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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 96 69
Rank change year-on-year +19 -27 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,024 2,820 4,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.58% 2.56% 4.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.49% 28.68% 31.08%
Number of salaries quoted 979 1,940 2,793
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £51,800
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,597 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.93%

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 5,869 9,833 13,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 8.92% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,178 6,895 8,536
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,619 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -2.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +6.48% -9.28% +2.86%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +32 1,899 £75,000 - 4,944
Work from Home +33 1,111 £75,180 +3.70% 3,104
UK excluding London +18 1,042 £70,000 +7.69% 2,553
London +11 790 £85,000 - 2,744
North of England +15 483 £70,000 +7.69% 650
North West +22 392 £71,991 +10.76% 370
South East +13 189 £75,000 +11.94% 738
Midlands +10 126 £72,500 +11.54% 286
West Midlands +17 97 £72,500 +11.54% 176
East of England +70 82 £67,500 -3.57% 255
Scotland -13 73 £78,810 +12.59% 200
South West -1 71 £75,000 - 309
Yorkshire -3 68 £70,000 +7.69% 225
East Midlands +28 29 £60,000 +4.35% 110
North East +26 23 £65,000 +3.35% 55
Wales +20 13 £53,199 +4.96% 55
Northern Ireland +30 6 £55,000 -24.14% 72
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -

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 91 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 86 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.71%) Apache
4 51 (2.52%) Confluence
5 30 (1.48%) nginx
6 20 (0.99%) IIS
7 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.40%) Camunda
10 8 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.25%) Appian
12 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.20%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.20%) Traefik
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.099%) Apache Synapse
14 2 (0.099%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.20%) Sketch
5 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.049%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,193 (58.94%) AWS
2 735 (36.31%) Azure
3 313 (15.46%) GCP
4 288 (14.23%) Serverless
5 253 (12.50%) Pulumi
6 244 (12.06%) AWS Lambda
7 202 (9.98%) GitHub
8 195 (9.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 186 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
10 147 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
11 128 (6.32%) Amazon S3
12 121 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
13 105 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
14 104 (5.14%) SaaS
15 98 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
16 77 (3.80%) PaaS
17 75 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 73 (3.61%) dbt
19 68 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
20 66 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 315 (15.56%) VPN
2 302 (14.92%) Broadband
3 272 (13.44%) Cisco IOS
4 146 (7.21%) Firewall
5 98 (4.84%) SSH
6 93 (4.59%) SSL
7 74 (3.66%) DNS
7 74 (3.66%) WAN
8 67 (3.31%) LAN
9 42 (2.08%) Network Security
9 42 (2.08%) SD-WAN
10 37 (1.83%) TCP/IP
11 30 (1.48%) Cisco ISE
12 28 (1.38%) Ethernet
13 20 (0.99%) Internet
13 20 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (0.94%) DHCP
15 18 (0.89%) SAN
16 15 (0.74%) 5G
16 15 (0.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 249 (12.30%) Relational Database
3 229 (11.31%) RDBMS
4 98 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
5 89 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (4.10%) SQL Server
7 81 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 75 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
9 60 (2.96%) Big Data
10 58 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
11 56 (2.77%) MongoDB
12 46 (2.27%) DynamoDB
12 46 (2.27%) MySQL
13 45 (2.22%) Apache Arrow
13 45 (2.22%) Apache Ignite
13 45 (2.22%) Dremio
14 41 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
15 26 (1.28%) Data Lake
16 24 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 251 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 216 (10.67%) Jaeger
3 181 (8.94%) Git
4 134 (6.62%) GitLab
5 77 (3.80%) JIRA
6 59 (2.92%) Artifactory
7 56 (2.77%) SonarQube
8 53 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 47 (2.32%) JUnit
10 39 (1.93%) Maven
11 33 (1.63%) Vagrant
12 30 (1.48%) CircleCI
13 27 (1.33%) Bitbucket
14 26 (1.28%) Selenium
15 24 (1.19%) TeamCity
16 23 (1.14%) Mockito
17 22 (1.09%) Cucumber
18 13 (0.64%) Postman
19 12 (0.59%) IntelliJ
19 12 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 694 (34.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 461 (22.78%) Finance
3 419 (20.70%) Social Skills
4 373 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (8.79%) Banking
6 137 (6.77%) Law
7 82 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 68 (3.36%) Marketing
9 57 (2.82%) Front Office
10 42 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.33%) Electronics
12 26 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.09%) Advertising
14 20 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 20 (0.99%) Games
15 17 (0.84%) Retail
16 16 (0.79%) Automotive
16 16 (0.79%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.49%) Legal
18 9 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 443 (21.89%) Lead
2 372 (18.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 359 (17.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 326 (16.11%) Senior
5 263 (12.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 224 (11.07%) Team Leader
7 173 (8.55%) Developer
8 169 (8.35%) Software Engineer
9 157 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
10 139 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
11 131 (6.47%) Data Engineer
12 122 (6.03%) Python Engineer
13 116 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
14 115 (5.68%) Architect
15 110 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
16 96 (4.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.46%) Senior Developer
18 64 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 61 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
19 61 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (26.28%) Elastic Stack
2 227 (11.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 170 (8.40%) Kafka
4 151 (7.46%) RESTful
5 141 (6.97%) .NET
6 108 (5.34%) REST
7 107 (5.29%) Node.js
8 102 (5.04%) React
9 98 (4.84%) Web Services
10 77 (3.80%) PySpark
11 76 (3.75%) Spring
12 70 (3.46%) Spring Boot
13 68 (3.36%) ARM Templates
14 58 (2.87%) Pandas
15 45 (2.22%) J2EE
16 41 (2.03%) AngularJS
16 41 (2.03%) Flask
17 40 (1.98%) FastAPI
18 32 (1.58%) JSON
19 30 (1.48%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 393 (19.42%) Cyberattack
2 189 (9.34%) Cloud Native
3 136 (6.72%) Management Information System
4 125 (6.18%) Public Cloud
5 108 (5.34%) Onboarding
6 94 (4.64%) PKI
7 86 (4.25%) Cyber Threat
8 67 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
10 53 (2.62%) Product Ownership
11 52 (2.57%) Data Centre
12 38 (1.88%) Replication
13 32 (1.58%) Algorithms
13 32 (1.58%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.24%) Mobile App
16 24 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 22 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (1.09%) Private Cloud
18 18 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 826 (40.81%) Linux
2 445 (21.99%) Windows
3 330 (16.30%) Android
4 255 (12.60%) Unix
5 72 (3.56%) Windows Server
6 46 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 44 (2.17%) VMS
8 25 (1.24%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
10 13 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.44%) Debian
12 8 (0.40%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.35%) CentOS
14 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.099%) AIX
16 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.049%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,378 (68.08%) DevOps
2 902 (44.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 862 (42.59%) CI/CD
4 685 (33.84%) Agile
5 569 (28.11%) Containerisation
6 563 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
7 506 (25.00%) Task Automation
8 449 (22.18%) Platform Engineering
9 429 (21.20%) Mentoring
10 419 (20.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 415 (20.50%) Roadmaps
12 402 (19.86%) Software Engineering
13 336 (16.60%) High Availability
13 336 (16.60%) Mathematics
14 335 (16.55%) Line Management
15 308 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
16 289 (14.28%) Risk Management
17 271 (13.39%) Storage Management
18 263 (12.99%) Cost Optimisation
19 259 (12.80%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1,322 (65.32%) Python
2 645 (31.87%) Bash
3 569 (28.11%) Java
4 509 (25.15%) PowerShell
5 430 (21.25%) Go
6 373 (18.43%) JavaScript
7 227 (11.22%) SQL
8 136 (6.72%) TypeScript
9 110 (5.43%) C#
10 72 (3.56%) C++
11 65 (3.21%) Bicep
12 59 (2.92%) Rust
13 43 (2.12%) Groovy
14 38 (1.88%) Scala
15 32 (1.58%) Kotlin
16 21 (1.04%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.99%) Ruby
18 19 (0.94%) Perl
19 18 (0.89%) PHP
20 9 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 294 (14.53%) AWS Certification
2 258 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 159 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 146 (7.21%) Degree
5 113 (5.58%) Azure Certification
6 95 (4.69%) DV Cleared
7 80 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.09%) CCNP
13 17 (0.84%) CCNA
14 11 (0.54%) CISSP
14 11 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
15 9 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.35%) JNCIA
17 7 (0.35%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (4.79%) NIST
3 48 (2.37%) GDPR
3 48 (2.37%) QA
4 26 (1.28%) HIPAA
5 24 (1.19%) SOC 2
6 16 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.35%) NCSC
9 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.20%) SLA
11 2 (0.099%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.049%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.049%) GRC
12 1 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.049%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.049%) PMO
System Software
1 1,052 (51.98%) Docker
2 293 (14.48%) VMware NSX
2 293 (14.48%) vSphere
3 281 (13.88%) Hyper-V
4 174 (8.60%) Active Directory
5 81 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 52 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.09%) DFS Replication
9 18 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.40%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Flume
12 4 (0.20%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.20%) Postfix
12 4 (0.20%) Squid
13 3 (0.15%) LXC
14 2 (0.099%) KVM
14 2 (0.099%) Xen
15 1 (0.049%) Firmware
15 1 (0.049%) RACF
Systems Management
1 969 (47.88%) Kubernetes
2 954 (47.13%) Ansible
3 375 (18.53%) Prometheus
4 238 (11.76%) Argo
5 225 (11.12%) Kustomize
6 170 (8.40%) Grafana
7 58 (2.87%) Puppet
8 48 (2.37%) Progress Chef
9 39 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.53%) FortiGate
11 27 (1.33%) Istio
12 26 (1.28%) SCCM
13 19 (0.94%) Packer
14 14 (0.69%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.59%) Nessus
16 11 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
17 8 (0.40%) Podman
18 7 (0.35%) HAProxy
18 7 (0.35%) Salt
18 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 369 (18.23%) Google
2 364 (17.98%) Cisco
3 309 (15.27%) Splunk
4 285 (14.08%) Juniper
5 262 (12.94%) 3PAR
6 225 (11.12%) Microsoft
7 154 (7.61%) VMware
8 82 (4.05%) Thales
9 70 (3.46%) Databricks
10 45 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 39 (1.93%) F5
11 39 (1.93%) Oracle
11 39 (1.93%) ServiceNow
12 36 (1.78%) IBM
12 36 (1.78%) Palo Alto
13 35 (1.73%) CheckPoint
14 26 (1.28%) Blue Coat
15 25 (1.24%) Citrix
16 23 (1.14%) Dynatrace
16 23 (1.14%) SAP