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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 79 69
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 131 104 156
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.03% 2.74% 3.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.37% 20.47% 22.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 82 114
10th Percentile £373 £360 £463
25th Percentile £421 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -1.28% +2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £656
90th Percentile £655 £700 £699
England median daily rate £525 £583 £559
% change year-on-year -9.87% +4.25% -8.40%
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 £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 613 508 687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.19% 13.39% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 376 465
10th Percentile £257 £261 £205
25th Percentile £387 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £574 £613 £615
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.99 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.54 £30.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.25 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% -39.57% +14.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £36.56 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.40 £37.37 £76.53
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +53.23% -32.87% +37.85%

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 14 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 14 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 +21 77 £513 -18.00% 53
Berkshire +30 68 £500 -20.00% 19
Hampshire -6 50 £500 -13.04% 37
Oxfordshire -7 7 £413 - 14
Buckinghamshire -2 2 £600 -5.88% 20
West Sussex -8 2 £510 -15.00% 7
Surrey -5 1 - - 19
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 (4.58%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.82%) Apache
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.76%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 75 (57.25%) AWS
2 59 (45.04%) Azure
3 36 (27.48%) GitHub
4 27 (20.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (20.61%) OpenShift
5 21 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (14.50%) GCP
6 19 (14.50%) Serverless
7 18 (13.74%) Entra ID
8 14 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (9.16%) Amazon S3
11 11 (8.40%) IaaS
12 10 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (6.11%) Azure AKS
15 7 (5.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.69%) DNS
2 8 (6.11%) Firewall
2 8 (6.11%) LAN
3 7 (5.34%) DHCP
4 6 (4.58%) BGP
4 6 (4.58%) MPLS
4 6 (4.58%) OSPF
4 6 (4.58%) SNMP
4 6 (4.58%) TACACS
4 6 (4.58%) WAN
4 6 (4.58%) Wireless
5 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.29%) SSL
6 3 (2.29%) VPN
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.53%) Junos
8 1 (0.76%) MQTT
8 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.11%) Redis
3 7 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.58%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.76%) Metadata
7 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.76%) MySQL
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (21.37%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.56%) GitLab
3 21 (16.03%) Git
4 8 (6.11%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.82%) Gatling
5 5 (3.82%) JMeter
5 5 (3.82%) LoadRunner
6 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.29%) Gradle
7 3 (2.29%) Maven
7 3 (2.29%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) MLflow
8 1 (0.76%) Mocha
8 1 (0.76%) MSI
8 1 (0.76%) Poetry
8 1 (0.76%) Pylint
8 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.58%) Finance
5 3 (2.29%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.53%) Banking
6 2 (1.53%) Billing
6 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Aviation
7 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (20.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.27%) Architect
3 11 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.63%) Senior
5 9 (6.87%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (6.11%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.34%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Designer
8 6 (4.58%) IP Designer
8 6 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (3.82%) Developer
10 4 (3.05%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Lead
10 4 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.98%) Kafka
2 13 (9.92%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.87%) RESTful
4 8 (6.11%) Keycloak
4 8 (6.11%) YAML
5 7 (5.34%) .NET
5 7 (5.34%) OAuth
5 7 (5.34%) REST
6 6 (4.58%) ADO
6 6 (4.58%) OpenID
6 6 (4.58%) SailPoint
7 5 (3.82%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.82%) SAML
7 5 (3.82%) Spring
7 5 (3.82%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.82%) Swagger
8 4 (3.05%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.05%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.29%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (5.34%) PKI
3 6 (4.58%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.58%) Replication
4 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.29%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (40.46%) Linux
2 15 (11.45%) Windows
3 12 (9.16%) Unix
4 6 (4.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.53%) VMS
7 1 (0.76%) CentOS
7 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (70.99%) CI/CD
2 82 (62.60%) DevOps
3 57 (43.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (35.11%) Containerisation
5 27 (20.61%) Agile
5 27 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (19.85%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (14.50%) Migration
7 19 (14.50%) RBAC
8 17 (12.98%) Observability
9 16 (12.21%) Incident Response
10 15 (11.45%) Microservices
11 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (10.69%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (9.92%) Analytics
12 13 (9.92%) DevSecOps
12 13 (9.92%) High Availability
12 13 (9.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (9.16%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.38%) Python
2 36 (27.48%) PowerShell
3 35 (26.72%) Bash
4 17 (12.98%) SQL
5 15 (11.45%) Java
6 9 (6.87%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.11%) C#
8 7 (5.34%) Bicep
8 7 (5.34%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.82%) BeanShell
10 4 (3.05%) PHP
10 4 (3.05%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (2.29%) Go
11 3 (2.29%) VB
12 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.76%) Rust
12 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (38.17%) Security Cleared
2 41 (31.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.50%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.69%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.58%) CCIE
7 6 (4.58%) Degree
7 6 (4.58%) JNCIE
8 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.82%) RHCE
9 3 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.76%) CCNA
11 1 (0.76%) CCNP
11 1 (0.76%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) NCSC
2 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.82%) NIST
2 5 (3.82%) QA
3 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.05%) HIPAA
3 4 (3.05%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.76%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (27.48%) Docker
2 21 (16.03%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.16%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.34%) vSphere
5 4 (3.05%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.53%) NFS
7 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (58.02%) Ansible
2 60 (45.80%) Kubernetes
3 28 (21.37%) Grafana
4 25 (19.08%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.63%) Argo
6 9 (6.87%) Puppet
7 7 (5.34%) Sysdig
7 7 (5.34%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.05%) Packer
8 4 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.29%) Podman
9 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.29%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.29%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.29%) Salt
10 2 (1.53%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.53%) Istio
10 2 (1.53%) Kibana
10 2 (1.53%) logstash
10 2 (1.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) VMware
2 20 (15.27%) Red Hat
3 15 (11.45%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.92%) Splunk
5 8 (6.11%) Cisco
5 8 (6.11%) F5
5 8 (6.11%) Juniper
6 7 (5.34%) IBM
7 6 (4.58%) Citrix
7 6 (4.58%) Confluent
7 6 (4.58%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.58%) Pure Storage
8 5 (3.82%) Google
9 4 (3.05%) CloudEndure
9 4 (3.05%) Databricks
10 2 (1.53%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.76%) Dell
11 1 (0.76%) JDA
11 1 (0.76%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.76%) Veeam