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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 69 74
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Terraform 163 90 139
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.73% 3.07% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.29% 24.06% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 64 105
10th Percentile £400 £400 -
25th Percentile £416 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £635 £588 £650
90th Percentile £721 £659 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +32.44% -32.58% -15.38%

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 700 374 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.71% 12.75% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 275 532
10th Percentile £283 £256 £213
25th Percentile £402 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.52% -10.14%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £608
90th Percentile £725 £642 £656
England median daily rate £507 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 13
10th Percentile £31.25 £20.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £38.81 £21.98 £16.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £23.99 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +134.52% -37.70% -34.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.99 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.60 £27.20 £49.75
England median hourly rate £56.50 £28.50 £26.38
% change year-on-year +98.25% +8.03% -49.75%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -7 89 £500 - 22
Berkshire -6 57 £500 - 12
Hampshire 0 55 £513 -6.82% 39
Buckinghamshire -23 27 £550 +30.80% 4
Surrey -7 12 £503 -8.64% 2
Oxfordshire - 5 £550 - 6
West Sussex -16 4 £725 +123.08% 2
East Sussex -5 1 £459 -3.37% 1
Home Counties - 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 (6.13%) Confluence
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.84%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
4 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 105 (64.42%) Azure
2 77 (47.24%) AWS
3 35 (21.47%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (20.25%) GitHub
5 29 (17.79%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (15.34%) Entra ID
7 22 (13.50%) GCP
8 17 (10.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (9.82%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (9.82%) Azure AKS
10 15 (9.20%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (9.20%) OpenShift
11 14 (8.59%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (7.36%) PaaS
13 11 (6.75%) IaaS
14 9 (5.52%) Serverless
15 8 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (3.68%) AWS KMS
17 5 (3.07%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.50%) Firewall
2 13 (7.98%) VPN
3 9 (5.52%) DNS
4 8 (4.91%) WAN
5 7 (4.29%) BGP
5 7 (4.29%) Network Security
5 7 (4.29%) OSPF
6 5 (3.07%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (3.07%) LAN
7 4 (2.45%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.84%) MPLS
8 3 (1.84%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.23%) MQTT
9 2 (1.23%) NGFW
9 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.61%) Internet
10 1 (0.61%) IPv6
10 1 (0.61%) Multicast
10 1 (0.61%) SAN
10 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.13%) Redis
3 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.84%) DocumentDB
4 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.84%) Power BI
5 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.23%) Big Data
5 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.61%) MySQL
6 1 (0.61%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (15.95%) Git
2 23 (14.11%) GitLab
3 15 (9.20%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.13%) JIRA
5 9 (5.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (4.29%) Robot Framework
7 5 (3.07%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.45%) Jaeger
8 4 (2.45%) NUnit
9 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.61%) MLflow
10 1 (0.61%) MSI
10 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (14.72%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.66%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.52%) Finance
5 5 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.45%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.84%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.84%) Military
8 2 (1.23%) Automotive
8 2 (1.23%) Aviation
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (21.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (17.79%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (12.88%) Architect
4 17 (10.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (7.98%) Senior
6 12 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.13%) Developer
8 10 (6.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.68%) .NET Developer
12 6 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (3.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (3.68%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.82%) .NET
2 15 (9.20%) Kafka
3 12 (7.36%) ARM Templates
4 11 (6.75%) Keycloak
4 11 (6.75%) React
5 9 (5.52%) REST
6 8 (4.91%) Loki
7 7 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (4.29%) YAML
8 6 (3.68%) .NET Framework
8 6 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.07%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.07%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 5 (3.07%) Entity Framework
10 4 (2.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (2.45%) NHibernate
10 4 (2.45%) OAuth
11 3 (1.84%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.84%) JSON
11 3 (1.84%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.95%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.13%) PKI
4 8 (4.91%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.68%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.86%) Linux
2 21 (12.88%) Windows
3 13 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.45%) CentOS
5 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (66.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 97 (59.51%) CI/CD
3 91 (55.83%) DevOps
4 45 (27.61%) Containerisation
5 41 (25.15%) Agile
6 33 (20.25%) Observability
7 28 (17.18%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (14.72%) DevSecOps
9 22 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (13.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (11.66%) Migration
11 18 (11.04%) Analytics
12 17 (10.43%) Cloud Security
12 17 (10.43%) Incident Response
12 17 (10.43%) Test Automation
13 16 (9.82%) GitOps
14 15 (9.20%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (8.59%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.97%) Python
2 41 (25.15%) PowerShell
3 28 (17.18%) Bash
4 25 (15.34%) Bicep
5 13 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.98%) SQL
6 10 (6.13%) C#
7 8 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.68%) Go
8 6 (3.68%) Java
9 2 (1.23%) BeanShell
9 2 (1.23%) Rust
9 2 (1.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (44.17%) Security Cleared
2 54 (33.13%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.11%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.36%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.13%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.52%) Degree
7 7 (4.29%) CCNP
7 7 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.07%) RHCE
10 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.84%) CCIE
12 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.61%) CCDA
13 1 (0.61%) CCIP
13 1 (0.61%) CCNA
13 1 (0.61%) CISSP
13 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.43%) NCSC
2 7 (4.29%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.07%) GDPR
3 5 (3.07%) QA
4 4 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.45%) GRC
4 4 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 38 (23.31%) Docker
2 20 (12.27%) Active Directory
3 19 (11.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (9.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.61%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.61%) Postfix
7 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (42.94%) Kubernetes
2 60 (36.81%) Ansible
3 36 (22.09%) Grafana
4 31 (19.02%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.36%) Argo
5 12 (7.36%) Puppet
6 11 (6.75%) Istio
7 7 (4.29%) linkerd
7 7 (4.29%) Rancher
8 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.84%) Podman
9 3 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.84%) WMI
10 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.61%) CASB
10 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.61%) Packer
10 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.56%) VMware
3 17 (10.43%) Red Hat
4 14 (8.59%) Splunk
5 7 (4.29%) Cisco
6 6 (3.68%) Citrix
6 6 (3.68%) Oracle
7 5 (3.07%) NVIDIA
8 4 (2.45%) CloudEndure
8 4 (2.45%) Databricks
8 4 (2.45%) Mellanox
9 3 (1.84%) F5
9 3 (1.84%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.84%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.23%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.23%) Juniper
10 2 (1.23%) Tenable
10 2 (1.23%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.61%) Checkmarx