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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 59 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 112 141 188
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.10% 3.32% 3.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.33% 22.60% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 109 143
10th Percentile £405 £395 £463
25th Percentile £432 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +7.62%
75th Percentile £584 £650 £681
90th Percentile £618 £690 £715
England median daily rate £525 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -24.32% -3.31% +1.03%

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 551 624 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.23% 14.71% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 462 498
10th Percentile £255 £268 £206
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £573 £613 £638
90th Percentile £613 £687 £702
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 29
10th Percentile - £19.18 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £28.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +22.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £88.30 £54.35 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.99% -27.67% +109.12%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +20 66 £513 -18.00% 69
Berkshire +25 53 £493 -21.20% 45
Hampshire -16 34 £506 +2.27% 38
Buckinghamshire +1 7 £600 -4.95% 13
Oxfordshire -5 6 £525 - 13
Surrey +7 4 £605 -10.37% 8
Kent - 4 £430 - 2
East Sussex +3 2 £450 -21.74%
Middlesex -6 1 £500 -20.00% 1
West Sussex -9 1 £325 -39.53% 7
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 (5.36%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.57%) Apache
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.89%) Drupal
4 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.32%) Azure
2 49 (43.75%) AWS
3 28 (25.00%) GitHub
4 20 (17.86%) OpenShift
5 18 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.61%) Entra ID
6 13 (11.61%) GCP
6 13 (11.61%) IaaS
7 12 (10.71%) Azure AKS
7 12 (10.71%) Serverless
8 11 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (6.25%) OCI
13 6 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (5.36%) Amazon S3
13 6 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (4.46%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.82%) LAN
2 10 (8.93%) DNS
3 7 (6.25%) BGP
3 7 (6.25%) OSPF
4 6 (5.36%) MPLS
4 6 (5.36%) SNMP
4 6 (5.36%) TACACS
4 6 (5.36%) WAN
4 6 (5.36%) Wireless
5 5 (4.46%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (4.46%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (4.46%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (4.46%) DHCP
5 5 (4.46%) Firewall
5 5 (4.46%) Junos
6 2 (1.79%) HTTP
6 2 (1.79%) VPN
7 1 (0.89%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.89%) SAN
7 1 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.36%) Couchbase
4 6 (5.36%) Redis
5 5 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.79%) Metadata
6 2 (1.79%) MySQL
6 2 (1.79%) Power BI
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.39%) GitLab
3 7 (6.25%) Git
4 5 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.57%) MSI
5 4 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.89%) JIRA
7 1 (0.89%) MLflow
7 1 (0.89%) Mocha
7 1 (0.89%) Poetry
7 1 (0.89%) Pylint
7 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (5.36%) Finance
3 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.68%) Retail
4 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (19.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (11.61%) Architect
3 9 (8.04%) AWS DevOps
3 9 (8.04%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 8 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Designer
6 6 (5.36%) IP Designer
7 5 (4.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Lead
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.39%) Kafka
2 9 (8.04%) ADO
3 8 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (7.14%) YAML
4 6 (5.36%) .NET
4 6 (5.36%) RESTful
5 5 (4.46%) Keycloak
5 5 (4.46%) SailPoint
5 5 (4.46%) Swagger
6 4 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 4 (3.57%) Node.js
6 4 (3.57%) OAuth
6 4 (3.57%) REST
7 3 (2.68%) OpenID
8 2 (1.79%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.79%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.79%) JSON
8 2 (1.79%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.79%) SAML
8 2 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.36%) Replication
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.57%) PKI
5 3 (2.68%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.14%) Linux
2 14 (12.50%) Windows
3 13 (11.61%) Unix
4 9 (8.04%) Windows Server
5 8 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.57%) CentOS
8 2 (1.79%) VMS
9 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (62.50%) DevOps
2 64 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 52 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (26.79%) Containerisation
5 23 (20.54%) Agile
6 18 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.39%) Migration
8 15 (13.39%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (11.61%) Observability
10 11 (9.82%) High Availability
10 11 (9.82%) Load Balancing
11 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (8.93%) Network Virtualisation
11 10 (8.93%) RBAC
12 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (7.14%) Analytics
13 8 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (7.14%) Immutable Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 57 (50.89%) Python
2 32 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 24 (21.43%) Bash
4 17 (15.18%) SQL
5 14 (12.50%) Bicep
6 8 (7.14%) Java
7 7 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.36%) C#
8 6 (5.36%) VB
9 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.57%) BeanShell
10 4 (3.57%) PHP
10 4 (3.57%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (2.68%) Go
12 2 (1.79%) Korn
12 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.39%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.93%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (5.36%) CCIE
6 6 (5.36%) JNCIE
7 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.89%) CCNA
9 1 (0.89%) CCNP
9 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.89%) Degree
9 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) SLA
2 4 (3.57%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.57%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.68%) NIST
3 3 (2.68%) QA
4 2 (1.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.89%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.89%) HL7
5 1 (0.89%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (23.21%) Docker
2 19 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (16.07%) Active Directory
4 11 (9.82%) VMware NSX
5 7 (6.25%) vSphere
6 4 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.68%) NFS
8 1 (0.89%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.89%) Firmware
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.89%) XenApp
8 1 (0.89%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (48.21%) Ansible
2 46 (41.07%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.29%) Grafana
4 15 (13.39%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.25%) vCenter Server
6 6 (5.36%) Argo
7 5 (4.46%) FortiGate
7 5 (4.46%) Packer
8 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (3.57%) WMI
9 3 (2.68%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.68%) Puppet
9 3 (2.68%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.68%) Salt
9 3 (2.68%) Sysdig
9 3 (2.68%) WSUS
10 2 (1.79%) Kibana
10 2 (1.79%) logstash
11 1 (0.89%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) VMware
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.71%) Cisco
4 11 (9.82%) F5
4 11 (9.82%) Juniper
4 11 (9.82%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.82%) Splunk
5 7 (6.25%) IBM
6 6 (5.36%) Citrix
6 6 (5.36%) Confluent
6 6 (5.36%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.36%) Google
7 5 (4.46%) Pure Storage
8 3 (2.68%) Databricks
9 2 (1.79%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.89%) Dell
10 1 (0.89%) JDA
10 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.89%) Veeam