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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 69 50
Rank change year-on-year -23 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,828 4,398 10,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.76% 4.52% 6.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.70% 30.84% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,982 2,912 4,387
10th Percentile £48,758 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

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 28 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 28 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 -29 2,367 £75,000 - 668
UK excluding London -30 1,591 £65,000 -7.14% 362
Work from Home -19 1,270 £71,746 -4.34% 397
London -8 1,122 £85,000 - 335
North of England -22 457 £64,250 -8.21% 119
Scotland +19 325 £69,750 +0.44% 22
South East -60 296 £67,500 -6.90% 79
North West -20 277 £65,000 -10.34% 64
South West -37 222 £70,576 +4.56% 59
Midlands +4 188 £65,000 -7.14% 40
West Midlands +15 144 £65,000 -7.14% 25
Yorkshire -17 131 £62,783 -10.31% 45
North East +4 51 £62,783 -6.99% 10
East of England -84 48 £70,000 +7.69% 31
East Midlands -21 44 £57,500 +2.22% 15
Wales -33 40 £50,685 -15.53% 9
Northern Ireland +2 15 £72,500 -1.69% 8
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
1 186 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 113 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (3.93%) Apache
4 49 (1.73%) nginx
5 36 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 35 (1.24%) Confluence
7 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
10 11 (0.39%) IIS
10 11 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 8 (0.28%) Drupal
12 6 (0.21%) JBoss
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
14 2 (0.071%) CMS
14 2 (0.071%) Moodle
15 1 (0.035%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.035%) Jetty
15 1 (0.035%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.88%) Simulink
3 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
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 1,826 (64.57%) AWS
2 1,388 (49.08%) Azure
3 507 (17.93%) GCP
4 438 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
5 374 (13.22%) Serverless
6 301 (10.64%) GitHub
7 289 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 257 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 250 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
10 230 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
11 228 (8.06%) PaaS
12 188 (6.65%) IaaS
13 179 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
14 163 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
15 158 (5.59%) SaaS
16 153 (5.41%) OpenShift
17 140 (4.95%) Datadog
18 134 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
19 132 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 110 (3.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 198 (7.00%) Firewall
2 127 (4.49%) DNS
3 116 (4.10%) VPN
4 95 (3.36%) WAN
5 66 (2.33%) Internet
6 65 (2.30%) LAN
7 53 (1.87%) Network Security
8 42 (1.49%) TCP/IP
9 37 (1.31%) HTTP
10 35 (1.24%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.20%) AMQP
12 25 (0.88%) DHCP
13 17 (0.60%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.60%) SAN
14 16 (0.57%) IPv4
14 16 (0.57%) SSL
15 9 (0.32%) OSPF
15 9 (0.32%) SNMP
15 9 (0.32%) tcpdump
15 9 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (7.78%) NoSQL
2 202 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 177 (6.26%) Big Data
4 171 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
5 169 (5.98%) MySQL
6 149 (5.27%) SQL Server
7 118 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 110 (3.89%) Hadoop
9 96 (3.39%) Apache Hive
10 87 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 85 (3.01%) HBase
12 83 (2.93%) Data Lake
13 81 (2.86%) MongoDB
14 78 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
15 67 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
16 60 (2.12%) DynamoDB
17 58 (2.05%) Dremio
18 54 (1.91%) Apache Arrow
18 54 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
18 54 (1.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 585 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 458 (16.20%) Git
3 242 (8.56%) GitLab
4 154 (5.45%) JIRA
5 85 (3.01%) Bitbucket Server
5 85 (3.01%) TeamCity
6 73 (2.58%) Artifactory
7 57 (2.02%) Bitbucket
8 50 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 47 (1.66%) CircleCI
10 39 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 32 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
12 30 (1.06%) Vagrant
13 29 (1.03%) Maven
13 29 (1.03%) Postman
14 27 (0.95%) Selenium
15 25 (0.88%) JUnit
16 22 (0.78%) Subversion
17 21 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
18 18 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 761 (26.91%) Finance
2 540 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 473 (16.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 308 (10.89%) Law
5 271 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 141 (4.99%) Banking
7 140 (4.95%) Marketing
8 127 (4.49%) Retail
9 97 (3.43%) Legal
10 89 (3.15%) Aerospace
11 80 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
12 39 (1.38%) Tech for Good
13 37 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.20%) Games
14 34 (1.20%) Health Technology
15 29 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (0.92%) Front Office
17 25 (0.88%) Electronics
17 25 (0.88%) Investment Banking
18 22 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 721 (25.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 667 (23.59%) Senior
3 487 (17.22%) Software Engineer
4 381 (13.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 366 (12.94%) AWS Engineer
6 341 (12.06%) Lead
7 323 (11.42%) Developer
8 237 (8.38%) Azure Engineer
9 208 (7.36%) Senior DevOps
10 198 (7.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 197 (6.97%) Architect
12 171 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
13 167 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 158 (5.59%) Data Engineer
15 151 (5.34%) AWS DevOps
