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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 68 49
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,810 4,664 10,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.83% 4.59% 6.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.33% 31.43% 34.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 3,042 4,518
10th Percentile £49,082 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £108,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +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 9,920 14,837 28,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.61% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,137 9,151 14,123
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £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 £86,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -25 2,341 £75,000 -3.23% 680
UK excluding London -28 1,605 £65,000 -7.14% 360
Work from Home -25 1,242 £71,500 -4.67% 426
London -9 1,087 £85,000 - 336
North of England -21 442 £65,000 -7.14% 116
Scotland +9 330 £69,500 +0.08% 15
South East -62 301 £67,500 -6.90% 77
North West -22 271 £65,000 -7.14% 62
South West -29 243 £72,788 +7.83% 58
Midlands -3 180 £65,000 -7.14% 50
West Midlands +10 137 £65,000 -7.14% 32
Yorkshire -26 122 £62,783 -10.31% 41
East of England -66 55 £70,000 +7.69% 21
North East +4 51 £62,783 -5.23% 13
East Midlands -23 43 £57,500 -17.86% 18
Wales -17 41 £51,592 -14.01% 16
Northern Ireland +8 14 £72,500 - 11
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

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 (6.37%) Apache Spark
2 104 (3.70%) Apache
3 100 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.81%) nginx
5 38 (1.35%) OpenStack
6 34 (1.21%) Confluence
7 23 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
10 12 (0.43%) SharePoint
11 10 (0.36%) IIS
12 9 (0.32%) Drupal
13 5 (0.18%) WordPress
14 4 (0.14%) JBoss
14 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.071%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.071%) CMS
16 1 (0.036%) Jetty
16 1 (0.036%) Moodle
16 1 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.68%) Simulink
3 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.036%) Notion
5 1 (0.036%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.036%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.036%) Magento
2 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,822 (64.84%) AWS
2 1,341 (47.72%) Azure
3 475 (16.90%) GCP
4 444 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
5 391 (13.91%) Serverless
6 323 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 301 (10.71%) GitHub
8 267 (9.50%) Amazon S3
8 267 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
9 236 (8.40%) PaaS
10 235 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
11 199 (7.08%) IaaS
12 190 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
13 177 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
14 151 (5.37%) SaaS
15 144 (5.12%) OpenShift
16 141 (5.02%) Datadog
17 133 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 131 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
19 111 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 200 (7.12%) Firewall
2 150 (5.34%) DNS
3 120 (4.27%) VPN
4 93 (3.31%) WAN
5 78 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 68 (2.42%) Internet
7 65 (2.31%) LAN
8 64 (2.28%) HTTP
9 55 (1.96%) Network Security
10 48 (1.71%) DHCP
11 35 (1.25%) SD-WAN
12 32 (1.14%) AMQP
13 17 (0.60%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.60%) SAN
14 15 (0.53%) IPv4
15 14 (0.50%) SSL
16 13 (0.46%) NGFW
17 10 (0.36%) BGP
17 10 (0.36%) OSPF
17 10 (0.36%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.72%) NoSQL
2 214 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
3 174 (6.19%) MySQL
4 169 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
5 163 (5.80%) Big Data
6 152 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 114 (4.06%) Relational Database
8 111 (3.95%) Hadoop
9 93 (3.31%) Apache Hive
10 90 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (3.06%) HBase
12 80 (2.85%) MongoDB
13 75 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
14 70 (2.49%) Data Lake
15 61 (2.17%) DynamoDB
16 55 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (1.89%) BigQuery
18 52 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
18 52 (1.85%) Redis
19 51 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 597 (21.25%) Jenkins
2 449 (15.98%) Git
3 257 (9.15%) GitLab
4 139 (4.95%) JIRA
5 88 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 86 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
7 82 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 55 (1.96%) Bitbucket
9 52 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 42 (1.49%) CircleCI
10 42 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
11 32 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
12 30 (1.07%) Maven
13 29 (1.03%) Postman
13 29 (1.03%) Selenium
14 25 (0.89%) JUnit
15 24 (0.85%) Subversion
15 24 (0.85%) Vagrant
16 21 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
17 19 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 778 (27.69%) Finance
2 534 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 505 (17.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 310 (11.03%) Law
5 265 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 146 (5.20%) Marketing
7 142 (5.05%) Banking
8 131 (4.66%) Retail
9 94 (3.35%) Legal
10 79 (2.81%) Aerospace
11 74 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
12 42 (1.49%) Tech for Good
13 38 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.32%) Games
14 37 (1.32%) Health Technology
15 32 (1.14%) Front Office
16 24 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.78%) Electronics
17 22 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 22 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 745 (26.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 672 (23.91%) Senior
3 469 (16.69%) Software Engineer
4 375 (13.35%) AWS Engineer
4 375 (13.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 333 (11.85%) Lead
6 313 (11.14%) Developer
7 244 (8.68%) Azure Engineer
8 222 (7.90%) Architect
9 205 (7.30%) Senior DevOps
10 198 (7.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 176 (6.26%) Platform Engineer
12 163 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
12 163 (5.80%) Data Engineer
13 157 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 153 (5.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 125 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
16 114 (4.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 106 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 100 (3.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (7.65%) .NET
2 213 (7.58%) Spring
3 190 (6.76%) Node.js
4 184 (6.55%) React
5 145 (5.16%) Spring Boot
6 131 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
7 122 (4.34%) REST
8 115 (4.09%) ARM Templates
9 101 (3.59%) JSON
10 97 (3.45%) Kafka
11 94 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 85 (3.02%) YAML
13 79 (2.81%) RESTful
14 72 (2.56%) gRPC
15 67 (2.38%) .NET Core
16 66 (2.35%) HTML
17 58 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
18 56 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
19 44 (1.57%) Web Services
20 42 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 362 (12.88%) Public Cloud
2 312 (11.10%) Cloud Native
3 191 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 131 (4.66%) Algorithms
5 122 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
6 111 (3.95%) Blockchain
7 95 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 78 (2.78%) Product Ownership
9 76 (2.70%) Data Centre
10 69 (2.46%) Clustering
11 68 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
12 59 (2.10%) Private Cloud
13 58 (2.06%) e-Learning
14 56 (1.99%) Hedge funds
15 38 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.28%) Onboarding
17 35 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
17 35 (1.25%) Tandem
18 33 (1.17%) PKI
19 32 (1.14%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 661 (23.52%) Linux
2 310 (11.03%) Windows
3 124 (4.41%) Unix
4 101 (3.59%) CentOS
5 94 (3.35%) Windows Server
6 91 (3.24%) Ubuntu
7 83 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 70 (2.49%) Debian
9 53 (1.89%) VMS
10 40 (1.42%) Alpine Linux
11 22 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (0.60%) Android
12 17 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.57%) Windows 10
14 12 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
14 12 (0.43%) Solaris
15 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,581 (56.26%) DevOps
2 1,369 (48.72%) CI/CD
3 1,211 (43.10%) Agile
4 1,197 (42.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 784 (27.90%) Software Engineering
6 493 (17.54%) Containerisation
7 415 (14.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 398 (14.16%) SDLC
9 388 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
10 385 (13.70%) Mentoring
11 353 (12.56%) Test Automation
12 347 (12.35%) Microservices
13 326 (11.60%) Machine Learning
14 309 (11.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 265 (9.43%) TDD
16 264 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 260 (9.25%) Operational Stability
18 244 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
19 242 (8.61%) Scrum
20 241 (8.58%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (36.30%) Python
2 723 (25.73%) Java
3 480 (17.08%) SQL
4 378 (13.45%) PowerShell
5 300 (10.68%) JavaScript
6 293 (10.43%) Bash
7 230 (8.19%) Go
8 199 (7.08%) C#
9 150 (5.34%) TypeScript
10 117 (4.16%) Kotlin
11 93 (3.31%) Bicep
12 87 (3.10%) PL/SQL
13 78 (2.78%) PHP
14 71 (2.53%) Groovy
15 68 (2.42%) Shell Script
16 65 (2.31%) Scala
17 56 (1.99%) Ruby
18 45 (1.60%) T-SQL
19 43 (1.53%) C++
20 38 (1.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 451 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 240 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 235 (8.36%) Degree
4 204 (7.26%) DV Cleared
5 184 (6.55%) Azure Certification
6 172 (6.12%) AWS Certification
7 132 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 85 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 75 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.57%) MCSE
11 42 (1.49%) MCSA
12 40 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 38 (1.35%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.82%) CCNA
16 22 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.32%) PhD
19 8 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 6 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (1.17%) QA
2 25 (0.89%) GDPR
3 22 (0.78%) NIST
4 20 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 17 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.53%) NCSC
7 11 (0.39%) SLA
8 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.036%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.036%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.036%) GMP
12 1 (0.036%) SEPA
System Software
1 935 (33.27%) Docker
2 144 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 99 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (3.06%) HDFS
4 86 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 59 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 28 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (0.82%) vSphere
8 21 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.32%) KVM
11 7 (0.25%) Ceph
12 6 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.21%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.14%) Firmware
15 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.11%) XenApp
15 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.071%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,307 (46.51%) Kubernetes
2 787 (28.01%) Ansible
3 260 (9.25%) Prometheus
4 243 (8.65%) Grafana
5 198 (7.05%) Puppet
6 115 (4.09%) Progress Chef
7 43 (1.53%) Packer
8 30 (1.07%) HAProxy
8 30 (1.07%) Istio
9 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.85%) Consul
10 24 (0.85%) Salt
11 23 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 22 (0.78%) Kibana
13 20 (0.71%) Rancher
13 20 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
14 19 (0.68%) Nagios
15 18 (0.64%) Argo
16 16 (0.57%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 361 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 231 (8.22%) Google
3 160 (5.69%) Red Hat
4 150 (5.34%) Dynatrace
5 146 (5.20%) Databricks
6 128 (4.56%) VMware
7 119 (4.23%) IBM
7 119 (4.23%) Splunk
8 86 (3.06%) Informatica
9 62 (2.21%) Cisco
10 60 (2.14%) Oracle
11 57 (2.03%) Citrix
11 57 (2.03%) Cloudera
12 53 (1.89%) SaltStack
13 32 (1.14%) WSO2
14 28 (1.00%) New Relic
15 21 (0.75%) Atlassian
16 18 (0.64%) NetApp
16 18 (0.64%) Zscaler
17 14 (0.50%) F5