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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 68 49
Rank change year-on-year -26 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,811 4,665 9,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.84% 4.60% 6.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.37% 31.48% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,979 3,057 4,484
10th Percentile £48,829 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £108,750 £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 9,909 14,819 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.62% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,136 9,161 14,046
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -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 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

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 9 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 9 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 2,343 £75,000 -3.23% 653
UK excluding London -27 1,604 £65,000 -7.14% 340
Work from Home -24 1,239 £71,500 -4.67% 388
London -8 1,090 £85,000 - 322
North of England -19 443 £65,000 -7.14% 107
Scotland +4 330 £69,500 +0.08% 10
South East -64 303 £67,500 -6.90% 77
North West -26 272 £65,000 -7.14% 62
South West -32 240 £70,576 +6.53% 58
Midlands -15 180 £65,000 -7.14% 49
West Midlands +2 137 £65,000 -7.14% 33
Yorkshire -20 122 £62,783 -10.31% 33
East of England -58 54 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North East +3 51 £62,783 -6.99% 12
East Midlands -25 43 £57,500 -17.86% 16
Wales -22 41 £51,592 -14.01% 13
Northern Ireland +8 14 £72,500 - 10
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
1 179 (6.37%) Apache Spark
2 103 (3.66%) Apache
3 100 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.78%) nginx
5 38 (1.35%) OpenStack
6 34 (1.21%) Confluence
7 24 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
10 12 (0.43%) SharePoint
11 10 (0.36%) IIS
12 8 (0.28%) Drupal
13 4 (0.14%) JBoss
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
14 2 (0.071%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.071%) CMS
15 1 (0.036%) Jetty
15 1 (0.036%) Moodle
15 1 (0.036%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.75%) Simulink
3 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.036%) Notion
5 1 (0.036%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.036%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,822 (64.82%) AWS
2 1,344 (47.81%) Azure
3 476 (16.93%) GCP
4 443 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
5 389 (13.84%) Serverless
6 323 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 301 (10.71%) GitHub
8 267 (9.50%) Amazon S3
9 266 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
10 236 (8.40%) PaaS
11 235 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
12 198 (7.04%) IaaS
13 191 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
14 178 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
15 151 (5.37%) SaaS
16 145 (5.16%) OpenShift
17 142 (5.05%) Datadog
18 133 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 131 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
20 112 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 198 (7.04%) Firewall
2 151 (5.37%) DNS
3 118 (4.20%) VPN
4 91 (3.24%) WAN
5 77 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 66 (2.35%) Internet
7 64 (2.28%) HTTP
8 63 (2.24%) LAN
9 54 (1.92%) Network Security
10 49 (1.74%) DHCP
11 35 (1.25%) SD-WAN
12 32 (1.14%) AMQP
13 17 (0.60%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.60%) SAN
14 15 (0.53%) IPv4
15 14 (0.50%) SSL
16 13 (0.46%) NGFW
17 10 (0.36%) OSPF
17 10 (0.36%) SNMP
17 10 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 214 (7.61%) Amazon RDS
3 174 (6.19%) MySQL
4 169 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
5 163 (5.80%) Big Data
6 152 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 114 (4.06%) Relational Database
8 111 (3.95%) Hadoop
9 93 (3.31%) Apache Hive
10 90 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (3.06%) HBase
12 80 (2.85%) MongoDB
13 75 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
14 70 (2.49%) Data Lake
15 60 (2.13%) DynamoDB
16 54 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (1.89%) BigQuery
18 52 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
18 52 (1.85%) Redis
19 51 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 599 (21.31%) Jenkins
2 450 (16.01%) Git
3 258 (9.18%) GitLab
4 138 (4.91%) JIRA
5 88 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 86 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
7 82 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 54 (1.92%) Bitbucket
9 52 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 43 (1.53%) CircleCI
11 42 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 32 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
13 30 (1.07%) Maven
14 29 (1.03%) Postman
14 29 (1.03%) Selenium
15 26 (0.92%) Vagrant
16 25 (0.89%) JUnit
17 24 (0.85%) Subversion
18 21 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
19 19 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 780 (27.75%) Finance
2 535 (19.03%) Social Skills
3 506 (18.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 310 (11.03%) Law
5 265 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 146 (5.19%) Marketing
7 142 (5.05%) Banking
8 128 (4.55%) Retail
9 94 (3.34%) Legal
10 79 (2.81%) Aerospace
11 75 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
12 42 (1.49%) Tech for Good
13 38 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.32%) Games
14 37 (1.32%) Health Technology
15 32 (1.14%) Front Office
16 25 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.78%) Electronics
17 22 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 22 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 743 (26.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 668 (23.76%) Senior
3 470 (16.72%) Software Engineer
4 374 (13.30%) AWS Engineer
5 373 (13.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 336 (11.95%) Lead
7 314 (11.17%) Developer
8 244 (8.68%) Azure Engineer
9 219 (7.79%) Architect
10 203 (7.22%) Senior DevOps
11 196 (6.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 176 (6.26%) Platform Engineer
13 162 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
