Terraform Job Trends in the South East

Terraform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 123 142
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 -23
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 160 154 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.31% 2.15% 1.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.02% 18.55% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 146 97 211
10th Percentile £46,875 £44,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £94,375 £112,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 615 830 1,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.03% 11.58% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 421 461 1,238
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in the South East

Terraform
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the South East over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the South East

Terraform
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Thames Valley -21 54 £68,750 -8.33% 38
Hampshire -8 46 £76,500 +5.52% 16
West Sussex +15 28 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Berkshire -19 22 £57,500 -32.35% 11
Buckinghamshire -6 19 £75,000 +7.14% 17
Surrey -10 18 £67,500 +17.39% 11
Oxfordshire +8 13 £75,000 - 10
Kent -18 6 £85,000 +8.97% 4
East Sussex -7 3 £60,000 -29.41%
Sussex - 2 £75,000 -
Middlesex +9 1 £97,500 -
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.88%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) Appian
4 2 (1.25%) Confluence
4 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (0.63%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 106 (66.25%) Azure
2 73 (45.63%) AWS
3 58 (36.25%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (15.00%) GitHub
5 19 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (11.25%) PaaS
6 18 (11.25%) SaaS
7 17 (10.63%) IaaS
8 15 (9.38%) Entra ID
9 14 (8.75%) Azure AKS
9 14 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (7.50%) GCP
11 12 (7.50%) OpenShift
12 10 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.63%) Datadog
14 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
15 4 (2.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.13%) Firewall
2 18 (11.25%) VPN
3 16 (10.00%) DNS
4 7 (4.38%) WAN
5 5 (3.13%) LAN
5 5 (3.13%) Wireless
6 4 (2.50%) MQTT
7 2 (1.25%) DHCP
7 2 (1.25%) VLAN
8 1 (0.63%) BGP
8 1 (0.63%) HTTP
8 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.63%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.63%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.63%) MPLS
8 1 (0.63%) Network Security
8 1 (0.63%) OSPF
8 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.63%) SMTP
8 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.50%) MySQL
2 4 (2.50%) Redis
3 3 (1.88%) Airbyte
3 3 (1.88%) Flink
3 3 (1.88%) Looker
3 3 (1.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.88%) Spark SQL
4 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.63%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (26.25%) Git
2 28 (17.50%) GitLab
3 20 (12.50%) Selenium
4 19 (11.88%) Robot Framework
5 17 (10.63%) Snyk
6 11 (6.88%) Jenkins
7 8 (5.00%) JIRA
8 2 (1.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.25%) NUnit
8 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.25%) TestRail
9 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.63%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.63%) JUnit
9 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.25%) Finance
4 11 (6.88%) Retail
5 9 (5.63%) Billing
6 5 (3.13%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.50%) Banking
7 4 (2.50%) Law
8 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.88%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.25%) Automotive
9 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (25.63%) Senior
2 26 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.63%) Lead
4 20 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Team Leader
9 9 (5.63%) DevOps Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 9 (5.63%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Administrator
10 8 (5.00%) Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Security Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.38%) ARM Templates
2 10 (6.25%) .NET
3 9 (5.63%) Kafka
4 7 (4.38%) OAuth
4 7 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (4.38%) SAML
5 6 (3.75%) REST
6 5 (3.13%) Blazor
6 5 (3.13%) React
7 4 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.50%) WinForms
7 4 (2.50%) WPF
8 3 (1.88%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.88%) React Native
8 3 (1.88%) Spring
8 3 (1.88%) Vue
9 2 (1.25%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.25%) RESTful
9 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (4.38%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.38%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.50%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (2.50%) Clustering
5 4 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.88%) NHS
6 3 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.88%) Replication
7 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (35.00%) Linux
2 24 (15.00%) Windows
3 18 (11.25%) Ubuntu
4 10 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.75%) CentOS
6 4 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.88%) VMS
7 3 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.25%) Android
8 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.63%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.63%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.63%) Unix
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (71.88%) CI/CD
2 102 (63.75%) DevOps
3 92 (57.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (30.63%) Agile
6 40 (25.00%) Observability
7 37 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (20.63%) Containerisation
9 30 (18.75%) DevSecOps
10 26 (16.25%) Cloud Security
11 25 (15.63%) AI
11 25 (15.63%) Mentoring
12 24 (15.00%) Test Automation
13 19 (11.88%) Scrum
13 19 (11.88%) Test Management
14 18 (11.25%) Analytics
14 18 (11.25%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (11.25%) Secrets Management
15 17 (10.63%) Interactive Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.63%) Python
2 44 (27.50%) Bash
3 37 (23.13%) PowerShell
4 16 (10.00%) Bicep
5 12 (7.50%) SQL
6 8 (5.00%) C#
6 8 (5.00%) Go
7 7 (4.38%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.13%) Rust
10 4 (2.50%) Java
10 4 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.88%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 19 (11.88%) Degree
4 15 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.63%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.88%) LPIC
9 2 (1.25%) CCNA
9 2 (1.25%) CISSP
9 2 (1.25%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.25%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CCIE
10 1 (0.63%) CCNP
10 1 (0.63%) CISM
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.13%) NIST
2 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.13%) QA
3 4 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.25%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.25%) SLA
4 2 (1.25%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (36.25%) Docker
2 9 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.25%) vSphere
5 1 (0.63%) Ceph
5 1 (0.63%) KVM
5 1 (0.63%) Lustre
5 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 66 (41.25%) Ansible
3 30 (18.75%) Grafana
4 29 (18.13%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.00%) Proxmox
6 6 (3.75%) Nagios
7 5 (3.13%) Puppet
8 4 (2.50%) Argo
8 4 (2.50%) Nessus
9 2 (1.25%) CASB
9 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.25%) Sysdig
9 2 (1.25%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.63%) Graylog
10 1 (0.63%) MIIS
10 1 (0.63%) Podman
10 1 (0.63%) Scalr
Vendors
1 35 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 18 (11.25%) VMware
4 17 (10.63%) Black Duck
4 17 (10.63%) Coverity
5 11 (6.88%) Splunk
6 8 (5.00%) Databricks
7 7 (4.38%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.50%) Google
8 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.88%) Confluent
10 2 (1.25%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.25%) Blue Prism
10 2 (1.25%) New Relic
10 2 (1.25%) Oracle
10 2 (1.25%) UiPath
11 1 (0.63%) 3PAR
11 1 (0.63%) Genesys
11 1 (0.63%) HP