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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 39 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 -18 +26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 131 214 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.55% 5.28% 9.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.46% 52.20% 50.27%
Number of salaries quoted 75 79 243
10th Percentile £50,875 £44,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% -7.59% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,650 £85,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +5.26%

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 316 410 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 13.38% 10.11% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 168 180 462
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,188 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,775 £87,302
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -1 10 £65,000 - 1
Bury -1 4 £60,000 -
Oldham - 4 £65,000 -
Cheadle -6 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Stockport +1 2 - -
Bolton -7 2 - - 4
Wigan - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Rochdale +3 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Terraform
North West

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.05%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.51%) AWS
2 33 (25.19%) Azure
3 20 (15.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (12.98%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (12.98%) Serverless
5 16 (12.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.87%) SaaS
8 8 (6.11%) AWS CodeBuild
8 8 (6.11%) GCP
8 8 (6.11%) Route 53
8 8 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (4.58%) GitHub
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.05%) PaaS
12 3 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.29%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (33.59%) VPN
2 43 (32.82%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (2.29%) Firewall
4 2 (1.53%) DNS
4 2 (1.53%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.40%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.82%) Big Data
3 3 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.76%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.76%) Metadata
5 1 (0.76%) MySQL
5 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.40%) GitLab
3 8 (6.11%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.76%) Git
4 1 (0.76%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.76%) JUnit
4 1 (0.76%) Maven
4 1 (0.76%) MLflow
4 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (32.82%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (32.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (12.98%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.45%) Finance
4 8 (6.11%) Games
5 6 (4.58%) Retail
6 3 (2.29%) Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Aviation
7 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 48 (36.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (22.14%) Senior
3 19 (14.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (13.74%) Developer
5 16 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.16%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Lead
9 9 (6.87%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (40.46%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (16.03%) React
3 18 (13.74%) .NET
4 13 (9.92%) .NET Core
5 8 (6.11%) Amazon Corretto
5 8 (6.11%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.82%) Lambda Expressions
6 5 (3.82%) Node.js
7 4 (3.05%) Kafka
7 4 (3.05%) REST
8 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.29%) Spring
8 3 (2.29%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.29%) Vue
9 2 (1.53%) Laravel
9 2 (1.53%) Pandas
9 2 (1.53%) RESTful
9 2 (1.53%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.53%) Serverless Framework
9 2 (1.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (32.82%) Cyberattack
2 22 (16.79%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.11%) e-Learning
5 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (48.09%) Linux
2 48 (36.64%) Windows
3 43 (32.82%) Android
4 9 (6.87%) Debian
4 9 (6.87%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.05%) CentOS
6 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.29%) Unix
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (80.15%) DevOps
2 61 (46.56%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (40.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (40.46%) Platform Engineering
4 51 (38.93%) Line Management
5 49 (37.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (35.88%) CI/CD
7 45 (34.35%) Risk Management
7 45 (34.35%) Task Automation
8 44 (33.59%) Mathematics
8 44 (33.59%) Storage Management
9 22 (16.79%) Agile
10 21 (16.03%) Software Engineering
10 21 (16.03%) TDD
11 20 (15.27%) Containerisation
12 18 (13.74%) Microservices
13 17 (12.98%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (11.45%) Configuration Management
16 14 (10.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (53.44%) Python
2 60 (45.80%) Bash
3 48 (36.64%) PowerShell
4 19 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.21%) C#
6 15 (11.45%) Java
7 13 (9.92%) SQL
8 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.29%) Go
9 3 (2.29%) Scala
10 2 (1.53%) Bicep
10 2 (1.53%) PHP
10 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (5.34%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) Degree
4 2 (1.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) QA
2 3 (2.29%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (67.18%) Docker
2 43 (32.82%) Hyper-V
2 43 (32.82%) VMware NSX
2 43 (32.82%) vSphere
3 3 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (51.91%) Ansible
2 44 (33.59%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.69%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.16%) Grafana
5 5 (3.82%) Puppet
6 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.76%) Istio
7 1 (0.76%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.76%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.76%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 51 (38.93%) Splunk
2 43 (32.82%) 3PAR
2 43 (32.82%) Cisco
2 43 (32.82%) Juniper
3 17 (12.98%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.05%) Databricks
5 3 (2.29%) Foundry
6 2 (1.53%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.53%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.76%) Dell
7 1 (0.76%) Google
7 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.76%) New Relic
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.76%) SAP
7 1 (0.76%) VMware