Terraform Contracts in the South East

Terraform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 83 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 +6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 88 132 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.92% 2.37% 3.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.18% 18.46% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 95 173
10th Percentile £406 £425 £475
25th Percentile £463 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £650 £688
90th Percentile £675 £688 £749
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.50 £62.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -21.77% -20.51% +41.82%

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 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the South East

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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 1 May 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 +39 44 £500 -16.67% 42
Berkshire +34 38 £500 -20.00% 21
Hampshire +2 31 £551 +22.44% 17
East Sussex +2 7 £475 -10.38% 1
Surrey +18 6 £550 -15.38% 16
Buckinghamshire +13 6 £421 -26.87% 12
Kent +5 1 £675 +5.88% 8
Middlesex - 1 - - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 60 (68.18%) Azure
2 44 (50.00%) AWS
3 21 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.91%) SaaS
5 13 (14.77%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (14.77%) GitHub
6 11 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (11.36%) Entra ID
8 9 (10.23%) Azure AKS
9 8 (9.09%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.82%) Azure API Management
10 6 (6.82%) PaaS
10 6 (6.82%) Serverless
11 5 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.68%) IaaS
12 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (3.41%) CloudFront
13 3 (3.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Cisco ISE
1 6 (6.82%) Network Security
2 5 (5.68%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (5.68%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (5.68%) Junos
2 5 (5.68%) LAN
3 4 (4.55%) Firewall
3 4 (4.55%) VPN
3 4 (4.55%) WAN
4 3 (3.41%) BGP
4 3 (3.41%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (3.41%) NetScaler
4 3 (3.41%) OSPF
5 1 (1.14%) NGFW
5 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.14%) SSL
5 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (5.68%) Big Data
1 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.41%) SSDT
4 2 (2.27%) DocumentDB
4 2 (2.27%) Power BI
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Parquet
5 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.77%) JIRA
3 12 (13.64%) GitLab
4 10 (11.36%) SonarQube
5 9 (10.23%) Cucumber
5 9 (10.23%) Git
5 9 (10.23%) REST Assured
5 9 (10.23%) Selenium
6 2 (2.27%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Finance
3 8 (9.09%) Law
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.68%) Police
6 2 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (10.23%) Developer
3 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Senior
5 7 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Architect
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.05%) REST
2 14 (15.91%) ARM Templates
3 10 (11.36%) .NET
4 9 (10.23%) Java EE
5 7 (7.95%) YAML
6 6 (6.82%) .NET Core
6 6 (6.82%) .NET Framework
6 6 (6.82%) OAuth
7 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (3.41%) ADO
8 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.41%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.41%) Kafka
8 3 (3.41%) Keycloak
8 3 (3.41%) React
9 2 (2.27%) NHibernate
9 2 (2.27%) Node.js
9 2 (2.27%) RESTful
9 2 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.00%) Linux
2 17 (19.32%) Windows
3 14 (15.91%) Windows Server
4 12 (13.64%) Ubuntu
5 7 (7.95%) CentOS
5 7 (7.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.14%) VMS
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (62.50%) DevOps
2 42 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (34.09%) CI/CD
4 27 (30.68%) Agile
4 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (29.55%) Containerisation
6 19 (21.59%) Configuration Management
7 14 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (15.91%) Software Engineering
8 13 (14.77%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (12.50%) DevSecOps
9 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (10.23%) Continuous Delivery
11 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (10.23%) Open Source
11 9 (10.23%) Software Architecture
12 8 (9.09%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.77%) PowerShell
2 27 (30.68%) Python
3 12 (13.64%) Java
4 11 (12.50%) Bash
5 10 (11.36%) C#
5 10 (11.36%) SQL
6 7 (7.95%) Bicep
7 5 (5.68%) VB
8 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.14%) C++
9 1 (1.14%) Go
9 1 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (47.73%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.91%) DV Cleared
4 11 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.55%) Degree
6 3 (3.41%) CCNP
6 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.27%) CISM
7 2 (2.27%) CISSP
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.14%) CEH
8 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) SLA
2 4 (4.55%) NCSC
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (21.59%) Docker
2 11 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.95%) vSphere
4 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.14%) XenApp
5 1 (1.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (52.27%) Ansible
2 37 (42.05%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.23%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (10.23%) Podman
4 7 (7.95%) Nessus
4 7 (7.95%) vCenter Server
5 5 (5.68%) FortiGate
5 5 (5.68%) Grafana
5 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.68%) Puppet
6 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.27%) SCCM
8 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.14%) Packer
8 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) VMware
3 9 (10.23%) Cisco
4 8 (9.09%) Citrix
4 8 (9.09%) Databricks
4 8 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.68%) F5
6 3 (3.41%) Mellanox
6 3 (3.41%) NVIDIA
6 3 (3.41%) UiPath
7 2 (2.27%) Broadcom
7 2 (2.27%) Juniper
8 1 (1.14%) Dell KACE
8 1 (1.14%) Google
8 1 (1.14%) Meraki
8 1 (1.14%) New Relic
8 1 (1.14%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.14%) Splunk