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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 65 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 213 108 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.16% 3.03% 3.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.06% 22.00% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 68 132
10th Percentile £392 £400 -
25th Percentile £430 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -12.24% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £726 £615 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.70% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £61.92 - -
25th Percentile £65.83 - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile £71.00 - -
90th Percentile £71.39 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%

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 759 491 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.24% 13.78% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 333 529
10th Percentile £313 £250 £278
25th Percentile £414 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £609
90th Percentile £725 £625 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 9
10th Percentile £22.75 £18.87 £21.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £23.44 £30.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £32.77 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +105.89% -9.39% -30.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £74.47 £85.65 £53.90
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
% change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%

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 17 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in the South East over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

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 17 August 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 +9 130 £560 +11.89% 41
Berkshire +3 77 £518 +6.15% 18
Hampshire -9 64 £600 +17.07% 26
Buckinghamshire -3 45 £560 -8.57% 14
Surrey -12 19 £500 -11.11% 8
Oxfordshire -20 8 £750 +42.86% 9
East Sussex -3 2 £430 -9.58% 1
Middlesex -19 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 17 (7.98%) Confluence
2 9 (4.23%) Apache
3 8 (3.76%) nginx
4 3 (1.41%) IIS
4 3 (1.41%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (0.47%) Houdini
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.47%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.88%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 145 (68.08%) Azure
2 100 (46.95%) AWS
3 48 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (20.19%) GitHub
5 40 (18.78%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (16.43%) GCP
7 29 (13.62%) Entra ID
8 23 (10.80%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.98%) OpenShift
11 16 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (7.04%) Azure AKS
13 14 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (6.10%) Serverless
15 11 (5.16%) Azure Key Vault
16 10 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
17 9 (4.23%) IaaS
18 8 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (3.76%) PaaS
18 8 (3.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 45 (21.13%) DNS
2 44 (20.66%) Firewall
3 24 (11.27%) VPN
4 23 (10.80%) DHCP
5 22 (10.33%) TCP/IP
6 11 (5.16%) Network Security
7 7 (3.29%) DNSSEC
8 6 (2.82%) SSH
9 5 (2.35%) BGP
9 5 (2.35%) LAN
9 5 (2.35%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.35%) VLAN
9 5 (2.35%) WAN
10 4 (1.88%) BIG-IP
10 4 (1.88%) MPLS
10 4 (1.88%) MQTT
10 4 (1.88%) OSPF
11 3 (1.41%) SAN
12 2 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.94%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (2.82%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (2.35%) Power BI
3 4 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.88%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.88%) DocumentDB
3 4 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.88%) MySQL
3 4 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.41%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.94%) Big Data
5 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.94%) Parquet
5 2 (0.94%) Redis
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 30 (14.08%) GitLab
2 24 (11.27%) Git
3 21 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.04%) JIRA
5 7 (3.29%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.88%) Jaeger
8 4 (1.88%) NUnit
9 3 (1.41%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.47%) MSI
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 54 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.51%) Aerospace
5 13 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.82%) Finance
9 4 (1.88%) Billing
9 4 (1.88%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.88%) Publishing
10 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.41%) Military
11 2 (0.94%) Automotive
11 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Local Government
12 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (15.49%) Azure Engineer
2 32 (15.02%) Cloud Engineer
3 30 (14.08%) Senior
4 25 (11.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (9.39%) Architect
6 20 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (8.45%) Developer
8 16 (7.51%) Lead
9 13 (6.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 10 (4.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) .NET Developer
13 7 (3.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 6 (2.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.74%) ARM Templates
2 19 (8.92%) REST
3 18 (8.45%) .NET
4 11 (5.16%) RESTful
5 10 (4.69%) .NET Framework
5 10 (4.69%) OAuth
5 10 (4.69%) YAML
6 9 (4.23%) Entity Framework
6 9 (4.23%) SAML
7 8 (3.76%) React
8 6 (2.82%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 6 (2.82%) Kafka
8 6 (2.82%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.82%) Loki
9 5 (2.35%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (2.35%) JSON
9 5 (2.35%) NHibernate
9 5 (2.35%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 35 (16.43%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.10%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.69%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.23%) PKI
7 8 (3.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (3.76%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.29%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.82%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.88%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (27.70%) Linux
2 52 (24.41%) Windows
3 28 (13.15%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.82%) CentOS
6 5 (2.35%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (73.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 117 (54.93%) CI/CD
3 100 (46.95%) DevOps
4 53 (24.88%) Agile
5 49 (23.00%) Platform Engineering
6 47 (22.07%) Observability
7 46 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (20.19%) Containerisation
9 40 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (17.84%) DevSecOps
11 31 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (13.62%) Cloud Security
13 28 (13.15%) Analytics
13 28 (13.15%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (12.68%) Test Automation
15 23 (10.80%) Migration
16 22 (10.33%) Deployment Automation
16 22 (10.33%) Infrastructure Automation
16 22 (10.33%) Vulnerability Management
16 22 (10.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 99 (46.48%) Python
2 86 (40.38%) PowerShell
3 52 (24.41%) Bash
4 36 (16.90%) Bicep
5 17 (7.98%) SQL
6 13 (6.10%) C#
6 13 (6.10%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.82%) Go
9 5 (2.35%) Java
10 4 (1.88%) C
10 4 (1.88%) Rust
10 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.94%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 95 (44.60%) Security Cleared
2 66 (30.99%) SC Cleared
3 33 (15.49%) DV Cleared
4 20 (9.39%) AWS Certification
5 18 (8.45%) Azure Certification
6 11 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.16%) Degree
7 6 (2.82%) CCNP
7 6 (2.82%) CISSP
8 5 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.88%) CCIE
9 4 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.41%) CEH
10 3 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.16%) NCSC
2 7 (3.29%) GDPR
2 7 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.35%) NIST
3 5 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.88%) GRC
4 4 (1.88%) QA
5 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 49 (23.00%) Docker
2 40 (18.78%) Active Directory
3 20 (9.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (6.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (4.69%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.35%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.41%) Dovecot
8 3 (1.41%) Postfix
8 3 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 75 (35.21%) Ansible
2 73 (34.27%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.15%) Grafana
4 21 (9.86%) Prometheus
5 15 (7.04%) Puppet
6 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.23%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.29%) SCCM
7 7 (3.29%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.82%) Istio
8 6 (2.82%) Rancher
9 5 (2.35%) Packer
10 4 (1.88%) Argo
10 4 (1.88%) Podman
10 4 (1.88%) WMI
11 3 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.41%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.62%) VMware
3 17 (7.98%) Google
4 10 (4.69%) Oracle
5 9 (4.23%) Cisco
5 9 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.76%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (3.76%) Splunk
7 7 (3.29%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.29%) F5
7 7 (3.29%) Infoblox
7 7 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.82%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.35%) Tanium
9 5 (2.35%) Tenable
10 4 (1.88%) Databricks
10 4 (1.88%) NVIDIA
10 4 (1.88%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.88%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.88%) Sage