Terraform Job Trends in Manchester

Terraform
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 43 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 -19 +22
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 110 179 237
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.81% 4.75% 9.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.98% 49.18% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 57 75 216
10th Percentile £52,650 £44,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.22% -0.99% -6.41%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 262 364 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.45% 9.66% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 145 159 420
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,150 £37,425
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,132 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - -8.19% +8.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.23% +9.20%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in Manchester

Terraform
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Terraform in Manchester

Terraform
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Altrincham 0 10 £65,000 - 4
Oldham - 4 £65,000 - 2
Salford +10 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Bury -2 3 - - 4
Cheadle - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Bolton +3 2 - - 13
Wigan +1 2 - -
Stockport -3 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 4
Rochdale -1 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Terraform
North West

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (2.73%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (42.73%) AWS
2 29 (26.36%) Azure
3 18 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (13.64%) Serverless
5 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.18%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.36%) AWS CodeBuild
8 7 (6.36%) GCP
8 7 (6.36%) GitHub
8 7 (6.36%) Route 53
8 7 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (5.45%) SaaS
10 5 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.55%) PaaS
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.64%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (39.09%) Cisco IOS
1 43 (39.09%) VPN
2 2 (1.82%) DNS
2 2 (1.82%) Firewall
2 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.82%) WAN
3 1 (0.91%) AMQP
3 1 (0.91%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.82%) Big Data
3 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.82%) Redis
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.91%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.91%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.91%) DocumentDB
4 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.91%) Metadata
4 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.91%) MySQL
4 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.27%) GitLab
3 7 (6.36%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.91%) Git
4 1 (0.91%) JMeter
4 1 (0.91%) Locust
4 1 (0.91%) MLflow
General
1 43 (39.09%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (39.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.91%) Finance
4 8 (7.27%) Games
5 3 (2.73%) Retail
6 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (22.73%) Senior
3 16 (14.55%) Developer
4 15 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Architect
11 4 (3.64%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.73%) AWS Architect
12 3 (2.73%) Lead
12 3 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.82%) AWS Solution Architect
13 2 (1.82%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (46.36%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (15.45%) React
3 14 (12.73%) .NET
4 8 (7.27%) .NET Core
4 8 (7.27%) Amazon Corretto
5 6 (5.45%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.55%) REST
7 4 (3.64%) Kafka
8 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.73%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.73%) Node.js
8 3 (2.73%) Spring
8 3 (2.73%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.82%) Django
9 2 (1.82%) Pandas
9 2 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.82%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.82%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.82%) Web Services
9 2 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (39.09%) Cyberattack
2 18 (16.36%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.27%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 57 (51.82%) Linux
2 45 (40.91%) Windows
3 43 (39.09%) Android
4 8 (7.27%) Debian
4 8 (7.27%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.64%) Unix
6 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.91%) CentOS
7 1 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (85.45%) DevOps
2 56 (50.91%) Platform Engineering
3 54 (49.09%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 46 (41.82%) Line Management
6 45 (40.91%) Risk Management
6 45 (40.91%) Task Automation
7 44 (40.00%) Mathematics
7 44 (40.00%) Storage Management
8 43 (39.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (34.55%) CI/CD
10 27 (24.55%) Agile
11 17 (15.45%) Containerisation
12 16 (14.55%) Microservices
12 16 (14.55%) TDD
13 15 (13.64%) Clean Code
13 15 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (12.73%) Software Engineering
15 12 (10.91%) Configuration Management
15 12 (10.91%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (54.55%) Python
2 53 (48.18%) Bash
3 48 (43.64%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.91%) Java
4 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.00%) C#
6 5 (4.55%) SQL
7 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.73%) Bicep
9 1 (0.91%) Go
9 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.91%) Degree
5 1 (0.91%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) QA
2 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (70.91%) Docker
2 44 (40.00%) VMware NSX
2 44 (40.00%) vSphere
3 43 (39.09%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (58.18%) Ansible
2 36 (32.73%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (9.09%) Grafana
5 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.73%) Puppet
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.91%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 51 (46.36%) Splunk
2 43 (39.09%) 3PAR
2 43 (39.09%) Cisco
2 43 (39.09%) Juniper
3 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.64%) Databricks
4 4 (3.64%) Foundry
4 4 (3.64%) Google
5 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.82%) VMware
6 1 (0.91%) Dell
6 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle
6 1 (0.91%) Pega
6 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.91%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.91%) SAP
6 1 (0.91%) WSO2