Terraform Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 69 50
Rank change year-on-year -29 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,827 4,089 11,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.61% 4.39% 6.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.60% 30.48% 34.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,951 2,807 4,334
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,900 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,350
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.93% +12.25%

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 9,884 13,414 31,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.11% 14.41% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,957 8,638 14,125
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +2.63% +5.45%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 2,395 £75,000 - 615
UK excluding London -43 1,586 £65,000 -7.14% 336
Work from Home -25 1,255 £72,500 -3.33% 365
London -6 1,125 £85,000 - 298
North of England -22 455 £65,000 -7.14% 100
Scotland +20 302 £69,750 -0.36% 17
South East -68 293 £67,500 -6.90% 72
North West -24 278 £65,000 -13.33% 64
South West -35 225 £70,576 +8.58% 63
Midlands -5 205 £65,000 -7.14% 47
West Midlands +19 154 £65,000 -7.14% 26
Yorkshire -14 130 £65,000 -7.14% 31
East of England -82 53 £70,000 +7.69% 22
East Midlands -33 51 £57,500 +4.55% 21
North East -10 49 £62,783 -5.23% 5
Wales -33 38 £50,685 -15.53% 10
Northern Ireland +2 15 £72,500 -1.69% 8
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
1 186 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 113 (4.00%) Apache
2 113 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (1.70%) nginx
4 33 (1.17%) Confluence
5 30 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 26 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 12 (0.42%) IIS
8 12 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.25%) Drupal
10 6 (0.21%) JBoss
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.11%) WordPress
13 2 (0.071%) Moodle
14 1 (0.035%) CMS
14 1 (0.035%) Jetty
14 1 (0.035%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 27 (0.96%) Simulink
2 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.071%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.035%) Notion
4 1 (0.035%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,824 (64.52%) AWS
2 1,367 (48.36%) Azure
3 478 (16.91%) GCP
4 432 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
5 358 (12.66%) Serverless
6 293 (10.36%) GitHub
7 286 (10.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 246 (8.70%) Amazon S3
9 241 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
10 222 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
11 209 (7.39%) PaaS
12 183 (6.47%) IaaS
13 173 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
14 167 (5.91%) SaaS
15 152 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
16 140 (4.95%) Datadog
17 138 (4.88%) OpenShift
18 137 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
19 132 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 117 (4.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 201 (7.11%) Firewall
2 128 (4.53%) DNS
3 123 (4.35%) VPN
4 98 (3.47%) WAN
5 65 (2.30%) Internet
5 65 (2.30%) LAN
6 55 (1.95%) Network Security
7 39 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 37 (1.31%) HTTP
9 36 (1.27%) SD-WAN
10 35 (1.24%) AMQP
11 25 (0.88%) DHCP
12 19 (0.67%) SAN
13 17 (0.60%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.57%) IPv4
14 16 (0.57%) SSL
15 10 (0.35%) OSPF
16 9 (0.32%) WLAN
17 8 (0.28%) SNMP
17 8 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.68%) NoSQL
2 202 (7.15%) Amazon RDS
3 178 (6.30%) Big Data
4 175 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
5 172 (6.08%) MySQL
6 146 (5.16%) SQL Server
7 113 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 106 (3.75%) Hadoop
9 92 (3.25%) Apache Hive
10 87 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 85 (3.01%) Data Lake
12 82 (2.90%) MongoDB
13 81 (2.87%) HBase
14 79 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
15 68 (2.41%) DynamoDB
16 67 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
17 57 (2.02%) Dremio
18 56 (1.98%) Redis
19 55 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
19 55 (1.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 556 (19.67%) Jenkins
2 448 (15.85%) Git
3 246 (8.70%) GitLab
4 147 (5.20%) JIRA
5 84 (2.97%) TeamCity
6 81 (2.87%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.48%) Artifactory
8 55 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 49 (1.73%) SonarQube
10 48 (1.70%) CircleCI
11 33 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 32 (1.13%) Vagrant
13 30 (1.06%) Postman
14 29 (1.03%) Maven
14 29 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
15 28 (0.99%) Selenium
16 26 (0.92%) JUnit
17 21 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
18 19 (0.67%) Subversion
19 18 (0.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 729 (25.79%) Finance
2 538 (19.03%) Social Skills
3 456 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 286 (10.12%) Law
5 265 (9.37%) Public Sector
6 127 (4.49%) Marketing
7 125 (4.42%) Retail
8 122 (4.32%) Banking
9 95 (3.36%) Legal
10 90 (3.18%) Aerospace
11 86 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
12 39 (1.38%) Tech for Good
13 38 (1.34%) Health Technology
14 34 (1.20%) Games
15 30 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.03%) Investment Banking
17 27 (0.96%) Electronics
18 24 (0.85%) Front Office
18 24 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
19 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 695 (24.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 647 (22.89%) Senior
3 482 (17.05%) Software Engineer
4 382 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 351 (12.42%) AWS Engineer
6 346 (12.24%) Lead
7 313 (11.07%) Developer
8 235 (8.31%) Azure Engineer
9 205 (7.25%) Architect
10 195 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
11 185 (6.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 179 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 167 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
14 153 (5.41%) Data Engineer
15 141 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
16 134 (4.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 121 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 116 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
19 100 (3.54%) Big Data Engineer
20 97 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (7.46%) Spring
2 196 (6.93%) Node.js
3 193 (6.83%) .NET
4 187 (6.61%) React
5 141 (4.99%) Spring Boot
6 133 (4.70%) ARM Templates
7 121 (4.28%) REST
8 107 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
9 104 (3.68%) Kafka
10 92 (3.25%) JSON
11 91 (3.22%) AngularJS
12 87 (3.08%) gRPC
12 87 (3.08%) YAML
13 80 (2.83%) RESTful
14 58 (2.05%) .NET Core
14 58 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
14 58 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (1.91%) Protocol Buffers
16 46 (1.63%) CSS
17 43 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 311 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 302 (10.68%) Public Cloud
3 185 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 118 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 111 (3.93%) Blockchain
6 109 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
7 93 (3.29%) Management Information System
8 84 (2.97%) Clustering
9 78 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 73 (2.58%) Product Ownership
11 68 (2.41%) Hedge funds
12 67 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
13 60 (2.12%) e-Learning
14 51 (1.80%) Private Cloud
15 35 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.24%) Replication
15 35 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 33 (1.17%) Onboarding
17 31 (1.10%) Client/Server
17 31 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 637 (22.53%) Linux
2 305 (10.79%) Windows
3 115 (4.07%) Unix
4 110 (3.89%) Windows Server
5 108 (3.82%) CentOS
6 107 (3.78%) Ubuntu
7 101 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 74 (2.62%) Debian
9 54 (1.91%) VMS
10 42 (1.49%) Alpine Linux
11 23 (0.81%) Android
12 18 (0.64%) Windows 10
13 15 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
13 15 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
15 10 (0.35%) Solaris
16 9 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
18 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
19 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,575 (55.71%) DevOps
2 1,338 (47.33%) CI/CD
3 1,161 (41.07%) Agile
4 1,138 (40.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 774 (27.38%) Software Engineering
6 513 (18.15%) Containerisation
7 411 (14.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 411 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
8 393 (13.90%) Mentoring
9 348 (12.31%) Microservices
10 344 (12.17%) SDLC
11 340 (12.03%) Test Automation
12 323 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 320 (11.32%) Machine Learning
14 253 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 253 (8.95%) TDD
15 250 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
16 248 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 244 (8.63%) Scrum
18 239 (8.45%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (35.97%) Python
2 733 (25.93%) Java
3 456 (16.13%) SQL
4 412 (14.57%) PowerShell
5 324 (11.46%) JavaScript
6 270 (9.55%) Bash
7 226 (7.99%) Go
8 191 (6.76%) C#
9 152 (5.38%) TypeScript
10 151 (5.34%) Kotlin
11 96 (3.40%) Bicep
12 82 (2.90%) PL/SQL
13 81 (2.87%) Scala
14 76 (2.69%) PHP
15 60 (2.12%) Ruby
16 56 (1.98%) Shell Script
17 53 (1.87%) Groovy
18 51 (1.80%) C++
19 46 (1.63%) T-SQL
20 34 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 421 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 253 (8.95%) Degree
3 244 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 195 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 179 (6.33%) DV Cleared
6 160 (5.66%) AWS Certification
7 156 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 90 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 53 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.56%) MCSE
11 42 (1.49%) MCSA
12 39 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 38 (1.34%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.81%) CCNA
16 18 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 8 (0.28%) PhD
20 6 (0.21%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (1.84%) QA
2 32 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.03%) NIST
4 28 (0.99%) GDPR
5 23 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 21 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.50%) NCSC
8 12 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.42%) SLA
9 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.18%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.071%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.035%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.035%) SEPA
System Software
1 920 (32.54%) Docker
2 159 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 108 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
4 107 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 81 (2.87%) HDFS
6 52 (1.84%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (0.85%) XenApp
8 24 (0.85%) XenDesktop
9 23 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.64%) vSphere
11 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.32%) KVM
13 8 (0.28%) Ceph
14 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.18%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.11%) Firmware
16 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.071%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,311 (46.37%) Kubernetes
2 826 (29.22%) Ansible
3 267 (9.44%) Prometheus
4 231 (8.17%) Grafana
5 196 (6.93%) Puppet
6 98 (3.47%) Progress Chef
7 40 (1.41%) Packer
8 32 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 28 (0.99%) Istio
9 28 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 27 (0.96%) HAProxy
11 22 (0.78%) Consul
12 21 (0.74%) Nagios
13 19 (0.67%) Kibana
14 18 (0.64%) Argo
15 17 (0.60%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.60%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.42%) Rancher
17 10 (0.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 390 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 223 (7.89%) Google
3 173 (6.12%) Red Hat
4 150 (5.31%) Databricks
4 150 (5.31%) Dynatrace
5 143 (5.06%) VMware
6 128 (4.53%) Splunk
7 105 (3.71%) IBM
8 81 (2.87%) Informatica
9 64 (2.26%) Cisco
9 64 (2.26%) Citrix
10 63 (2.23%) Oracle
11 55 (1.95%) SaltStack
12 54 (1.91%) Cloudera
13 30 (1.06%) New Relic
14 26 (0.92%) Zscaler
15 25 (0.88%) WSO2
16 22 (0.78%) Atlassian
17 21 (0.74%) ServiceNow
18 20 (0.71%) Xilinx