Terraform Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Terraform
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 35 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 7 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.97% 3.03% 4.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.93% 27.50% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 14
10th Percentile - £456 £520
25th Percentile £256 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -54.78% -3.25% -10.28%
75th Percentile £269 £611 £650
90th Percentile £370 £628 £685
Wales median daily rate £263 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -54.78% -3.25% -10.28%

All Systems Management Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 27 40 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 7.58% 11.02% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 39
10th Percentile £256 £182 £269
25th Percentile £257 £209 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £325 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -40.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £638
90th Percentile £580 £594 £650
Wales median daily rate £406 £356 £525
% change year-on-year +14.04% -32.14% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile - £27.00 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.13 -
Median hourly rate £20.50 £32.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% -42.48% +232.35%
75th Percentile £68.94 £38.13 -
90th Percentile £86.25 £40.00 -
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £27.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year -25.45% -51.33% +264.52%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Terraform job vacancy trend in South Wales

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in South Wales over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in South Wales

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Glamorgan - 4 £263 - 6
Cardiff -5 2 £425 -22.73% 12
Newport +4 1 - - 6
Terraform
Wales

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Product Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle