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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 46 29
Rank change year-on-year -25 -17 +17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 69 167 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.85% 4.61% 8.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.57% 47.99% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 61 71 188
10th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £88,250
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -6.15%

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 194 348 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.02% 9.61% 18.58%
Number of salaries quoted 148 153 391
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £87,419
North West median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.38% -16.00% +4.58%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 6 £65,000 - 7
Salford +7 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 4 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (68.12%) AWS
2 32 (46.38%) Azure
3 19 (27.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (24.64%) Serverless
5 14 (20.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (18.84%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (14.49%) GitHub
9 9 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (11.59%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (11.59%) GCP
10 8 (11.59%) SaaS
11 6 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (8.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (8.70%) Route 53
11 6 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (7.25%) Amazon S3
12 5 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (7.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) AMQP
1 2 (2.90%) DNS
1 2 (2.90%) Firewall
1 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.90%) WAN
2 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.35%) Big Data
2 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.90%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.90%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.90%) MySQL
3 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.90%) Redis
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.45%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.45%) Metadata
4 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.14%) GitLab
3 6 (8.70%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.80%) Git
5 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) JMeter
5 1 (1.45%) Locust
5 1 (1.45%) MLflow
General
1 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.94%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Games
4 5 (7.25%) Retail
5 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.90%) Law
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Senior
2 14 (20.29%) Developer
3 13 (18.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Software Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.59%) Java Developer
7 7 (10.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Lead
10 3 (4.35%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.90%) IT Manager
11 2 (2.90%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.19%) React
2 15 (21.74%) .NET
3 8 (11.59%) .NET Core
4 7 (10.14%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (8.70%) Amazon Corretto
5 6 (8.70%) ARM Templates
5 6 (8.70%) REST
6 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.80%) Kafka
6 4 (5.80%) Node.js
6 4 (5.80%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.80%) Spring
6 4 (5.80%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (2.90%) gRPC
8 2 (2.90%) OpenAPI
8 2 (2.90%) scikit-learn
8 2 (2.90%) Swagger
8 2 (2.90%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.99%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) e-Learning
3 4 (5.80%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Debian
2 8 (11.59%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.80%) Unix
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.35%) Windows
5 2 (2.90%) CentOS
5 2 (2.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (71.01%) DevOps
2 46 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 30 (43.48%) Agile
5 20 (28.99%) Containerisation
6 18 (26.09%) Microservices
7 16 (23.19%) Software Engineering
8 15 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (20.29%) TDD
10 13 (18.84%) Clean Code
10 13 (18.84%) Observability
11 12 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.49%) Configuration Management
12 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 9 (13.04%) User Experience
14 8 (11.59%) AI
14 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (11.59%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) C#
2 11 (15.94%) Java
3 10 (14.49%) TypeScript
4 9 (13.04%) Bash
5 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.70%) SQL
7 5 (7.25%) Bicep
7 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.45%) Go
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (50.72%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.90%) vSphere
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (49.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (28.99%) Ansible
3 10 (14.49%) Prometheus
4 9 (13.04%) Grafana
5 4 (5.80%) Puppet
6 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (1.45%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.59%) Splunk
3 5 (7.25%) Databricks
3 5 (7.25%) Google
4 4 (5.80%) Foundry
5 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.35%) VMware
6 2 (2.90%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.45%) Dell
7 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.45%) New Relic
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle
7 1 (1.45%) Pega
7 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) WSO2