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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 59 54
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,129 2,841 8,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.81% 4.78% 5.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.36% 31.73% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,371 2,251 3,769
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +4.73%
75th Percentile £94,375 £92,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,497 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.46% +1.48% +8.00%

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 7,013 8,955 23,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 15.06% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 6,883 12,170
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,925 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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 -26 1,991 £75,000 - 533
UK excluding London -56 1,045 £67,500 -1.46% 302
London -5 1,007 £85,000 - 248
Work from Home -26 919 £75,000 - 767
North of England -22 358 £67,500 -3.57% 91
South East -66 213 £62,500 -10.71% 63
North West -41 207 £69,308 -0.99% 53
South West -13 187 £72,500 +11.54% 67
Midlands -51 144 £66,000 +5.60% 28
Yorkshire +4 123 £65,000 -7.14% 21
West Midlands +2 117 £68,000 -2.86% 19
Scotland -38 81 £69,308 -1.80% 17
East of England -82 43 £72,500 -1.69% 23
North East -24 28 £65,465 +0.71% 17
East Midlands -87 27 £55,000 -12.00% 9
Wales -3 21 £60,000 - 6
Northern Ireland +16 6 £69,308 -7.59% 11

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 68 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 67 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (2.54%) Apache
4 40 (1.88%) Confluence
5 30 (1.41%) nginx
6 17 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 17 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.66%) CloudStack
8 12 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.38%) IIS
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) JBoss
10 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.047%) Moodle
Applications
1 30 (1.41%) Simulink
2 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.047%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.047%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 1,310 (61.53%) AWS
2 1,209 (56.79%) Azure
3 423 (19.87%) GCP
4 319 (14.98%) Azure DevOps
5 238 (11.18%) GitHub
6 225 (10.57%) Serverless
7 199 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 179 (8.41%) PaaS
9 170 (7.98%) SaaS
10 164 (7.70%) Amazon S3
11 135 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
12 128 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
13 125 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
14 107 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
15 105 (4.93%) IaaS
16 94 (4.42%) OCI
17 91 (4.27%) Amazon ECR
18 89 (4.18%) OpenShift
19 86 (4.04%) Entra ID
20 85 (3.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 162 (7.61%) Firewall
2 79 (3.71%) DNS
3 72 (3.38%) WAN
4 67 (3.15%) VPN
5 60 (2.82%) Network Security
6 51 (2.40%) LAN
7 32 (1.50%) Internet
7 32 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
7 32 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.22%) SD-WAN
9 25 (1.17%) HTTP
10 18 (0.85%) DHCP
10 18 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.85%) Wireshark
11 16 (0.75%) NGFW
11 16 (0.75%) VXLAN
12 15 (0.70%) BGP
13 13 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (0.61%) OSPF
14 12 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (9.72%) Amazon RDS
2 184 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 178 (8.36%) NoSQL
4 86 (4.04%) Big Data
5 83 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 81 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 63 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 62 (2.91%) Data Lake
9 61 (2.87%) MySQL
10 55 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (2.54%) Redis
12 48 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (2.16%) Relational Database
14 38 (1.78%) DynamoDB
15 35 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
16 31 (1.46%) Power BI
17 30 (1.41%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.17%) Hadoop
19 24 (1.13%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 305 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 260 (12.21%) Git
3 207 (9.72%) GitLab
4 82 (3.85%) JIRA
5 59 (2.77%) TeamCity
6 55 (2.58%) CircleCI
6 55 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 44 (2.07%) Vagrant
8 43 (2.02%) Octopus Deploy
9 41 (1.93%) Maven
9 41 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 35 (1.64%) Artifactory
10 35 (1.64%) Mockito
11 31 (1.46%) Bitbucket
12 30 (1.41%) Selenium
13 29 (1.36%) Gradle
14 27 (1.27%) Cucumber
15 22 (1.03%) Terragrunt
16 19 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.89%) JUnit
General
1 445 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 443 (20.81%) Finance
3 197 (9.25%) Public Sector
4 188 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 98 (4.60%) Banking
7 66 (3.10%) Retail
8 55 (2.58%) Law
9 38 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (1.36%) Tech for Good
11 24 (1.13%) Marketing
12 23 (1.08%) Legal
13 22 (1.03%) Games
14 20 (0.94%) Investment Banking
15 19 (0.89%) Front Office
16 17 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 16 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.70%) Financial Institution
19 14 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 539 (25.32%) Senior
2 486 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 317 (14.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 275 (12.92%) Software Engineer
5 222 (10.43%) Lead
6 215 (10.10%) Azure Engineer
7 183 (8.60%) Senior DevOps
8 173 (8.13%) Developer
9 169 (7.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 167 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
11 164 (7.70%) Platform Engineer
12 157 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 149 (7.00%) Architect
14 95 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 91 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 85 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
17 78 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
18 76 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
19 74 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 72 (3.38%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (7.52%) React
2 101 (4.74%) Kafka
3 97 (4.56%) Node.js
4 93 (4.37%) ARM Templates
5 91 (4.27%) Spring
6 89 (4.18%) REST
7 80 (3.76%) YAML
8 74 (3.48%) .NET
9 73 (3.43%) Spring Boot
10 69 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
11 67 (3.15%) RESTful
12 65 (3.05%) SAML
13 60 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
14 57 (2.68%) OAuth
15 50 (2.35%) Django
16 49 (2.30%) OAuth2
17 46 (2.16%) FastAPI
18 40 (1.88%) AngularJS
18 40 (1.88%) GraphQL
19 39 (1.83%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 184 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 144 (6.76%) Public Cloud
3 141 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 70 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 68 (3.19%) Blockchain
7 67 (3.15%) e-Learning
8 62 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
9 61 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
10 54 (2.54%) Management Information System
11 47 (2.21%) Product Ownership
12 42 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.78%) Clustering
14 31 (1.46%) Hedge funds
14 31 (1.46%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.17%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 23 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
17 23 (1.08%) Replication
18 21 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 469 (22.03%) Linux
2 231 (10.85%) Windows
3 104 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (4.32%) Windows Server
5 84 (3.95%) Ubuntu
6 68 (3.19%) CentOS
7 57 (2.68%) Unix
8 43 (2.02%) Android
9 22 (1.03%) VMS
10 18 (0.85%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.80%) Debian
12 11 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.23%) Solaris
14 4 (0.19%) Rocky
15 3 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,236 (58.06%) DevOps
2 981 (46.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 972 (45.66%) CI/CD
4 599 (28.14%) Agile
5 533 (25.04%) Containerisation
6 473 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 345 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 315 (14.80%) Microservices
9 307 (14.42%) Mentoring
10 275 (12.92%) Platform Engineering
11 223 (10.47%) Test Automation
12 221 (10.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 220 (10.33%) Fintech
14 214 (10.05%) Observability
15 209 (9.82%) Artificial Intelligence
16 205 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
17 201 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 182 (8.55%) Cloud Security
19 158 (7.42%) Coaching
20 156 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 859 (40.35%) Python
2 453 (21.28%) PowerShell
3 418 (19.63%) Java
4 286 (13.43%) SQL
5 255 (11.98%) Bash
6 204 (9.58%) JavaScript
7 151 (7.09%) Go
8 146 (6.86%) TypeScript
9 123 (5.78%) Kotlin
10 94 (4.42%) C#
10 94 (4.42%) C++
11 77 (3.62%) Bicep
12 68 (3.19%) Scala
13 55 (2.58%) Perl
14 42 (1.97%) Ruby
15 37 (1.74%) Shell Script
16 29 (1.36%) Rust
17 28 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
18 26 (1.22%) C
19 18 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 302 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 189 (8.88%) Degree
3 146 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 111 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 102 (4.79%) Azure Certification
7 90 (4.23%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 30 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.80%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.75%) CCNP
15 13 (0.61%) CCIE
16 11 (0.52%) CISSP
17 9 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (0.42%) CCIE Data Center
17 9 (0.42%) RHCA
17 9 (0.42%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.25%) QA
2 37 (1.74%) NIST
3 28 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.17%) GDPR
5 23 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 23 (1.08%) SOC 2
6 22 (1.03%) NCSC
7 20 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.42%) Solvency II
12 8 (0.38%) SLA
13 6 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.094%) IFRS
14 2 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.047%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 758 (35.60%) Docker
2 164 (7.70%) Active Directory
3 128 (6.01%) Virtual Machines
4 124 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 55 (2.58%) XenApp
5 55 (2.58%) XenDesktop
6 36 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 29 (1.36%) vSphere
8 21 (0.99%) Hyper-V
9 17 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.75%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.66%) pfSense
12 6 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.28%) Ceph
12 6 (0.28%) Firmware
12 6 (0.28%) Varnish
13 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.094%) HDFS
14 2 (0.094%) LXC
15 1 (0.047%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1,021 (47.96%) Kubernetes
2 716 (33.63%) Ansible
3 206 (9.68%) Prometheus
4 137 (6.43%) Grafana
5 127 (5.97%) Puppet
6 76 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 51 (2.40%) Packer
8 49 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.74%) Argo
10 33 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 33 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (0.94%) Consul
11 20 (0.94%) Salt
12 19 (0.89%) SCCM
13 16 (0.75%) Istio
14 14 (0.66%) HAProxy
15 13 (0.61%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (0.61%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.52%) Nagios
Vendors
1 338 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 183 (8.60%) VMware
3 182 (8.55%) Google
4 143 (6.72%) Red Hat
5 73 (3.43%) Databricks
6 70 (3.29%) Cisco
7 69 (3.24%) IBM
8 64 (3.01%) Dynatrace
9 63 (2.96%) Citrix
10 57 (2.68%) Oracle
11 39 (1.83%) ServiceNow
12 36 (1.69%) Splunk
13 30 (1.41%) Xilinx
14 29 (1.36%) Atlassian
15 20 (0.94%) Zscaler
16 17 (0.80%) Arista
16 17 (0.80%) BMC
17 16 (0.75%) Aruba
17 16 (0.75%) NetScout
17 16 (0.75%) New Relic