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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 107 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 +31 -59
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 70 56 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.36% 2.02% 1.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.18% 21.96% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 56 34 84
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £66,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +17.31% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £112,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £84,375 £114,250 £85,325
South East median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -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 199 255 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.86% 9.20% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 135 167 647
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +12.61% -3.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +12 31 £65,000 -38.10% 18
Buckinghamshire -25 23 £58,750 -16.07% 21
Oxfordshire +1 16 £75,000 +15.38% 13
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 3 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 44 (62.86%) Azure
2 41 (58.57%) AWS
3 16 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (20.00%) SaaS
5 10 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (14.29%) Serverless
6 8 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.57%) GitHub
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Storage
9 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.86%) OCI
11 1 (1.43%) dbt
11 1 (1.43%) Fivetran
11 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
2 4 (5.71%) DNS
2 4 (5.71%) VPN
3 3 (4.29%) WAN
3 3 (4.29%) Wireless
4 2 (2.86%) DHCP
4 2 (2.86%) LAN
4 2 (2.86%) VLAN
5 1 (1.43%) HTTP
5 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.43%) SMTP
5 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.29%) Spark SQL
3 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 1 (1.43%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.43%) Power BI
4 1 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Git
2 12 (17.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.00%) GitLab
4 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 6 (8.57%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.71%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.29%) Law
5 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (18.57%) Data Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 11 (15.71%) Senior
3 11 (15.71%) Systems Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Lead
6 8 (11.43%) Team Leader
7 7 (10.00%) Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Operations Team Leader
8 6 (8.57%) Java Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) REST
2 8 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
3 6 (8.57%) React
4 5 (7.14%) JSON
4 5 (7.14%) Spring
5 4 (5.71%) Java EE
5 4 (5.71%) JMS
5 4 (5.71%) JPA
5 4 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.71%) Web Services
5 4 (5.71%) YAML
6 3 (4.29%) RESTful
7 2 (2.86%) Blazor
8 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.43%) CSS3
8 1 (1.43%) HTML5
8 1 (1.43%) PySpark
8 1 (1.43%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.86%) Life Science
4 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) NHS
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) PMI
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.43%) Replication
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.86%) Linux
2 12 (17.14%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.43%) FreeBSD
3 1 (1.43%) OpenBSD
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.86%) CI/CD
2 36 (51.43%) DevOps
3 27 (38.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (34.29%) Agile
5 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (15.71%) Data Architecture
7 11 (15.71%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 10 (14.29%) Microservices
8 10 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (11.43%) TDD
9 8 (11.43%) Test Automation
10 7 (10.00%) Analytics
10 7 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
10 7 (10.00%) Design Patterns
10 7 (10.00%) Problem Management
11 6 (8.57%) Auto-Scaling
11 6 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.57%) Python
2 16 (22.86%) Bash
3 11 (15.71%) SQL
4 9 (12.86%) Java
5 6 (8.57%) Groovy
6 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.71%) Perl
7 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.29%) C#
8 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.86%) Bicep
9 2 (2.86%) C++
9 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) Degree
4 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.86%) PhD
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CCIE
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (21.43%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 5 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.43%) KVM
5 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (41.43%) Ansible
2 17 (24.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Kibana
3 4 (5.71%) Packer
4 3 (4.29%) Grafana
4 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.86%) Argo
6 1 (1.43%) Graylog
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.43%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (12.86%) AppDynamics
4 8 (11.43%) IBM
5 7 (10.00%) Databricks
6 6 (8.57%) Oracle
7 5 (7.14%) VMware
8 1 (1.43%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.43%) HP
8 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.43%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.43%) Veeam