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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 120 55
Rank change year-on-year -23 -65 +86
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 54 78 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.41% 1.78% 4.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.56% 15.95% 28.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41 44 90
10th Percentile £56,250 £49,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,375 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £95,250
South East median annual salary £75,000 £63,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.93% -

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 347 489 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.06% 11.17% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 162 277 419
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +14.99% -9.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £50,750 £60,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -15.42% +6.15% -1.70%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +8 20 £75,000 -40.48% 13
Oxfordshire +27 18 £80,000 +8.47% 20
Berkshire -41 16 £77,500 - 107
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 9 (16.67%) IIS
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) Azure
2 25 (46.30%) AWS
3 13 (24.07%) GitHub
3 13 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (18.52%) Cloudflare
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.26%) GCP
7 5 (9.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.41%) OCI
8 4 (7.41%) SaaS
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.56%) Serverless
10 2 (3.70%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) DNS
3 6 (11.11%) WAN
4 5 (9.26%) LAN
5 4 (7.41%) VPN
6 2 (3.70%) DHCP
6 2 (3.70%) FTP
6 2 (3.70%) HTTP
6 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.70%) SMTP
6 2 (3.70%) SSH
7 1 (1.85%) Network Security
7 1 (1.85%) VLAN
7 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) MySQL
2 11 (20.37%) SQL Server
3 10 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (9.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (35.19%) Git
2 10 (18.52%) NUnit
2 10 (18.52%) TeamCity
3 9 (16.67%) Jasmine
3 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.41%) JIRA
5 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.70%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.85%) Appium
6 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.85%) MLflow
6 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Games
3 5 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Advertising
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 18 (33.33%) Senior
2 15 (27.78%) Lead
3 10 (18.52%) Developer
3 10 (18.52%) Senior Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) .NET
1 10 (18.52%) AngularJS
1 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET
1 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET Core
1 10 (18.52%) CSS
1 10 (18.52%) CSS3
1 10 (18.52%) HTML
1 10 (18.52%) HTML5
1 10 (18.52%) React
1 10 (18.52%) RESTful
1 10 (18.52%) Vue
2 9 (16.67%) Jest
3 7 (12.96%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.70%) Loki
5 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.85%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.85%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
1 10 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 6 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (9.26%) Online Games
4 4 (7.41%) Replication
5 3 (5.56%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.70%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (3.70%) Hackathon
6 2 (3.70%) NHS
6 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.85%) CMDB
7 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) VMS
2 6 (11.11%) Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Windows
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 29 (53.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (44.44%) DevOps
4 15 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (25.93%) Observability
5 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (24.07%) Agile
6 13 (24.07%) Containerisation
7 11 (20.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (20.37%) Network Virtualisation
8 10 (18.52%) Mentoring
8 10 (18.52%) Mobile First
8 10 (18.52%) MVC
8 10 (18.52%) Resource Management
8 10 (18.52%) Roadmaps
9 9 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (14.81%) High Availability
10 8 (14.81%) Servant Leadership
11 7 (12.96%) RBAC
11 7 (12.96%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) PowerShell
2 15 (27.78%) Bash
3 14 (25.93%) Python
4 10 (18.52%) C#
4 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 10 (18.52%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.11%) SQL
6 3 (5.56%) Go
7 2 (3.70%) Bicep
7 2 (3.70%) Groovy
7 2 (3.70%) Java
7 2 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.70%) MCSE
5 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CCIE
6 1 (1.85%) CCNA
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
6 1 (1.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) HND
6 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.85%) MCP
6 1 (1.85%) MCSA
6 1 (1.85%) RHCE
6 1 (1.85%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.85%) NCSC
3 1 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) Docker
2 10 (18.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.70%) DFS Replication
3 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (20.37%) Ansible
3 8 (14.81%) Grafana
4 7 (12.96%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.41%) Argo
6 1 (1.85%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.85%) SCCM
6 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) Rollbar
3 5 (9.26%) Aruba
3 5 (9.26%) Cisco
3 5 (9.26%) Palo Alto
4 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
4 4 (7.41%) Mellanox
4 4 (7.41%) NVIDIA
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle
6 2 (3.70%) Google
6 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.70%) VMware
7 1 (1.85%) Citrix
7 1 (1.85%) HP
7 1 (1.85%) Juniper
7 1 (1.85%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds