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

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 92 70
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 1,995 2,838 4,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.57% 2.68% 4.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.07% 28.76% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,966 2,822
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £51,411
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,524 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £93,438
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.62% -7.14% +3.70%

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 5,689 9,867 13,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 9.33% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,091 6,979 8,683
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,619 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +8.40% -6.38% +1.29%

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 5 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 5 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 +27 1,878 £75,000 - 7,101
Work from Home +33 1,126 £78,810 +10.22% 4,588
UK excluding London +6 1,007 £71,250 +9.62% 6,456
London +10 797 £85,000 - 1,534
North of England +31 497 £70,000 +7.69% 1,509
North West +33 399 £72,500 +11.54% 770
South East +3 176 £75,000 +11.11% 1,815
Midlands -6 102 £72,500 +11.54% 1,111
West Midlands -4 79 £72,500 +11.54% 605
East of England +64 77 £67,500 -3.57% 896
Yorkshire +12 74 £70,000 +11.50% 576
Scotland -18 69 £77,085 +10.52% 283
South West 0 65 £76,905 +9.86% 766
North East +22 24 £65,000 +3.53% 168
East Midlands +20 23 £65,000 +13.04% 433
Wales +17 13 £53,199 +4.96% 176
Northern Ireland +32 7 £55,000 -24.14% 95
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 97 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 93 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (4.06%) Apache
4 42 (2.11%) Confluence
5 31 (1.55%) nginx
6 20 (1.00%) IIS
7 17 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.75%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.40%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.30%) Camunda
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.25%) Appian
13 4 (0.20%) CMS
13 4 (0.20%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.20%) WordPress
14 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.15%) Traefik
15 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.10%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 10 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.15%) Sketch
3 1 (0.050%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,163 (58.30%) AWS
2 726 (36.39%) Azure
3 323 (16.19%) GCP
4 292 (14.64%) Serverless
5 260 (13.03%) Pulumi
6 252 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
7 193 (9.67%) GitHub
8 190 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 178 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
10 144 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
11 129 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
12 117 (5.86%) Amazon S3
13 100 (5.01%) SaaS
14 93 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
14 93 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
15 81 (4.06%) dbt
16 73 (3.66%) PaaS
17 71 (3.56%) OpenShift
18 65 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 62 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 315 (15.79%) VPN
2 302 (15.14%) Broadband
3 272 (13.63%) Cisco IOS
4 139 (6.97%) Firewall
5 93 (4.66%) SSH
5 93 (4.66%) SSL
6 77 (3.86%) WAN
7 73 (3.66%) DNS
8 64 (3.21%) LAN
9 46 (2.31%) SD-WAN
10 44 (2.21%) Network Security
11 41 (2.06%) TCP/IP
12 31 (1.55%) Cisco ISE
13 28 (1.40%) Ethernet
14 20 (1.00%) Internet
15 19 (0.95%) DHCP
15 19 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (0.90%) SAN
17 15 (0.75%) 5G
18 13 (0.65%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (15.39%) NoSQL
2 246 (12.33%) Relational Database
3 228 (11.43%) RDBMS
4 88 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
5 86 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 84 (4.21%) SQL Server
7 81 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
8 79 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
9 65 (3.26%) Apache Iceberg
10 60 (3.01%) MySQL
11 55 (2.76%) Apache Arrow
11 55 (2.76%) Apache Ignite
11 55 (2.76%) Dremio
11 55 (2.76%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.51%) Big Data
13 42 (2.11%) DynamoDB
14 38 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.25%) Data Lake
16 24 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 243 (12.18%) Jenkins
2 216 (10.83%) Jaeger
3 172 (8.62%) Git
4 135 (6.77%) GitLab
5 68 (3.41%) Artifactory
6 63 (3.16%) JIRA
7 57 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 51 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 44 (2.21%) JUnit
10 41 (2.06%) Maven
11 35 (1.75%) CircleCI
12 28 (1.40%) TeamCity
13 27 (1.35%) Bitbucket
14 26 (1.30%) Selenium
15 24 (1.20%) Cucumber
15 24 (1.20%) Vagrant
16 23 (1.15%) Mockito
17 14 (0.70%) IntelliJ
18 13 (0.65%) Postman
19 12 (0.60%) NUnit
General
1 668 (33.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 453 (22.71%) Finance
3 419 (21.00%) Social Skills
4 368 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
5 166 (8.32%) Banking
6 114 (5.71%) Law
7 76 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 67 (3.36%) Front Office
9 56 (2.81%) Marketing
10 42 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.35%) Electronics
11 27 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.05%) Games
13 15 (0.75%) Advertising
13 15 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.70%) Automotive
14 14 (0.70%) Retail
15 13 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.55%) Legal
17 7 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 439 (22.01%) Lead
2 369 (18.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 366 (18.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 328 (16.44%) Senior
5 256 (12.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 223 (11.18%) Team Leader
7 169 (8.47%) Developer
8 159 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
9 150 (7.52%) Software Engineer
