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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 106 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 -25 +25
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 44 80 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.10% 2.29% 3.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.77% 18.56% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 38 47 74
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,750 £50,375
25th Percentile £62,188 £66,563 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £112,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £85,750 £115,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -7.14%

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 298 431 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.48% 12.36% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 135 262 473
10th Percentile £33,125 £43,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £67,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% +19.42% -9.56%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £92,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire +9 18 £75,000 -40.48% 9
Oxfordshire +23 14 £75,000 - 9
Berkshire -34 12 £62,500 -26.47% 11
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 4 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 25 (56.82%) Azure
2 22 (50.00%) AWS
3 16 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) GitHub
4 9 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (15.91%) SaaS
6 6 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.55%) OCI
9 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.27%) dbt
9 1 (2.27%) Fivetran
9 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) DNS
2 3 (6.82%) WAN
3 2 (4.55%) DHCP
3 2 (4.55%) LAN
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
3 2 (4.55%) Wireless
4 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) MySQL
2 2 (4.55%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (4.55%) Spark SQL
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) Airbyte
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Redis
3 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Git
2 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Appium
3 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) MLflow
3 1 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Law
3 2 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (2.27%) Banking
4 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Lead
2 11 (25.00%) Senior
3 9 (20.45%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Operations Team Leader
4 7 (15.91%) Team Leader
5 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) DBA
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.55%) NHS DBA
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.27%) CSS
3 1 (2.27%) CSS3
3 1 (2.27%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) HTML5
3 1 (2.27%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.27%) ModSecurity
3 1 (2.27%) PySpark
3 1 (2.27%) React
3 1 (2.27%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.27%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) NHS
3 2 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) VMS
3 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.55%) Windows
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Unix
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 21 (47.73%) DevOps
3 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.73%) Observability
6 9 (20.45%) Agile
6 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
7 8 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (18.18%) RBAC
7 8 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (15.91%) AI
8 7 (15.91%) Cloud Operations
8 7 (15.91%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (13.64%) Data Architecture
9 6 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (13.64%) Matrix Management
9 6 (13.64%) Resource Management
9 6 (13.64%) Servant Leadership
9 6 (13.64%) Task Automation
10 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) Bash
1 12 (27.27%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.45%) SQL
4 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) Go
5 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Ruby
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Degree
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) MCSE
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) CCNA
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) HND
3 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.27%) MCP
3 1 (2.27%) MCSA
3 1 (2.27%) RHCE
3 1 (2.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) Docker
2 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.45%) Ansible
3 5 (11.36%) Grafana
4 4 (9.09%) Argo
4 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.27%) SCCM
5 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 5 (11.36%) Databricks
4 4 (9.09%) VMware
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Citrix
6 1 (2.27%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds