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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 40 39
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 194 158 230
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.86% 6.31% 5.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 52.43% 44.89% 54.37%
Number of salaries quoted 160 99 103
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £67,626 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% -3.39% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.21% - -6.67%

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 370 352 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.45% 14.06% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 298 194 255
10th Percentile £35,525 £32,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,375 £92,625 £83,750
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 £65,000 - 3
Salford -15 4 £90,000 +29.71%
Stockport +6 3 £75,000 - 3
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 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.03%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 130 (67.01%) AWS
2 93 (47.94%) Azure
3 45 (23.20%) GitHub
4 39 (20.10%) GCP
5 33 (17.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (15.46%) Serverless
7 27 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (8.25%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (7.73%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.67%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.67%) Entra ID
11 11 (5.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (5.67%) Pulumi
11 11 (5.67%) SaaS
12 9 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (4.64%) dbt
12 9 (4.64%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.25%) Firewall
2 7 (3.61%) Network Security
3 6 (3.09%) SAN
4 5 (2.58%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.06%) DNS
5 4 (2.06%) VPN
6 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.03%) AMQP
7 2 (1.03%) BGP
7 2 (1.03%) DMZ
7 2 (1.03%) IPsec
7 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.03%) WAN
8 1 (0.52%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.12%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.06%) Flink
5 4 (2.06%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.55%) GIS
6 3 (1.55%) QGIS
6 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.03%) Big Data
7 2 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.03%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.03%) Power BI
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 27 (13.92%) Git
2 25 (12.89%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.34%) GitLab
4 4 (2.06%) JIRA
5 3 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.03%) Vite
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
7 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.22%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.70%) Finance
4 6 (3.09%) Banking
4 6 (3.09%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Local Government
7 2 (1.03%) Retail
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (38.14%) Senior
2 54 (27.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 51 (26.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (12.89%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.31%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Developer
6 19 (9.79%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (9.28%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (8.76%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (8.25%) Lead
9 16 (8.25%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) GCP Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Security Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (5.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.15%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.98%) Spring
2 30 (15.46%) Spring Boot
3 23 (11.86%) React
4 12 (6.19%) .NET
5 11 (5.67%) FastAPI
5 11 (5.67%) Node.js
6 9 (4.64%) Next.js
6 9 (4.64%) PySpark
7 8 (4.12%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.12%) Kafka
7 8 (4.12%) REST
8 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.09%) JWT
8 6 (3.09%) OAuth
8 6 (3.09%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.09%) OpenID
8 6 (3.09%) React Native
8 6 (3.09%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.09%) SAML
9 4 (2.06%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 48 (24.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.03%) Online Gambling
10 2 (1.03%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.52%) Blog
11 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.52%) NHS
11 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.89%) Linux
2 6 (3.09%) Windows
3 5 (2.58%) CentOS
3 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.06%) Unix
5 3 (1.55%) Debian
5 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (75.26%) CI/CD
2 142 (73.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 121 (62.37%) DevOps
4 65 (33.51%) Platform Engineering
5 64 (32.99%) Agile
6 55 (28.35%) Containerisation
7 47 (24.23%) Mentoring
8 42 (21.65%) Observability
9 41 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (20.62%) Software Engineering
11 39 (20.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 38 (19.59%) AI
13 27 (13.92%) Microservices
14 25 (12.89%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (12.37%) Scrum
16 23 (11.86%) TDD
17 22 (11.34%) Collaborative Culture
17 22 (11.34%) Infrastructure Automation
18 20 (10.31%) Cloud Security
19 18 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 108 (55.67%) Python
2 49 (25.26%) Java
3 37 (19.07%) Bash
4 29 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.86%) SQL
6 20 (10.31%) Go
7 14 (7.22%) Bicep
7 14 (7.22%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.67%) C#
10 7 (3.61%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
11 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.46%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) CCIE
6 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.09%) QA
2 5 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (38.66%) Docker
2 10 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (51.55%) Kubernetes
2 61 (31.44%) Ansible
3 17 (8.76%) Grafana
4 16 (8.25%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.64%) Puppet
6 7 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.58%) Argo
7 5 (2.58%) Istio
8 4 (2.06%) linkerd
8 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.52%) Packer
10 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.82%) Google
3 11 (5.67%) VMware
4 8 (4.12%) Splunk
5 7 (3.61%) Databricks
6 3 (1.55%) F5
6 3 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.03%) Cisco
7 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle
7 2 (1.03%) Pega
7 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.03%) WSO2
7 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) HP
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic