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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 67 48
Rank change year-on-year -26 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,783 4,971 9,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.86% 4.67% 6.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.78% 31.53% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,990 3,258 4,699
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,375 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £109,865 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +12.50%

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 10,018 15,764 27,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 14.80% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,306 9,656 14,280
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 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 -32 2,310 £75,000 -3.23% 646
UK excluding London -22 1,597 £65,000 -6.40% 366
Work from Home -26 1,256 £71,500 -4.67% 418
London -12 1,063 £85,000 - 323
North of England -27 429 £65,000 -7.14% 111
Scotland +10 329 £70,000 +4.81% 34
South East -47 310 £67,500 -3.57% 73
North West -17 258 £65,000 -7.14% 71
South West -31 235 £70,576 +8.58% 59
Midlands +11 185 £62,500 -10.71% 45
West Midlands +17 131 £65,000 -10.34% 25
Yorkshire -25 123 £65,000 -7.14% 27
East of England -47 58 £70,000 +7.69% 16
East Midlands -12 54 £58,750 -16.07% 20
North East +2 50 £62,783 -6.99% 13
Wales -13 41 £51,592 -16.11% 21
Northern Ireland +13 15 £70,000 - 12
Channel Islands - 3 £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
1 179 (6.43%) Apache Spark
2 112 (4.02%) Apache
3 82 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.80%) nginx
5 37 (1.33%) OpenStack
6 35 (1.26%) Confluence
7 24 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 16 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
10 14 (0.50%) SharePoint
11 11 (0.40%) IIS
12 10 (0.36%) Drupal
13 6 (0.22%) WordPress
14 5 (0.18%) CMS
15 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.072%) Apache Solr
16 2 (0.072%) JBoss
16 2 (0.072%) WebSphere
17 1 (0.036%) Jetty
17 1 (0.036%) Moodle
Applications
1 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.54%) Simulink
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.072%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.072%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.036%) Notion
5 1 (0.036%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.036%) Magento
2 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,771 (63.64%) AWS
2 1,333 (47.90%) Azure
3 479 (17.21%) GCP
4 461 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
5 399 (14.34%) Serverless
6 337 (12.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 316 (11.35%) GitHub
8 284 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
9 271 (9.74%) Amazon S3
10 234 (8.41%) PaaS
11 230 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
12 205 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
13 204 (7.33%) IaaS
14 184 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
15 151 (5.43%) SaaS
16 138 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
16 138 (4.96%) OpenShift
17 137 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 132 (4.74%) Datadog
19 111 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 199 (7.15%) Firewall
2 143 (5.14%) DNS
3 123 (4.42%) VPN
4 86 (3.09%) WAN
5 79 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 69 (2.48%) Internet
7 63 (2.26%) HTTP
8 62 (2.23%) LAN
9 55 (1.98%) Network Security
10 47 (1.69%) DHCP
11 34 (1.22%) SD-WAN
12 29 (1.04%) AMQP
13 17 (0.61%) SAN
14 16 (0.57%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.57%) NGFW
15 13 (0.47%) IPv4
16 12 (0.43%) SSL
17 11 (0.40%) BGP
17 11 (0.40%) SNMP
17 11 (0.40%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (8.01%) NoSQL
2 221 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
3 185 (6.65%) MySQL
4 178 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
5 153 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 151 (5.43%) Big Data
7 118 (4.24%) Relational Database
8 106 (3.81%) Hadoop
9 98 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (3.20%) Apache Hive
11 84 (3.02%) HBase
12 71 (2.55%) MongoDB
13 70 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
14 69 (2.48%) BigQuery
15 63 (2.26%) DynamoDB
16 60 (2.16%) Data Lake
17 52 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
18 51 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
19 50 (1.80%) Redis
20 47 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 621 (22.31%) Jenkins
2 451 (16.21%) Git
3 254 (9.13%) GitLab
4 143 (5.14%) JIRA
5 94 (3.38%) Artifactory
6 88 (3.16%) TeamCity
7 84 (3.02%) Bitbucket Server
8 57 (2.05%) Bitbucket
9 56 (2.01%) SonarQube
10 47 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 40 (1.44%) CircleCI
12 36 (1.29%) Maven
13 31 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
14 30 (1.08%) Postman
15 29 (1.04%) Selenium
16 24 (0.86%) JUnit
16 24 (0.86%) Subversion
17 22 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 22 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
18 19 (0.68%) Cucumber
General
1 777 (27.92%) Finance
2 537 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 485 (17.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 299 (10.74%) Law
5 248 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 158 (5.68%) Banking
7 145 (5.21%) Marketing
8 142 (5.10%) Retail
9 89 (3.20%) Legal
10 79 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
11 70 (2.52%) Aerospace
12 42 (1.51%) Tech for Good
13 37 (1.33%) Health Technology
14 36 (1.29%) Front Office
14 36 (1.29%) Games
15 33 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.72%) Electronics
18 19 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 751 (26.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 654 (23.50%) Senior
3 438 (15.74%) Software Engineer
4 380 (13.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 356 (12.79%) AWS Engineer
6 336 (12.07%) Lead
7 318 (11.43%) Developer
8 237 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
9 225 (8.08%) Architect
10 205 (7.37%) Senior DevOps
11 200 (7.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 173 (6.22%) AWS DevOps
13 169 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
14 164 (5.89%) Data Engineer
15 162 (5.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 155 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 124 (4.46%) Cloud Architect
18 104 (3.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 101 (3.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 93 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (7.69%) .NET
2 206 (7.40%) Spring
3 183 (6.58%) Node.js
4 178 (6.40%) React
5 147 (5.28%) Spring Boot
6 134 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
7 123 (4.42%) REST
8 118 (4.24%) ARM Templates
9 109 (3.92%) JSON
10 104 (3.74%) Kafka
11 96 (3.45%) AngularJS
12 90 (3.23%) YAML
13 78 (2.80%) RESTful
14 71 (2.55%) .NET Core
15 64 (2.30%) HTML
16 59 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
17 53 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
18 51 (1.83%) gRPC
19 45 (1.62%) Web Services
20 42 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 362 (13.01%) Public Cloud
2 297 (10.67%) Cloud Native
3 178 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 128 (4.60%) Algorithms
5 116 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 100 (3.59%) Blockchain
7 94 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 81 (2.91%) Data Centre
9 80 (2.87%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
11 60 (2.16%) Private Cloud
12 52 (1.87%) Clustering
13 46 (1.65%) e-Learning
14 39 (1.40%) Tandem
15 38 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
15 38 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.33%) Hedge funds
16 37 (1.33%) Virtual Team
17 32 (1.15%) Client/Server
17 32 (1.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 655 (23.54%) Linux
2 311 (11.17%) Windows
3 116 (4.17%) Unix
4 94 (3.38%) CentOS
5 91 (3.27%) Windows Server
6 81 (2.91%) Ubuntu
7 71 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (2.41%) Debian
9 51 (1.83%) VMS
10 40 (1.44%) Alpine Linux
11 22 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (0.54%) Windows 10
14 12 (0.43%) Android
15 11 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
15 11 (0.40%) Solaris
16 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
18 6 (0.22%) Mac OS
19 5 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,564 (56.20%) DevOps
2 1,364 (49.01%) CI/CD
3 1,200 (43.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,177 (42.29%) Agile
5 754 (27.09%) Software Engineering
6 477 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 409 (14.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 393 (14.12%) SDLC
9 384 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
10 366 (13.15%) Mentoring
11 342 (12.29%) Test Automation
12 334 (12.00%) Microservices
13 323 (11.61%) Machine Learning
14 274 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 264 (9.49%) TDD
16 253 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 253 (9.09%) Operational Stability
17 242 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
18 230 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
19 227 (8.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,009 (36.26%) Python
2 690 (24.79%) Java
3 471 (16.92%) SQL
4 390 (14.01%) PowerShell
5 302 (10.85%) Bash
6 276 (9.92%) JavaScript
7 218 (7.83%) Go
8 202 (7.26%) C#
9 148 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 103 (3.70%) Kotlin
11 99 (3.56%) Bicep
12 86 (3.09%) PL/SQL
13 80 (2.87%) PHP
14 73 (2.62%) Shell Script
15 71 (2.55%) Groovy
16 68 (2.44%) Ruby
17 58 (2.08%) Scala
18 42 (1.51%) Perl
19 41 (1.47%) T-SQL
20 35 (1.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 442 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 237 (8.52%) SC Cleared
3 234 (8.41%) Degree
4 194 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 190 (6.83%) Azure Certification
6 168 (6.04%) AWS Certification
7 131 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 76 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (1.65%) MCSE
11 44 (1.58%) MCSA
12 39 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 39 (1.40%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
15 23 (0.83%) CCNA
16 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.32%) PhD
18 6 (0.22%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (1.29%) QA
2 32 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (0.83%) GDPR
4 19 (0.68%) NIST
5 17 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.54%) NCSC
7 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.32%) SLA
8 4 (0.14%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.036%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.036%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.036%) GMP
10 1 (0.036%) SEPA
System Software
1 934 (33.56%) Docker
2 138 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 105 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (3.02%) HDFS
5 77 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
6 62 (2.23%) Hyper-V
7 32 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (0.93%) vSphere
9 20 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (0.57%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.32%) KVM
12 6 (0.22%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.14%) Firmware
15 3 (0.11%) Ceph
15 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.072%) Varnish
17 1 (0.036%) XenApp
17 1 (0.036%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,262 (45.35%) Kubernetes
2 775 (27.85%) Ansible
3 240 (8.62%) Grafana
4 220 (7.91%) Prometheus
5 197 (7.08%) Puppet
6 122 (4.38%) Progress Chef
7 44 (1.58%) Packer
8 30 (1.08%) HAProxy
9 27 (0.97%) Istio
10 24 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.86%) Salt
11 22 (0.79%) Consul
11 22 (0.79%) Kibana
12 21 (0.75%) Rancher
13 19 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.65%) FortiGate
14 18 (0.65%) Nagios
15 17 (0.61%) Argo
15 17 (0.61%) vCenter Server
16 16 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 350 (12.58%) Microsoft
2 242 (8.70%) Google
3 143 (5.14%) Red Hat
4 141 (5.07%) Databricks
5 136 (4.89%) Dynatrace
6 134 (4.81%) VMware
7 117 (4.20%) Splunk
8 112 (4.02%) IBM
9 84 (3.02%) Informatica
10 64 (2.30%) Cisco
10 64 (2.30%) Citrix
11 58 (2.08%) Oracle
12 56 (2.01%) Cloudera
13 51 (1.83%) SaltStack
14 32 (1.15%) WSO2
15 29 (1.04%) New Relic
16 20 (0.72%) Atlassian
17 19 (0.68%) NetApp
18 15 (0.54%) F5
18 15 (0.54%) SAP