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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 60 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 80 110 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.55% 4.25% 4.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.02% 38.73% 37.61%
Number of salaries quoted 57 73 120
10th Percentile £52,000 £48,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +10.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £84,150
North West median annual salary £65,000 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.71% +10.76% -7.14%

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 205 284 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.53% 10.97% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 152 156 309
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £93,778 £82,548
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% +3.48%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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
Salford +1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Stockport +3 1 £60,000 - 8
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 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.25%) Apache
2 5 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 46 (57.50%) Azure
2 45 (56.25%) AWS
3 19 (23.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (21.25%) GCP
5 15 (18.75%) SaaS
6 14 (17.50%) GitHub
7 12 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (15.00%) Serverless
8 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
9 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (10.00%) OneDrive
10 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
11 7 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
12 6 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) AMQP
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) Network Security
3 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
3 2 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.25%) Big Data
2 5 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.25%) MySQL
3 4 (5.00%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.75%) Git
3 6 (7.50%) GitLab
4 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.50%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.25%) JIRA
6 1 (1.25%) JMeter
6 1 (1.25%) Locust
General
1 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.75%) Finance
4 4 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.50%) Law
5 2 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Senior
2 22 (27.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Software Engineering Manager
10 3 (3.75%) Software Manager
11 2 (2.50%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) .NET
1 12 (15.00%) REST
2 11 (13.75%) Node.js
3 9 (11.25%) React
4 6 (7.50%) .NET Core
4 6 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (7.50%) Spring
4 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.00%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.00%) gRPC
6 4 (5.00%) Material-UI
6 4 (5.00%) OpenAPI
6 4 (5.00%) Swagger
7 3 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.75%) RESTful
8 2 (2.50%) Django
8 2 (2.50%) Kafka
8 2 (2.50%) WCF
8 2 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Linux
2 11 (13.75%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) Debian
3 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
3 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.25%) CentOS
4 5 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.75%) VMS
6 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 45 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 44 (55.00%) DevOps
4 39 (48.75%) Agile
5 23 (28.75%) Microservices
6 22 (27.50%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
8 18 (22.50%) Observability
9 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 12 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (13.75%) AI
13 10 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (12.50%) Incident Response
13 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (11.25%) Cost Optimisation
14 9 (11.25%) Scrum
14 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (11.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) Python
2 10 (12.50%) C#
2 10 (12.50%) Java
2 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.50%) SQL
4 5 (6.25%) Bicep
4 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.00%) Bash
5 4 (5.00%) Go
5 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) NIST
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 12 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.00%) vSphere
4 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 24 (30.00%) Ansible
3 9 (11.25%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (7.50%) Puppet
6 5 (6.25%) Grafana
6 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.75%) Rancher
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Splunk
3 8 (10.00%) Google
3 8 (10.00%) New Relic
4 5 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.25%) VMware
5 4 (5.00%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.50%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) Foundry
7 1 (1.25%) Pega
7 1 (1.25%) WSO2