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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 110 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 -45 +41
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 48 74 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.22% 2.02% 4.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.43% 16.23% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 40 48 86
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,719 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £112,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £88,500 £115,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -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 311 456 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.88% 12.44% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 146 292 462
10th Percentile £33,438 £43,750 £30,700
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,033 £67,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +19.42% -9.56%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £91,125
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 17 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 17 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 +20 20 £77,500 -38.49% 20
Oxfordshire +18 15 £75,000 - 13
Berkshire -39 13 £63,750 -25.00% 20
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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 29 (60.42%) Azure
2 24 (50.00%) AWS
3 17 (35.42%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (22.92%) GitHub
4 11 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 6 (12.50%) SaaS
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.25%) GCP
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.25%) OCI
7 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (4.17%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Firewall
2 5 (10.42%) DNS
3 4 (8.33%) WAN
4 3 (6.25%) LAN
4 3 (6.25%) VPN
5 2 (4.17%) DHCP
5 2 (4.17%) FTP
5 2 (4.17%) HTTP
5 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.17%) SMTP
5 2 (4.17%) SSH
5 2 (4.17%) Wireless
6 1 (2.08%) Network Security
6 1 (2.08%) VLAN
6 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (4.17%) Spark SQL
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Airbyte
3 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Redis
3 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Git
2 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
3 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.17%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.08%) Appium
4 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) MLflow
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
4 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Law
3 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Retail
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Lead
2 13 (27.08%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Senior
4 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Operations Team Leader
4 7 (14.58%) Team Leader
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) NHS DBA
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.08%) CSS
3 1 (2.08%) CSS3
3 1 (2.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.08%) HTML5
3 1 (2.08%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.08%) ModSecurity
3 1 (2.08%) PySpark
3 1 (2.08%) React
3 1 (2.08%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.08%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.33%) Replication
4 2 (4.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.08%) CMDB
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) VMS
3 4 (8.33%) Windows
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.08%) Unix
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 24 (50.00%) DevOps
3 21 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (25.00%) Observability
5 11 (22.92%) Agile
5 11 (22.92%) Containerisation
5 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (16.67%) RBAC
7 8 (16.67%) Resource Management
7 8 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
7 8 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (14.58%) AI
8 7 (14.58%) Cloud Operations
8 7 (14.58%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (12.50%) Data Architecture
9 6 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (12.50%) High Availability
9 6 (12.50%) Matrix Management
9 6 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) PowerShell
1 14 (29.17%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) Bash
3 9 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (4.17%) Bicep
4 2 (4.17%) Groovy
4 2 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (4.17%) Perl
5 1 (2.08%) C#
5 1 (2.08%) Go
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) Ruby
5 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.17%) MCSE
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) CCIE
4 1 (2.08%) CCNA
4 1 (2.08%) CCNP
4 1 (2.08%) CISSP
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) HND
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) MCP
4 1 (2.08%) MCSA
4 1 (2.08%) RHCE
4 1 (2.08%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (41.67%) Docker
2 12 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.17%) DFS Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 7 (14.58%) Grafana
4 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.33%) Argo
6 1 (2.08%) Kubeflow
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.08%) SCCM
6 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Databricks
2 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Aruba
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Citrix
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) Juniper
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds