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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 51 44
Rank change year-on-year -17 -7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 76 124 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.65% 4.60% 5.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.18% 42.47% 37.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59 63 118
10th Percentile £52,000 £51,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% -1.75%
75th Percentile £78,145 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £89,000 £88,750 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 194 292 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.78% 10.83% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 148 145 299
10th Percentile £32,938 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,450 £84,056
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%

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 8 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 8 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%
Stockport +1 1 £60,000 - 7
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 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.26%) Apache
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (61.84%) Azure
2 41 (53.95%) AWS
3 17 (22.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (19.74%) SaaS
5 14 (18.42%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (17.11%) GCP
7 12 (15.79%) GitHub
8 11 (14.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (14.47%) Serverless
9 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (13.16%) Entra ID
10 8 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (10.53%) OneDrive
10 8 (10.53%) Power Platform
11 7 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (6.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (3.95%) AMQP
3 2 (2.63%) DNS
3 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.63%) WAN
4 1 (1.32%) Network Security
4 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Big Data
2 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.26%) MySQL
3 3 (3.95%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (3.95%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.63%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.89%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) GitLab
3 3 (3.95%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.32%) JIRA
5 1 (1.32%) JMeter
5 1 (1.32%) Locust
General
1 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (7.89%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.63%) Law
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Senior
2 20 (26.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (21.05%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Architect
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.63%) IT Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Principal Developer
9 2 (2.63%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) .NET
2 9 (11.84%) React
3 8 (10.53%) REST
4 7 (9.21%) .NET Core
4 7 (9.21%) Node.js
5 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.58%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (6.58%) Spring
5 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.95%) gRPC
7 3 (3.95%) Material-UI
7 3 (3.95%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.95%) RESTful
7 3 (3.95%) Swagger
8 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (2.63%) Django
8 2 (2.63%) Kafka
8 2 (2.63%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.95%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Linux
2 10 (13.16%) Windows
3 6 (7.89%) Debian
3 6 (7.89%) Ubuntu
3 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.26%) CentOS
6 3 (3.95%) Unix
6 3 (3.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (60.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 44 (57.89%) DevOps
3 41 (53.95%) CI/CD
4 36 (47.37%) Agile
5 23 (30.26%) Platform Engineering
6 20 (26.32%) Containerisation
7 19 (25.00%) Microservices
8 18 (23.68%) Observability
9 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
11 12 (15.79%) AI
11 12 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (13.16%) Incident Response
13 9 (11.84%) Cost Optimisation
13 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (11.84%) User Experience
14 8 (10.53%) BPR
14 8 (10.53%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.63%) Python
2 11 (14.47%) C#
3 8 (10.53%) Java
4 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.89%) Bash
5 6 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.89%) SQL
6 5 (6.58%) Bicep
7 3 (3.95%) Go
8 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.32%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (31.58%) Docker
2 12 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.95%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.95%) vSphere
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (35.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (27.63%) Ansible
3 9 (11.84%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (9.21%) Grafana
5 7 (9.21%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.58%) Puppet
7 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.63%) Rancher
9 1 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (1.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.79%) Splunk
3 8 (10.53%) New Relic
4 6 (7.89%) Google
5 5 (6.58%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.58%) VMware
6 3 (3.95%) Databricks
6 3 (3.95%) Foundry
6 3 (3.95%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.32%) Dell
7 1 (1.32%) Pega
7 1 (1.32%) WSO2