Terraform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Terraform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Terraform over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 70 50
Rank change year-on-year -24 -20 -2
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,824 4,489 10,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.80% 4.56% 6.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.66% 31.04% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,986 2,973 4,402
10th Percentile £48,829 £51,401 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Terraform is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,854 14,460 30,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 14.68% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,058 8,969 14,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Terraform.

Salary trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -28 2,358 £75,000 - 826
UK excluding London -34 1,586 £65,000 -7.14% 537
Work from Home -19 1,267 £72,500 -3.33% 469
London -7 1,124 £85,000 - 499
North of England -17 455 £65,000 -7.14% 114
Scotland +7 329 £69,500 +0.08% 21
South East -62 297 £67,500 -6.90% 252
North West -24 279 £65,000 -10.34% 61
South West -36 220 £70,576 +4.56% 53
Midlands -17 182 £65,000 -7.14% 48
West Midlands +7 141 £65,000 -7.14% 32
Yorkshire -25 127 £62,783 -10.31% 43
North East +1 51 £62,783 -6.99% 10
East of England -71 48 £70,000 +7.69% 36
East Midlands -17 41 £57,500 - 16
Wales -24 40 £50,685 -15.53% 10
Northern Ireland +8 15 £72,500 -1.69% 7
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 188 (6.66%) Apache Spark
2 114 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (3.93%) Apache
4 51 (1.81%) nginx
5 37 (1.31%) OpenStack
6 36 (1.27%) Confluence
7 26 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
10 11 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 10 (0.35%) IIS
12 8 (0.28%) Drupal
13 6 (0.21%) JBoss
14 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.14%) WordPress
15 2 (0.071%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.071%) CMS
15 2 (0.071%) Moodle
16 1 (0.035%) Jetty
16 1 (0.035%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (0.81%) Simulink
3 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.035%) Notion
5 1 (0.035%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.035%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.035%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.035%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,828 (64.73%) AWS
2 1,378 (48.80%) Azure
3 508 (17.99%) GCP
4 431 (15.26%) Azure DevOps
5 378 (13.39%) Serverless
6 306 (10.84%) GitHub
7 291 (10.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 262 (9.28%) Amazon S3
9 258 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
10 235 (8.32%) Amazon EKS
11 230 (8.14%) PaaS
12 191 (6.76%) IaaS
13 185 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
14 167 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
15 159 (5.63%) SaaS
16 155 (5.49%) OpenShift
17 140 (4.96%) Datadog
18 135 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
19 131 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 112 (3.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (6.94%) Firewall
2 127 (4.50%) DNS
3 116 (4.11%) VPN
4 94 (3.33%) WAN
5 67 (2.37%) Internet
6 64 (2.27%) LAN
7 52 (1.84%) Network Security
8 44 (1.56%) TCP/IP
9 38 (1.35%) HTTP
10 35 (1.24%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.20%) AMQP
12 23 (0.81%) DHCP
13 17 (0.60%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.57%) IPv4
14 16 (0.57%) SAN
14 16 (0.57%) SSL
15 10 (0.35%) NGFW
16 9 (0.32%) OSPF
16 9 (0.32%) tcpdump
16 9 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (7.83%) NoSQL
2 209 (7.40%) Amazon RDS
3 177 (6.27%) Big Data
4 171 (6.06%) MySQL
5 170 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
6 149 (5.28%) SQL Server
7 117 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 113 (4.00%) Hadoop
9 97 (3.43%) Apache Hive
10 88 (3.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (3.05%) HBase
12 83 (2.94%) Data Lake
13 80 (2.83%) MongoDB
14 78 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
15 66 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
16 60 (2.12%) DynamoDB
17 59 (2.09%) Dremio
18 55 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
19 54 (1.91%) Apache Arrow
20 53 (1.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 596 (21.10%) Jenkins
2 456 (16.15%) Git
3 245 (8.68%) GitLab
4 154 (5.45%) JIRA
5 86 (3.05%) Bitbucket Server
5 86 (3.05%) TeamCity
6 77 (2.73%) Artifactory
7 59 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 53 (1.88%) SonarQube
9 45 (1.59%) CircleCI
10 43 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
11 31 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
12 29 (1.03%) Maven
12 29 (1.03%) Postman
13 28 (0.99%) Vagrant
14 27 (0.96%) Selenium
15 25 (0.89%) JUnit
16 24 (0.85%) Subversion
17 21 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
18 18 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 766 (27.12%) Finance
2 531 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 477 (16.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 312 (11.05%) Law
5 271 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 144 (5.10%) Banking
6 144 (5.10%) Marketing
7 125 (4.43%) Retail
8 96 (3.40%) Legal
9 87 (3.08%) Aerospace
10 80 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (1.42%) Tech for Good
12 38 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.27%) Games
14 35 (1.24%) Health Technology
15 28 (0.99%) Front Office
15 28 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (0.92%) Investment Banking
17 25 (0.89%) Electronics
18 22 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 730 (25.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 663 (23.48%) Senior
3 484 (17.14%) Software Engineer
4 377 (13.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 375 (13.28%) AWS Engineer
6 337 (11.93%) Lead
7 324 (11.47%) Developer
8 236 (8.36%) Azure Engineer
9 207 (7.33%) Senior DevOps
10 198 (7.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 196 (6.94%) Architect
12 176 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
13 167 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 161 (5.70%) Data Engineer
15 156 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
16 149 (5.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 123 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 109 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
19 106 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 101 (3.58%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (7.61%) Spring
2 203 (7.19%) .NET
2 203 (7.19%) Node.js
3 184 (6.52%) React
4 147 (5.21%) Spring Boot
5 130 (4.60%) ARM Templates
6 126 (4.46%) REST
7 119 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
8 101 (3.58%) Kafka
9 98 (3.47%) JSON
10 97 (3.43%) AngularJS
11 86 (3.05%) gRPC
12 80 (2.83%) YAML
13 78 (2.76%) RESTful
14 63 (2.23%) .NET Core
15 59 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
16 58 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
17 54 (1.91%) Protocol Buffers
18 44 (1.56%) CSS
19 42 (1.49%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 349 (12.36%) Public Cloud
2 303 (10.73%) Cloud Native
3 187 (6.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 133 (4.71%) Algorithms
5 120 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
6 111 (3.93%) Blockchain
7 99 (3.51%) Management Information System
8 88 (3.12%) Product Ownership
9 82 (2.90%) Clustering
10 77 (2.73%) Data Centre
11 69 (2.44%) Hedge funds
12 68 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
13 59 (2.09%) e-Learning
14 57 (2.02%) Private Cloud
15 37 (1.31%) Onboarding
15 37 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
16 31 (1.10%) PKI
16 31 (1.10%) Replication
16 31 (1.10%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 641 (22.70%) Linux
2 302 (10.69%) Windows
3 122 (4.32%) Unix
4 105 (3.72%) CentOS
5 100 (3.54%) Windows Server
6 97 (3.43%) Ubuntu
7 92 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 72 (2.55%) Debian
9 52 (1.84%) VMS
10 41 (1.45%) Alpine Linux
11 19 (0.67%) Android
12 18 (0.64%) Windows 10
13 16 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
14 13 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.42%) Solaris
16 9 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
18 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
18 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,597 (56.55%) DevOps
2 1,375 (48.69%) CI/CD
3 1,206 (42.71%) Agile
4 1,174 (41.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 780 (27.62%) Software Engineering
6 503 (17.81%) Containerisation
7 428 (15.16%) Artificial Intelligence
8 401 (14.20%) Mentoring
9 396 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
10 368 (13.03%) SDLC
11 357 (12.64%) Test Automation
12 349 (12.36%) Microservices
13 337 (11.93%) Machine Learning
14 324 (11.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 277 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 263 (9.31%) Operational Stability
16 263 (9.31%) TDD
17 255 (9.03%) Platform Engineering
18 249 (8.82%) Scrum
19 239 (8.46%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (37.00%) Python
2 755 (26.74%) Java
3 478 (16.93%) SQL
4 380 (13.46%) PowerShell
5 327 (11.58%) JavaScript
6 273 (9.67%) Bash
7 241 (8.53%) Go
8 192 (6.80%) C#
9 148 (5.24%) TypeScript
10 132 (4.67%) Kotlin
11 92 (3.26%) Bicep
12 87 (3.08%) PL/SQL
13 76 (2.69%) PHP
14 72 (2.55%) Scala
15 71 (2.51%) Groovy
16 66 (2.34%) Shell Script
17 57 (2.02%) Ruby
18 48 (1.70%) C++
19 46 (1.63%) T-SQL
20 36 (1.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 431 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 255 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 242 (8.57%) Degree
4 195 (6.91%) Azure Certification
5 177 (6.27%) DV Cleared
6 163 (5.77%) AWS Certification
7 144 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 88 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 50 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.56%) MCSE
11 42 (1.49%) MCSA
12 41 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 38 (1.35%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.81%) CCNA
16 20 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.32%) PhD
19 8 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 6 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (1.56%) QA
2 32 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (0.99%) GDPR
4 27 (0.96%) NIST
5 23 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 20 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.46%) NCSC
8 12 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.39%) SLA
10 5 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.14%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.071%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.035%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.035%) SEPA
System Software
1 940 (33.29%) Docker
2 147 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 98 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 86 (3.05%) HDFS
6 57 (2.02%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 20 (0.71%) vSphere
10 17 (0.60%) XenApp
10 17 (0.60%) XenDesktop
11 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.32%) Ceph
12 9 (0.32%) KVM
13 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.18%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.11%) Firmware
15 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.071%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,338 (47.38%) Kubernetes
2 822 (29.11%) Ansible
3 262 (9.28%) Prometheus
4 229 (8.11%) Grafana
5 200 (7.08%) Puppet
6 119 (4.21%) Progress Chef
7 43 (1.52%) Packer
8 30 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 29 (1.03%) HAProxy
9 29 (1.03%) Istio
10 27 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (0.85%) Consul
12 21 (0.74%) Nagios
13 20 (0.71%) Kibana
14 19 (0.67%) Argo
15 18 (0.64%) Salt
16 17 (0.60%) Rancher
17 16 (0.57%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 379 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 242 (8.57%) Google
3 168 (5.95%) Red Hat
4 152 (5.38%) Databricks
5 150 (5.31%) Dynatrace
6 129 (4.57%) VMware
7 122 (4.32%) Splunk
8 118 (4.18%) IBM
9 86 (3.05%) Informatica
10 62 (2.20%) Cisco
10 62 (2.20%) Citrix
10 62 (2.20%) Oracle
11 58 (2.05%) Cloudera
12 55 (1.95%) SaltStack
13 32 (1.13%) WSO2
14 29 (1.03%) New Relic
15 27 (0.96%) Atlassian
16 25 (0.89%) Zscaler
17 21 (0.74%) ServiceNow
18 18 (0.64%) NetApp