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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 41 38
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 196 139 222
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.68% 5.79% 5.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.19% 24.01% 21.31%
Number of salaries quoted 159 84 85
10th Percentile £50,500 £51,625 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £84,375 £77,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,250 £83,450 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% -1.79% -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 778 579 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.63% 24.11% 25.55%
Number of salaries quoted 615 343 577
10th Percentile £43,000 £40,282 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,850 £80,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +14.04% -5.00%

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 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 2026. 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 +3 6 £65,000 - 2
Stockport +3 4 £75,000 -
Cheadle +1 3 £72,500 -
Salford - 3 £90,000 - 12
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 6 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.53%) Apache
3 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 126 (64.29%) AWS
2 91 (46.43%) Azure
3 48 (24.49%) GitHub
4 38 (19.39%) GCP
5 32 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (15.31%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (14.80%) Serverless
8 26 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (5.61%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (5.61%) OpenShift
12 11 (5.61%) SaaS
12 11 (5.61%) Snowflake
13 9 (4.59%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.16%) Firewall
2 7 (3.57%) Network Security
3 5 (2.55%) DNS
3 5 (2.55%) SAN
4 4 (2.04%) VPN
5 3 (1.53%) AMQP
5 3 (1.53%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.02%) BGP
6 2 (1.02%) CTI
6 2 (1.02%) DHCP
6 2 (1.02%) DMZ
6 2 (1.02%) IPsec
6 2 (1.02%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.06%) BigQuery
3 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.55%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.04%) Flink
6 3 (1.53%) Big Data
6 3 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.53%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.53%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.02%) Chroma
7 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.02%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.02%) Power BI
8 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.51%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 26 (13.27%) Git
1 26 (13.27%) GitLab
2 24 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.02%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.02%) Vite
6 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.51%) MLflow
6 1 (0.51%) Mocha
6 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.51%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.63%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.12%) Finance
4 6 (3.06%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.55%) Banking
5 5 (2.55%) Retail Banking
6 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Law
7 2 (1.02%) Local Government
7 2 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (37.24%) Senior
2 57 (29.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 52 (26.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (11.22%) Software Engineer
5 21 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (9.69%) Data Engineer
7 18 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (9.18%) Developer
7 18 (9.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (8.16%) Lead
9 14 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 13 (6.63%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.61%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 11 (5.61%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.33%) Spring
2 31 (15.82%) Spring Boot
3 25 (12.76%) React
4 11 (5.61%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.10%) Next.js
5 10 (5.10%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.59%) .NET
6 9 (4.59%) Node.js
6 9 (4.59%) PySpark
7 8 (4.08%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.08%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.08%) Kafka
7 8 (4.08%) REST
8 6 (3.06%) JWT
8 6 (3.06%) OAuth
8 6 (3.06%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.06%) OpenID
8 6 (3.06%) React Native
8 6 (3.06%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.59%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.02%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.02%) PKI
8 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.02%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.51%) Blog
9 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.27%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) CentOS
2 7 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (1.53%) Debian
3 3 (1.53%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (75.51%) Infrastructure as Code
2 147 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 127 (64.80%) DevOps
4 66 (33.67%) Platform Engineering
5 59 (30.10%) Agile
5 59 (30.10%) Containerisation
6 44 (22.45%) Observability
7 43 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (21.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 41 (20.92%) AI
9 40 (20.41%) Mentoring
10 37 (18.88%) Software Engineering
11 25 (12.76%) Microservices
12 24 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
13 22 (11.22%) Cloud Security
14 21 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
14 21 (10.71%) Scrum
15 20 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (9.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (59.18%) Python
2 49 (25.00%) Java
3 41 (20.92%) Bash
4 30 (15.31%) PowerShell
5 24 (12.24%) SQL
6 20 (10.20%) Go
7 13 (6.63%) Bicep
7 13 (6.63%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.12%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.10%) C#
10 7 (3.57%) Ruby
11 4 (2.04%) Rust
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 40 (20.41%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.04%) Degree
7 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.02%) CCIE
8 2 (1.02%) CCNA
8 2 (1.02%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.04%) QA
3 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.53%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.53%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (39.80%) Docker
2 11 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.53%) vSphere
5 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 106 (54.08%) Kubernetes
2 69 (35.20%) Ansible
3 17 (8.67%) Grafana
4 16 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.10%) Puppet
6 6 (3.06%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.55%) Argo
7 5 (2.55%) Istio
8 4 (2.04%) linkerd
9 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.22%) Google
3 12 (6.12%) VMware
4 8 (4.08%) Splunk
5 7 (3.57%) Databricks
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco
7 3 (1.53%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.53%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.02%) F5
8 2 (1.02%) FIS
8 2 (1.02%) Mistral
8 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.02%) Pega
8 2 (1.02%) WSO2
8 2 (1.02%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.51%) New Relic
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle