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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 56 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 -22
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 197 113 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.56% 4.83% 4.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.69% 21.08% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 159 60 70
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £84,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,625 £88,325
North West median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.70% -3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 798 536 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.36% 22.90% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 604 310 496
10th Percentile £43,150 £38,675 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +6 8 £65,000 - 6
Stockport +2 5 £75,000 - 5
Salford -15 4 £90,000 +21.95% 1
Cheadle -3 3 £72,500 - 3
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 5 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.02%) Apache
2 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 119 (60.41%) AWS
2 86 (43.65%) Azure
3 51 (25.89%) GitHub
4 38 (19.29%) GCP
5 30 (15.23%) Serverless
6 29 (14.72%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (14.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (12.18%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.09%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.58%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (5.08%) SaaS
13 10 (5.08%) Snowflake
14 9 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.57%) Entra ID
14 9 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (4.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.61%) Firewall
2 6 (3.05%) DNS
2 6 (3.05%) Network Security
3 5 (2.54%) SAN
4 3 (1.52%) DHCP
4 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.52%) VPN
5 2 (1.02%) AMQP
5 2 (1.02%) BGP
5 2 (1.02%) CTI
5 2 (1.02%) DMZ
5 2 (1.02%) IPsec
5 2 (1.02%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.02%) WAN
6 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.55%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.05%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.54%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.03%) Chroma
6 4 (2.03%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.52%) Flink
7 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.52%) Power BI
7 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.02%) Big Data
8 2 (1.02%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.51%) SSDT
9 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (17.26%) GitLab
2 29 (14.72%) Git
3 25 (12.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.57%) JIRA
5 6 (3.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.03%) Vagrant
7 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.02%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.02%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.02%) Vite
9 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.51%) MLflow
9 1 (0.51%) Mocha
9 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 48 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.61%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.08%) Finance
4 6 (3.05%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Law
7 2 (1.02%) Local Government
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (36.04%) Senior
2 68 (34.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (20.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (12.69%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (9.14%) Data Engineer
6 17 (8.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 16 (8.12%) Developer
7 16 (8.12%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (8.12%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.61%) Lead
8 15 (7.61%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (7.61%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (7.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (7.11%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.11%) Security Engineer
10 13 (6.60%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 11 (5.58%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.27%) Spring
1 36 (18.27%) Spring Boot
2 31 (15.74%) React
3 13 (6.60%) FastAPI
4 10 (5.08%) Pulumi
5 9 (4.57%) Next.js
6 8 (4.06%) Node.js
6 8 (4.06%) PySpark
7 6 (3.05%) .NET
7 6 (3.05%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.05%) JWT
7 6 (3.05%) Kafka
7 6 (3.05%) OAuth
7 6 (3.05%) OAuth2
7 6 (3.05%) OpenID
7 6 (3.05%) React Native
7 6 (3.05%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (3.05%) SAML
8 5 (2.54%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.54%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 55 (27.92%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.58%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.02%) FMCG
9 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.02%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.02%) PKI
9 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.26%) Linux
2 11 (5.58%) Windows
3 9 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.06%) CentOS
5 5 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.03%) Unix
7 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.02%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (76.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 145 (73.60%) CI/CD
3 130 (65.99%) DevOps
4 64 (32.49%) Platform Engineering
5 60 (30.46%) Agile
5 60 (30.46%) Containerisation
6 52 (26.40%) AI
7 48 (24.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 45 (22.84%) Mentoring
9 41 (20.81%) Observability
10 40 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (17.77%) Software Engineering
12 34 (17.26%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (15.74%) Cloud Security
14 26 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (12.69%) Infrastructure Automation
16 24 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (11.68%) Microservices
18 21 (10.66%) Analytics
18 21 (10.66%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 126 (63.96%) Python
2 55 (27.92%) Java
3 48 (24.37%) Bash
4 31 (15.74%) PowerShell
5 24 (12.18%) Go
6 22 (11.17%) SQL
7 18 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.60%) Bicep
9 12 (6.09%) JavaScript
10 8 (4.06%) C#
11 7 (3.55%) Ruby
12 5 (2.54%) Rust
13 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (45.18%) Security Cleared
2 54 (27.41%) DV Cleared
3 53 (26.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.06%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.06%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.55%) Degree
6 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.52%) MCSE
9 2 (1.02%) CCIE
9 2 (1.02%) CCNA
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.51%) MCSA
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.51%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.03%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.03%) QA
3 3 (1.52%) SLA
3 3 (1.52%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 87 (44.16%) Docker
2 14 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.54%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (58.88%) Kubernetes
2 75 (38.07%) Ansible
3 16 (8.12%) Grafana
4 15 (7.61%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.09%) Puppet
6 10 (5.08%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.05%) Argo
8 4 (2.03%) Istio
8 4 (2.03%) linkerd
8 4 (2.03%) Packer
8 4 (2.03%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.51%) Opsview
11 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.66%) Google
3 15 (7.61%) VMware
4 8 (4.06%) Databricks
4 8 (4.06%) Splunk
5 6 (3.05%) YouTube
6 5 (2.54%) Cisco
7 4 (2.03%) Mistral
7 4 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.02%) F5
9 2 (1.02%) FIS
9 2 (1.02%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.02%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.51%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.51%) Dell
10 1 (0.51%) HP
10 1 (0.51%) New Relic
10 1 (0.51%) Thales