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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 55 59 49
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,609 6,454 7,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.89% 5.15% 6.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.46% 33.00% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,061 3,785 5,340
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +13.04%

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 8,038 19,556 21,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 15.60% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,386 11,591 14,098
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +5.77%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 2,303 £75,000 -6.25% 763
Work from Home +6 1,375 £75,000 - 489
UK excluding London +26 1,366 £67,500 - 484
London -6 1,060 £85,000 - 389
North of England -10 390 £70,000 -3.45% 134
South East +98 280 £65,000 -7.14% 135
South West +66 269 £65,000 +4.00% 83
North West -10 224 £70,000 -6.15% 85
Midlands -5 167 £62,500 -7.41% 37
Yorkshire -1 146 £70,000 - 31
Scotland +17 142 £70,576 +17.63% 46
East Midlands +38 101 £62,500 -10.71% 11
East of England +54 75 £75,000 +15.38% 26
West Midlands -42 66 £70,000 +3.70% 26
Wales +24 47 £60,000 +0.84% 21
North East +21 20 £65,000 -7.14% 20
Northern Ireland +39 14 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £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
1 112 (4.29%) Apache
2 89 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 65 (2.49%) Confluence
4 31 (1.19%) nginx
5 28 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 21 (0.80%) IIS
8 20 (0.77%) MS Exchange
9 13 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 12 (0.46%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.38%) WebSphere
12 9 (0.34%) CMS
13 7 (0.27%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.23%) Ethereum
15 3 (0.11%) Luigi
16 2 (0.077%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.077%) Drupal
16 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) AutoCAD
1 9 (0.34%) PTC Creo
1 9 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.15%) Simulink
4 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.077%) Magento
3 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,446 (55.42%) AWS
2 1,326 (50.82%) Azure
3 613 (23.50%) GCP
4 459 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
5 401 (15.37%) GitHub
6 393 (15.06%) PaaS
7 381 (14.60%) Serverless
8 334 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 300 (11.50%) IaaS
10 234 (8.97%) SaaS
11 185 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
12 182 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
13 149 (5.71%) OpenShift
14 140 (5.37%) Amazon S3
15 133 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
16 130 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
17 114 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
18 104 (3.99%) Cloud Computing
19 103 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
20 92 (3.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 165 (6.32%) DNS
2 153 (5.86%) TCP/IP
3 141 (5.40%) Firewall
4 103 (3.95%) VPN
5 93 (3.56%) DHCP
6 75 (2.87%) SAN
7 53 (2.03%) HTTP
8 43 (1.65%) LAN
8 43 (1.65%) WAN
9 39 (1.49%) Internet
10 36 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 36 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 35 (1.34%) Network Security
12 24 (0.92%) NGFW
13 15 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
13 15 (0.57%) OSPF
13 15 (0.57%) SSL
14 13 (0.50%) VLAN
15 10 (0.38%) BGP
16 9 (0.34%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 123 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 116 (4.45%) MySQL
5 110 (4.22%) Big Data
6 103 (3.95%) BigQuery
7 87 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 83 (3.18%) Relational Database
9 79 (3.03%) Data Lake
10 74 (2.84%) DynamoDB
11 69 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
12 61 (2.34%) Power BI
13 59 (2.26%) MongoDB
14 55 (2.11%) Tableau
15 54 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 54 (2.07%) Looker
16 49 (1.88%) Bigtable
17 39 (1.49%) Redis
18 32 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
19 31 (1.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 726 (27.83%) Jenkins
2 351 (13.45%) Git
3 240 (9.20%) GitLab
4 137 (5.25%) JIRA
5 112 (4.29%) Artifactory
6 82 (3.14%) Gradle
7 80 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 79 (3.03%) Bitbucket
9 76 (2.91%) TeamCity
10 73 (2.80%) SonarQube
11 61 (2.34%) Maven
12 57 (2.18%) CircleCI
13 56 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 47 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
15 41 (1.57%) Selenium
16 35 (1.34%) Cucumber
17 32 (1.23%) Spinnaker
18 28 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
19 20 (0.77%) git-flow
20 12 (0.46%) Chocolatey
General
1 663 (25.41%) Finance
2 517 (19.82%) Social Skills
3 303 (11.61%) Banking
4 287 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 175 (6.71%) Retail
6 115 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 78 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 75 (2.87%) Front Office
9 72 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
10 54 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 42 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 39 (1.49%) Law
13 29 (1.11%) Marketing
14 27 (1.03%) Games
15 25 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 23 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 22 (0.84%) Tech for Good
18 17 (0.65%) Legal
19 14 (0.54%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 944 (36.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 568 (21.77%) Senior
3 355 (13.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 291 (11.15%) AWS Engineer
5 282 (10.81%) Architect
6 263 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
7 252 (9.66%) Senior DevOps
8 248 (9.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 247 (9.47%) Lead
10 237 (9.08%) Developer
11 212 (8.13%) AWS DevOps
12 197 (7.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 163 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 159 (6.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 128 (4.91%) Software Engineer
16 114 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
17 111 (4.25%) Data Engineer
18 108 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
18 108 (4.14%) Security Engineer
19 102 (3.91%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (6.02%) Kafka
2 153 (5.86%) YAML
3 148 (5.67%) .NET
4 134 (5.14%) React
5 132 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
6 109 (4.18%) Spring Boot
7 106 (4.06%) Spring
8 97 (3.72%) JSON
9 94 (3.60%) ARM Templates
9 94 (3.60%) Node.js
10 72 (2.76%) REST
11 64 (2.45%) HTML
12 59 (2.26%) Micronaut
13 58 (2.22%) SAML
14 57 (2.18%) AngularJS
15 54 (2.07%) .NET Core
16 50 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
17 48 (1.84%) OpenID
17 48 (1.84%) RESTful
18 42 (1.61%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 373 (14.30%) Public Cloud
2 198 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 142 (5.44%) Private Cloud
4 113 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 108 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 84 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
7 82 (3.14%) Virtual Team
8 79 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
9 72 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
10 55 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 35 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 35 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.23%) PKI
13 31 (1.19%) Derivative
14 29 (1.11%) Cyberattack
14 29 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 28 (1.07%) Management Information System
16 21 (0.80%) Blog
17 19 (0.73%) Data Structures
17 19 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 772 (29.59%) Linux
2 406 (15.56%) Windows
3 150 (5.75%) Windows Server
4 102 (3.91%) Unix
5 80 (3.07%) Ubuntu
6 53 (2.03%) Android
7 51 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 36 (1.38%) VMS
9 35 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 34 (1.30%) CentOS
11 29 (1.11%) Debian
12 26 (1.00%) Windows 10
13 23 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
14 16 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
15 11 (0.42%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.077%) Apple iOS
18 1 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,695 (64.97%) DevOps
2 1,351 (51.78%) CI/CD
3 1,340 (51.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,066 (40.86%) Agile
5 540 (20.70%) Containerisation
6 343 (13.15%) Software Engineering
7 300 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
8 287 (11.00%) DevSecOps
9 277 (10.62%) Cloud Security
10 273 (10.46%) Microservices
11 265 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
12 263 (10.08%) Mentoring
13 254 (9.74%) Configuration Management
14 250 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 227 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
16 222 (8.51%) Scrum
17 201 (7.70%) Migration
18 200 (7.67%) Test Automation
19 198 (7.59%) Analytics
20 195 (7.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,085 (41.59%) Python
2 572 (21.92%) PowerShell
3 486 (18.63%) Java
4 484 (18.55%) Bash
5 268 (10.27%) SQL
6 170 (6.52%) Go
7 154 (5.90%) C#
8 149 (5.71%) JavaScript
9 129 (4.94%) Ruby
10 107 (4.10%) Bicep
11 98 (3.76%) TypeScript
12 91 (3.49%) Shell Script
13 80 (3.07%) Groovy
14 60 (2.30%) Perl
15 49 (1.88%) Kotlin
16 38 (1.46%) C++
17 35 (1.34%) PHP
17 35 (1.34%) Scala
18 19 (0.73%) Rust
19 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 350 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 211 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 202 (7.74%) Degree
4 166 (6.36%) AWS Certification
5 145 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 91 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 84 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
8 80 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 34 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 29 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 28 (1.07%) MCSA
14 24 (0.92%) MCSE
15 16 (0.61%) CCNA
15 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CISSP
17 13 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 13 (0.50%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (2.84%) QA
2 29 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (0.61%) GDPR
4 11 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 9 (0.34%) NCSC
5 9 (0.34%) NIST
6 7 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.23%) SLA
8 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.11%) GMP
9 3 (0.11%) PSD2
10 2 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.077%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.077%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.077%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.077%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.077%) WCAG
11 1 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.038%) RMADS
System Software
1 1,055 (40.44%) Docker
2 182 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 121 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 38 (1.46%) vSphere
6 29 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.15%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.11%) Ceph
9 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 2 (0.077%) HDFS
10 2 (0.077%) NFS
10 2 (0.077%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.038%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.038%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.038%) XenApp
11 1 (0.038%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,295 (49.64%) Kubernetes
2 962 (36.87%) Ansible
3 227 (8.70%) Puppet
4 167 (6.40%) Grafana
5 151 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 133 (5.10%) Progress Chef
7 69 (2.64%) Packer
8 61 (2.34%) Istio
9 58 (2.22%) Argo
10 50 (1.92%) Rancher
11 33 (1.26%) SCCM
12 29 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
13 28 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
13 28 (1.07%) Nagios
14 26 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 25 (0.96%) Kibana
16 15 (0.57%) Kustomize
17 14 (0.54%) Salt
18 13 (0.50%) HAProxy
19 12 (0.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 318 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 287 (11.00%) Google
3 150 (5.75%) Oracle
4 148 (5.67%) VMware
5 113 (4.33%) Cisco
6 90 (3.45%) Splunk
7 70 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 62 (2.38%) Citrix
9 51 (1.95%) New Relic
10 48 (1.84%) F5
11 41 (1.57%) Fortinet
12 36 (1.38%) CheckPoint
13 34 (1.30%) AppDynamics
13 34 (1.30%) Databricks
13 34 (1.30%) ServiceNow
14 32 (1.23%) IBM
15 21 (0.80%) SaltStack
15 21 (0.80%) SAP
16 19 (0.73%) TOWER Software
17 17 (0.65%) Veracode