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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 113 121 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.16% 5.76% 3.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.80% 42.61% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 72 103 124
10th Percentile £52,050 £50,250 £46,625
25th Percentile £58,125 £61,297 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,813 £78,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £81,750
North West median annual salary £69,310 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.40% +11.54% -7.14%

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 258 284 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.93% 13.52% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 187 205 361
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,625 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +19.99% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £69,692 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.91% +21.20% -

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -2 7 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Salford -17 1 £74,301 +7.09%
Stockport - 1 £60,000 -
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 8 (7.08%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.54%) Apache
2 4 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.65%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.77%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (64.60%) AWS
2 61 (53.98%) Azure
3 24 (21.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (21.24%) GitHub
4 20 (17.70%) GCP
4 20 (17.70%) Serverless
5 17 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (14.16%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (12.39%) Entra ID
8 12 (10.62%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (10.62%) SaaS
9 11 (9.73%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (7.96%) Power Platform
12 8 (7.08%) Azure AKS
12 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (7.08%) OneDrive
13 7 (6.19%) OpenShift
14 6 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (5.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) Firewall
2 4 (3.54%) AMQP
2 4 (3.54%) VPN
3 3 (2.65%) Network Security
3 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.77%) DNS
4 2 (1.77%) SAN
5 1 (0.88%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.54%) Big Data
3 4 (3.54%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.54%) Flink
3 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
3 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.65%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (2.65%) GIS
4 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.65%) MySQL
4 3 (2.65%) QGIS
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Redis
5 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.62%) Git
3 9 (7.96%) GitLab
4 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.65%) JIRA
5 2 (1.77%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.88%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Finance
3 9 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.31%) Banking
4 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.31%) Retail Banking
5 5 (4.42%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.65%) Retail
7 2 (1.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (37.17%) Senior
2 34 (30.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (18.58%) Software Engineer
4 15 (13.27%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (12.39%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.62%) Data Engineer
7 11 (9.73%) Developer
7 11 (9.73%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (7.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.96%) Senior Developer
10 8 (7.08%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (6.19%) Lead
12 6 (5.31%) AWS Developer
12 6 (5.31%) Azure Developer
12 6 (5.31%) Cloud Developer
12 6 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.04%) Node.js
2 15 (13.27%) Spring
3 14 (12.39%) REST
3 14 (12.39%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.62%) React
5 9 (7.96%) .NET
6 6 (5.31%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.31%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.42%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.42%) Kafka
8 4 (3.54%) Great Expectations
8 4 (3.54%) gRPC
8 4 (3.54%) Material-UI
8 4 (3.54%) OpenAPI
8 4 (3.54%) Pandas
8 4 (3.54%) PySpark
8 4 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.54%) RESTful
8 4 (3.54%) Swagger
8 4 (3.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.31%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.88%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.88%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.93%) Linux
2 10 (8.85%) Windows
3 6 (5.31%) Debian
3 6 (5.31%) Ubuntu
3 6 (5.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.42%) CentOS
4 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (68.14%) CI/CD
2 66 (58.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (55.75%) DevOps
4 56 (49.56%) Agile
5 34 (30.09%) Platform Engineering
6 28 (24.78%) Software Engineering
7 27 (23.89%) Containerisation
8 24 (21.24%) Scrum
9 23 (20.35%) Microservices
9 23 (20.35%) Observability
10 20 (17.70%) Mentoring
11 19 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (15.93%) TDD
13 15 (13.27%) Collaborative Culture
13 15 (13.27%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (13.27%) Incident Response
14 14 (12.39%) AI
15 12 (10.62%) Test Automation
15 12 (10.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.05%) Python
2 26 (23.01%) Java
3 15 (13.27%) JavaScript
3 15 (13.27%) SQL
4 12 (10.62%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.85%) Bash
5 10 (8.85%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.31%) C#
7 5 (4.42%) Bicep
8 3 (2.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.08%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.65%) QA
System Software
1 36 (31.86%) Docker
2 11 (9.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.65%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (42.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (25.66%) Ansible
3 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.96%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (4.42%) Grafana
5 5 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.54%) Puppet
7 3 (2.65%) Rancher
8 2 (1.77%) Packer
8 2 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.88%) Istio
9 1 (0.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) Google
3 8 (7.08%) New Relic
3 8 (7.08%) Splunk
4 6 (5.31%) VMware
5 5 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.54%) SaltStack
7 3 (2.65%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.77%) Pega
8 2 (1.77%) WSO2
9 1 (0.88%) Databricks
9 1 (0.88%) F5
9 1 (0.88%) HP
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle