Terraform Jobs

Terraform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 90 68
Rank change year-on-year -12 -22 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 1,448 2,808 4,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.78% 2.86% 4.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.12% 28.10% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 1,994 3,129
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £73,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -5.81% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £112,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% -7.14% +3.70%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England -2 1,345 £78,810 +5.08% 1,097
London +2 735 £90,000 +5.88% 591
Work from Home +16 659 £80,000 +11.89% 769
UK excluding London -46 632 £70,250 +8.08% 555
North of England -25 245 £70,000 +7.69% 227
South East -1 152 £72,500 +7.41% 94
North West -54 145 £72,500 +11.54% 152
Yorkshire +30 75 £65,000 +3.53% 59
Midlands -27 73 £67,563 +6.82% 61
South West -6 62 £80,000 +9.91% 78
West Midlands -14 61 £68,813 +5.87% 36
Scotland -18 52 £75,360 +8.04% 40
East of England +35 33 £67,500 -3.57% 30
North East +24 25 £65,000 +3.53% 17
East Midlands +13 12 £65,000 +13.04% 24
Northern Ireland +31 10 £55,000 -21.43% 18
Wales +5 6 £49,104 -4.82% 11
Isle of Man - 3 £42,250 -

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
1 102 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
1 102 (7.04%) Apache Spark
2 86 (5.94%) Apache
3 29 (2.00%) Confluence
4 24 (1.66%) nginx
5 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.83%) Apache Solr
8 10 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.55%) IIS
10 4 (0.28%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.28%) Luigi
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.069%) Drupal
12 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.069%) Jetty
12 1 (0.069%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.069%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 862 (59.53%) AWS
2 759 (52.42%) Azure
3 346 (23.90%) GCP
4 255 (17.61%) Serverless
5 223 (15.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 210 (14.50%) AWS Lambda
7 180 (12.43%) GitHub
8 176 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
9 172 (11.88%) Amazon ECS
10 133 (9.19%) Amazon EKS
11 123 (8.49%) Amazon S3
12 114 (7.87%) SaaS
13 103 (7.11%) Amazon EC2
14 95 (6.56%) OpenShift
15 94 (6.49%) dbt
16 87 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
17 83 (5.73%) PaaS
18 63 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
19 61 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
20 55 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 123 (8.49%) Firewall
2 64 (4.42%) Network Security
3 63 (4.35%) WAN
4 58 (4.01%) DNS
5 57 (3.94%) LAN
6 54 (3.73%) VPN
7 41 (2.83%) SD-WAN
8 38 (2.62%) TCP/IP
9 34 (2.35%) Cisco ISE
10 27 (1.86%) Ethernet
11 24 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.38%) Internet
13 16 (1.10%) BGP
13 16 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
13 16 (1.10%) SAN
14 15 (1.04%) 5G
14 15 (1.04%) DHCP
14 15 (1.04%) IPsec
15 12 (0.83%) HTTPS
15 12 (0.83%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
2 87 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 79 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
5 74 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 72 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
7 71 (4.90%) Apache Arrow
7 71 (4.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 71 (4.90%) Apache Ignite
7 71 (4.90%) Dremio
8 61 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 56 (3.87%) MySQL
10 54 (3.73%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.62%) Big Data
12 30 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (2.07%) DynamoDB
12 30 (2.07%) Relational Database
13 29 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (2.00%) Data Lake
14 21 (1.45%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 252 (17.40%) Jenkins
2 147 (10.15%) Git
3 137 (9.46%) GitLab
4 103 (7.11%) Artifactory
5 57 (3.94%) SonarQube
6 53 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 47 (3.25%) Maven
8 41 (2.83%) JIRA
9 37 (2.56%) JUnit
10 35 (2.42%) CircleCI
11 34 (2.35%) Cucumber
12 25 (1.73%) Bitbucket
13 22 (1.52%) Mockito
14 21 (1.45%) Selenium
15 20 (1.38%) TeamCity
16 15 (1.04%) IntelliJ
17 13 (0.90%) Postman
18 10 (0.69%) Gradle
19 9 (0.62%) TestNG
20 8 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 442 (30.52%) Finance
2 336 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 162 (11.19%) Banking
4 121 (8.36%) Front Office
4 121 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 46 (3.18%) Law
8 40 (2.76%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.21%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.52%) Electronics
11 19 (1.31%) Advertising
12 18 (1.24%) Marketing
13 16 (1.10%) Games
14 15 (1.04%) Retail
15 11 (0.76%) Automotive
15 11 (0.76%) Legal
16 10 (0.69%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.62%) Back Office
17 9 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 342 (23.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 313 (21.62%) Senior
3 196 (13.54%) Lead
4 182 (12.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 180 (12.43%) AWS Engineer
6 165 (11.40%) AWS DevOps
7 151 (10.43%) Python Engineer
8 147 (10.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 143 (9.88%) Developer
10 136 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
11 133 (9.19%) Data Engineer
12 121 (8.36%) Architect
12 121 (8.36%) Platform Engineer
13 107 (7.39%) Software Engineer
14 83 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 82 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
16 66 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 62 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 52 (3.59%) Software Developer
19 47 (3.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (12.02%) Kafka
2 121 (8.36%) .NET
3 120 (8.29%) Node.js
4 101 (6.98%) PySpark
5 90 (6.22%) REST
6 81 (5.59%) J2EE
7 72 (4.97%) ARM Templates
8 68 (4.70%) Spring Boot
9 67 (4.63%) React
10 64 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
11 57 (3.94%) Pandas
12 55 (3.80%) RESTful
13 53 (3.66%) Spring
14 33 (2.28%) JSON
15 32 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (2.07%) FastAPI
17 29 (2.00%) AngularJS
18 25 (1.73%) Flask
19 24 (1.66%) Azure Blueprints
20 23 (1.59%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.46%) Cloud Native
2 117 (8.08%) Public Cloud
3 89 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 63 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 51 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 49 (3.38%) Cyberattack
8 45 (3.11%) Product Ownership
9 30 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (2.00%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.73%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.52%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.31%) Replication
14 18 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.24%) IoT
15 16 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (0.97%) Life Science
16 14 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
16 14 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 346 (23.90%) Linux
2 181 (12.50%) Windows
3 68 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 66 (4.56%) Android
5 38 (2.62%) Unix
6 28 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.59%) VMS
8 16 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.76%) CentOS
9 11 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.41%) Debian
12 5 (0.35%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.14%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.14%) zOS
15 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (60.84%) CI/CD
2 848 (58.56%) DevOps
3 662 (45.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 451 (31.15%) Agile
5 377 (26.04%) Software Engineering
6 356 (24.59%) Containerisation
7 264 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
8 228 (15.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 208 (14.36%) Mentoring
10 191 (13.19%) Microservices
11 190 (13.12%) Platform Engineering
12 153 (10.57%) Analytics
13 146 (10.08%) Cloud Security
14 144 (9.94%) Test Automation
15 140 (9.67%) High Availability
16 138 (9.53%) Data Engineering
17 133 (9.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 128 (8.84%) Deployment Automation
19 126 (8.70%) Asset Management
20 116 (8.01%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 782 (54.01%) Python
2 342 (23.62%) Java
3 228 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 226 (15.61%) Go
5 187 (12.91%) Bash
6 182 (12.57%) SQL
7 176 (12.15%) JavaScript
8 107 (7.39%) TypeScript
9 98 (6.77%) C#
10 92 (6.35%) Bicep
11 75 (5.18%) C++
12 64 (4.42%) Rust
13 39 (2.69%) Ruby
14 33 (2.28%) Scala
15 26 (1.80%) PHP
16 18 (1.24%) Shell Script
17 16 (1.10%) Perl
18 14 (0.97%) Groovy
18 14 (0.97%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.76%) C
Qualifications
1 222 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 149 (10.29%) Degree
3 120 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 91 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 77 (5.32%) Azure Certification
5 77 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 73 (5.04%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.66%) CCNP
12 17 (1.17%) CISSP
13 12 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.83%) CCNA
14 11 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (0.76%) OCP
14 11 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.35%) GDPR
2 47 (3.25%) QA
3 37 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.35%) HIPAA
5 27 (1.86%) NIST
6 25 (1.73%) SOC 2
7 23 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.83%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.76%) NCSC
11 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.21%) SLA
14 1 (0.069%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.069%) Basel III
14 1 (0.069%) COBIT
14 1 (0.069%) IFRS
14 1 (0.069%) IFRS 9
14 1 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 628 (43.37%) Docker
2 77 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 66 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (2.21%) vSphere
6 30 (2.07%) VMware NSX
7 27 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.80%) Hyper-V
9 17 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.35%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.21%) LXC
12 1 (0.069%) Firmware
12 1 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 796 (54.97%) Kubernetes
2 508 (35.08%) Ansible
3 106 (7.32%) Prometheus
4 104 (7.18%) Grafana
5 78 (5.39%) Puppet
6 77 (5.32%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 36 (2.49%) Istio
9 31 (2.14%) Argo
10 28 (1.93%) FortiGate
11 27 (1.86%) SCCM
12 21 (1.45%) Packer
13 20 (1.38%) Podman
14 14 (0.97%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
15 11 (0.76%) CASB
15 11 (0.76%) Nessus
15 11 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (0.69%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 213 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 153 (10.57%) Google
3 139 (9.60%) VMware
4 87 (6.01%) Cisco
5 58 (4.01%) Databricks
6 48 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 36 (2.49%) F5
7 36 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 35 (2.42%) CheckPoint
9 33 (2.28%) IBM
10 29 (2.00%) Oracle
11 25 (1.73%) Blue Coat
11 25 (1.73%) Citrix
12 23 (1.59%) SolarWinds
13 22 (1.52%) Splunk
14 16 (1.10%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.97%) SAP
16 13 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.90%) Hitachi
17 11 (0.76%) Fortinet