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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 116 75
Rank change year-on-year -17 -41 +13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 657 854 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 2.28% 3.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.77% 26.00% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 436 549 926
10th Percentile £48,125 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,188
90th Percentile £88,375 £87,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -6.25%

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 2,366 3,285 4,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.64% 8.78% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 1,899 3,375
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £72,188 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,253 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +4.62% -3.70%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 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
North of England -33 204 £67,500 - 137
Scotland +32 135 £70,079 +1.11% 18
South East -36 119 £75,000 +11.11% 150
North West -24 93 £65,000 -8.44% 77
Midlands +18 89 £68,000 +3.03% 35
Yorkshire -14 86 £69,000 +25.45% 40
West Midlands +7 65 £68,750 +3.00% 25
South West -28 61 £64,475 -11.07% 70
Wales +16 26 £55,000 +0.82% 11
North East +1 25 £70,079 +25.70% 21
East Midlands +6 22 £68,000 +4.62% 10
East of England +10 18 £67,500 -6.90% 25
Northern Ireland -5 7 £95,000 +23.13% 12
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 29 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (2.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 16 (2.44%) Confluence
5 12 (1.83%) Apache
6 11 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.52%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.22%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.91%) Appian
9 6 (0.91%) IIS
10 5 (0.76%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.15%) CICS
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Weka
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (5.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 463 (70.47%) Azure
2 363 (55.25%) AWS
3 229 (34.86%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (24.35%) GitHub
5 89 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (13.09%) GCP
7 83 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (12.63%) Serverless
8 80 (12.18%) Entra ID
9 64 (9.74%) Amazon S3
10 61 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
11 54 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 53 (8.07%) SaaS
13 49 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (7.15%) Azure Monitor
14 47 (7.15%) PaaS
15 46 (7.00%) dbt
16 42 (6.39%) OCI
17 39 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
17 39 (5.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 69 (10.50%) Firewall
2 58 (8.83%) DNS
3 29 (4.41%) VPN
4 28 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.11%) WAN
6 17 (2.59%) HTTP
7 15 (2.28%) LAN
8 13 (1.98%) BGP
8 13 (1.98%) Network Security
8 13 (1.98%) SD-WAN
9 12 (1.83%) DHCP
9 12 (1.83%) VLAN
10 11 (1.67%) FTP
10 11 (1.67%) SMTP
10 11 (1.67%) SSH
11 9 (1.37%) MPLS
11 9 (1.37%) OSPF
12 8 (1.22%) AMQP
12 8 (1.22%) Wireless
13 5 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.39%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 31 (4.72%) DynamoDB
4 27 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 22 (3.35%) Redis
6 19 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (2.89%) Power BI
7 17 (2.59%) Tableau
8 15 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.52%) MySQL
11 9 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.37%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.07%) Airbyte
12 7 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.07%) Big Data
12 7 (1.07%) Metadata
13 5 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 115 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 112 (17.05%) Git
3 55 (8.37%) GitLab
4 45 (6.85%) JIRA
5 37 (5.63%) Oracle Forms
6 24 (3.65%) Selenium
7 23 (3.50%) Robot Framework
7 23 (3.50%) TeamCity
8 21 (3.20%) Snyk
9 14 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 11 (1.67%) Vagrant
11 9 (1.37%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.22%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.91%) JMeter
13 6 (0.91%) Locust
13 6 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 2 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 187 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 177 (26.94%) Finance
3 42 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 19 (2.89%) Law
6 15 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.37%) Billing
7 9 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.37%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.22%) Banking
9 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.07%) Retail
10 6 (0.91%) Automotive
10 6 (0.91%) Tech for Good
11 5 (0.76%) Advertising
11 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.61%) Games
12 4 (0.61%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 175 (26.64%) Senior
2 125 (19.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 109 (16.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 81 (12.33%) Lead
5 66 (10.05%) Platform Engineer
6 65 (9.89%) Azure Engineer
7 57 (8.68%) Developer
8 42 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (5.63%) Applications Engineer
