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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 49 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -8
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 109 121 189
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.11% 5.79% 3.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.25% 42.61% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 104 123
10th Percentile £52,000 £50,375 £48,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,297 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +15.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £82,000
North West median annual salary £69,655 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.92% +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 252 284 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.87% 13.59% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 182 206 360
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,575
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +19.99% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,313 £72,813
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £68,505 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.06% +19.14% -

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 27 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 27 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 -2 6 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Salford -17 1 £74,301 +7.09%
Stockport - 1 £60,000 - 1
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 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.75%) GeoServer
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.92%) CMS
5 1 (0.92%) Confluence
5 1 (0.92%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 70 (64.22%) AWS
2 59 (54.13%) Azure
3 24 (22.02%) GitHub
4 23 (21.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (18.35%) Serverless
6 19 (17.43%) GCP
7 17 (15.60%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (13.76%) Entra ID
10 12 (11.01%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (10.09%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (10.09%) SaaS
12 10 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (8.26%) Azure AKS
14 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (7.34%) OneDrive
14 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
15 7 (6.42%) OpenShift
16 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) Firewall
2 4 (3.67%) AMQP
2 4 (3.67%) VPN
3 3 (2.75%) Network Security
3 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.92%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.67%) Big Data
2 4 (3.67%) BigQuery
2 4 (3.67%) Cloudera CDH
2 4 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.67%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.75%) Flink
3 3 (2.75%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (2.75%) GIS
3 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.75%) MySQL
3 3 (2.75%) QGIS
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.92%) Redis
4 1 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.01%) Git
3 9 (8.26%) GitLab
4 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.75%) JIRA
5 2 (1.83%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.92%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Finance
3 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.50%) Banking
4 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.50%) Retail Banking
5 5 (4.59%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.67%) Retail
7 2 (1.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (33.94%) Senior
2 33 (30.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (19.27%) Software Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Data Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.42%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Lead
10 6 (5.50%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Azure Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Cloud Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.60%) Node.js
2 14 (12.84%) REST
2 14 (12.84%) Spring
3 13 (11.93%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.01%) React
5 9 (8.26%) .NET
6 7 (6.42%) ARM Templates
7 6 (5.50%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.59%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.67%) gRPC
9 4 (3.67%) Kafka
9 4 (3.67%) Material-UI
9 4 (3.67%) OpenAPI
9 4 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.67%) RESTful
9 4 (3.67%) Swagger
9 4 (3.67%) YAML
10 3 (2.75%) Leaflet
10 3 (2.75%) OpenLayers
10 3 (2.75%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.59%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.83%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.92%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.92%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.51%) Linux
2 10 (9.17%) Windows
3 6 (5.50%) Debian
3 6 (5.50%) Ubuntu
3 6 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.59%) CentOS
4 5 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (67.89%) CI/CD
2 63 (57.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (55.96%) DevOps
4 53 (48.62%) Agile
5 33 (30.28%) Platform Engineering
6 28 (25.69%) Containerisation
6 28 (25.69%) Software Engineering
7 24 (22.02%) Observability
8 23 (21.10%) Microservices
9 22 (20.18%) Scrum
10 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (15.60%) TDD
12 16 (14.68%) Incident Response
12 16 (14.68%) Mentoring
13 15 (13.76%) Collaborative Culture
13 15 (13.76%) Cost Optimisation
14 12 (11.01%) AI
14 12 (11.01%) User Experience
15 11 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (37.61%) Python
2 24 (22.02%) Java
3 15 (13.76%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.93%) SQL
5 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.26%) Bash
8 6 (5.50%) C#
9 5 (4.59%) Bicep
10 3 (2.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.83%) QA
System Software
1 34 (31.19%) Docker
2 12 (11.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.75%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (43.12%) Kubernetes
2 29 (26.61%) Ansible
3 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (8.26%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (4.59%) Grafana
5 5 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.67%) Puppet
7 3 (2.75%) Rancher
8 2 (1.83%) Packer
8 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.92%) Istio
9 1 (0.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.17%) Google
3 8 (7.34%) New Relic
3 8 (7.34%) Splunk
4 5 (4.59%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.59%) VMware
5 4 (3.67%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.75%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.83%) Pega
7 2 (1.83%) WSO2
8 1 (0.92%) Databricks
8 1 (0.92%) F5
8 1 (0.92%) HP
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle