Terraform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Terraform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Terraform over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 66 48
Rank change year-on-year -28 -18 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,789 4,863 9,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.84% 4.65% 6.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.00% 31.45% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,972 3,185 4,623
10th Percentile £49,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £108,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Terraform is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,961 15,465 27,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.78% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 9,470 14,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,675 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Terraform.

Salary trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -30 2,314 £75,000 -3.23% 625
UK excluding London -25 1,598 £65,000 -6.40% 340
Work from Home -23 1,243 £71,500 -4.67% 400
London -11 1,072 £85,000 - 314
North of England -21 435 £65,000 -7.14% 102
Scotland +2 333 £70,000 +3.70% 19
South East -46 305 £67,500 -4.26% 70
North West -21 266 £65,000 -7.14% 61
South West -28 236 £70,576 +8.58% 59
Midlands -9 179 £63,250 -9.64% 42
West Midlands +6 131 £65,000 -7.14% 28
Yorkshire -27 121 £62,783 -10.31% 27
East of England -64 55 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North East +4 50 £62,783 -5.23% 14
East Midlands -19 48 £57,500 -17.86% 14
Wales -10 41 £51,592 -15.07% 17
Northern Ireland +16 15 £70,000 -3.45% 15
Channel Islands - 3 £110,000 -

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 180 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 111 (3.98%) Apache
3 89 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.83%) nginx
5 38 (1.36%) OpenStack
6 35 (1.25%) Confluence
7 23 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
10 13 (0.47%) SharePoint
11 10 (0.36%) Drupal
11 10 (0.36%) IIS
12 6 (0.22%) WordPress
13 5 (0.18%) CMS
14 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.11%) JBoss
16 2 (0.072%) Apache Solr
17 1 (0.036%) Jetty
17 1 (0.036%) Moodle
17 1 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.61%) Simulink
3 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.036%) Notion
5 1 (0.036%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.036%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.036%) Magento
2 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,789 (64.14%) AWS
2 1,325 (47.51%) Azure
3 477 (17.10%) GCP
4 449 (16.10%) Azure DevOps
5 395 (14.16%) Serverless
6 332 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 306 (10.97%) GitHub
8 277 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
9 276 (9.90%) Amazon S3
10 236 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
11 235 (8.43%) PaaS
12 202 (7.24%) IaaS
13 201 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
14 183 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
15 151 (5.41%) SaaS
16 143 (5.13%) OpenShift
17 138 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 137 (4.91%) Datadog
19 134 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
20 111 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 199 (7.14%) Firewall
2 144 (5.16%) DNS
3 123 (4.41%) VPN
4 90 (3.23%) WAN
5 78 (2.80%) TCP/IP
6 68 (2.44%) Internet
7 65 (2.33%) LAN
8 63 (2.26%) HTTP
9 54 (1.94%) Network Security
10 47 (1.69%) DHCP
11 34 (1.22%) SD-WAN
12 30 (1.08%) AMQP
13 17 (0.61%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.61%) SAN
14 15 (0.54%) NGFW
15 14 (0.50%) IPv4
16 13 (0.47%) SSL
17 11 (0.39%) BGP
18 10 (0.36%) OSPF
18 10 (0.36%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (8.03%) Amazon RDS
2 220 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 182 (6.53%) MySQL
4 173 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
5 154 (5.52%) Big Data
6 151 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 116 (4.16%) Relational Database
8 108 (3.87%) Hadoop
9 95 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 93 (3.33%) Apache Hive
11 86 (3.08%) HBase
12 72 (2.58%) MongoDB
13 69 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
14 63 (2.26%) BigQuery
15 62 (2.22%) Data Lake
16 60 (2.15%) DynamoDB
17 51 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
18 50 (1.79%) Redis
19 49 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
20 47 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 611 (21.91%) Jenkins
2 448 (16.06%) Git
3 247 (8.86%) GitLab
4 140 (5.02%) JIRA
5 88 (3.16%) Artifactory
6 87 (3.12%) TeamCity
7 86 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
8 54 (1.94%) Bitbucket
9 51 (1.83%) SonarQube
10 45 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 40 (1.43%) CircleCI
12 32 (1.15%) Maven
13 30 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
14 29 (1.04%) Postman
14 29 (1.04%) Selenium
15 24 (0.86%) JUnit
15 24 (0.86%) Subversion
16 22 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
17 21 (0.75%) Vagrant
18 20 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 774 (27.75%) Finance
2 539 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 503 (18.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 302 (10.83%) Law
5 253 (9.07%) Public Sector
6 154 (5.52%) Banking
7 145 (5.20%) Marketing
8 138 (4.95%) Retail
9 90 (3.23%) Legal
10 76 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
11 73 (2.62%) Aerospace
12 43 (1.54%) Tech for Good
13 37 (1.33%) Health Technology
14 36 (1.29%) Front Office
14 36 (1.29%) Games
15 34 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.79%) Electronics
18 21 (0.75%) Investment Banking
18 21 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 745 (26.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 659 (23.63%) Senior
3 452 (16.21%) Software Engineer
4 373 (13.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 364 (13.05%) AWS Engineer
6 333 (11.94%) Lead
7 320 (11.47%) Developer
8 234 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
9 223 (8.00%) Architect
10 202 (7.24%) Senior DevOps
11 196 (7.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 170 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
13 168 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
14 163 (5.84%) Data Engineer
15 158 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 157 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 124 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
18 102 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 99 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 98 (3.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (7.71%) .NET
2 209 (7.49%) Spring
3 187 (6.70%) Node.js
4 180 (6.45%) React
5 145 (5.20%) Spring Boot
6 128 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
7 122 (4.37%) REST
8 116 (4.16%) ARM Templates
9 104 (3.73%) JSON
10 102 (3.66%) Kafka
11 96 (3.44%) AngularJS
12 85 (3.05%) YAML
13 76 (2.72%) RESTful
14 71 (2.55%) .NET Core
15 65 (2.33%) HTML
16 58 (2.08%) gRPC
17 56 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
17 56 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
18 44 (1.58%) Web Services
19 42 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 364 (13.05%) Public Cloud
2 304 (10.90%) Cloud Native
3 188 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 130 (4.66%) Algorithms
5 116 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
6 111 (3.98%) Blockchain
7 95 (3.41%) Management Information System
8 79 (2.83%) Data Centre
9 78 (2.80%) Product Ownership
10 69 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
11 59 (2.12%) Private Cloud
12 57 (2.04%) Clustering
13 56 (2.01%) e-Learning
14 44 (1.58%) Hedge funds
15 39 (1.40%) Tandem
16 38 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
18 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
19 33 (1.18%) Onboarding
19 33 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 650 (23.31%) Linux
2 309 (11.08%) Windows
3 118 (4.23%) Unix
4 96 (3.44%) CentOS
5 89 (3.19%) Windows Server
6 86 (3.08%) Ubuntu
7 76 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 69 (2.47%) Debian
9 52 (1.86%) VMS
10 40 (1.43%) Alpine Linux
11 23 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (0.54%) Windows 10
14 14 (0.50%) Android
15 11 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
15 11 (0.39%) Solaris
16 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
18 6 (0.22%) Mac OS
19 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,556 (55.79%) DevOps
2 1,355 (48.58%) CI/CD
3 1,196 (42.88%) Agile
4 1,185 (42.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 766 (27.47%) Software Engineering
6 487 (17.46%) Containerisation
7 417 (14.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 397 (14.23%) SDLC
9 384 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
10 376 (13.48%) Mentoring
11 353 (12.66%) Test Automation
12 337 (12.08%) Microservices
13 324 (11.62%) Machine Learning
14 288 (10.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 264 (9.47%) TDD
16 257 (9.21%) Operational Stability
17 254 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 241 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
19 234 (8.39%) Scrum
20 231 (8.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (36.25%) Python
2 700 (25.10%) Java
3 473 (16.96%) SQL
4 375 (13.45%) PowerShell
5 290 (10.40%) Bash
6 285 (10.22%) JavaScript
7 222 (7.96%) Go
8 202 (7.24%) C#
9 150 (5.38%) TypeScript
10 108 (3.87%) Kotlin
11 95 (3.41%) Bicep
12 87 (3.12%) PL/SQL
13 81 (2.90%) PHP
14 71 (2.55%) Groovy
14 71 (2.55%) Shell Script
15 62 (2.22%) Ruby
15 62 (2.22%) Scala
16 41 (1.47%) T-SQL
17 38 (1.36%) Perl
18 37 (1.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 442 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 236 (8.46%) Degree
3 233 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 198 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 187 (6.70%) Azure Certification
6 169 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 133 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.61%) MCSE
11 43 (1.54%) MCSA
12 40 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 39 (1.40%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.82%) CCNA
17 17 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 9 (0.32%) PhD
19 6 (0.22%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (1.18%) QA
2 32 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (0.82%) GDPR
4 20 (0.72%) NIST
5 17 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.54%) NCSC
8 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.32%) SLA
9 5 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.036%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.036%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.036%) GMP
11 1 (0.036%) SEPA
System Software
1 936 (33.56%) Docker
2 136 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 101 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (3.08%) HDFS
5 80 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
6 61 (2.19%) Hyper-V
7 30 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
8 25 (0.90%) vSphere
9 20 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (0.54%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.32%) KVM
12 6 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.22%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.14%) Firmware
14 3 (0.11%) Ceph
14 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.072%) Varnish
16 1 (0.036%) LXC
16 1 (0.036%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,281 (45.93%) Kubernetes
2 768 (27.54%) Ansible
3 240 (8.61%) Grafana
4 239 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 197 (7.06%) Puppet
6 119 (4.27%) Progress Chef
7 43 (1.54%) Packer
8 30 (1.08%) HAProxy
9 28 (1.00%) Istio
10 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.86%) Salt
12 23 (0.82%) Consul
13 22 (0.79%) Kibana
14 21 (0.75%) Rancher
15 19 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 18 (0.65%) Nagios
16 18 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
17 17 (0.61%) Argo
17 17 (0.61%) FortiGate
18 16 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 350 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 237 (8.50%) Google
3 155 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 147 (5.27%) Dynatrace
5 143 (5.13%) Databricks
6 130 (4.66%) VMware
7 119 (4.27%) IBM
8 118 (4.23%) Splunk
9 86 (3.08%) Informatica
10 64 (2.29%) Cisco
11 62 (2.22%) Citrix
12 58 (2.08%) Oracle
13 57 (2.04%) Cloudera
14 52 (1.86%) SaltStack
15 32 (1.15%) WSO2
16 28 (1.00%) New Relic
17 20 (0.72%) Atlassian
18 18 (0.65%) NetApp
19 16 (0.57%) Zscaler
20 14 (0.50%) SAP