13 162 (5.76%) Data Engineer
14 158 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 153 (5.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 125 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
17 114 (4.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 105 (3.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 99 (3.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (7.65%) .NET
2 213 (7.58%) Spring
3 188 (6.69%) Node.js
4 182 (6.47%) React
5 145 (5.16%) Spring Boot
6 130 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
7 121 (4.30%) REST
8 115 (4.09%) ARM Templates
9 101 (3.59%) JSON
10 98 (3.49%) Kafka
11 94 (3.34%) AngularJS
12 85 (3.02%) YAML
13 77 (2.74%) RESTful
14 72 (2.56%) gRPC
15 67 (2.38%) .NET Core
16 66 (2.35%) HTML
17 58 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
18 56 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
19 44 (1.57%) Web Services
20 42 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 364 (12.95%) Public Cloud
2 312 (11.10%) Cloud Native
3 190 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 131 (4.66%) Algorithms
5 123 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
6 111 (3.95%) Blockchain
7 94 (3.34%) Management Information System
8 77 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 77 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 69 (2.45%) Clustering
9 69 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
10 59 (2.10%) Private Cloud
11 58 (2.06%) e-Learning
12 56 (1.99%) Hedge funds
13 38 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.25%) Onboarding
14 35 (1.25%) Tandem
15 34 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
16 33 (1.17%) PKI
17 32 (1.14%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 654 (23.27%) Linux
2 309 (10.99%) Windows
3 124 (4.41%) Unix
4 103 (3.66%) CentOS
5 95 (3.38%) Windows Server
6 91 (3.24%) Ubuntu
7 84 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 70 (2.49%) Debian
9 51 (1.81%) VMS
10 40 (1.42%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.68%) Android
13 17 (0.60%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
14 12 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
14 12 (0.43%) Solaris
15 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,580 (56.21%) DevOps
2 1,370 (48.74%) CI/CD
3 1,207 (42.94%) Agile
4 1,198 (42.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 784 (27.89%) Software Engineering
6 495 (17.61%) Containerisation
7 418 (14.87%) Artificial Intelligence
8 397 (14.12%) SDLC
9 388 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
10 385 (13.70%) Mentoring
11 351 (12.49%) Microservices
11 351 (12.49%) Test Automation
12 328 (11.67%) Machine Learning
13 310 (11.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 266 (9.46%) TDD
15 265 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 260 (9.25%) Operational Stability
17 246 (8.75%) Platform Engineering
18 239 (8.50%) Scrum
19 238 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (36.21%) Python
2 727 (25.86%) Java
3 480 (17.08%) SQL
4 380 (13.52%) PowerShell
5 301 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 290 (10.32%) Bash
7 231 (8.22%) Go
8 199 (7.08%) C#
9 149 (5.30%) TypeScript
10 120 (4.27%) Kotlin
11 93 (3.31%) Bicep
12 87 (3.09%) PL/SQL
13 77 (2.74%) PHP
14 71 (2.53%) Groovy
15 67 (2.38%) Shell Script
16 65 (2.31%) Scala
17 56 (1.99%) Ruby
18 45 (1.60%) C++
18 45 (1.60%) T-SQL
19 37 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 447 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 241 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 236 (8.40%) Degree
4 201 (7.15%) DV Cleared
5 184 (6.55%) Azure Certification
6 173 (6.15%) AWS Certification
7 135 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 85 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 75 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.57%) MCSE
11 42 (1.49%) MCSA
12 41 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 37 (1.32%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.82%) CCNA
16 21 (0.75%) 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 33 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (1.17%) QA
2 25 (0.89%) GDPR
3 23 (0.82%) NIST
4 20 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 17 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.50%) NCSC
7 11 (0.39%) SLA
8 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.036%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.036%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.036%) GMP
12 1 (0.036%) SEPA
System Software
1 934 (33.23%) Docker
2 141 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 99 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (3.06%) HDFS
4 86 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 59 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 28 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (0.82%) vSphere
8 21 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.32%) KVM
11 7 (0.25%) Ceph
12 6 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.21%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.18%) XenApp
13 5 (0.18%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.14%) Firmware
15 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.071%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,310 (46.60%) Kubernetes
2 786 (27.96%) Ansible
3 263 (9.36%) Prometheus
4 245 (8.72%) Grafana
5 199 (7.08%) Puppet
6 116 (4.13%) Progress Chef
7 43 (1.53%) Packer
8 30 (1.07%) HAProxy
8 30 (1.07%) Istio
9 28 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (0.89%) Consul
11 24 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (0.82%) Salt
13 22 (0.78%) Kibana
14 21 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
15 20 (0.71%) Rancher
16 19 (0.68%) Argo
16 19 (0.68%) Nagios
17 16 (0.57%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 361 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 228 (8.11%) Google
3 160 (5.69%) Red Hat
4 150 (5.34%) Dynatrace
5 146 (5.19%) Databricks
6 129 (4.59%) VMware
7 120 (4.27%) Splunk
8 119 (4.23%) IBM
9 86 (3.06%) Informatica
10 62 (2.21%) Cisco
11 60 (2.13%) Oracle
12 59 (2.10%) Citrix
13 57 (2.03%) Cloudera
14 53 (1.89%) SaltStack
15 32 (1.14%) WSO2
16 27 (0.96%) New Relic
17 21 (0.75%) Atlassian
18 19 (0.68%) Zscaler
19 18 (0.64%) NetApp
20 14 (0.50%) Sybase