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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 43 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 179 156 226
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.77% 6.26% 4.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 51.73% 43.09% 49.34%
Number of salaries quoted 149 95 115
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,399 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £71,991 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.01% +6.65% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,350 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +3.70% -10.00%

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 346 362 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.36% 14.52% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 284 198 299
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,563 £44,632
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £84,184
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -15.38%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +4 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -10 4 £90,000 +29.71% 1
Stockport +4 3 £75,000 - 2
Cheadle +2 3 £72,500 -
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 8 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.68%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 123 (68.72%) AWS
2 84 (46.93%) Azure
3 41 (22.91%) GitHub
4 34 (18.99%) GCP
5 29 (16.20%) Serverless
6 28 (15.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (12.85%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
10 11 (6.15%) Pulumi
10 11 (6.15%) SaaS
11 10 (5.59%) Entra ID
11 10 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (4.47%) Azure AKS
12 8 (4.47%) dbt
12 8 (4.47%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.50%) Firewall
2 7 (3.91%) Network Security
3 6 (3.35%) SAN
4 4 (2.23%) DNS
4 4 (2.23%) VPN
5 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.12%) AMQP
6 2 (1.12%) BGP
6 2 (1.12%) DMZ
6 2 (1.12%) IPsec
6 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.47%) BigQuery
3 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.23%) Flink
5 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.68%) GIS
6 3 (1.68%) QGIS
6 3 (1.68%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.12%) Big Data
7 2 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.12%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (13.97%) Git
2 23 (12.85%) Jenkins
3 20 (11.17%) GitLab
4 4 (2.23%) JIRA
5 3 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.12%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.12%) Vite
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
7 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.56%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.26%) Finance
2 13 (7.26%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.35%) Banking
3 6 (3.35%) Retail Banking
4 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (38.55%) Senior
2 50 (27.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 49 (27.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (13.97%) Software Engineer
5 19 (10.61%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (10.06%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (10.06%) Data Engineer
6 18 (10.06%) Developer
7 17 (9.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (8.94%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (8.38%) Senior Developer
10 13 (7.26%) Lead
10 13 (7.26%) Security Engineer
10 13 (7.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) GCP Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (5.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.64%) Spring
2 27 (15.08%) Spring Boot
3 21 (11.73%) React
4 11 (6.15%) FastAPI
4 11 (6.15%) Node.js
5 9 (5.03%) .NET
5 9 (5.03%) Next.js
5 9 (5.03%) PySpark
6 8 (4.47%) ARM Templates
6 8 (4.47%) Kafka
6 8 (4.47%) REST
7 6 (3.35%) JWT
7 6 (3.35%) OAuth
7 6 (3.35%) OAuth2
7 6 (3.35%) OpenID
7 6 (3.35%) React Native
7 6 (3.35%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (3.35%) SAML
8 5 (2.79%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.47%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.35%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.23%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.12%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.29%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) CentOS
2 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.23%) Debian
3 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.68%) Windows
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (75.98%) CI/CD
2 130 (72.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (63.69%) DevOps
4 62 (34.64%) Agile
4 62 (34.64%) Platform Engineering
5 51 (28.49%) Containerisation
6 43 (24.02%) Mentoring
7 40 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (20.67%) AI
9 36 (20.11%) Software Engineering
10 35 (19.55%) Observability
11 33 (18.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (14.53%) Microservices
13 25 (13.97%) Scrum
14 24 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (12.85%) TDD
16 20 (11.17%) Cloud Security
16 20 (11.17%) Collaborative Culture
17 18 (10.06%) Decision-Making
17 18 (10.06%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (53.07%) Python
2 44 (24.58%) Java
3 30 (16.76%) Bash
4 26 (14.53%) PowerShell
5 21 (11.73%) SQL
6 16 (8.94%) Go
7 14 (7.82%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.82%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.70%) Bicep
9 9 (5.03%) C#
10 6 (3.35%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (27.93%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.53%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CCIE
6 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.35%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (39.11%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (50.84%) Kubernetes
2 54 (30.17%) Ansible
3 16 (8.94%) Grafana
4 15 (8.38%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.23%) Argo
6 4 (2.23%) Istio
6 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.23%) Puppet
7 3 (1.68%) linkerd
8 2 (1.12%) Packer
8 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 20 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.06%) Google
3 10 (5.59%) VMware
4 8 (4.47%) Splunk
5 7 (3.91%) Databricks
6 3 (1.68%) F5
6 3 (1.68%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco
7 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle
7 2 (1.12%) Pega
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.12%) WSO2
7 2 (1.12%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) HP