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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 102 140
Rank change year-on-year -13 +38 -63
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 54 68 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.16% 2.41% 1.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.18% 20.73% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50 41 85
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £112,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

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 255 328 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.46% 11.62% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 128 201 645
10th Percentile £31,345 £36,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +10.57% -1.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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

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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 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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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 15 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
Berkshire -21 22 £57,500 -32.35% 11
Buckinghamshire -12 19 £75,000 +7.14% 17
Oxfordshire +6 13 £75,000 - 10
Terraform
South East

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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 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (59.26%) Azure
2 27 (50.00%) AWS
3 17 (31.48%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (25.93%) SaaS
5 7 (12.96%) GitHub
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Storage
8 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.70%) OCI
10 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.85%) dbt
10 1 (1.85%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.85%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.85%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) DNS
2 4 (7.41%) VPN
2 4 (7.41%) WAN
3 3 (5.56%) Wireless
4 2 (3.70%) DHCP
4 2 (3.70%) LAN
4 2 (3.70%) VLAN
5 1 (1.85%) HTTP
5 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.85%) SMTP
5 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) MySQL
3 3 (5.56%) Spark SQL
4 2 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.85%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.85%) Redis
5 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Senior
3 10 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) Lead
3 10 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 9 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Team Leader
6 7 (12.96%) Operations Team Leader
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) DBA
8 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.85%) .NET
2 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (1.85%) Blazor
2 1 (1.85%) CSS
2 1 (1.85%) CSS3
2 1 (1.85%) HTML
2 1 (1.85%) HTML5
2 1 (1.85%) PySpark
2 1 (1.85%) React
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (1.85%) Snowpark
2 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) NHS
2 3 (5.56%) Replication
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.85%) CMDB
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.85%) Life Science
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) PMI
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.63%) Linux
2 9 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.70%) VMS
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) FreeBSD
4 1 (1.85%) OpenBSD
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) CI/CD
2 22 (40.74%) DevOps
3 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (22.22%) Agile
6 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (18.52%) Data Architecture
6 10 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.96%) AI
8 7 (12.96%) Analytics
8 7 (12.96%) Cloud Operations
9 6 (11.11%) High Availability
10 5 (9.26%) Observability
10 5 (9.26%) RBAC
10 5 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (7.41%) Cloud Security
11 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
11 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) Bash
2 11 (20.37%) Python
3 9 (16.67%) SQL
4 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.70%) Bicep
5 2 (3.70%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.85%) C++
6 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) CCNA
2 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) CCIE
3 1 (1.85%) HND
3 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) MCSA
3 1 (1.85%) MCSE
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (1.85%) PhD
3 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (20.37%) Docker
2 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.26%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.85%) KVM
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Ansible
2 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.11%) Grafana
4 5 (9.26%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.41%) Argo
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.85%) Graylog
7 1 (1.85%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.37%) Red Hat
3 7 (12.96%) Databricks
4 4 (7.41%) VMware
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) 3PAR
6 1 (1.85%) HP
6 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.85%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.85%) Veeam