Terraform Job Trends in Manchester

Terraform
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester citing Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	59	41	47
Rank change year-on-year	-18	+6	-20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform	198	114	168
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester	2.53%	4.77%	4.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	24.84%	25.22%	19.05%
Number of salaries quoted	157	62	72
10^th Percentile	£50,750	£52,050	£50,000
25^th Percentile	£60,000	£57,500	£52,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£70,400	£65,000	£70,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.31%	-7.14%	-6.67%
75^th Percentile	£85,000	£77,500	£83,813
90^th Percentile	£96,250	£87,125	£88,000
North West median annual salary	£71,500	£65,000	£69,654
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	-6.68%	-3.93%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills	797	452	882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester	10.20%	18.90%	24.45%
Number of salaries quoted	581	326	466
10^th Percentile	£43,000	£37,500	£40,000
25^th Percentile	£53,750	£51,250	£48,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£65,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+3.85%	+8.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£81,250	£77,500	£74,080
90^th Percentile	£97,500	£88,750	£85,000
North West median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£56,250
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	+11.11%	-6.25%

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 Salary Trend in Manchester

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 November 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 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Altrincham	-2	10	£60,000	-7.69%	4
Stockport	-9	8	£75,000	-	2
Salford	-19	4	£90,000	+21.95%	4
Cheadle	-8	3	£72,500	-	2
Terraform North West

Terraform Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing Terraform also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region citing Terraform.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Infrastructure as Code	72.7%	144
2	CI/CD	71.7%	142
3	DevOps	65.2%	129
4	Python	62.6%	124
5	Kubernetes	61.6%	122
6	AWS	59.6%	118
7	Security Cleared	48.5%	96
8	Docker	46.5%	92
9	Azure	40.4%	80
10	Ansible	38.9%	77
11	Platform Engineering	32.8%	65
12	Containerisation	31.3%	62
13	Agile	30.3%	60
13	Java	30.3%	60
15	SC Cleared	29.3%	58
16	DV Cleared	27.8%	55
17	AI	26.8%	53
18	Bash	24.2%	48
18	Site Reliability Engineering	24.2%	48
20	Mentoring	23.2%	46
21	GitHub	22.7%	45
21	Software Engineering	22.7%	45
23	Continuous Improvement	20.7%	41
23	Linux	20.7%	41
25	Observability	20.2%	40
25	Technical Leadership	20.2%	40
27	React	19.7%	39
28	Spring	19.2%	38
28	Spring Boot	19.2%	38
30	GCP	18.2%	36

Terraform Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	React	19.7%	39
2	Spring	19.2%	38
2	Spring Boot	19.2%	38
4	Node.js	7.1%	14
5	FastAPI	6.6%	13
6	Next.js	4.5%	9
7	Pulumi	4.0%	8
7	REST	4.0%	8
9	React Native	3.0%	6
9	Ruby on Rails	3.0%	6
11	.NET	2.5%	5
11	AngularJS	2.5%	5
11	ARM Templates	2.5%	5
11	AWS CDK	2.5%	5
11	CSS	2.5%	5
11	RESTful	2.5%	5
11	Vue	2.5%	5
18	CrewAI	2.0%	4
18	HTML	2.0%	4
18	JWT	2.0%	4