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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 41 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 179 158 234
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.77% 6.33% 4.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.71% 43.53% 50.76%
Number of salaries quoted 149 97 114
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £69,384 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +2.79% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,150 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -10.00%

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 353 363 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.46% 14.54% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 286 201 297
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £84,367
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -13 4 £90,000 +29.71% 1
Stockport +4 3 £75,000 - 1
Cheadle +2 3 £72,500 -
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 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.68%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 123 (68.72%) AWS
2 85 (47.49%) Azure
3 41 (22.91%) GitHub
4 35 (19.55%) GCP
5 29 (16.20%) Serverless
6 28 (15.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (12.85%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (6.15%) Pulumi
11 11 (6.15%) SaaS
12 10 (5.59%) Entra ID
12 10 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (4.47%) Azure AKS
13 8 (4.47%) dbt
13 8 (4.47%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.50%) Firewall
2 7 (3.91%) Network Security
3 6 (3.35%) SAN
4 4 (2.23%) DNS
4 4 (2.23%) VPN
5 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.12%) AMQP
6 2 (1.12%) BGP
6 2 (1.12%) DMZ
6 2 (1.12%) IPsec
6 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.47%) BigQuery
3 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.23%) Flink
5 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.68%) GIS
6 3 (1.68%) QGIS
6 3 (1.68%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.12%) Big Data
7 2 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.12%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (14.53%) Git
2 24 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 21 (11.73%) GitLab
4 4 (2.23%) JIRA
5 3 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.12%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.12%) Vite
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
7 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.56%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.26%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.70%) Finance
4 6 (3.35%) Banking
4 6 (3.35%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (38.55%) Senior
2 50 (27.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 48 (26.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (13.97%) Software Engineer
5 19 (10.61%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (10.06%) Data Engineer
6 18 (10.06%) Developer
7 17 (9.50%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (9.50%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (9.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (8.38%) Senior Developer
9 13 (7.26%) Lead
9 13 (7.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.70%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (6.70%) Security Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (5.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.64%) Spring
2 27 (15.08%) Spring Boot
3 21 (11.73%) React
4 11 (6.15%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.59%) Node.js
6 9 (5.03%) .NET
6 9 (5.03%) Next.js
6 9 (5.03%) PySpark
7 8 (4.47%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.47%) Kafka
8 7 (3.91%) REST
9 6 (3.35%) JWT
9 6 (3.35%) OAuth
9 6 (3.35%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.35%) OpenID
9 6 (3.35%) React Native
9 6 (3.35%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (3.35%) SAML
10 5 (2.79%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.47%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.23%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.12%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.12%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.29%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) CentOS
2 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.23%) Debian
3 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.68%) Windows
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (75.98%) CI/CD
2 131 (73.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (63.13%) DevOps
4 63 (35.20%) Platform Engineering
5 61 (34.08%) Agile
6 51 (28.49%) Containerisation
7 43 (24.02%) Mentoring
8 40 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (21.23%) AI
10 36 (20.11%) Observability
10 36 (20.11%) Software Engineering
11 34 (18.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (13.97%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (13.41%) Microservices
13 24 (13.41%) Scrum
14 23 (12.85%) TDD
15 19 (10.61%) Cloud Security
15 19 (10.61%) Collaborative Culture
16 18 (10.06%) Decision-Making
16 18 (10.06%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (54.19%) Python
2 44 (24.58%) Java
3 32 (17.88%) Bash
4 26 (14.53%) PowerShell
5 21 (11.73%) SQL
6 18 (10.06%) Go
7 13 (7.26%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.26%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.70%) Bicep
9 9 (5.03%) C#
10 6 (3.35%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (27.93%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.53%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CCIE
6 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.35%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (39.66%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (51.40%) Kubernetes
2 55 (30.73%) Ansible
3 17 (9.50%) Grafana
4 16 (8.94%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.35%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.35%) Puppet
6 5 (2.79%) Istio
6 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.23%) Argo
7 4 (2.23%) linkerd
8 2 (1.12%) Packer
8 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 20 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.61%) Google
3 10 (5.59%) VMware
4 8 (4.47%) Splunk
5 7 (3.91%) Databricks
6 3 (1.68%) F5
6 3 (1.68%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco
7 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle
7 2 (1.12%) Pega
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.12%) WSO2
7 2 (1.12%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) HP