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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 81 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 -21 +17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 91 130 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.06% 2.37% 3.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.14% 18.11% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 95 166
10th Percentile £400 - £475
25th Percentile £430 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £688
90th Percentile £675 £688 £740
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 £44.50 £62.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% -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 362 718 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.17% 13.10% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 517 575
10th Percentile £294 £213 £300
25th Percentile £417 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £661 £650 £699
England median daily rate £525 £524 £575
% change year-on-year +0.24% -8.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 22
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.98 £17.91 £49.50
Median hourly rate £23.99 £43.00 £58.67
Median % change year-on-year -44.22% -26.71% +172.88%
75th Percentile £25.99 £48.75 £72.78
90th Percentile £27.20 £55.25 £75.68
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.74 £54.18
% change year-on-year +8.79% -52.49% +151.98%

Terraform
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 14 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 14 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 +37 46 £500 -16.67% 73
Berkshire +35 40 £500 -20.00% 29
Hampshire -4 28 £550 +22.22% 51
East Sussex +2 7 £475 -10.38% 3
Surrey +12 6 £550 -16.98% 16
Buckinghamshire +12 6 £421 -25.24% 20
Kent +6 4 £430 -32.55% 13
West Sussex +4 1 £325 -39.53% 7
Middlesex - 1 - - 2
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England

Terraform
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 (4.40%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Camunda
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 61 (67.03%) Azure
2 47 (51.65%) AWS
3 22 (24.18%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 13 (14.29%) GitHub
6 11 (12.09%) Azure AKS
7 10 (10.99%) SaaS
8 8 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (7.69%) IaaS
9 7 (7.69%) Serverless
10 6 (6.59%) Azure API Management
11 5 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.49%) PaaS
12 4 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.40%) Azure Storage
12 4 (4.40%) GCP
13 3 (3.30%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Cisco ISE
1 6 (6.59%) Network Security
2 5 (5.49%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (5.49%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (5.49%) Junos
2 5 (5.49%) LAN
3 4 (4.40%) Firewall
3 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 4 (4.40%) WAN
4 3 (3.30%) BGP
4 3 (3.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (3.30%) NetScaler
4 3 (3.30%) OSPF
5 1 (1.10%) NGFW
5 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.10%) SMS
5 1 (1.10%) SSL
5 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.49%) Big Data
2 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.30%) Power BI
3 3 (3.30%) SSDT
4 2 (2.20%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.10%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Parquet
5 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.29%) GitLab
2 13 (14.29%) JIRA
3 10 (10.99%) Git
3 10 (10.99%) SonarQube
4 9 (9.89%) Cucumber
4 9 (9.89%) REST Assured
4 9 (9.89%) Selenium
5 2 (2.20%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 25 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Law
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Police
7 2 (2.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Developer
4 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Network Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Lead
7 6 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Senior
8 5 (5.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Architect
9 4 (4.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.58%) REST
2 14 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 12 (13.19%) .NET
4 9 (9.89%) Java EE
5 7 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 6 (6.59%) .NET Framework
6 6 (6.59%) OAuth
6 6 (6.59%) YAML
7 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (4.40%) ADO
9 3 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.30%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.30%) Kafka
9 3 (3.30%) Keycloak
9 3 (3.30%) React
10 2 (2.20%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.20%) Node.js
10 2 (2.20%) OpenJDK
10 2 (2.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.88%) Linux
2 14 (15.38%) Windows
3 11 (12.09%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.89%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.40%) CentOS
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.10%) VMS
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (61.54%) DevOps
2 44 (48.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
4 28 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.27%) Agile
7 19 (20.88%) Configuration Management
8 14 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 14 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (9.89%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (9.89%) Identity Management
12 9 (9.89%) Open Source
12 9 (9.89%) Software Architecture
13 8 (8.79%) DevSecOps
13 8 (8.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 29 (31.87%) Python
3 13 (14.29%) Bash
4 12 (13.19%) Bicep
4 12 (13.19%) Java
4 12 (13.19%) SQL
5 10 (10.99%) C#
6 5 (5.49%) VB
7 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.10%) C++
9 1 (1.10%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.19%) DV Cleared
4 10 (10.99%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.30%) CCNP
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Degree
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.20%) CISM
6 2 (2.20%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) CEH
7 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) SLA
2 3 (3.30%) NCSC
3 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) HL7
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (23.08%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (4.40%) vSphere
5 1 (1.10%) XenApp
5 1 (1.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (47.25%) Ansible
2 38 (41.76%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.89%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (9.89%) Podman
4 7 (7.69%) Grafana
4 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.49%) FortiGate
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.40%) Nessus
6 4 (4.40%) Puppet
6 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.10%) Packer
8 1 (1.10%) Rancher
8 1 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) Cisco
3 8 (8.79%) Citrix
3 8 (8.79%) Databricks
3 8 (8.79%) VMware
4 5 (5.49%) F5
4 5 (5.49%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.30%) Mellanox
5 3 (3.30%) NVIDIA
5 3 (3.30%) UiPath
6 2 (2.20%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.20%) Juniper
7 1 (1.10%) Dell KACE
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Meraki
7 1 (1.10%) New Relic
7 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.10%) Splunk