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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 68 49
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,815 4,780 9,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 4.61% 6.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.19% 31.43% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,982 3,110 4,568
10th Percentile £48,871 £52,392 £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 9,987 15,208 28,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 14.65% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 9,346 14,192
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,450 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +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 3 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 3 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 -27 2,342 £75,000 -3.23% 637
UK excluding London -26 1,604 £65,000 -7.14% 329
Work from Home -22 1,249 £71,500 -4.67% 391
London -9 1,088 £85,000 - 324
North of England -23 439 £65,000 -7.14% 106
Scotland 0 332 £69,500 +2.96% 10
South East -59 301 £67,500 -6.90% 69
North West -23 271 £65,000 -7.14% 60
South West -31 240 £75,000 +11.11% 57
Midlands -2 182 £64,000 -8.57% 43
West Midlands +1 136 £65,000 -7.14% 27
Yorkshire -34 119 £62,783 -10.31% 33
East of England -61 55 £70,000 +7.69% 19
North East +4 51 £62,783 -5.23% 13
East Midlands -12 46 £57,500 -17.86% 16
Wales -19 41 £51,592 -15.07% 17
Northern Ireland +12 15 £70,000 -3.45% 13
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
1 180 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 107 (3.80%) Apache
3 96 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.78%) 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 13 (0.46%) SharePoint
11 10 (0.36%) Drupal
11 10 (0.36%) IIS
12 6 (0.21%) WordPress
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
15 2 (0.071%) Apache Solr
16 1 (0.036%) Jetty
16 1 (0.036%) Moodle
16 1 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.67%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,818 (64.58%) AWS
2 1,343 (47.71%) Azure
3 484 (17.19%) GCP
4 446 (15.84%) Azure DevOps
5 398 (14.14%) Serverless
6 328 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 304 (10.80%) GitHub
8 272 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
9 271 (9.63%) Amazon S3
10 236 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
10 236 (8.38%) PaaS
11 202 (7.18%) IaaS
12 196 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
13 180 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
14 152 (5.40%) SaaS
15 142 (5.04%) OpenShift
16 141 (5.01%) Datadog
17 135 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 135 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
18 111 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 200 (7.10%) Firewall
2 149 (5.29%) DNS
3 121 (4.30%) VPN
4 93 (3.30%) WAN
5 78 (2.77%) TCP/IP
6 68 (2.42%) Internet
7 66 (2.34%) LAN
8 64 (2.27%) HTTP
9 54 (1.92%) Network Security
10 48 (1.71%) DHCP
11 35 (1.24%) SD-WAN
12 31 (1.10%) AMQP
13 17 (0.60%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.60%) SAN
14 15 (0.53%) IPv4
15 14 (0.50%) NGFW
16 13 (0.46%) SSL
17 10 (0.36%) SNMP
17 10 (0.36%) tcpdump
17 10 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (7.92%) NoSQL
2 219 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
3 176 (6.25%) MySQL
4 172 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
5 160 (5.68%) Big Data
6 152 (5.40%) SQL Server
7 115 (4.09%) Relational Database
8 110 (3.91%) Hadoop
9 94 (3.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 93 (3.30%) Apache Hive
11 86 (3.06%) HBase
12 77 (2.74%) MongoDB
13 74 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
14 67 (2.38%) Data Lake
15 61 (2.17%) BigQuery
15 61 (2.17%) DynamoDB
16 52 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
17 51 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
18 50 (1.78%) Redis
19 49 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 604 (21.46%) Jenkins
2 451 (16.02%) Git
3 255 (9.06%) GitLab
4 141 (5.01%) JIRA
5 87 (3.09%) TeamCity
6 86 (3.06%) Artifactory
6 86 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
7 53 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 53 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 44 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 42 (1.49%) CircleCI
10 31 (1.10%) Maven
11 30 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
12 29 (1.03%) Postman
12 29 (1.03%) Selenium
13 25 (0.89%) JUnit
14 24 (0.85%) Subversion
14 24 (0.85%) Vagrant
15 21 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
16 19 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 779 (27.67%) Finance
2 542 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 509 (18.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 308 (10.94%) Law
5 258 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 148 (5.26%) Banking
7 146 (5.19%) Marketing
8 135 (4.80%) Retail
9 93 (3.30%) Legal
10 76 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 76 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
11 42 (1.49%) Tech for Good
12 37 (1.31%) Games
13 36 (1.28%) Health Technology
13 36 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.21%) Front Office
15 23 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (0.78%) Electronics
16 22 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 21 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 741 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 671 (23.84%) Senior
3 466 (16.55%) Software Engineer
4 376 (13.36%) Cloud Engineer
5 370 (13.14%) AWS Engineer
6 336 (11.94%) Lead
7 317 (11.26%) Developer
8 239 (8.49%) Azure Engineer
9 225 (7.99%) Architect
10 202 (7.18%) Senior DevOps
11 196 (6.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 171 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
13 168 (5.97%) Data Engineer
14 165 (5.86%) AWS DevOps
15 157 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 154 (5.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 126 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
18 107 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 103 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 100 (3.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (7.78%) .NET
2 212 (7.53%) Spring
3 190 (6.75%) Node.js
4 184 (6.54%) React
5 146 (5.19%) Spring Boot
6 127 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
7 123 (4.37%) REST
8 113 (4.01%) ARM Templates
9 103 (3.66%) JSON
10 102 (3.62%) Kafka
11 95 (3.37%) AngularJS
12 84 (2.98%) YAML
13 79 (2.81%) RESTful
14 70 (2.49%) .NET Core
15 65 (2.31%) gRPC
15 65 (2.31%) HTML
16 58 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
17 56 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
18 44 (1.56%) Web Services
19 42 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 365 (12.97%) Public Cloud
2 313 (11.12%) Cloud Native
3 190 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 131 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 121 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 114 (4.05%) Blockchain
7 95 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 77 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 77 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 70 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
10 62 (2.20%) Clustering
11 59 (2.10%) Private Cloud
12 57 (2.02%) e-Learning
13 50 (1.78%) Hedge funds
14 38 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.31%) Tandem
16 35 (1.24%) Onboarding
17 34 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
18 33 (1.17%) PKI
18 33 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 651 (23.13%) Linux
2 313 (11.12%) Windows
3 118 (4.19%) Unix
4 100 (3.55%) CentOS
5 94 (3.34%) Windows Server
6 90 (3.20%) Ubuntu
7 80 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 69 (2.45%) Debian
9 53 (1.88%) VMS
10 40 (1.42%) Alpine Linux
11 23 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
13 17 (0.60%) Android
13 17 (0.60%) Windows 10
14 11 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.39%) Solaris
15 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,570 (55.77%) DevOps
2 1,365 (48.49%) CI/CD
3 1,200 (42.63%) Agile
4 1,199 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 786 (27.92%) Software Engineering
6 492 (17.48%) Containerisation
7 423 (15.03%) Artificial Intelligence
8 399 (14.17%) SDLC
9 384 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 380 (13.50%) Mentoring
11 356 (12.65%) Test Automation
12 348 (12.36%) Microservices
13 331 (11.76%) Machine Learning
14 299 (10.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 266 (9.45%) TDD
16 259 (9.20%) Operational Stability
17 254 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 240 (8.53%) Continuous Integration
19 238 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
19 238 (8.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (36.55%) Python
2 721 (25.61%) Java
3 480 (17.05%) SQL
4 376 (13.36%) PowerShell
5 294 (10.44%) JavaScript
6 287 (10.20%) Bash
7 228 (8.10%) Go
8 203 (7.21%) C#
9 152 (5.40%) TypeScript
10 115 (4.09%) Kotlin
11 92 (3.27%) Bicep
12 87 (3.09%) PL/SQL
13 80 (2.84%) PHP
14 70 (2.49%) Groovy
15 69 (2.45%) Shell Script
16 65 (2.31%) Scala
17 58 (2.06%) Ruby
18 43 (1.53%) T-SQL
19 41 (1.46%) C++
20 39 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 448 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 243 (8.63%) Degree
3 238 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 202 (7.18%) DV Cleared
5 184 (6.54%) Azure Certification
6 171 (6.07%) AWS Certification
7 137 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 75 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.56%) MCSE
11 42 (1.49%) MCSA
12 40 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 40 (1.42%) Master's Degree
13 27 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (0.82%) CCNA
15 17 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.32%) PhD
17 8 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (1.21%) QA
2 33 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (0.85%) GDPR
4 22 (0.78%) NIST
5 19 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.53%) NCSC
8 10 (0.36%) SLA
9 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.036%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.036%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.036%) GMP
13 1 (0.036%) SEPA
System Software
1 935 (33.21%) Docker
2 139 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 102 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (3.06%) HDFS
5 84 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 60 (2.13%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (0.85%) vSphere
9 20 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (0.53%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.32%) KVM
12 6 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.21%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.18%) Ceph
14 4 (0.14%) Firmware
14 4 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.14%) XenApp
14 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.071%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,297 (46.07%) Kubernetes
2 780 (27.71%) Ansible
3 245 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 236 (8.38%) Grafana
5 197 (7.00%) Puppet
6 116 (4.12%) Progress Chef
7 44 (1.56%) Packer
8 30 (1.07%) HAProxy
9 29 (1.03%) Istio
10 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.85%) Consul
11 24 (0.85%) Salt
12 22 (0.78%) Kibana
13 20 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.71%) Rancher
14 19 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
15 18 (0.64%) Argo
15 18 (0.64%) Nagios
16 17 (0.60%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 357 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 237 (8.42%) Google
3 157 (5.58%) Red Hat
4 148 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 146 (5.19%) Databricks
6 130 (4.62%) VMware
7 119 (4.23%) IBM
8 117 (4.16%) Splunk
9 86 (3.06%) Informatica
10 63 (2.24%) Cisco
11 61 (2.17%) Citrix
12 57 (2.02%) Cloudera
12 57 (2.02%) Oracle
13 52 (1.85%) SaltStack
14 32 (1.14%) WSO2
15 26 (0.92%) New Relic
16 20 (0.71%) Atlassian
17 18 (0.64%) NetApp
17 18 (0.64%) Zscaler
18 15 (0.53%) F5