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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 42 69
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 -13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 103 124 157
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.33% 6.13% 3.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.20% 48.25% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 70 108 120
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £61,297 £55,914
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +15.18% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 250 257 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.66% 12.70% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 180 209 345
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +19.99% -
75th Percentile £78,852 £82,751 £74,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £67,037 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.23% +16.59% -

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -4 6 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Salford -10 4 £73,801 +6.48%
Stockport - 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 8 (7.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.88%) Apache
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.91%) GeoServer
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.91%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.97%) Confluence
4 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 72 (69.90%) AWS
2 51 (49.51%) Azure
3 25 (24.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (20.39%) Serverless
5 20 (19.42%) GCP
5 20 (19.42%) GitHub
6 19 (18.45%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (12.62%) Entra ID
8 12 (11.65%) SaaS
9 11 (10.68%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (9.71%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (7.77%) OneDrive
11 8 (7.77%) Power Platform
12 7 (6.80%) Azure AKS
12 7 (6.80%) dbt
12 7 (6.80%) OpenShift
13 6 (5.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) Firewall
2 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.88%) AMQP
4 3 (2.91%) Network Security
4 3 (2.91%) VPN
5 2 (1.94%) DNS
6 1 (0.97%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.88%) Big Data
4 4 (3.88%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.88%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.88%) MySQL
4 4 (3.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.91%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.91%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.91%) GIS
5 3 (2.91%) QGIS
5 3 (2.91%) Redis
6 2 (1.94%) Flink
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Git
2 12 (11.65%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.74%) GitLab
4 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.94%) JIRA
5 2 (1.94%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.97%) JMeter
6 1 (0.97%) Locust
6 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.97%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Finance
2 9 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.88%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.88%) Banking
4 4 (3.88%) Retail Banking
5 3 (2.91%) Retail
6 2 (1.94%) Law
7 1 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (34.95%) Senior
2 31 (30.10%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (19.42%) Software Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (13.59%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (11.65%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Developer
8 8 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Lead
12 4 (3.88%) AWS Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Azure Developer
12 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (3.88%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.48%) Node.js
2 15 (14.56%) REST
2 15 (14.56%) Spring
3 14 (13.59%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.68%) React
5 10 (9.71%) .NET
6 7 (6.80%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.85%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.85%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.85%) YAML
8 4 (3.88%) gRPC
8 4 (3.88%) Material-UI
8 4 (3.88%) OpenAPI
8 4 (3.88%) RESTful
8 4 (3.88%) Swagger
9 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.91%) Kafka
9 3 (2.91%) OpenLayers
9 3 (2.91%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.59%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.77%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.94%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.97%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.42%) Linux
2 11 (10.68%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) Debian
3 6 (5.83%) Ubuntu
3 6 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.85%) CentOS
4 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.91%) Unix
6 2 (1.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (64.08%) CI/CD
2 60 (58.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (54.37%) DevOps
4 52 (50.49%) Agile
5 34 (33.01%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (24.27%) Containerisation
6 25 (24.27%) Software Engineering
7 24 (23.30%) Microservices
8 23 (22.33%) Observability
9 21 (20.39%) Scrum
10 18 (17.48%) TDD
11 17 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (14.56%) Collaborative Culture
13 15 (14.56%) Mentoring
14 14 (13.59%) Incident Response
15 12 (11.65%) Cost Optimisation
15 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (11.65%) User Experience
16 10 (9.71%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) Python
2 25 (24.27%) Java
3 16 (15.53%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.71%) SQL
5 9 (8.74%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.83%) C#
7 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.88%) Bicep
9 3 (2.91%) Go
10 1 (0.97%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (24.27%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (31.07%) Docker
2 10 (9.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.88%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.88%) vSphere
4 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (43.69%) Kubernetes
2 29 (28.16%) Ansible
3 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (8.74%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.88%) Grafana
5 4 (3.88%) Puppet
6 3 (2.91%) Rancher
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.94%) Packer
7 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.97%) Istio
8 1 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.68%) Google
3 9 (8.74%) Splunk
4 8 (7.77%) New Relic
5 6 (5.83%) VMware
6 5 (4.85%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.88%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.91%) Pega
8 3 (2.91%) WSO2
9 1 (0.97%) Databricks
9 1 (0.97%) F5
9 1 (0.97%) HP
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle