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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 38 59
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 160 167 204
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.69% 7.48% 3.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.54% 44.53% 44.16%
Number of salaries quoted 123 104 127
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,625 £47,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £73,685 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +13.36% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,813 £73,125
90th Percentile £89,500 £88,375 £82,500
North West median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -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 323 375 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.43% 16.79% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 252 212 343
10th Percentile £33,075 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £43,382
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,692 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +16.15% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,125 £81,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +8 10 £65,000 - 2
Salford -12 4 £90,000 +29.71% 3
Cheadle +2 2 £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 7 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.88%) Apache
4 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.88%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 109 (68.13%) AWS
2 87 (54.38%) Azure
3 37 (23.13%) GitHub
4 33 (20.63%) GCP
5 25 (15.63%) Serverless
6 24 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (11.88%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (8.13%) Entra ID
11 12 (7.50%) SaaS
12 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
12 11 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (6.25%) Pulumi
14 9 (5.63%) Azure AKS
14 9 (5.63%) Power Platform
15 8 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (5.00%) Snowflake
16 7 (4.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.75%) Firewall
2 6 (3.75%) VPN
3 5 (3.13%) Network Security
4 4 (2.50%) DNS
4 4 (2.50%) SAN
5 3 (1.88%) AMQP
5 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.63%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.00%) BigQuery
1 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.50%) Flink
4 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.88%) Big Data
5 3 (1.88%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.88%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.88%) GIS
5 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.88%) QGIS
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.25%) MySQL
6 2 (1.25%) Power BI
6 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.25%) Git
3 16 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.25%) JIRA
4 2 (1.25%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.25%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.63%) MLflow
5 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.63%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.88%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.25%) Finance
4 6 (3.75%) Banking
4 6 (3.75%) Retail Banking
5 5 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (41.88%) Senior
2 49 (30.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 23 (14.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (13.13%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (11.25%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (10.63%) Data Engineer
7 17 (10.63%) Developer
8 16 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (8.75%) Senior Developer
10 13 (8.13%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (8.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 11 (6.88%) Security Engineer
12 10 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.63%) Lead
13 9 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (4.38%) Architect
14 7 (4.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 7 (4.38%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.50%) Spring
2 19 (11.88%) React
2 19 (11.88%) Spring Boot
3 16 (10.00%) Node.js
4 13 (8.13%) REST
5 12 (7.50%) .NET
6 9 (5.63%) PySpark
7 8 (5.00%) Kafka
8 7 (4.38%) ARM Templates
8 7 (4.38%) JWT
8 7 (4.38%) OAuth
9 6 (3.75%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.75%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.75%) OpenID
9 6 (3.75%) SAML
10 5 (3.13%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.13%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.50%) Great Expectations
11 4 (2.50%) Next.js
11 4 (2.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.25%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.25%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.00%) Linux
2 9 (5.63%) Windows
3 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.13%) Debian
4 5 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.50%) CentOS
5 4 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (76.25%) CI/CD
2 105 (65.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (55.00%) DevOps
4 61 (38.13%) Agile
5 54 (33.75%) Platform Engineering
6 36 (22.50%) Containerisation
7 35 (21.88%) Mentoring
8 32 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 30 (18.75%) AI
9 30 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (18.13%) Observability
11 27 (16.88%) Microservices
11 27 (16.88%) Scrum
12 23 (14.38%) TDD
13 19 (11.88%) Collaborative Culture
14 18 (11.25%) Decision-Making
15 17 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.63%) RBAC
16 16 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 70 (43.75%) Python
2 33 (20.63%) Java
3 21 (13.13%) Bash
3 21 (13.13%) PowerShell
4 20 (12.50%) SQL
5 17 (10.63%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.63%) C#
7 9 (5.63%) Go
8 8 (5.00%) Bicep
9 3 (1.88%) Ruby
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.88%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.25%) Degree
7 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 52 (32.50%) Docker
2 9 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (41.25%) Kubernetes
2 36 (22.50%) Ansible
3 9 (5.63%) Grafana
3 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.50%) Puppet
5 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.88%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.25%) Argo
7 2 (1.25%) Istio
7 2 (1.25%) Packer
7 2 (1.25%) Rancher
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.75%) Google
3 9 (5.63%) VMware
4 7 (4.38%) Databricks
4 7 (4.38%) Splunk
5 4 (2.50%) New Relic
6 3 (1.88%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.88%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.25%) Pega
7 2 (1.25%) WSO2
8 1 (0.63%) F5
8 1 (0.63%) HP
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle