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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 60 60
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 82 110 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.58% 4.27% 3.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.42% 38.46% 37.36%
Number of salaries quoted 59 73 121
10th Percentile £51,850 £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 £79,395 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £84,056
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 208 286 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.55% 11.10% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 155 158 318
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £48,125 £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 £91,750 £93,778 £82,548
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

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 31 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 31 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 0 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Stockport +3 1 £60,000 - 5
Altrincham -10 1 £67,500 - 1
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 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.10%) Apache
2 5 (6.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (57.32%) Azure
2 46 (56.10%) AWS
3 19 (23.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (20.73%) GCP
5 15 (18.29%) GitHub
5 15 (18.29%) SaaS
6 13 (15.85%) Serverless
7 12 (14.63%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (13.41%) Entra ID
9 10 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (9.76%) OneDrive
11 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
12 7 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
13 6 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) Firewall
2 4 (4.88%) AMQP
3 2 (2.44%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) Network Security
3 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 2 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.10%) Big Data
2 5 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.10%) MySQL
3 4 (4.88%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (4.88%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.44%) Redis
6 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.54%) Git
2 7 (8.54%) GitLab
3 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.22%) JIRA
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) Locust
5 1 (1.22%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (18.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.54%) Finance
4 4 (4.88%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.44%) Law
5 2 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Senior
2 23 (28.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (19.51%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Software Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
9 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Architect
10 3 (3.66%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Software Engineering Manager
10 3 (3.66%) Software Manager
11 2 (2.44%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) .NET
1 12 (14.63%) REST
2 11 (13.41%) Node.js
3 10 (12.20%) React
4 7 (8.54%) Spring
4 7 (8.54%) Spring Boot
5 6 (7.32%) .NET Core
5 6 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.88%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.88%) gRPC
7 4 (4.88%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.88%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.88%) Swagger
8 3 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.66%) RESTful
9 2 (2.44%) Django
9 2 (2.44%) Kafka
9 2 (2.44%) WCF
9 2 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 11 (13.41%) Windows
3 7 (8.54%) Debian
3 7 (8.54%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.10%) CentOS
5 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.66%) VMS
7 2 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (60.98%) Infrastructure as Code
2 47 (57.32%) CI/CD
3 46 (56.10%) DevOps
4 40 (48.78%) Agile
5 23 (28.05%) Microservices
5 23 (28.05%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 18 (21.95%) Observability
8 17 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (20.73%) Software Engineering
9 12 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (13.41%) AI
11 10 (12.20%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (12.20%) Incident Response
11 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (12.20%) Scrum
11 10 (12.20%) User Experience
12 9 (10.98%) Cost Optimisation
12 9 (10.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.27%) Python
2 11 (13.41%) Java
3 10 (12.20%) C#
3 10 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.32%) SQL
5 5 (6.10%) Bicep
5 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.88%) Bash
6 4 (4.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.54%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (31.71%) Docker
2 12 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.88%) vSphere
4 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 25 (30.49%) Ansible
3 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (10.98%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (7.32%) Puppet
5 5 (6.10%) Grafana
5 5 (6.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.88%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.66%) Rancher
8 1 (1.22%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.22%) Nagios
8 1 (1.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) Splunk
3 8 (9.76%) Google
3 8 (9.76%) New Relic
4 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.10%) VMware
5 4 (4.88%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.44%) Databricks
6 2 (2.44%) Foundry
7 1 (1.22%) Pega
7 1 (1.22%) WSO2