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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 38 56
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 139 164 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.45% 7.25% 3.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.77% 45.18% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 99 101 129
10th Percentile £51,850 £50,000 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £54,000
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 285 363 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.03% 16.04% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 214 208 357
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,550 £33,050
25th Percentile £46,750 £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 £80,000 £82,751 £73,886
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,528 £82,500
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 20 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 20 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 -
Salford -15 3 £90,000 +29.71% 4
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 6 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 93 (66.91%) AWS
2 81 (58.27%) Azure
3 34 (24.46%) GitHub
4 26 (18.71%) GCP
5 22 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (15.11%) Serverless
7 18 (12.95%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (12.23%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (10.07%) Entra ID
11 12 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (7.91%) SaaS
13 9 (6.47%) Azure AKS
13 9 (6.47%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (6.47%) Power Platform
14 8 (5.76%) Amazon S3
14 8 (5.76%) Snowflake
15 7 (5.04%) dbt
15 7 (5.04%) OpenShift
16 6 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.35%) Firewall
2 5 (3.60%) VPN
3 4 (2.88%) Network Security
4 3 (2.16%) AMQP
4 3 (2.16%) DNS
4 3 (2.16%) SAN
4 3 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.72%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.04%) BigQuery
1 7 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.32%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.88%) Flink
4 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.16%) Big Data
5 3 (2.16%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.16%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.16%) GIS
5 3 (2.16%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.16%) MySQL
5 3 (2.16%) QGIS
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) Power BI
6 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (12.23%) Git
2 16 (11.51%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.63%) GitLab
4 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.44%) JIRA
5 2 (1.44%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.72%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.72%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.19%) Finance
3 9 (6.47%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.32%) Banking
5 6 (4.32%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.88%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.44%) Retail
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (39.57%) Senior
2 45 (32.37%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (15.11%) Software Engineer
4 19 (13.67%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (12.95%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (11.51%) Data Engineer
7 15 (10.79%) Developer
7 15 (10.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (10.79%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (8.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.63%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.91%) GCP Engineer
11 10 (7.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.76%) Security Engineer
13 7 (5.04%) Java Developer
13 7 (5.04%) Lead
13 7 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (4.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 6 (4.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.23%) Spring
2 16 (11.51%) Node.js
2 16 (11.51%) Spring Boot
3 14 (10.07%) React
4 13 (9.35%) REST
5 12 (8.63%) .NET
6 9 (6.47%) Kafka
7 8 (5.76%) PySpark
8 6 (4.32%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.60%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.60%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.88%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.88%) JWT
10 4 (2.88%) OAuth
10 4 (2.88%) Pandas
10 4 (2.88%) RESTful
10 4 (2.88%) YAML
11 3 (2.16%) PostGIS
11 3 (2.16%) SAML
11 3 (2.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.04%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.32%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.72%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.95%) Linux
2 10 (7.19%) Windows
3 6 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.60%) Debian
4 5 (3.60%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.88%) CentOS
5 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (74.82%) CI/CD
2 86 (61.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (55.40%) DevOps
4 62 (44.60%) Agile
5 49 (35.25%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (21.58%) Mentoring
7 28 (20.14%) Containerisation
7 28 (20.14%) Software Engineering
8 27 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (19.42%) Scrum
9 25 (17.99%) Microservices
10 24 (17.27%) Observability
11 22 (15.83%) TDD
12 20 (14.39%) AI
13 19 (13.67%) Collaborative Culture
14 18 (12.95%) Decision-Making
15 17 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (11.51%) Cost Optimisation
16 16 (11.51%) Test Automation
17 15 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.29%) Python
2 30 (21.58%) Java
3 19 (13.67%) SQL
4 17 (12.23%) Bash
4 17 (12.23%) PowerShell
5 16 (11.51%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.47%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.76%) C#
8 6 (4.32%) Bicep
9 5 (3.60%) Go
10 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.04%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.04%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.16%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.44%) Degree
6 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.60%) QA
System Software
1 44 (31.65%) Docker
2 10 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.16%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (41.01%) Kubernetes
2 33 (23.74%) Ansible
3 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.32%) Grafana
4 6 (4.32%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.16%) Puppet
6 3 (2.16%) Rancher
7 2 (1.44%) Packer
7 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.72%) Istio
8 1 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.19%) Google
3 8 (5.76%) VMware
4 7 (5.04%) Splunk
5 6 (4.32%) New Relic
6 5 (3.60%) Databricks
7 4 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.16%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.16%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.44%) Pega
9 2 (1.44%) WSO2
10 1 (0.72%) F5
10 1 (0.72%) HP
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle