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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 133 164 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.39% 7.28% 3.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.33% 45.43% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 93 101 130
10th Percentile £51,400 £50,000 £46,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,297 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +15.18% -10.34%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £74,688
90th Percentile £87,000 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £69,655 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.92% +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 281 361 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.05% 16.02% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 212 208 359
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £33,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,260 £83,938 £73,818
90th Percentile £88,625 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -3.40%

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 17 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 17 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 +6 10 £65,000 - 2
Salford -13 2 £82,151 +18.40% 2
Stockport +1 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 7 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.26%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (66.17%) AWS
2 76 (57.14%) Azure
3 33 (24.81%) GitHub
4 24 (18.05%) GCP
5 22 (16.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (15.79%) Serverless
7 18 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (10.53%) Entra ID
10 13 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (9.02%) SaaS
12 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
13 9 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (6.02%) Azure AKS
14 8 (6.02%) Snowflake
15 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (5.26%) OneDrive
16 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
16 6 (4.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.77%) Firewall
2 5 (3.76%) VPN
3 4 (3.01%) Network Security
4 3 (2.26%) AMQP
4 3 (2.26%) SAN
4 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.75%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.51%) BigQuery
2 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.01%) Flink
4 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.26%) Big Data
5 3 (2.26%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.26%) GIS
5 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.26%) MySQL
5 3 (2.26%) QGIS
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (12.03%) Git
2 14 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.02%) GitLab
4 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.50%) JIRA
5 2 (1.50%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.75%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.27%) Finance
3 8 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.51%) Banking
4 6 (4.51%) Retail Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (39.10%) Senior
2 42 (31.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 16 (12.03%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Developer
6 14 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.52%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (6.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Java Software Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.78%) Spring
2 16 (12.03%) Node.js
2 16 (12.03%) Spring Boot
3 13 (9.77%) React
3 13 (9.77%) REST
4 11 (8.27%) .NET
5 8 (6.02%) Kafka
6 7 (5.26%) PySpark
7 6 (4.51%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.76%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.01%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.01%) Great Expectations
9 4 (3.01%) Pandas
9 4 (3.01%) RESTful
9 4 (3.01%) YAML
10 3 (2.26%) OAuth
10 3 (2.26%) OpenLayers
10 3 (2.26%) PostGIS
10 3 (2.26%) SAML
10 3 (2.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.51%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.75%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Windows
3 6 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.76%) Debian
4 5 (3.76%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.01%) CentOS
5 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Unix
6 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (74.44%) CI/CD
2 84 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (57.14%) DevOps
4 61 (45.86%) Agile
5 46 (34.59%) Platform Engineering
6 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 27 (20.30%) Containerisation
8 26 (19.55%) Observability
8 26 (19.55%) Scrum
8 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
9 25 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (18.05%) Microservices
11 21 (15.79%) TDD
12 19 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (13.53%) AI
13 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.78%) Cost Optimisation
15 16 (12.03%) Decision-Making
15 16 (12.03%) Test Automation
16 14 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (38.35%) Python
2 29 (21.80%) Java
3 18 (13.53%) SQL
4 16 (12.03%) Bash
5 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.28%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.02%) C#
8 6 (4.51%) Bicep
9 4 (3.01%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.50%) Degree
6 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.01%) QA
System Software
1 41 (30.83%) Docker
2 10 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (41.35%) Kubernetes
2 31 (23.31%) Ansible
3 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.51%) Grafana
6 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.26%) Puppet
7 3 (2.26%) Rancher
8 2 (1.50%) Packer
8 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.75%) Istio
9 1 (0.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Google
3 7 (5.26%) New Relic
3 7 (5.26%) Splunk
3 7 (5.26%) VMware
4 4 (3.01%) Databricks
4 4 (3.01%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.26%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.26%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.50%) Pega
6 2 (1.50%) WSO2
7 1 (0.75%) F5
7 1 (0.75%) HP
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle