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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 58 66
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 156 105 168
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.52% 3.45% 2.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.81% 24.94% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 72 123
10th Percentile £392 £400 -
25th Percentile £411 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £591 £644
90th Percentile £727 £634 £685
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 684 421 777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.04% 13.84% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 295 559
10th Percentile £306 £263 £250
25th Percentile £405 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £28.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £30.39 £17.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £37.33
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -12.22% -36.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.89 £48.75
90th Percentile - £50.55 £52.10
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +69.35% -43.64%

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 22 June 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
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 22 June 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 -24 83 £550 +10.00% 24
Hampshire -7 57 £559 +1.59% 30
Berkshire -25 47 £525 +5.00% 9
Buckinghamshire -17 29 £550 +30.80% 4
Surrey -14 13 £503 -10.67% 4
Oxfordshire - 7 £550 - 11
West Sussex -14 3 £725 +123.08% 6
East Sussex -8 1 £459 -3.37% 1
Home Counties - 1 - - 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 10 (6.41%) Confluence
2 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.92%) Apache
3 3 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.92%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.92%) IIS
3 3 (1.92%) nginx
3 3 (1.92%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.92%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 100 (64.10%) Azure
2 71 (45.51%) AWS
3 31 (19.87%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (17.95%) GitHub
5 24 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 24 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (14.74%) GCP
7 14 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (8.33%) Azure AKS
9 12 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (7.69%) PaaS
10 11 (7.05%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (7.05%) Serverless
11 10 (6.41%) IaaS
12 6 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.21%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.67%) Firewall
2 14 (8.97%) DNS
3 13 (8.33%) VPN
4 9 (5.77%) Network Security
5 6 (3.85%) BGP
5 6 (3.85%) WAN
6 5 (3.21%) OSPF
7 4 (2.56%) LAN
7 4 (2.56%) MQTT
7 4 (2.56%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.92%) DHCP
8 3 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.92%) MPLS
8 3 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.92%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.28%) BIG-IP
9 2 (1.28%) DNSSEC
9 2 (1.28%) NGFW
9 2 (1.28%) SAN
9 2 (1.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.56%) Redis
3 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.92%) DocumentDB
3 3 (1.92%) MySQL
3 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.92%) Power BI
3 3 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.28%) Big Data
4 2 (1.28%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.28%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (12.18%) Git
2 16 (10.26%) GitLab
3 10 (6.41%) JIRA
4 8 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (3.21%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.21%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.56%) Jaeger
7 4 (2.56%) NUnit
8 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.64%) MLflow
8 1 (0.64%) MSI
8 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.05%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.49%) Finance
5 7 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.21%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.56%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.92%) Billing
8 3 (1.92%) Military
9 2 (1.28%) Automotive
9 2 (1.28%) Aviation
9 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.28%) Legal
9 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (18.59%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (10.90%) Senior
5 15 (9.62%) Architect
6 12 (7.69%) Developer
6 12 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) .NET Developer
12 6 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.21%) Analyst
13 5 (3.21%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.26%) .NET
2 12 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 11 (7.05%) Kafka
3 11 (7.05%) React
4 8 (5.13%) YAML
5 7 (4.49%) Keycloak
5 7 (4.49%) Loki
5 7 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (4.49%) REST
6 6 (3.85%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.21%) ASP.NET
7 5 (3.21%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 5 (3.21%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.21%) OAuth
8 4 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.56%) NHibernate
8 4 (2.56%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.56%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.41%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.41%) PKI
5 9 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.77%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.49%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.85%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.64%) IoT
11 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.51%) Linux
2 27 (17.31%) Windows
3 14 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.21%) CentOS
5 3 (1.92%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (74.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 86 (55.13%) CI/CD
3 69 (44.23%) DevOps
4 39 (25.00%) Agile
5 31 (19.87%) Containerisation
6 29 (18.59%) Observability
7 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (14.74%) DevSecOps
10 20 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.82%) Migration
11 19 (12.18%) Cloud Security
11 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (10.90%) Test Automation
14 15 (9.62%) Incident Response
14 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (9.62%) Zero Trust
15 14 (8.97%) Analytics
16 13 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (37.82%) Python
2 44 (28.21%) PowerShell
3 27 (17.31%) Bash
4 25 (16.03%) Bicep
5 13 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.33%) SQL
6 10 (6.41%) C#
7 8 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.85%) Go
9 5 (3.21%) Java
10 4 (2.56%) Rust
10 4 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.28%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.28%) C
11 2 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 48 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.74%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.97%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.05%) AWS Certification
6 8 (5.13%) Degree
7 6 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.85%) CCNP
7 6 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.92%) CCIE
8 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.64%) CCDA
10 1 (0.64%) CCDP
10 1 (0.64%) CCIP
10 1 (0.64%) CCNA
10 1 (0.64%) CISSP
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) NCSC
2 7 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.21%) GDPR
4 4 (2.56%) GRC
5 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.28%) QA
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (21.79%) Docker
2 25 (16.03%) Active Directory
3 16 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (9.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.92%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.92%) Postfix
7 3 (1.92%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (31.41%) Kubernetes
2 47 (30.13%) Ansible
3 28 (17.95%) Grafana
4 24 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 13 (8.33%) Puppet
6 6 (3.85%) Istio
6 6 (3.85%) Rancher
7 5 (3.21%) Argo
7 5 (3.21%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.56%) Podman
8 4 (2.56%) WMI
9 3 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.92%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.64%) CASB
11 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.64%) Packer
11 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.82%) VMware
3 9 (5.77%) Cisco
4 7 (4.49%) Splunk
5 6 (3.85%) NVIDIA
5 6 (3.85%) Oracle
5 6 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.21%) F5
7 4 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.56%) Google
7 4 (2.56%) Juniper
7 4 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.56%) Tenable
8 3 (1.92%) Databricks
8 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.92%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.92%) Sage
8 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.28%) Arista
9 2 (1.28%) Zscaler