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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 69 50
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,790 4,548 10,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.79% 4.59% 6.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.32% 31.18% 34.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,973 2,999 4,390
10th Percentile £48,829 £52,314 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -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 9,851 14,586 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 14.71% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,078 9,021 14,016
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,250 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.17% -0.46% +8.23%

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 18 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 18 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 -28 2,323 £75,000 -2.60% 736
UK excluding London -33 1,573 £65,000 -7.14% 416
Work from Home -20 1,254 £71,500 -4.67% 432
London -8 1,101 £85,000 - 413
North of England -25 444 £65,000 -7.14% 109
Scotland +5 330 £69,500 +0.08% 13
South East -57 300 £67,500 -6.90% 145
North West -19 274 £65,000 -8.77% 58
South West -38 215 £70,576 +4.56% 56
Midlands -13 180 £65,000 -7.14% 51
West Midlands +10 138 £65,000 -7.14% 36
Yorkshire -25 121 £62,783 -10.31% 43
North East +2 51 £62,783 -5.23% 8
East of England -72 50 £70,000 +7.69% 26
East Midlands -17 42 £57,500 - 15
Wales -23 40 £50,685 -15.53% 11
Northern Ireland +2 14 £72,500 - 7
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
1 183 (6.56%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.87%) Apache
3 107 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.79%) nginx
5 38 (1.36%) OpenStack
6 33 (1.18%) Confluence
7 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
10 11 (0.39%) IIS
10 11 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 8 (0.29%) Drupal
12 5 (0.18%) JBoss
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
14 2 (0.072%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.072%) CMS
14 2 (0.072%) Moodle
15 1 (0.036%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (0.82%) Simulink
3 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.072%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,801 (64.55%) AWS
2 1,349 (48.35%) Azure
3 484 (17.35%) GCP
4 424 (15.20%) Azure DevOps
5 385 (13.80%) Serverless
6 304 (10.90%) GitHub
7 280 (10.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 263 (9.43%) Amazon S3
9 262 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
10 235 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
10 235 (8.42%) PaaS
11 195 (6.99%) IaaS
12 187 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
13 174 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
14 156 (5.59%) OpenShift
15 153 (5.48%) SaaS
16 140 (5.02%) Datadog
17 133 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
18 132 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 112 (4.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (6.99%) Firewall
2 121 (4.34%) DNS
3 117 (4.19%) VPN
4 92 (3.30%) WAN
5 66 (2.37%) Internet
6 63 (2.26%) LAN
7 51 (1.83%) Network Security
8 46 (1.65%) TCP/IP
9 37 (1.33%) HTTP
10 34 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 33 (1.18%) AMQP
12 21 (0.75%) DHCP
13 17 (0.61%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.57%) SAN
15 15 (0.54%) IPv4
15 15 (0.54%) SSL
16 12 (0.43%) NGFW
17 10 (0.36%) OSPF
17 10 (0.36%) Wireless
17 10 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (7.96%) NoSQL
2 211 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
3 174 (6.24%) MySQL
4 171 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 169 (6.06%) Big Data
6 151 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 115 (4.12%) Relational Database
8 112 (4.01%) Hadoop
9 95 (3.41%) Apache Hive
10 88 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (3.08%) HBase
12 81 (2.90%) MongoDB
13 77 (2.76%) Data Lake
14 75 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
15 60 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
15 60 (2.15%) DynamoDB
16 54 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
16 54 (1.94%) Dremio
16 54 (1.94%) Redis
17 52 (1.86%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 581 (20.82%) Jenkins
2 447 (16.02%) Git
3 244 (8.75%) GitLab
4 137 (4.91%) JIRA
5 89 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 86 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
7 79 (2.83%) Artifactory
8 55 (1.97%) Bitbucket
9 43 (1.54%) CircleCI
10 42 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 40 (1.43%) SonarQube
12 35 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
13 30 (1.08%) Maven
14 29 (1.04%) Postman
15 28 (1.00%) Selenium
15 28 (1.00%) Vagrant
16 25 (0.90%) JUnit
17 24 (0.86%) Subversion
18 21 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
19 18 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 756 (27.10%) Finance
2 512 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 476 (17.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 311 (11.15%) Law
5 266 (9.53%) Public Sector
6 145 (5.20%) Marketing
7 142 (5.09%) Banking
8 126 (4.52%) Retail
9 95 (3.41%) Legal
10 83 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 77 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
12 41 (1.47%) Tech for Good
13 38 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.33%) Games
15 35 (1.25%) Health Technology
16 30 (1.08%) Front Office
17 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.86%) Electronics
18 24 (0.86%) Investment Banking
19 21 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 718 (25.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 654 (23.44%) Senior
3 479 (17.17%) Software Engineer
4 373 (13.37%) AWS Engineer
5 370 (13.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 334 (11.97%) Lead
7 324 (11.61%) Developer
8 231 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
9 202 (7.24%) Senior DevOps
10 201 (7.20%) Architect
11 194 (6.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 172 (6.16%) Platform Engineer
13 165 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 163 (5.84%) Data Engineer
15 158 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
16 150 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 117 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 111 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
19 106 (3.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 99 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (7.67%) Spring
2 209 (7.49%) .NET
3 191 (6.85%) Node.js
4 184 (6.59%) React
5 146 (5.23%) Spring Boot
6 123 (4.41%) REST
7 118 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
8 115 (4.12%) ARM Templates
9 100 (3.58%) JSON
9 100 (3.58%) Kafka
10 95 (3.41%) AngularJS
11 82 (2.94%) YAML
12 79 (2.83%) gRPC
12 79 (2.83%) RESTful
13 65 (2.33%) .NET Core
14 58 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
14 58 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
15 48 (1.72%) Protocol Buffers
16 43 (1.54%) Web Services
17 42 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 355 (12.72%) Public Cloud
2 287 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 188 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (4.73%) Algorithms
5 113 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
6 112 (4.01%) Blockchain
7 96 (3.44%) Management Information System
8 77 (2.76%) Data Centre
9 75 (2.69%) Clustering
9 75 (2.69%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
11 63 (2.26%) Hedge funds
12 60 (2.15%) Private Cloud
13 59 (2.11%) e-Learning
14 38 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (1.29%) Onboarding
16 33 (1.18%) PKI
16 33 (1.18%) Tandem
17 31 (1.11%) Client/Server
17 31 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 641 (22.97%) Linux
2 301 (10.79%) Windows
3 122 (4.37%) Unix
4 106 (3.80%) CentOS
5 98 (3.51%) Windows Server
6 94 (3.37%) Ubuntu
7 88 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 71 (2.54%) Debian
9 52 (1.86%) VMS
10 41 (1.47%) Alpine Linux
11 19 (0.68%) Android
11 19 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.65%) Windows 10
13 15 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
14 12 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
14 12 (0.43%) Solaris
15 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
17 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
17 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,572 (56.34%) DevOps
2 1,351 (48.42%) CI/CD
3 1,183 (42.40%) Agile
4 1,158 (41.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 778 (27.89%) Software Engineering
6 487 (17.46%) Containerisation
7 428 (15.34%) Artificial Intelligence
8 391 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
9 385 (13.80%) Mentoring
10 367 (13.15%) SDLC
11 346 (12.40%) Test Automation
12 344 (12.33%) Microservices
13 332 (11.90%) Machine Learning
14 315 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 265 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 265 (9.50%) TDD
16 261 (9.35%) Operational Stability
17 246 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
18 238 (8.53%) Continuous Integration
19 233 (8.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (36.49%) Python
2 749 (26.85%) Java
3 484 (17.35%) SQL
4 368 (13.19%) PowerShell
5 310 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 276 (9.89%) Bash
7 234 (8.39%) Go
8 196 (7.03%) C#
9 149 (5.34%) TypeScript
10 128 (4.59%) Kotlin
11 92 (3.30%) Bicep
12 87 (3.12%) PL/SQL
13 77 (2.76%) PHP
14 70 (2.51%) Groovy
15 68 (2.44%) Scala
16 66 (2.37%) Shell Script
17 57 (2.04%) Ruby
18 48 (1.72%) C++
19 45 (1.61%) T-SQL
20 35 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 418 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 243 (8.71%) SC Cleared
3 242 (8.67%) Degree
4 185 (6.63%) Azure Certification
5 174 (6.24%) DV Cleared
6 149 (5.34%) AWS Certification
7 142 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 89 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 48 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.58%) MCSE
11 42 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 42 (1.51%) MCSA
12 37 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 27 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.82%) CCNA
15 20 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.32%) PhD
18 8 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (1.40%) QA
2 32 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (0.93%) GDPR
4 24 (0.86%) NIST
5 22 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.43%) NCSC
8 11 (0.39%) SLA
9 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.072%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.036%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.036%) SEPA
System Software
1 922 (33.05%) Docker
2 142 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 99 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 91 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
5 86 (3.08%) HDFS
6 58 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (0.75%) vSphere
10 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.39%) XenApp
11 11 (0.39%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.32%) KVM
13 8 (0.29%) Ceph
14 6 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.18%) DFS Replication
15 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.14%) Firmware
17 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
18 2 (0.072%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,310 (46.95%) Kubernetes
2 792 (28.39%) Ansible
3 254 (9.10%) Prometheus
4 228 (8.17%) Grafana
5 199 (7.13%) Puppet
6 118 (4.23%) Progress Chef
7 43 (1.54%) Packer
8 30 (1.08%) Istio
9 29 (1.04%) HAProxy
9 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (0.90%) Consul
11 25 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (0.75%) Kibana
13 20 (0.72%) Argo
14 19 (0.68%) Nagios
14 19 (0.68%) Salt
15 18 (0.65%) Rancher
16 16 (0.57%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 371 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 236 (8.46%) Google
3 164 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 150 (5.38%) Dynatrace
5 149 (5.34%) Databricks
6 129 (4.62%) VMware
7 120 (4.30%) Splunk
8 119 (4.27%) IBM
9 86 (3.08%) Informatica
10 62 (2.22%) Cisco
11 61 (2.19%) Citrix
11 61 (2.19%) Oracle
12 57 (2.04%) Cloudera
13 54 (1.94%) SaltStack
14 32 (1.15%) WSO2
15 28 (1.00%) New Relic
16 23 (0.82%) Atlassian
16 23 (0.82%) Zscaler
17 18 (0.65%) NetApp
18 16 (0.57%) Xilinx