Terraform Job Trends in England

Terraform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 81 95
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -30
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 1,485 1,381 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.92% 3.70% 2.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.68% 30.12% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 1,049 1,798
10th Percentile £47,617 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,750 £63,750 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,275 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.23%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,048 4,585 8,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.25% 12.29% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,901 3,128 6,733
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Terraform job vacancy trend in England

Terraform
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in England

Terraform
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
London 0 746 £85,000 -5.56% 282
North of England -23 307 £67,500 -3.57% 132
South East -26 174 £70,000 -3.45% 114
North West -11 158 £70,000 -3.45% 73
Yorkshire -22 111 £72,500 +11.54% 34
South West -12 105 £64,750 -18.46% 73
Midlands -29 81 £70,000 +3.61% 38
West Midlands -37 48 £70,000 +1.72% 29
North East -22 38 £49,222 -23.09% 25
East Midlands -35 31 £70,000 +7.69% 9
East of England -41 25 £76,250 +12.96% 38
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 60 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.49%) Apache
3 29 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.35%) Confluence
6 14 (0.94%) IIS
6 14 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.27%) Appian
8 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.27%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) JBoss
9 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.067%) Camunda
11 1 (0.067%) Drupal
11 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.40%) PlantUML
1 6 (0.40%) Weka
2 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.067%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.067%) Magento
2 1 (0.067%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 948 (63.84%) AWS
2 819 (55.15%) Azure
3 380 (25.59%) GCP
4 292 (19.66%) GitHub
5 254 (17.10%) Azure DevOps
6 232 (15.62%) Serverless
7 215 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 207 (13.94%) GitHub Actions
9 193 (13.00%) Amazon EKS
10 149 (10.03%) SaaS
11 143 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
12 138 (9.29%) Amazon S3
13 109 (7.34%) Datadog
14 105 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 88 (5.93%) PaaS
16 84 (5.66%) Entra ID
17 79 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
17 79 (5.32%) Azure AKS
18 73 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
19 71 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 193 (13.00%) Firewall
2 92 (6.20%) DNS
3 79 (5.32%) VPN
4 64 (4.31%) TCP/IP
5 55 (3.70%) Network Security
5 55 (3.70%) WAN
6 36 (2.42%) LAN
7 26 (1.75%) DHCP
7 26 (1.75%) HTTP
8 24 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.55%) SD-WAN
10 21 (1.41%) Broadband
10 21 (1.41%) NGFW
10 21 (1.41%) VLAN
11 19 (1.28%) BGP
12 17 (1.14%) VXLAN
13 15 (1.01%) Wireshark
14 14 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
15 13 (0.88%) DSL
16 12 (0.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.07%) NoSQL
3 76 (5.12%) SQL Server
4 74 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
5 63 (4.24%) DynamoDB
6 55 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 38 (2.56%) BigQuery
9 37 (2.49%) Data Lake
10 36 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
11 30 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (1.68%) MySQL
13 23 (1.55%) Metadata
14 21 (1.41%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.35%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (1.08%) Redis
18 15 (1.01%) Big Data
19 14 (0.94%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 231 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 227 (15.29%) Git
3 208 (14.01%) GitLab
4 86 (5.79%) TeamCity
5 41 (2.76%) JIRA
6 36 (2.42%) CircleCI
7 26 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 25 (1.68%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.41%) Selenium
10 19 (1.28%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.08%) Robot Framework
12 15 (1.01%) JMeter
13 14 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
14 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
15 11 (0.74%) MLflow
16 10 (0.67%) Maven
17 9 (0.61%) Locust
17 9 (0.61%) Vite
18 8 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 341 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 324 (21.82%) Finance
3 170 (11.45%) Banking
4 135 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (8.35%) Retail
7 120 (8.08%) Law
8 108 (7.27%) Public Sector
9 63 (4.24%) Financial Institution
10 62 (4.18%) Back Office
11 45 (3.03%) Telecoms
12 30 (2.02%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.35%) Billing
15 16 (1.08%) Electronics
16 15 (1.01%) Marketing
17 14 (0.94%) Advertising
17 14 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.61%) Legal
19 8 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 331 (22.29%) Senior
2 257 (17.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 256 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 195 (13.13%) Lead
5 162 (10.91%) Azure Engineer
6 143 (9.63%) Software Engineer
7 128 (8.62%) Developer
7 128 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
8 123 (8.28%) AWS Engineer
9 120 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 108 (7.27%) Data Engineer
11 80 (5.39%) Architect
12 67 (4.51%) Security Engineer
13 60 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
14 53 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 51 (3.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 51 (3.43%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 51 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 46 (3.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 43 (2.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (10.98%) React
2 133 (8.96%) Node.js
3 96 (6.46%) Kafka
4 91 (6.13%) .NET
5 86 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
6 76 (5.12%) REST
7 64 (4.31%) RESTful
8 52 (3.50%) ARM Templates
9 49 (3.30%) YAML
10 48 (3.23%) Spring
11 47 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
12 45 (3.03%) OAuth
13 43 (2.90%) AWS CDK
13 43 (2.90%) Django
13 43 (2.90%) FastAPI
14 41 (2.76%) PySpark
15 40 (2.69%) Spring Boot
16 33 (2.22%) Next.js
17 32 (2.15%) .NET Core
17 32 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 324 (21.82%) Cloud Native
2 91 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (4.71%) Data Centre
5 57 (3.84%) Public Cloud
6 52 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.03%) PKI
7 45 (3.03%) Security Posture
8 34 (2.29%) Blog
9 28 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 24 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.62%) Private Cloud
12 21 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.41%) Blockchain
13 19 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.21%) Web3
15 16 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
15 16 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 305 (20.54%) Linux
2 168 (11.31%) Windows
3 79 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 56 (3.77%) Unix
5 51 (3.43%) Ubuntu
6 35 (2.36%) CentOS
7 25 (1.68%) VMS
8 23 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.74%) Debian
10 10 (0.67%) Android
10 10 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.20%) SUSE
13 2 (0.13%) Rocky
14 1 (0.067%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.067%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (65.05%) Infrastructure as Code
2 960 (64.65%) CI/CD
3 818 (55.08%) DevOps
4 412 (27.74%) Agile
5 381 (25.66%) Containerisation
6 313 (21.08%) Observability
7 305 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
8 274 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 271 (18.25%) Mentoring
10 262 (17.64%) Software Engineering
11 251 (16.90%) Test Automation
12 245 (16.50%) Microservices
12 245 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
13 209 (14.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 189 (12.73%) AI
15 185 (12.46%) Cloud Security
16 183 (12.32%) Analytics
17 155 (10.44%) DevSecOps
18 154 (10.37%) Deployment Automation
19 152 (10.24%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 700 (47.14%) Python
2 289 (19.46%) Bash
3 244 (16.43%) Java
4 234 (15.76%) PowerShell
5 231 (15.56%) SQL
6 165 (11.11%) Go
7 159 (10.71%) JavaScript
8 153 (10.30%) TypeScript
9 114 (7.68%) Bicep
10 72 (4.85%) C#
11 30 (2.02%) Rust
12 23 (1.55%) Scala
13 20 (1.35%) C++
13 20 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.74%) Groovy
16 9 (0.61%) C
16 9 (0.61%) Perl
16 9 (0.61%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 251 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 158 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 125 (8.42%) Degree
4 110 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 77 (5.19%) DV Cleared
6 71 (4.78%) Azure Certification
7 60 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (1.75%) OSCP
10 25 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.62%) CISSP
12 23 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (1.28%) CCNP
14 15 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.74%) CCNA
15 11 (0.74%) CCSK
16 10 (0.67%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.61%) CCIE
18 8 (0.54%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (4.44%) SOC 2
3 55 (3.70%) GDPR
4 53 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 50 (3.37%) QA
6 48 (3.23%) PCI DSS
7 40 (2.69%) NIST
8 25 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.94%) SLA
11 13 (0.88%) GRC
12 8 (0.54%) WCAG
13 6 (0.40%) DICOM
13 6 (0.40%) NCSC
14 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.27%) MiFID
15 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.13%) COBIT
16 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 488 (32.86%) Docker
2 89 (5.99%) Active Directory
3 66 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (1.95%) vSphere
6 17 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.08%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.47%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) KVM
9 6 (0.40%) iptables
10 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.27%) Lustre
11 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.20%) Squid
13 2 (0.13%) Ceph
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
14 1 (0.067%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 692 (46.60%) Kubernetes
2 435 (29.29%) Ansible
3 259 (17.44%) Grafana
4 192 (12.93%) Prometheus
5 60 (4.04%) Argo
6 44 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (1.75%) Puppet
8 22 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (1.35%) Istio
10 19 (1.28%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 16 (1.08%) Kibana
12 16 (1.08%) Nagios
13 15 (1.01%) logstash
13 15 (1.01%) Packer
14 13 (0.88%) Cilium
15 11 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.74%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.67%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 231 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.42%) Google
3 106 (7.14%) VMware
4 63 (4.24%) Red Hat
5 62 (4.18%) Databricks
6 58 (3.91%) Splunk
7 46 (3.10%) Cisco
8 45 (3.03%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
9 22 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.41%) Zscaler
11 20 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.35%) Oracle
12 18 (1.21%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.21%) New Relic
13 16 (1.08%) AppDynamics
13 16 (1.08%) Arista
13 16 (1.08%) ServiceNow
14 15 (1.01%) Aruba
14 15 (1.01%) SAP