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

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 70 50
Rank change year-on-year -22 -20 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,838 4,139 11,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.68% 4.41% 6.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.76% 30.48% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,966 2,822 4,382
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,411 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,524 £60,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £93,438 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £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 9,867 13,578 31,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 14.46% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,979 8,683 14,141
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +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 4 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 4 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 -28 2,384 £75,000 - 636
UK excluding London -37 1,597 £65,000 -7.14% 337
Work from Home -23 1,268 £71,500 -4.67% 368
London -5 1,125 £85,000 - 314
North of England -20 456 £65,000 -7.14% 99
Scotland +19 320 £69,750 +0.04% 22
South East -68 294 £67,500 -6.90% 67
North West -30 278 £65,000 -10.34% 63
South West -37 226 £70,000 +7.69% 69
Midlands +4 197 £65,000 -7.14% 45
West Midlands +24 150 £65,000 -7.14% 25
Yorkshire -18 129 £62,783 -10.31% 31
North East -6 51 £62,783 -6.99% 5
East of England -84 50 £70,000 +7.69% 22
East Midlands -30 47 £57,500 +2.22% 20
Wales -32 39 £50,685 -15.53% 8
Northern Ireland +6 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
1 187 (6.59%) Apache Spark
2 114 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 112 (3.95%) Apache
4 49 (1.73%) nginx
5 34 (1.20%) Confluence
6 32 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 26 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
8 17 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 12 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 11 (0.39%) IIS
11 8 (0.28%) Drupal
12 6 (0.21%) JBoss
13 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.14%) WordPress
15 2 (0.070%) CMS
15 2 (0.070%) Moodle
16 1 (0.035%) Apache Solr
16 1 (0.035%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 27 (0.95%) Simulink
2 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.070%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.035%) Notion
4 1 (0.035%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.070%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,833 (64.59%) AWS
2 1,385 (48.80%) Azure
3 496 (17.48%) GCP
4 437 (15.40%) Azure DevOps
5 364 (12.83%) Serverless
6 300 (10.57%) GitHub
7 290 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 249 (8.77%) Amazon S3
9 245 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
10 225 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
11 215 (7.58%) PaaS
12 183 (6.45%) IaaS
13 175 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
14 165 (5.81%) SaaS
15 154 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
16 144 (5.07%) OpenShift
17 139 (4.90%) Datadog
18 138 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
19 135 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 115 (4.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 200 (7.05%) Firewall
2 127 (4.47%) DNS
3 120 (4.23%) VPN
4 97 (3.42%) WAN
5 65 (2.29%) Internet
5 65 (2.29%) LAN
6 54 (1.90%) Network Security
7 41 (1.44%) TCP/IP
8 37 (1.30%) HTTP
9 36 (1.27%) SD-WAN
10 35 (1.23%) AMQP
11 25 (0.88%) DHCP
12 17 (0.60%) IPv4
12 17 (0.60%) Kerberos
12 17 (0.60%) SAN
13 16 (0.56%) SSL
14 10 (0.35%) OSPF
15 9 (0.32%) WLAN
16 8 (0.28%) BGP
16 8 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (7.86%) NoSQL
2 202 (7.12%) Amazon RDS
3 178 (6.27%) Big Data
4 175 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
5 171 (6.03%) MySQL
6 145 (5.11%) SQL Server
7 115 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 109 (3.84%) Hadoop
9 95 (3.35%) Apache Hive
10 86 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 84 (2.96%) HBase
12 83 (2.92%) Data Lake
13 82 (2.89%) MongoDB
14 78 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
15 67 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
16 65 (2.29%) DynamoDB
17 58 (2.04%) Dremio
18 54 (1.90%) Apache Arrow
18 54 (1.90%) BigQuery
18 54 (1.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 568 (20.01%) Jenkins
2 454 (16.00%) Git
3 244 (8.60%) GitLab
4 152 (5.36%) JIRA
5 84 (2.96%) Bitbucket Server
5 84 (2.96%) TeamCity
6 71 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 57 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 51 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 48 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 38 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 32 (1.13%) Vagrant
12 30 (1.06%) Maven
12 30 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
12 30 (1.06%) Postman
13 28 (0.99%) Selenium
14 26 (0.92%) JUnit
15 21 (0.74%) Subversion
15 21 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 749 (26.39%) Finance
2 539 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 468 (16.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 302 (10.64%) Law
5 266 (9.37%) Public Sector
6 137 (4.83%) Marketing
7 131 (4.62%) Banking
8 126 (4.44%) Retail
9 98 (3.45%) Legal
10 90 (3.17%) Aerospace
11 84 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
12 38 (1.34%) Tech for Good
13 37 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 34 (1.20%) Games
15 29 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (0.95%) Investment Banking
18 25 (0.88%) Electronics
19 24 (0.85%) Front Office
20 22 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 710 (25.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 656 (23.11%) Senior
3 492 (17.34%) Software Engineer
4 381 (13.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 358 (12.61%) AWS Engineer
6 345 (12.16%) Lead
7 321 (11.31%) Developer
8 244 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
9 202 (7.12%) Architect
10 200 (7.05%) Senior DevOps
11 190 (6.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 173 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 169 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
14 156 (5.50%) Data Engineer
15 146 (5.14%) AWS DevOps
16 139 (4.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 120 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 114 (4.02%) Cloud Architect
19 100 (3.52%) Big Data Engineer
20 99 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (7.54%) Spring
2 199 (7.01%) Node.js
3 198 (6.98%) .NET
4 186 (6.55%) React
5 144 (5.07%) Spring Boot
6 134 (4.72%) ARM Templates
7 121 (4.26%) REST
8 110 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
9 104 (3.66%) Kafka
10 94 (3.31%) JSON
11 93 (3.28%) AngularJS
12 87 (3.07%) gRPC
13 81 (2.85%) YAML
14 80 (2.82%) RESTful
15 60 (2.11%) .NET Core
16 59 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
17 58 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
18 54 (1.90%) Protocol Buffers
19 45 (1.59%) CSS
20 43 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 324 (11.42%) Public Cloud
2 310 (10.92%) Cloud Native
3 186 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 115 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
6 111 (3.91%) Blockchain
7 97 (3.42%) Management Information System
8 83 (2.92%) Clustering
9 77 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 77 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.40%) Hedge funds
11 67 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
12 60 (2.11%) e-Learning
13 51 (1.80%) Private Cloud
14 38 (1.34%) Onboarding
15 36 (1.27%) Replication
16 35 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (1.09%) Client/Server
17 31 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
17 31 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 639 (22.52%) Linux
2 304 (10.71%) Windows
3 119 (4.19%) Unix
4 109 (3.84%) CentOS
5 106 (3.74%) Ubuntu
6 105 (3.70%) Windows Server
7 97 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 73 (2.57%) Debian
9 53 (1.87%) VMS
10 42 (1.48%) Alpine Linux
11 23 (0.81%) Android
12 18 (0.63%) Windows 10
13 15 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.39%) Solaris
17 9 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
18 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
19 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
20 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,583 (55.78%) DevOps
2 1,358 (47.85%) CI/CD
3 1,182 (41.65%) Agile
4 1,159 (40.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 788 (27.77%) Software Engineering
6 507 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 425 (14.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 405 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (13.99%) Mentoring
10 361 (12.72%) SDLC
11 349 (12.30%) Microservices
11 349 (12.30%) Test Automation
12 335 (11.80%) Machine Learning
13 321 (11.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 267 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 261 (9.20%) TDD
16 256 (9.02%) Operational Stability
17 251 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
18 246 (8.67%) Scrum
19 240 (8.46%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,028 (36.22%) Python
2 752 (26.50%) Java
3 469 (16.53%) SQL
4 397 (13.99%) PowerShell
5 326 (11.49%) JavaScript
6 268 (9.44%) Bash
7 231 (8.14%) Go
8 191 (6.73%) C#
9 150 (5.29%) TypeScript
10 148 (5.21%) Kotlin
11 96 (3.38%) Bicep
12 85 (3.00%) PL/SQL
13 78 (2.75%) Scala
14 77 (2.71%) PHP
15 60 (2.11%) Shell Script
16 59 (2.08%) Ruby
17 58 (2.04%) Groovy
18 51 (1.80%) C++
19 46 (1.62%) T-SQL
20 32 (1.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 425 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 252 (8.88%) Degree
3 250 (8.81%) SC Cleared
4 196 (6.91%) Azure Certification
5 177 (6.24%) DV Cleared
6 160 (5.64%) AWS Certification
7 154 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 87 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 53 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.55%) MCSE
11 42 (1.48%) MCSA
12 39 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 38 (1.34%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.81%) CCNA
16 20 (0.70%) 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 50 (1.76%) QA
2 31 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.02%) GDPR
4 28 (0.99%) NIST
5 23 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 21 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.49%) NCSC
8 12 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.42%) SLA
9 5 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.18%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.070%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.035%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.035%) SEPA
System Software
1 926 (32.63%) Docker
2 154 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 106 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
4 101 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 84 (2.96%) HDFS
6 53 (1.87%) Hyper-V
7 25 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (0.74%) XenApp
8 21 (0.74%) XenDesktop
9 18 (0.63%) vSphere
10 14 (0.49%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.32%) KVM
12 8 (0.28%) Ceph
13 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.18%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.11%) Firmware
15 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.070%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,321 (46.55%) Kubernetes
2 822 (28.96%) Ansible
3 266 (9.37%) Prometheus
4 231 (8.14%) Grafana
5 194 (6.84%) Puppet
6 105 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 42 (1.48%) Packer
8 32 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 28 (0.99%) Istio
9 28 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 27 (0.95%) HAProxy
11 22 (0.78%) Consul
12 21 (0.74%) Nagios
13 19 (0.67%) Kibana
14 18 (0.63%) Argo
15 17 (0.60%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.53%) Rancher
16 15 (0.53%) vCenter Server
17 11 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 386 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 233 (8.21%) Google
3 171 (6.03%) Red Hat
4 150 (5.29%) Dynatrace
5 149 (5.25%) Databricks
6 136 (4.79%) VMware
7 128 (4.51%) Splunk
8 110 (3.88%) IBM
9 84 (2.96%) Informatica
10 63 (2.22%) Cisco
11 62 (2.18%) Oracle
12 61 (2.15%) Citrix
13 57 (2.01%) Cloudera
14 55 (1.94%) SaltStack
15 30 (1.06%) New Relic
16 27 (0.95%) WSO2
17 26 (0.92%) Zscaler
18 24 (0.85%) Atlassian
19 21 (0.74%) ServiceNow
20 20 (0.70%) Xilinx