16 143 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 123 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 109 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
19 102 (3.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 101 (3.57%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (7.53%) Spring
2 202 (7.14%) Node.js
3 200 (7.07%) .NET
4 184 (6.51%) React
5 145 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 133 (4.70%) ARM Templates
7 125 (4.42%) REST
8 116 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
9 101 (3.57%) Kafka
10 97 (3.43%) JSON
11 96 (3.39%) AngularJS
12 86 (3.04%) gRPC
13 82 (2.90%) YAML
14 79 (2.79%) RESTful
15 60 (2.12%) .NET Core
16 58 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
16 58 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
17 54 (1.91%) Protocol Buffers
18 45 (1.59%) CSS
19 42 (1.49%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 345 (12.20%) Public Cloud
2 307 (10.86%) Cloud Native
3 188 (6.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 131 (4.63%) Algorithms
5 118 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 111 (3.93%) Blockchain
7 97 (3.43%) Management Information System
8 87 (3.08%) Product Ownership
9 83 (2.93%) Clustering
10 77 (2.72%) Data Centre
11 69 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
12 68 (2.40%) Hedge funds
13 60 (2.12%) e-Learning
14 51 (1.80%) Private Cloud
15 37 (1.31%) Onboarding
16 36 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (1.10%) Client/Server
17 31 (1.10%) PKI
17 31 (1.10%) Replication
18 30 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 637 (22.52%) Linux
2 304 (10.75%) Windows
3 121 (4.28%) Unix
4 105 (3.71%) CentOS
5 101 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 99 (3.50%) Ubuntu
7 93 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 73 (2.58%) Debian
9 54 (1.91%) VMS
10 42 (1.49%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.74%) Android
12 18 (0.64%) Windows 10
13 15 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.42%) Solaris
15 12 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
16 10 (0.35%) 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 (56.47%) DevOps
2 1,375 (48.62%) CI/CD
3 1,203 (42.54%) Agile
4 1,173 (41.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 781 (27.62%) Software Engineering
6 502 (17.75%) Containerisation
7 428 (15.13%) Artificial Intelligence
8 401 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
9 400 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 364 (12.87%) SDLC
11 354 (12.52%) Test Automation
12 350 (12.38%) Microservices
13 338 (11.95%) Machine Learning
14 323 (11.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 271 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 263 (9.30%) TDD
17 260 (9.19%) Operational Stability
18 249 (8.80%) Platform Engineering
19 248 (8.77%) Scrum
20 238 (8.42%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (36.67%) Python
2 752 (26.59%) Java
3 473 (16.73%) SQL
4 391 (13.83%) PowerShell
5 328 (11.60%) JavaScript
6 271 (9.58%) Bash
7 236 (8.35%) Go
8 191 (6.75%) C#
9 149 (5.27%) TypeScript
10 140 (4.95%) Kotlin
11 96 (3.39%) Bicep
12 86 (3.04%) PL/SQL
13 76 (2.69%) PHP
14 75 (2.65%) Scala
15 68 (2.40%) Groovy
16 65 (2.30%) Shell Script
17 57 (2.02%) Ruby
18 48 (1.70%) C++
19 46 (1.63%) T-SQL
20 34 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 432 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 256 (9.05%) SC Cleared
3 245 (8.66%) Degree
4 198 (7.00%) Azure Certification
5 178 (6.29%) DV Cleared
6 163 (5.76%) AWS Certification
7 146 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 88 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 53 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.56%) MCSE
11 42 (1.49%) MCSA
12 40 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 38 (1.34%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.81%) CCNA
16 19 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 8 (0.28%) PhD
19 6 (0.21%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (1.63%) QA
2 32 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (0.99%) GDPR
4 27 (0.95%) NIST
5 23 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 21 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.46%) NCSC
8 12 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.42%) SLA
9 11 (0.39%) PCI DSS
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
1 934 (33.03%) Docker
2 149 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 100 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
4 98 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 85 (3.01%) HDFS
6 56 (1.98%) Hyper-V
7 25 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.67%) vSphere
10 18 (0.64%) XenApp
10 18 (0.64%) XenDesktop
11 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.32%) KVM
13 8 (0.28%) Ceph
14 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.18%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.11%) Firmware
16 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.071%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,329 (46.99%) Kubernetes
2 821 (29.03%) Ansible
3 264 (9.34%) Prometheus
4 231 (8.17%) Grafana
5 195 (6.90%) Puppet
6 113 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 42 (1.49%) Packer
8 32 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (1.03%) HAProxy
10 28 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 28 (0.99%) Istio
10 28 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (0.81%) Consul
12 21 (0.74%) Nagios
13 19 (0.67%) Kibana
14 18 (0.64%) Argo
15 17 (0.60%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.57%) Rancher
16 16 (0.57%) vCenter Server
17 14 (0.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 382 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 245 (8.66%) Google
3 167 (5.91%) Red Hat
4 150 (5.30%) Databricks
4 150 (5.30%) Dynatrace
5 130 (4.60%) VMware
6 125 (4.42%) Splunk
7 118 (4.17%) IBM
8 85 (3.01%) Informatica
9 62 (2.19%) Cisco
10 61 (2.16%) Citrix
10 61 (2.16%) Oracle
11 58 (2.05%) Cloudera
12 54 (1.91%) SaltStack
13 31 (1.10%) WSO2
14 30 (1.06%) New Relic
15 26 (0.92%) Zscaler
16 25 (0.88%) Atlassian
17 21 (0.74%) ServiceNow
18 18 (0.64%) Xilinx