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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 47 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 -20 +21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 114 168 212
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.78% 4.66% 8.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.60% 48.41% 45.99%
Number of salaries quoted 62 72 196
10th Percentile £52,050 £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 £83,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £88,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £69,654 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.68% -3.93% -2.80%

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 250 347 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.48% 9.62% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 150 152 401
10th Percentile £31,900 £35,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,419
North West median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.90% -16.00% +5.00%

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 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 9 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 9 £65,000 - 11
Oldham - 4 £65,000 -
Salford +8 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Bury -2 3 - - 8
Cheadle - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Bolton +3 2 - - 41
Wigan +3 2 - - 2
Stockport 0 2 - - 2
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 12
Rochdale 0 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
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 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.98%) AWS
2 31 (27.19%) Azure
3 19 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (15.79%) Serverless
5 15 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (7.89%) GitHub
10 8 (7.02%) GCP
11 7 (6.14%) AWS CodeBuild
11 7 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (6.14%) Route 53
11 7 (6.14%) SaaS
11 7 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.39%) PaaS
14 4 (3.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (37.72%) Cisco IOS
1 43 (37.72%) VPN
2 2 (1.75%) AMQP
2 2 (1.75%) DNS
2 2 (1.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.75%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.63%) Big Data
2 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.75%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.75%) MySQL
3 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.75%) Redis
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.88%) DocumentDB
4 1 (0.88%) Metadata
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) GitLab
3 7 (6.14%) CircleCI
4 4 (3.51%) Git
5 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.88%) JMeter
5 1 (0.88%) Locust
5 1 (0.88%) MLflow
General
1 43 (37.72%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (37.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (10.53%) Finance
2 12 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.14%) Games
4 5 (4.39%) Retail
5 2 (1.75%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.88%) Law
6 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (37.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (22.81%) Senior
3 15 (13.16%) Developer
4 14 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.77%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Architect
11 4 (3.51%) Backend Developer
12 3 (2.63%) AWS Architect
12 3 (2.63%) Data Engineer
12 3 (2.63%) Lead
12 3 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (44.74%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (14.91%) React
3 15 (13.16%) .NET
4 8 (7.02%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.14%) Amazon Corretto
6 6 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 6 (5.26%) REST
7 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.51%) Kafka
7 4 (3.51%) Node.js
7 4 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.51%) Spring
7 4 (3.51%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.75%) Django
9 2 (1.75%) gRPC
9 2 (1.75%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.75%) Swagger
9 2 (1.75%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.75%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (37.72%) Cyberattack
2 20 (17.54%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.14%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.51%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 59 (51.75%) Linux
2 46 (40.35%) Windows
3 43 (37.72%) Android
4 9 (7.89%) Debian
4 9 (7.89%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.51%) Unix
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.75%) CentOS
7 2 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (82.46%) DevOps
2 57 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 55 (48.25%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (44.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (41.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (40.35%) Line Management
6 46 (40.35%) Storage Management
7 45 (39.47%) Risk Management
7 45 (39.47%) Task Automation
8 44 (38.60%) Mathematics
9 42 (36.84%) CI/CD
10 29 (25.44%) Agile
11 21 (18.42%) Containerisation
12 18 (15.79%) Microservices
13 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
14 15 (13.16%) TDD
15 14 (12.28%) Clean Code
15 14 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
16 12 (10.53%) Observability
17 11 (9.65%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (57.02%) Python
2 53 (46.49%) Bash
3 50 (43.86%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.53%) Java
5 11 (9.65%) C#
5 11 (9.65%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.26%) SQL
7 5 (4.39%) Bicep
7 5 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) QA
2 2 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
3 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (70.18%) Docker
2 45 (39.47%) VMware NSX
2 45 (39.47%) vSphere
3 43 (37.72%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (56.14%) Ansible
2 37 (32.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.65%) Prometheus
4 10 (8.77%) Grafana
5 4 (3.51%) Puppet
6 3 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 51 (44.74%) Splunk
2 43 (37.72%) 3PAR
2 43 (37.72%) Cisco
2 43 (37.72%) Juniper
3 12 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.39%) Databricks
4 5 (4.39%) Google
5 4 (3.51%) Foundry
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.63%) VMware
7 2 (1.75%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.88%) Dell
8 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle
8 1 (0.88%) Pega
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) WSO2