7 5 (3.73%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.73%) Swagger
8 4 (2.99%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.99%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.24%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (5.22%) PKI
3 6 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.48%) Replication
4 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.24%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.49%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (39.55%) Linux
2 16 (11.94%) Windows
3 13 (9.70%) Unix
4 7 (5.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.49%) CentOS
7 2 (1.49%) VMS
8 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (70.15%) CI/CD
2 86 (64.18%) DevOps
3 63 (47.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (33.58%) Containerisation
5 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (20.90%) Agile
7 27 (20.15%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (13.43%) Migration
8 18 (13.43%) Observability
8 18 (13.43%) RBAC
9 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (11.19%) Incident Response
10 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (10.45%) DevSecOps
11 14 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (9.70%) High Availability
12 13 (9.70%) Immutable Infrastructure
12 13 (9.70%) Microservices
13 12 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.51%) Python
2 36 (26.87%) Bash
2 36 (26.87%) PowerShell
3 18 (13.43%) SQL
4 15 (11.19%) Java
5 9 (6.72%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.97%) C#
7 7 (5.22%) Bicep
7 7 (5.22%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.73%) BeanShell
8 5 (3.73%) PHP
9 4 (2.99%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (2.24%) Go
10 3 (2.24%) VB
11 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 39 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.43%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.48%) CCIE
6 6 (4.48%) JNCIE
7 4 (2.99%) Degree
8 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.24%) RHCE
8 3 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.75%) CCNA
10 1 (0.75%) CCNP
10 1 (0.75%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) NCSC
2 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.73%) NIST
3 4 (2.99%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.99%) QA
3 4 (2.99%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.75%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (26.87%) Docker
2 23 (17.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (16.42%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.96%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.97%) vSphere
6 4 (2.99%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.24%) NFS
7 3 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.75%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (55.97%) Ansible
2 59 (44.03%) Kubernetes
3 29 (21.64%) Grafana
4 27 (20.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.46%) Argo
6 8 (5.97%) Puppet
7 7 (5.22%) Sysdig
7 7 (5.22%) vCenter Server
8 6 (4.48%) Packer
9 4 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.24%) Podman
10 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.24%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.24%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.24%) Salt
10 3 (2.24%) WSUS
11 2 (1.49%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.49%) Kibana
11 2 (1.49%) logstash
11 2 (1.49%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (22.39%) VMware
2 19 (14.18%) Red Hat
3 18 (13.43%) Microsoft
4 15 (11.19%) Splunk
5 8 (5.97%) Cisco
5 8 (5.97%) F5
5 8 (5.97%) Juniper
6 7 (5.22%) IBM
7 6 (4.48%) Confluent
7 6 (4.48%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.48%) Pure Storage
8 5 (3.73%) Citrix
8 5 (3.73%) Google
9 4 (2.99%) Databricks
10 3 (2.24%) CloudEndure
11 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.75%) Dell
11 1 (0.75%) JDA
11 1 (0.75%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.75%) UiPath