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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 69 50
Rank change year-on-year -23 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 2,787 4,562 10,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.79% 4.59% 6.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.31% 31.20% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,971 3,027 4,426
10th Percentile £48,829 £52,392 £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% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £108,000 £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 9,846 14,620 29,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 14.70% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 9,072 14,136
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 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +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 20 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 20 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 2,322 £75,000 - 791
UK excluding London -33 1,567 £65,000 -7.14% 485
Work from Home -17 1,256 £71,500 -4.67% 463
London -8 1,107 £85,000 - 418
North of England -20 445 £65,000 -7.14% 133
Scotland +6 329 £69,500 +0.08% 21
South East -57 295 £67,500 -6.90% 162
North West -24 274 £65,000 -10.34% 70
South West -38 217 £70,576 +8.58% 60
Midlands -21 178 £65,000 -7.14% 63
West Midlands +11 137 £65,000 -7.14% 44
Yorkshire -22 122 £62,783 -10.31% 51
North East +7 51 £62,783 -5.23% 12
East of England -75 50 £70,000 +7.69% 29
East Midlands -29 41 £57,500 - 19
Wales -26 39 £50,685 -15.53% 10
Northern Ireland +12 14 £72,500 - 9
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 (6.71%) Apache Spark
2 113 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 109 (3.91%) Apache
4 50 (1.79%) nginx
5 37 (1.33%) OpenStack
6 34 (1.22%) Confluence
7 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.68%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
10 10 (0.36%) IIS
10 10 (0.36%) 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%) Jetty
15 1 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (0.83%) 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 1,807 (64.84%) AWS
2 1,344 (48.22%) Azure
3 487 (17.47%) GCP
4 422 (15.14%) Azure DevOps
5 379 (13.60%) Serverless
6 306 (10.98%) GitHub
7 279 (10.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 263 (9.44%) Amazon S3
9 259 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
10 233 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
11 232 (8.32%) PaaS
12 192 (6.89%) IaaS
13 186 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
14 172 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
15 156 (5.60%) OpenShift
16 154 (5.53%) SaaS
17 140 (5.02%) Datadog
18 135 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
19 132 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 112 (4.02%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (7.00%) Firewall
2 122 (4.38%) DNS
3 114 (4.09%) VPN
4 91 (3.27%) WAN
5 66 (2.37%) Internet
6 62 (2.22%) LAN
7 50 (1.79%) Network Security
8 45 (1.61%) 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 10 (0.36%) NGFW
16 10 (0.36%) Wireless
17 9 (0.32%) OSPF
17 9 (0.32%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (7.93%) NoSQL
2 210 (7.53%) Amazon RDS
3 177 (6.35%) Big Data
4 172 (6.17%) MySQL
5 170 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
6 149 (5.35%) SQL Server
7 115 (4.13%) Relational Database
8 113 (4.05%) Hadoop
9 96 (3.44%) Apache Hive
10 89 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (3.09%) HBase
12 82 (2.94%) Data Lake
13 80 (2.87%) MongoDB
14 76 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
15 67 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
16 61 (2.19%) DynamoDB
17 59 (2.12%) Dremio
18 54 (1.94%) Apache Arrow
18 54 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
19 53 (1.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 579 (20.78%) Jenkins
2 446 (16.00%) Git
3 241 (8.65%) GitLab
4 138 (4.95%) JIRA
5 86 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
5 86 (3.09%) TeamCity
6 79 (2.83%) Artifactory
7 56 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 44 (1.58%) CircleCI
9 42 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 41 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 32 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 30 (1.08%) Maven
13 29 (1.04%) Postman
14 28 (1.00%) Selenium
14 28 (1.00%) Vagrant
15 25 (0.90%) JUnit
16 24 (0.86%) Subversion
17 21 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
18 19 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 760 (27.27%) Finance
2 512 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 473 (16.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 311 (11.16%) Law
5 268 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 144 (5.17%) Marketing
7 142 (5.10%) Banking
8 124 (4.45%) Retail
9 95 (3.41%) Legal
10 83 (2.98%) Aerospace
11 78 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
12 41 (1.47%) Tech for Good
13 38 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.33%) Games
15 35 (1.26%) Health Technology
16 30 (1.08%) Front Office
17 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (0.90%) Electronics
19 24 (0.86%) Investment Banking
20 21 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 717 (25.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 652 (23.39%) Senior
3 481 (17.26%) Software Engineer
4 376 (13.49%) AWS Engineer
5 365 (13.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 336 (12.06%) Lead
7 323 (11.59%) Developer
8 229 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
9 201 (7.21%) Senior DevOps
10 199 (7.14%) Architect
11 193 (6.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 171 (6.14%) Platform Engineer
13 162 (5.81%) Data Engineer
13 162 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 157 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
15 149 (5.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 123 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 109 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
18 105 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 102 (3.66%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (7.64%) Spring
2 205 (7.36%) .NET
3 190 (6.82%) Node.js
4 182 (6.53%) React
5 145 (5.20%) Spring Boot
6 123 (4.41%) REST
7 118 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
8 113 (4.05%) ARM Templates
9 101 (3.62%) Kafka
10 98 (3.52%) JSON
11 95 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 85 (3.05%) gRPC
13 81 (2.91%) YAML
14 79 (2.83%) RESTful
15 64 (2.30%) .NET Core
16 59 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
17 58 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
18 54 (1.94%) Protocol Buffers
19 43 (1.54%) Web Services
20 42 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 353 (12.67%) Public Cloud
2 286 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 189 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (4.74%) Algorithms
5 116 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
6 112 (4.02%) Blockchain
7 98 (3.52%) Management Information System
8 81 (2.91%) Clustering
9 77 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 75 (2.69%) Product Ownership
11 69 (2.48%) Hedge funds
12 68 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
13 59 (2.12%) e-Learning
14 58 (2.08%) Private Cloud
15 38 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.33%) Onboarding
17 33 (1.18%) Tandem
18 31 (1.11%) Client/Server
18 31 (1.11%) PKI
18 31 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 639 (22.93%) Linux
2 297 (10.66%) Windows
3 122 (4.38%) Unix
4 105 (3.77%) CentOS
5 97 (3.48%) Windows Server
6 94 (3.37%) Ubuntu
7 88 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 71 (2.55%) Debian
9 50 (1.79%) VMS
10 41 (1.47%) Alpine Linux
11 19 (0.68%) Android
12 18 (0.65%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.43%) Solaris
16 9 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
18 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
18 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,572 (56.40%) DevOps
2 1,348 (48.37%) CI/CD
3 1,181 (42.38%) Agile
4 1,158 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 778 (27.92%) Software Engineering
6 491 (17.62%) Containerisation
7 426 (15.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 390 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
9 385 (13.81%) Mentoring
10 364 (13.06%) SDLC
11 346 (12.41%) Microservices
12 345 (12.38%) Test Automation
13 333 (11.95%) Machine Learning
14 323 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 264 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 263 (9.44%) TDD
17 261 (9.36%) Operational Stability
18 246 (8.83%) Platform Engineering
19 238 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
20 234 (8.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (36.74%) Python
2 756 (27.13%) Java
3 481 (17.26%) SQL
4 362 (12.99%) PowerShell
5 314 (11.27%) JavaScript
6 274 (9.83%) Bash
7 241 (8.65%) Go
8 192 (6.89%) C#
9 148 (5.31%) TypeScript
10 130 (4.66%) Kotlin
11 91 (3.27%) Bicep
12 87 (3.12%) PL/SQL
13 77 (2.76%) PHP
14 71 (2.55%) Scala
15 70 (2.51%) Groovy
16 67 (2.40%) Shell Script
17 55 (1.97%) Ruby
18 49 (1.76%) C++
19 45 (1.61%) T-SQL
20 35 (1.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 416 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 244 (8.75%) Degree
3 240 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 184 (6.60%) Azure Certification
5 175 (6.28%) DV Cleared
6 149 (5.35%) AWS Certification
7 144 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 88 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 49 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.58%) MCSE
11 42 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 42 (1.51%) MCSA
12 38 (1.36%) Master's Degree
13 26 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.79%) 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 42 (1.51%) QA
2 32 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (0.93%) GDPR
4 25 (0.90%) NIST
5 22 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 20 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.47%) NCSC
8 11 (0.39%) SLA
9 10 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.18%) 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
1 918 (32.94%) Docker
2 139 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 94 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 92 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 86 (3.09%) HDFS
6 57 (2.05%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 19 (0.68%) vSphere
10 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.43%) XenApp
11 12 (0.43%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.32%) Ceph
12 9 (0.32%) KVM
13 6 (0.22%) 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 (0.072%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,315 (47.18%) Kubernetes
2 797 (28.60%) Ansible
3 261 (9.36%) Prometheus
4 229 (8.22%) Grafana
5 199 (7.14%) Puppet
6 118 (4.23%) Progress Chef
7 43 (1.54%) Packer
8 30 (1.08%) HAProxy
8 30 (1.08%) Istio
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 20 (0.72%) Argo
12 20 (0.72%) Kibana
13 19 (0.68%) Nagios
13 19 (0.68%) Salt
14 17 (0.61%) Rancher
15 16 (0.57%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 369 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 239 (8.58%) Google
3 164 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 150 (5.38%) Dynatrace
5 149 (5.35%) Databricks
6 123 (4.41%) VMware
7 120 (4.31%) Splunk
8 118 (4.23%) IBM
9 86 (3.09%) Informatica
10 61 (2.19%) Cisco
10 61 (2.19%) Oracle
11 58 (2.08%) Citrix
11 58 (2.08%) Cloudera
12 54 (1.94%) SaltStack
13 32 (1.15%) WSO2
14 28 (1.00%) New Relic
15 24 (0.86%) Atlassian
15 24 (0.86%) Zscaler
16 18 (0.65%) NetApp
17 16 (0.57%) Xilinx