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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 38 53
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 -10
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 154 166 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.62% 7.76% 3.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.20% 45.60% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 116 102 129
10th Percentile £52,250 £50,125 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £73,685 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +13.36% -10.34%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,625 £81,500
North West median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -10.34%

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 313 364 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.32% 17.02% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 241 205 346
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £42,941
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,017 £80,625
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +7 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -16 3 £90,000 +29.71% 4
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 6 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.95%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (66.88%) AWS
2 84 (54.55%) Azure
3 36 (23.38%) GitHub
4 30 (19.48%) GCP
5 24 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (14.94%) Serverless
7 19 (12.34%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.04%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (9.09%) Entra ID
10 12 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (7.79%) SaaS
11 10 (6.49%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.84%) Power Platform
12 9 (5.84%) Pulumi
13 8 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (5.19%) Azure AKS
14 7 (4.55%) dbt
14 7 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (3.90%) VPN
3 5 (3.25%) Network Security
4 4 (2.60%) DNS
4 4 (2.60%) SAN
5 3 (1.95%) AMQP
5 3 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.65%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.55%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.25%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.60%) Flink
4 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.95%) Big Data
5 3 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.95%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.95%) GIS
5 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.95%) QGIS
6 2 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.30%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.69%) Git
3 16 (10.39%) GitLab
4 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.30%) JIRA
4 2 (1.30%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.30%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.65%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.49%) Finance
4 6 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.90%) Banking
4 6 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.90%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.60%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.30%) Retail
7 1 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (40.26%) Senior
2 49 (31.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (14.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (14.94%) Software Engineer
4 20 (12.99%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (12.34%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (10.39%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (10.39%) Data Engineer
7 15 (9.74%) Developer
7 15 (9.74%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (8.44%) GCP Engineer
8 13 (8.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 12 (7.79%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.49%) Security Engineer
10 10 (6.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.84%) Lead
12 8 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 7 (4.55%) Java Developer
14 6 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.99%) Spring
2 19 (12.34%) Spring Boot
3 16 (10.39%) Node.js
3 16 (10.39%) React
4 13 (8.44%) REST
5 12 (7.79%) .NET
6 8 (5.19%) Kafka
6 8 (5.19%) PySpark
7 7 (4.55%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.90%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.90%) JWT
8 6 (3.90%) OAuth
9 5 (3.25%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.25%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.25%) OpenID
9 5 (3.25%) SAML
10 4 (2.60%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.60%) Pandas
10 4 (2.60%) YAML
11 3 (1.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.19%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.65%) NHS
10 1 (0.65%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.04%) Linux
2 10 (6.49%) Windows
3 6 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.25%) Debian
4 5 (3.25%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.60%) CentOS
5 4 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (77.27%) CI/CD
2 101 (65.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (56.49%) DevOps
4 61 (39.61%) Agile
5 54 (35.06%) Platform Engineering
6 37 (24.03%) Containerisation
7 34 (22.08%) Mentoring
8 30 (19.48%) Software Engineering
9 29 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (18.18%) Observability
11 27 (17.53%) Scrum
12 25 (16.23%) AI
12 25 (16.23%) Microservices
13 22 (14.29%) TDD
14 19 (12.34%) Collaborative Culture
15 18 (11.69%) Decision-Making
15 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (11.04%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (11.04%) RBAC
17 16 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.56%) Python
2 32 (20.78%) Java
3 21 (13.64%) Bash
3 21 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.69%) SQL
5 17 (11.04%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.19%) Bicep
7 8 (5.19%) C#
8 7 (4.55%) Go
9 2 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.30%) Degree
7 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.25%) QA
System Software
1 52 (33.77%) Docker
2 10 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.95%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 36 (23.38%) Ansible
3 10 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.84%) Grafana
5 8 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.60%) Puppet
8 3 (1.95%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.30%) Argo
9 2 (1.30%) Istio
9 2 (1.30%) Packer
9 2 (1.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.09%) Google
3 10 (6.49%) VMware
4 7 (4.55%) Splunk
5 5 (3.25%) Databricks
5 5 (3.25%) New Relic
6 3 (1.95%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.95%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.95%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.30%) Pega
7 2 (1.30%) WSO2
8 1 (0.65%) F5
8 1 (0.65%) HP
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle