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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 122 59
Rank change year-on-year -23 -63 +78
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 56 69 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.42% 1.43% 4.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.79% 14.53% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 112
10th Percentile £60,525 £47,250 £53,875
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,125 £100,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -

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 283 475 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.19% 9.85% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 159 290 432
10th Percentile £32,375 £36,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,444 £46,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £92,175 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% -3.33%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 0 20 £75,000 -28.91% 13
Oxfordshire +34 18 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Berkshire -36 18 £85,000 +3.03% 32
Terraform
South East

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (17.86%) IIS
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 33 (58.93%) AWS
2 30 (53.57%) Azure
3 15 (26.79%) GitHub
4 13 (23.21%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (19.64%) Cloudflare
5 11 (19.64%) GCP
5 11 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.93%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
8 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.14%) Serverless
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.36%) AWS KMS
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (3.57%) IaaS
10 2 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 7 (12.50%) LAN
2 7 (12.50%) WAN
3 6 (10.71%) DNS
4 4 (7.14%) VPN
5 2 (3.57%) FTP
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) SMTP
5 2 (3.57%) SSH
6 1 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (1.79%) Network Security
6 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.79%) SSL
6 1 (1.79%) VLAN
6 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (21.43%) MySQL
2 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 18 (32.14%) Git
2 11 (19.64%) NUnit
2 11 (19.64%) TeamCity
3 10 (17.86%) Jasmine
4 8 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (7.14%) JIRA
6 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.57%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.79%) Appium
7 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.79%) GitLab
7 1 (1.79%) MLflow
7 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.71%) Games
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Law
5 2 (3.57%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Advertising
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Platform Engineer
2 16 (28.57%) Lead
3 15 (26.79%) Senior
4 13 (23.21%) Developer
5 11 (19.64%) Senior Developer
6 10 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (17.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (10.71%) .NET Developer
8 6 (10.71%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 4 (7.14%) C# Developer
10 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 4 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
11 3 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (5.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 3 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (5.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 2 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) .NET
2 11 (19.64%) AngularJS
2 11 (19.64%) ASP.NET
2 11 (19.64%) ASP.NET Core
2 11 (19.64%) CSS
2 11 (19.64%) CSS3
2 11 (19.64%) HTML
2 11 (19.64%) HTML5
2 11 (19.64%) React
2 11 (19.64%) RESTful
2 11 (19.64%) Vue
3 10 (17.86%) Jest
4 5 (8.93%) ARM Templates
5 4 (7.14%) Loki
6 2 (3.57%) Node.js
6 2 (3.57%) Pandas
7 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.79%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.79%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Onboarding
2 8 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 7 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (8.93%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (8.93%) Online Games
5 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
6 3 (5.36%) Hackathon
6 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
6 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.57%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (3.57%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.57%) Replication
8 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) VMS
2 6 (10.71%) Linux
3 3 (5.36%) Windows
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.57%) Android
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 29 (51.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (42.86%) DevOps
4 19 (33.93%) Agile
5 16 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (26.79%) Observability
7 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
8 12 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 11 (19.64%) Mobile First
9 11 (19.64%) MVC
9 11 (19.64%) Network Virtualisation
9 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
10 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
11 9 (16.07%) Resource Management
12 8 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
13 7 (12.50%) Servant Leadership
14 6 (10.71%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) Python
2 19 (33.93%) PowerShell
3 15 (26.79%) Bash
4 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
5 11 (19.64%) C#
5 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.71%) Go
6 6 (10.71%) SQL
7 4 (7.14%) Java
8 2 (3.57%) C++
8 2 (3.57%) Groovy
8 2 (3.57%) Perl
8 2 (3.57%) Rust
9 1 (1.79%) Bicep
9 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CCIE
6 1 (1.79%) CCNP
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CISSP
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.79%) MCSE
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.79%) RHCE
6 1 (1.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.79%) NCSC
1 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 10 (17.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) DFS Replication
3 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (33.93%) Ansible
1 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Grafana
2 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.36%) Puppet
4 2 (3.57%) Argo
4 2 (3.57%) SCCM
5 1 (1.79%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.79%) Nessus
5 1 (1.79%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.64%) Rollbar
3 7 (12.50%) Aruba
3 7 (12.50%) Cisco
3 7 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 6 (10.71%) Fortinet
4 6 (10.71%) Mellanox
4 6 (10.71%) NVIDIA
5 3 (5.36%) Google
6 2 (3.57%) Citrix
6 2 (3.57%) Juniper
6 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.57%) VMware
7 1 (1.79%) HP
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat