Terraform Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Terraform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 111 119
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -30
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 1,095 970 1,482
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.52% 2.87% 2.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.61% 28.33% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 892 469 954
10th Percentile £46,446 £50,000 £44,046
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year - +6.93% -6.48%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,258 3,424 5,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.53% 10.13% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,563 1,761 3,878
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £64,618 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.59% +4.00% -7.41%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Terraform job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
North of England -25 392 £69,310 -0.99% 136
South East +54 271 £65,000 -10.34% 121
North West -25 219 £72,000 +1.41% 77
South West +32 181 £75,000 - 71
Midlands -35 121 £72,500 +3.57% 38
Yorkshire +3 113 £69,655 -0.49% 35
West Midlands -40 87 £80,000 +10.34% 27
Wales -4 69 £70,000 +27.27% 19
North East -15 60 £55,750 -14.23% 25
East of England -20 39 £70,000 +12.00% 8
East Midlands -12 34 £67,500 +17.39% 11
Scotland -26 29 £60,000 -23.87% 19
Northern Ireland -64 3 £73,801 +34.18% 3
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 41 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.01%) Apache
3 26 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (2.10%) Confluence
5 18 (1.64%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.91%) IIS
6 10 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.37%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.37%) WordPress
9 3 (0.27%) JBoss
10 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.091%) CMS
11 1 (0.091%) Documentum
11 1 (0.091%) Drupal
11 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.091%) nginx
11 1 (0.091%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.091%) Magento
2 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 631 (57.63%) AWS
2 619 (56.53%) Azure
3 217 (19.82%) Azure DevOps
4 208 (19.00%) GitHub
5 205 (18.72%) GCP
6 175 (15.98%) Serverless
7 128 (11.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 127 (11.60%) GitHub Actions
9 104 (9.50%) Amazon S3
10 93 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
12 82 (7.49%) PaaS
13 78 (7.12%) Azure AKS
14 76 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
14 76 (6.94%) SaaS
15 75 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
16 63 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 52 (4.75%) IaaS
18 50 (4.57%) Entra ID
19 48 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 107 (9.77%) Firewall
2 57 (5.21%) VPN
3 44 (4.02%) DNS
4 33 (3.01%) Network Security
4 33 (3.01%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.01%) WAN
6 16 (1.46%) HTTP
6 16 (1.46%) LAN
7 14 (1.28%) BGP
7 14 (1.28%) MQTT
8 13 (1.19%) NGFW
9 12 (1.10%) VLAN
10 11 (1.00%) DHCP
11 10 (0.91%) SAN
12 9 (0.82%) OSPF
12 9 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
12 9 (0.82%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.64%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.64%) WebEx
13 7 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 47 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 43 (3.93%) NoSQL
6 39 (3.56%) DynamoDB
7 31 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 27 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (2.01%) MySQL
11 21 (1.92%) BigQuery
12 19 (1.74%) Data Lake
12 19 (1.74%) Redis
13 16 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.28%) Big Data
15 11 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (1.00%) Metadata
16 10 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 173 (15.80%) Git
2 153 (13.97%) GitLab
3 141 (12.88%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.65%) JIRA
5 28 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.28%) Selenium
8 13 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 12 (1.10%) Artifactory
10 11 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (0.82%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.64%) MSI
13 7 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.64%) Terragrunt
14 6 (0.55%) Robot Framework
14 6 (0.55%) TestRail
15 5 (0.46%) JMeter
16 4 (0.37%) JUnit
16 4 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 208 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 141 (12.88%) Public Sector
3 128 (11.69%) Finance
4 67 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (3.65%) Law
6 24 (2.19%) Aerospace
6 24 (2.19%) Retail
7 21 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.64%) Banking
10 15 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.55%) Billing
11 6 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.55%) Legal
11 6 (0.55%) Marketing
11 6 (0.55%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.37%) Advertising
12 4 (0.37%) Aviation
12 4 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 284 (25.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 225 (20.55%) Senior
3 157 (14.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 133 (12.15%) Azure Engineer
5 120 (10.96%) Lead
6 102 (9.32%) Platform Engineer
7 90 (8.22%) Developer
8 84 (7.67%) Data Engineer
9 80 (7.31%) Software Engineer
10 72 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 63 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
12 61 (5.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 55 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (4.66%) Architect
15 49 (4.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 46 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 36 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
18 35 (3.20%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 34 (3.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 31 (2.83%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (9.86%) Node.js
2 105 (9.59%) React
3 82 (7.49%) REST
4 70 (6.39%) Spring Boot
5 67 (6.12%) .NET
6 65 (5.94%) Spring
7 62 (5.66%) ARM Templates
8 59 (5.39%) Kafka
9 55 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
10 47 (4.29%) RESTful
11 43 (3.93%) YAML
12 37 (3.38%) AngularJS
13 34 (3.11%) PySpark
13 34 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
14 33 (3.01%) Vue
15 29 (2.65%) OAuth
16 25 (2.28%) Ruby on Rails
17 24 (2.19%) SAML
18 23 (2.10%) ASP.NET
18 23 (2.10%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 216 (19.73%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 40 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 36 (3.29%) Public Cloud
7 33 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
9 24 (2.19%) Security Posture
10 20 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.64%) PKI
12 17 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.55%) Replication
13 16 (1.46%) Mainframe
14 15 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 266 (24.29%) Linux
2 128 (11.69%) Windows
3 53 (4.84%) Ubuntu
4 50 (4.57%) Windows Server
5 40 (3.65%) CentOS
6 38 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (3.20%) Unix
8 15 (1.37%) Debian
9 14 (1.28%) VMS
10 9 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.37%) AIX
13 2 (0.18%) Rocky
14 1 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.091%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.091%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (68.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 739 (67.49%) CI/CD
3 649 (59.27%) DevOps
4 359 (32.79%) Agile
5 291 (26.58%) Containerisation
6 271 (24.75%) Observability
7 265 (24.20%) Platform Engineering
8 225 (20.55%) Mentoring
9 223 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
10 209 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 176 (16.07%) AI
12 170 (15.53%) Microservices
13 168 (15.34%) Software Engineering
14 148 (13.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 142 (12.97%) Test Automation
16 136 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
17 133 (12.15%) DevSecOps
18 131 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 127 (11.60%) Cloud Security
20 125 (11.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 466 (42.56%) Python
2 230 (21.00%) Bash
3 189 (17.26%) PowerShell
4 158 (14.43%) Java
5 156 (14.25%) SQL
6 109 (9.95%) Bicep
7 100 (9.13%) JavaScript
8 94 (8.58%) TypeScript
9 70 (6.39%) C#
10 49 (4.47%) Go
11 28 (2.56%) Ruby
12 24 (2.19%) PHP
12 24 (2.19%) Rust
13 22 (2.01%) Groovy
14 19 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.10%) C++
16 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.64%) Perl
18 6 (0.55%) COBOL
19 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 293 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 188 (17.17%) SC Cleared
3 114 (10.41%) DV Cleared
4 74 (6.76%) Degree
5 52 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 40 (3.65%) AWS Certification
7 35 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.00%) CCNP
11 10 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.64%) CCNA
14 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.55%) CCIE
14 6 (0.55%) RHCSA
15 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.46%) RHCE
16 4 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.66%) QA
2 32 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.01%) GDPR
4 20 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 18 (1.64%) WCAG
6 17 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.55%) NCSC
7 15 (1.37%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.91%) NIST
9 6 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (0.55%) SLA
10 5 (0.46%) DICOM
11 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) IFRS
12 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.18%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.091%) GRC
13 1 (0.091%) GxP
System Software
1 372 (33.97%) Docker
2 70 (6.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (5.02%) Active Directory
4 36 (3.29%) vSphere
5 17 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.55%) iptables
8 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.37%) Squid
10 3 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.18%) Firmware
11 2 (0.18%) Xen
12 1 (0.091%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.091%) KVM
12 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 466 (42.56%) Kubernetes
2 338 (30.87%) Ansible
3 138 (12.60%) Grafana
4 99 (9.04%) Prometheus
5 43 (3.93%) Puppet
6 37 (3.38%) Argo
7 29 (2.65%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.64%) Kibana
9 17 (1.55%) Packer
10 14 (1.28%) logstash
10 14 (1.28%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.19%) Istio
12 12 (1.10%) Nagios
13 10 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.91%) Nessus
13 10 (0.91%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.82%) Podman
14 9 (0.82%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 196 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.31%) VMware
3 68 (6.21%) Google
4 67 (6.12%) Red Hat
5 45 (4.11%) Splunk
6 41 (3.74%) Databricks
7 22 (2.01%) Cisco
8 20 (1.83%) Oracle
9 13 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.10%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.10%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.00%) IBM
12 10 (0.91%) NetApp
12 10 (0.91%) NVIDIA
12 10 (0.91%) Pega
13 9 (0.82%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.73%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.73%) Okta
14 8 (0.73%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.73%) Ping Identity