10 140 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
11 136 (6.82%) Data Engineer
12 127 (6.37%) Python Engineer
13 124 (6.22%) AWS DevOps
14 116 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
15 114 (5.71%) Architect
16 108 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 66 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
18 65 (3.26%) Senior Developer
19 63 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 55 (2.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 530 (26.57%) Elastic Stack
2 226 (11.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 177 (8.87%) Kafka
4 150 (7.52%) RESTful
5 135 (6.77%) .NET
6 112 (5.61%) Node.js
7 107 (5.36%) REST
8 96 (4.81%) Web Services
9 95 (4.76%) React
10 87 (4.36%) PySpark
11 69 (3.46%) Spring
12 68 (3.41%) ARM Templates
13 67 (3.36%) Spring Boot
14 57 (2.86%) Pandas
15 55 (2.76%) J2EE
16 39 (1.95%) AngularJS
17 36 (1.80%) FastAPI
18 33 (1.65%) JSON
19 32 (1.60%) Flask
20 30 (1.50%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 393 (19.70%) Cyberattack
2 165 (8.27%) Cloud Native
3 140 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 122 (6.12%) Public Cloud
5 102 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 94 (4.71%) PKI
7 88 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
8 66 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
9 65 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 53 (2.66%) Data Centre
10 53 (2.66%) Product Ownership
11 32 (1.60%) Replication
12 28 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 27 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.30%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 23 (1.15%) Mobile App
17 21 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
18 18 (0.90%) Private Cloud
19 16 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 821 (41.15%) Linux
2 441 (22.11%) Windows
3 329 (16.49%) Android
4 255 (12.78%) Unix
5 71 (3.56%) Windows Server
6 41 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.75%) VMS
8 22 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
9 12 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.45%) CentOS
11 8 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.40%) Debian
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.050%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,368 (68.57%) DevOps
2 881 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 851 (42.66%) CI/CD
4 657 (32.93%) Agile
5 568 (28.47%) Containerisation
6 544 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 509 (25.51%) Task Automation
8 449 (22.51%) Platform Engineering
9 422 (21.15%) Mentoring
10 412 (20.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 409 (20.50%) Roadmaps
12 389 (19.50%) Software Engineering
13 338 (16.94%) Line Management
14 337 (16.89%) High Availability
15 331 (16.59%) Mathematics
16 309 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
17 288 (14.44%) Risk Management
18 273 (13.68%) Storage Management
19 263 (13.18%) Cost Optimisation
20 254 (12.73%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1,320 (66.17%) Python
2 647 (32.43%) Bash
3 563 (28.22%) Java
4 493 (24.71%) PowerShell
5 432 (21.65%) Go
6 370 (18.55%) JavaScript
7 216 (10.83%) SQL
8 130 (6.52%) TypeScript
9 103 (5.16%) C#
10 71 (3.56%) C++
11 64 (3.21%) Bicep
12 58 (2.91%) Rust
13 38 (1.90%) Scala
14 32 (1.60%) Groovy
15 25 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.25%) Ruby
16 23 (1.15%) PHP
17 18 (0.90%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.80%) Perl
19 8 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 285 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 242 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 145 (7.27%) Degree
3 145 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 97 (4.86%) Azure Certification
5 89 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 79 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.15%) CCNP
12 14 (0.70%) CCNA
13 12 (0.60%) CISSP
14 11 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 6 (0.30%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 98 (4.91%) NIST
3 52 (2.61%) GDPR
4 50 (2.51%) QA
5 30 (1.50%) HIPAA
6 24 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 15 (0.75%) Data Quality
8 11 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.45%) NCSC
10 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.15%) SLA
14 2 (0.10%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.050%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.050%) COBIT
15 1 (0.050%) GRC
15 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.050%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.050%) PMO
System Software
1 1,047 (52.48%) Docker
2 294 (14.74%) VMware NSX
3 293 (14.69%) vSphere
4 281 (14.09%) Hyper-V
5 165 (8.27%) Active Directory
6 78 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 51 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (0.75%) DFS Replication
11 6 (0.30%) NFS
12 5 (0.25%) Apache Flume
13 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.15%) LXC
13 3 (0.15%) Postfix
13 3 (0.15%) Squid
14 2 (0.10%) KVM
14 2 (0.10%) Xen
15 1 (0.050%) Firmware
15 1 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 964 (48.32%) Kubernetes
2 961 (48.17%) Ansible
3 360 (18.05%) Prometheus
4 242 (12.13%) Argo
5 226 (11.33%) Kustomize
6 159 (7.97%) Grafana
7 65 (3.26%) Puppet
8 58 (2.91%) Progress Chef
9 37 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.45%) FortiGate
10 29 (1.45%) Istio
11 26 (1.30%) SCCM
12 20 (1.00%) Packer
13 13 (0.65%) Nessus
13 13 (0.65%) Proxmox
14 12 (0.60%) Podman
15 11 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
16 7 (0.35%) Consul
16 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 370 (18.55%) Google
2 363 (18.20%) Cisco
3 304 (15.24%) Splunk
4 282 (14.14%) Juniper
5 262 (13.13%) 3PAR
6 211 (10.58%) Microsoft
7 153 (7.67%) VMware
8 82 (4.11%) Thales
9 67 (3.36%) Databricks
10 43 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 40 (2.01%) F5
11 40 (2.01%) Palo Alto
12 38 (1.90%) Oracle
13 37 (1.85%) CheckPoint
14 33 (1.65%) IBM
15 32 (1.60%) ServiceNow
16 27 (1.35%) Blue Coat
17 23 (1.15%) Citrix
18 21 (1.05%) SAP
19 20 (1.00%) SolarWinds