Terraform Job Trends in Cheshire

Terraform
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 51 51
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 11 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.88% 1.66% 1.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.92% 12.82% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £66,750 £49,000 £50,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £49,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £81,750 £72,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £79,400 £77,750
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,996 £69,447
% change year-on-year -8.44% +2.23% -4.21%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 48 78 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.82% 12.94% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 35 50 29
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,550
25th Percentile £45,500 £40,313 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -20.83% +26.32%
75th Percentile £73,750 £48,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £76,900 £53,750 £77,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Terraform job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Terraform
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Terraform in Cheshire

Terraform
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Knutsford -9 6 £82,500 +10.74%
Macclesfield - 1 £60,000 -
Terraform
North West

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (18.18%) Datadog
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (27.27%) DPDK
2 3 (27.27%) eBPF
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) NETCONF
3 1 (9.09%) RESTCONF
3 1 (9.09%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) DevOps
3 8 (72.73%) Agile
4 7 (63.64%) Observability
5 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
6 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
7 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (27.27%) High Availability
8 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (27.27%) Open Source
8 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
8 3 (27.27%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
9 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
9 2 (18.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) KVM
2 3 (27.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Grafana
2 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SaltStack
2 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics