Terraform Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Terraform
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 87 127
Rank change year-on-year -33 +40 -37
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 51 86 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.15% 2.73% 1.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.08% 22.22% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46 48 79
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,875 £56,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £83,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% +24.07% -1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £112,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,500 £69,250
% change year-on-year -0.71% +1.81% -1.07%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 254 387 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.74% 12.27% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 126 214 622
10th Percentile £31,175 £41,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,188 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,253
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.90% -4.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,375 £79,688
90th Percentile £81,875 £100,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,250 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.60% +13.64% -

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Terraform
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the Thames Valley

Terraform
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Berkshire -40 20 £52,500 -41.67% 10
Buckinghamshire +2 17 £75,000 -40.48% 11
Oxfordshire +9 14 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Terraform
South East

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) CMS
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (62.75%) Azure
2 29 (56.86%) AWS
3 20 (39.22%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (25.49%) SaaS
5 8 (15.69%) GitHub
5 8 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Storage
9 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.92%) GCP
10 2 (3.92%) OCI
11 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.96%) IaaS
11 1 (1.96%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) VPN
2 4 (7.84%) WAN
3 3 (5.88%) Wireless
4 2 (3.92%) DHCP
4 2 (3.92%) LAN
4 2 (3.92%) VLAN
5 1 (1.96%) HTTP
5 1 (1.96%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.96%) SMTP
5 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MySQL
1 3 (5.88%) Spark SQL
2 2 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.96%) Airbyte
3 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.96%) Big Data
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) Redis
3 1 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) Appium
3 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.96%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
3 1 (1.96%) MLflow
3 1 (1.96%) Selenium
3 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Law
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Lead
2 12 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 9 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Team Leader
5 7 (13.73%) Operations Team Leader
5 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) NHS DBA
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) .NET
3 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.96%) Blazor
3 1 (1.96%) CSS
3 1 (1.96%) CSS3
3 1 (1.96%) HTML
3 1 (1.96%) HTML5
3 1 (1.96%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.96%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.96%) PySpark
3 1 (1.96%) React
3 1 (1.96%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.96%) Snowpark
3 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) NHS
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
3 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.96%) CMDB
4 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Linux
2 9 (17.65%) Ubuntu
3 5 (9.80%) VMS
4 2 (3.92%) Windows
5 1 (1.96%) FreeBSD
5 1 (1.96%) OpenBSD
5 1 (1.96%) Unix
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 25 (49.02%) DevOps
3 19 (37.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (17.65%) Agile
5 9 (17.65%) Observability
6 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
6 8 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (13.73%) AI
7 7 (13.73%) Cloud Operations
7 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (13.73%) Data Architecture
7 7 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) RBAC
8 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 6 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (9.80%) High Availability
9 5 (9.80%) Resource Management
9 5 (9.80%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) Bash
2 14 (27.45%) Python
3 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
4 9 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (3.92%) Bicep
5 2 (3.92%) C#
5 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) C++
6 1 (1.96%) Go
6 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) CCNA
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.96%) CCIE
4 1 (1.96%) HND
4 1 (1.96%) MCSA
4 1 (1.96%) MCSE
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
2 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.80%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.96%) KVM
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Ansible
2 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Argo
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.96%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.96%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) Red Hat
3 6 (11.76%) Databricks
4 4 (7.84%) VMware
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) 3PAR
6 1 (1.96%) HP
6 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.96%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.96%) Veeam