10 36 (5.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.57%) Software Engineer
12 29 (4.41%) Architect
13 22 (3.35%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (3.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (2.74%) Lead DevOps
16 17 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (2.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 16 (2.44%) Senior DevOps
18 15 (2.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (12.94%) .NET
2 81 (12.33%) React
3 79 (12.02%) RESTful
4 47 (7.15%) Node.js
5 46 (7.00%) OAuth
6 37 (5.63%) ARM Templates
6 37 (5.63%) REST
7 35 (5.33%) JSON
8 34 (5.18%) OAuth2
9 33 (5.02%) Django
10 26 (3.96%) Vue
11 24 (3.65%) .NET Core
12 22 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (3.35%) GraphQL
13 21 (3.20%) Blazor
13 21 (3.20%) SAML
14 20 (3.04%) SOAP
14 20 (3.04%) XML
15 19 (2.89%) AngularJS
16 17 (2.59%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 132 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.98%) Enterprise Software
3 57 (8.68%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 25 (3.81%) Data Centre
6 23 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
8 20 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.89%) Security Posture
10 18 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.74%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.83%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.67%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.22%) Replication
15 6 (0.91%) Low-Code
16 5 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
17 4 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 4 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
17 4 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 129 (19.63%) Linux
2 64 (9.74%) Windows
3 30 (4.57%) VMS
4 25 (3.81%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.50%) Unix
6 20 (3.04%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.83%) Debian
8 9 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.76%) CentOS
11 2 (0.30%) Android
11 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (71.99%) DevOps
2 439 (66.82%) CI/CD
3 404 (61.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 273 (41.55%) Agile
5 179 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (23.14%) Observability
7 149 (22.68%) Coaching
8 141 (21.46%) Mentoring
9 139 (21.16%) Containerisation
10 127 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (18.26%) Asset Management
11 120 (18.26%) Platform Engineering
12 110 (16.74%) Test Automation
13 99 (15.07%) Microservices
14 93 (14.16%) AI
15 85 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 82 (12.48%) Analytics
17 74 (11.26%) Roadmaps
18 73 (11.11%) Software Engineering
19 72 (10.96%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 298 (45.36%) Python
2 162 (24.66%) SQL
3 150 (22.83%) PowerShell
4 91 (13.85%) Bash
4 91 (13.85%) Java
5 73 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 68 (10.35%) Bicep
7 53 (8.07%) C#
8 47 (7.15%) TypeScript
9 42 (6.39%) Shell Script
10 37 (5.63%) PL/SQL
11 27 (4.11%) Go
12 13 (1.98%) Groovy
13 9 (1.37%) Perl
14 8 (1.22%) Scala
15 5 (0.76%) C
16 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.46%) Ruby
18 2 (0.30%) XAML
Qualifications
1 115 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 30 (4.57%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.41%) Degree
6 28 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.37%) CCNP
12 5 (0.76%) CCNA
13 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.46%) CISSP
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.30%) MCSE
16 1 (0.15%) MCP
16 1 (0.15%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.11%) GDPR
1 27 (4.11%) QA
2 23 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.44%) NIST
4 15 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.91%) WCAG
7 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 223 (33.94%) Docker
2 62 (9.44%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.28%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.52%) vSphere
8 6 (0.91%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.76%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.61%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.61%) KVM
10 4 (0.61%) Postfix
10 4 (0.61%) Squid
10 4 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.46%) Firmware
11 3 (0.46%) QEMU
12 2 (0.30%) Ceph
12 2 (0.30%) Lustre
12 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 199 (30.29%) Kubernetes
2 164 (24.96%) Ansible
3 96 (14.61%) Grafana
4 85 (12.94%) Prometheus
5 49 (7.46%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (2.28%) Argo
8 10 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (1.52%) Puppet
9 9 (1.37%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.91%) Nessus
11 4 (0.61%) Control-M
11 4 (0.61%) Nagios
11 4 (0.61%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.46%) SCCM
12 3 (0.46%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.54%) Oracle
3 40 (6.09%) VMware
4 33 (5.02%) Google
5 27 (4.11%) Splunk
6 21 (3.20%) Black Duck
6 21 (3.20%) Okta
7 20 (3.04%) Coverity
8 19 (2.89%) ServiceNow
9 18 (2.74%) Databricks
10 17 (2.59%) Red Hat
11 14 (2.13%) Ab Initio
11 14 (2.13%) SolarWinds
12 13 (1.98%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.83%) Cisco
13 12 (1.83%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.83%) New Relic
14 11 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (1.07%) F5
16 6 (0.91%) BiZZdesign