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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 42 36
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 70 146 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.67% 5.11% 6.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.04% 46.06% 38.74%
Number of salaries quoted 58 64 134
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £60,563 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +6.70% -3.05%
75th Percentile £78,790 £84,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,275 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -6.15%

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 184 317 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.03% 11.09% 17.12%
Number of salaries quoted 144 150 329
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,813 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +0.80%

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 16 December 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 16 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
Salford +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Altrincham -8 2 £65,000 -
Stockport -2 1 £60,000 - 9
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 44 (62.86%) AWS
2 39 (55.71%) Azure
3 20 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (20.00%) Serverless
5 13 (18.57%) SaaS
6 12 (17.14%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (15.71%) GitHub
8 10 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (14.29%) GCP
9 9 (12.86%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
12 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) AMQP
2 2 (2.86%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.71%) MySQL
3 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.29%) Big Data
5 2 (2.86%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.86%) Redis
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.43%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.43%) Metadata
6 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) GitLab
1 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.57%) Git
3 5 (7.14%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.43%) JIRA
5 1 (1.43%) JMeter
5 1 (1.43%) Locust
5 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Finance
3 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.29%) Retail
5 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.86%) Games
5 2 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Senior
2 16 (22.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Developer
4 9 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Lead
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) .NET
2 9 (12.86%) React
3 7 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 6 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.14%) ARM Templates
5 5 (7.14%) REST
6 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.71%) Kafka
6 4 (5.71%) Node.js
6 4 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.71%) Spring
6 4 (5.71%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.29%) RESTful
8 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (2.86%) Django
8 2 (2.86%) gRPC
8 2 (2.86%) Swagger
8 2 (2.86%) WCF
8 2 (2.86%) Web Services
8 2 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.71%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.86%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.71%) Linux
2 7 (10.00%) Debian
2 7 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (7.14%) Windows
4 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.71%) Unix
5 3 (4.29%) CentOS
5 3 (4.29%) VMS
6 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (68.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 47 (67.14%) DevOps
3 42 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (47.14%) Agile
5 22 (31.43%) Containerisation
6 21 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (25.71%) Microservices
8 16 (22.86%) Observability
9 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
11 11 (15.71%) AI
12 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (12.86%) Clean Code
13 9 (12.86%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (12.86%) User Experience
14 8 (11.43%) Cloud Security
14 8 (11.43%) Configuration Management
14 8 (11.43%) TDD
15 7 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) Python
2 11 (15.71%) C#
3 9 (12.86%) Java
4 8 (11.43%) Bash
4 8 (11.43%) SQL
5 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.14%) Bicep
6 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.29%) Go
9 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (42.86%) Docker
2 9 (12.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (4.29%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.29%) vSphere
5 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (44.29%) Kubernetes
2 22 (31.43%) Ansible
3 10 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 9 (12.86%) Grafana
5 6 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (5.71%) Puppet
8 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.86%) Rancher
10 1 (1.43%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (1.43%) Kubeflow
10 1 (1.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) Splunk
3 5 (7.14%) New Relic
3 5 (7.14%) VMware
4 4 (5.71%) Databricks
4 4 (5.71%) Foundry
4 4 (5.71%) Google
4 4 (5.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.86%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.43%) Dell
6 1 (1.43%) Pega
6 1 (1.43%) WSO2