Terraform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 78 80 95
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -30
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,120 1,752 2,638
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 3.57% 2.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.34% 31.35% 29.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,525 990 1,851
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,556
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - +6.93% -6.48%

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 5,530 5,589 8,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.57% 11.40% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,087 3,325 6,390
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,618 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in the UK

Terraform
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Top 17 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 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
England -4 1,921 £75,000 - 594
UK excluding London -3 1,095 £70,000 - 411
London -2 875 £85,000 - 279
Work from Home -20 648 £70,000 -6.67% 297
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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 85 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (2.59%) Apache
3 48 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.60%) Confluence
6 10 (0.47%) IIS
6 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.19%) WordPress
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.14%) JBoss
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.094%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.094%) Camunda
11 2 (0.094%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.047%) Documentum
12 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.047%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (0.94%) PlantUML
2 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.094%) Lightworks
7 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.094%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.047%) Magento
3 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1,298 (61.23%) AWS
2 1,155 (54.48%) Azure
3 480 (22.64%) GCP
4 387 (18.25%) GitHub
5 354 (16.70%) Serverless
6 323 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
7 315 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 227 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
9 225 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
10 213 (10.05%) Amazon S3
10 213 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
11 183 (8.63%) SaaS
12 155 (7.31%) PaaS
13 144 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
14 135 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
15 128 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 128 (6.04%) Azure AKS
16 115 (5.42%) IaaS
17 110 (5.19%) Datadog
18 96 (4.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 184 (8.68%) Firewall
2 97 (4.58%) VPN
3 96 (4.53%) Network Security
4 82 (3.87%) DNS
5 57 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 56 (2.64%) WAN
7 42 (1.98%) LAN
8 29 (1.37%) BGP
9 25 (1.18%) DHCP
9 25 (1.18%) SD-WAN
10 23 (1.08%) HTTP
10 23 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
11 20 (0.94%) VLAN
12 17 (0.80%) OSPF
13 15 (0.71%) NGFW
13 15 (0.71%) Wireless
14 14 (0.66%) MQTT
14 14 (0.66%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 102 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (4.10%) SQL Server
5 74 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 71 (3.35%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 50 (2.36%) Data Lake
10 48 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (2.22%) BigQuery
12 44 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
13 43 (2.03%) MySQL
14 33 (1.56%) Redis
15 32 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (1.51%) Metadata
16 28 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (1.23%) Power BI
18 24 (1.13%) Delta Lake
19 23 (1.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 303 (14.29%) Git
2 294 (13.87%) GitLab
3 292 (13.77%) Jenkins
4 90 (4.25%) TeamCity
5 56 (2.64%) JIRA
6 41 (1.93%) CircleCI
7 32 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (0.85%) Selenium
11 16 (0.75%) Maven
12 13 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
13 12 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 12 (0.57%) Claude Code
13 12 (0.57%) JMeter
14 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.42%) MLflow
14 9 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 453 (21.37%) Finance
2 427 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 209 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 189 (8.92%) Banking
5 174 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
7 126 (5.94%) Law
8 119 (5.61%) Retail
9 54 (2.55%) Financial Institution
10 51 (2.41%) Back Office
11 30 (1.42%) Aerospace
11 30 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (1.04%) Legal
13 22 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 14 (0.66%) Advertising
15 12 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.47%) Billing
16 10 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 492 (23.21%) Senior
2 413 (19.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 328 (15.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 242 (11.42%) Lead
5 234 (11.04%) Platform Engineer
6 232 (10.94%) Azure Engineer
7 179 (8.44%) Developer
8 172 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
9 169 (7.97%) Software Engineer
10 165 (7.78%) Data Engineer
11 148 (6.98%) Architect
12 128 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 111 (5.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 94 (4.43%) Security Engineer
15 93 (4.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 87 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
17 79 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 69 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
19 69 (3.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (8.92%) React
2 166 (7.83%) Node.js
3 157 (7.41%) Kafka
4 129 (6.08%) REST
5 117 (5.52%) .NET
6 94 (4.43%) Spring Boot
7 93 (4.39%) Spring
8 83 (3.92%) RESTful
9 82 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
10 76 (3.58%) ARM Templates
11 70 (3.30%) YAML
12 66 (3.11%) PySpark
13 61 (2.88%) AWS CDK
14 60 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (2.64%) AngularJS
16 55 (2.59%) OAuth
17 41 (1.93%) FastAPI
18 39 (1.84%) Vue
19 38 (1.79%) Next.js
20 36 (1.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 538 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 140 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 91 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 82 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 82 (3.87%) Public Cloud
7 55 (2.59%) Security Posture
8 50 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
8 50 (2.36%) PKI
9 47 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.51%) Blog
11 29 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.37%) Private Cloud
12 27 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 25 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 23 (1.08%) Replication
15 22 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (0.94%) Data Structures
17 19 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 413 (19.48%) Linux
2 217 (10.24%) Windows
3 92 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 65 (3.07%) Ubuntu
5 62 (2.92%) CentOS
6 54 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 49 (2.31%) Unix
8 20 (0.94%) VMS
9 15 (0.71%) Debian
10 9 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 4 (0.19%) Android
12 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.19%) Rocky
13 2 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.047%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.047%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,454 (68.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,419 (66.93%) CI/CD
3 1,211 (57.12%) DevOps
4 580 (27.36%) Agile
5 517 (24.39%) Containerisation
6 486 (22.92%) Platform Engineering
7 469 (22.12%) Observability
8 400 (18.87%) Mentoring
9 394 (18.58%) Software Engineering
10 371 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
11 369 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 360 (16.98%) AI
13 350 (16.51%) Microservices
14 312 (14.72%) Test Automation
15 283 (13.35%) Cloud Security
16 265 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
17 264 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 242 (11.42%) Analytics
19 218 (10.28%) DevSecOps
20 207 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 973 (45.90%) Python
2 373 (17.59%) Bash
3 351 (16.56%) Java
4 329 (15.52%) PowerShell
5 319 (15.05%) SQL
6 192 (9.06%) Bicep
7 180 (8.49%) JavaScript
8 178 (8.40%) TypeScript
9 145 (6.84%) Go
10 144 (6.79%) C#
11 46 (2.17%) Ruby
12 45 (2.12%) Rust
13 43 (2.03%) PHP
14 26 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (1.18%) C++
16 24 (1.13%) Groovy
17 22 (1.04%) Perl
17 22 (1.04%) Scala
18 17 (0.80%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 489 (23.07%) Security Cleared
2 305 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 168 (7.92%) Degree
4 146 (6.89%) DV Cleared
5 127 (5.99%) AWS Certification
6 111 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 68 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
9 52 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.75%) CCNP
12 28 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.08%) OSCP
14 19 (0.90%) CCNA
15 17 (0.80%) CCIE
16 16 (0.75%) CISSP
17 15 (0.71%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.66%) RHCSA
19 11 (0.52%) ISTQB
19 11 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.62%) QA
2 79 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.25%) GDPR
4 58 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.41%) SOC 2
6 47 (2.22%) PCI DSS
7 38 (1.79%) NIST
8 28 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 20 (0.94%) NCSC
10 19 (0.90%) WCAG
11 15 (0.71%) GRC
12 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.42%) SLA
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.28%) PMO
16 5 (0.24%) DICOM
17 2 (0.094%) IFRS
17 2 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 628 (29.62%) Docker
2 119 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (5.47%) Active Directory
4 52 (2.45%) vSphere
5 37 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.38%) Squid
10 6 (0.28%) Firmware
10 6 (0.28%) iptables
10 6 (0.28%) KVM
10 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.094%) Xen
14 1 (0.047%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 931 (43.92%) Kubernetes
2 596 (28.11%) Ansible
3 296 (13.96%) Grafana
4 191 (9.01%) Prometheus
5 76 (3.58%) Argo
6 60 (2.83%) Puppet
7 37 (1.75%) Packer
8 35 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 34 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.37%) Istio
11 25 (1.18%) Nagios
12 23 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (0.90%) Kibana
14 17 (0.80%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.75%) Cilium
15 16 (0.75%) logstash
16 15 (0.71%) ZABBIX
17 14 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
18 12 (0.57%) Proxmox
19 10 (0.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 360 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 157 (7.41%) VMware
3 127 (5.99%) Google
4 96 (4.53%) Red Hat
5 83 (3.92%) Splunk
6 82 (3.87%) Databricks
7 74 (3.49%) Cisco
8 51 (2.41%) Oracle
9 36 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 34 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.99%) Fortinet
13 20 (0.94%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 14 (0.66%) Okta
17 13 (0.61%) Arista
17 13 (0.61%) Confluent
17 13 (0.61%) IBM
18 12 (0.57%) AppDynamics