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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 83 125 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.77% 4.73% 4.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.29% 41.81% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 61 70 118
10th Percentile £52,000 £51,125 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,790 £86,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.71% +10.76% -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 206 299 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.88% 11.31% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 156 156 299
10th Percentile £33,125 £36,250 £36,184
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,438 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,139 £84,056
North West median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.04% +2.97%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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
Salford +2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Stockport +2 1 £60,000 - 10
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 (9.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.02%) Apache
2 5 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.83%) Azure
2 46 (55.42%) AWS
3 20 (24.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (20.48%) GCP
5 15 (18.07%) SaaS
6 14 (16.87%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (16.87%) GitHub
7 12 (14.46%) Serverless
8 11 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (12.05%) Entra ID
10 9 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (9.64%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (9.64%) OneDrive
11 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
12 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
13 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
2 4 (4.82%) AMQP
3 2 (2.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.41%) Network Security
3 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.41%) VPN
3 2 (2.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.02%) Big Data
2 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.02%) MySQL
3 4 (4.82%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.43%) Git
2 7 (8.43%) GitLab
3 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) JMeter
4 1 (1.20%) Locust
General
1 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (9.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
4 4 (4.82%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.41%) Law
5 2 (2.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Senior
2 21 (25.30%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (20.48%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Software Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) .NET
2 11 (13.25%) React
2 11 (13.25%) REST
3 10 (12.05%) Node.js
4 8 (9.64%) .NET Core
5 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (7.23%) Spring
5 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.82%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.82%) gRPC
6 4 (4.82%) Material-UI
6 4 (4.82%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.82%) RESTful
6 4 (4.82%) Swagger
7 2 (2.41%) Django
7 2 (2.41%) Kafka
7 2 (2.41%) WCF
7 2 (2.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.89%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Windows
3 7 (8.43%) Debian
3 7 (8.43%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.02%) CentOS
6 3 (3.61%) Unix
6 3 (3.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (61.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 47 (56.63%) CI/CD
2 47 (56.63%) DevOps
3 39 (46.99%) Agile
4 24 (28.92%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (27.71%) Containerisation
5 23 (27.71%) Microservices
6 18 (21.69%) Observability
6 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
7 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (14.46%) AI
8 12 (14.46%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (12.05%) Incident Response
11 9 (10.84%) Collaborative Culture
11 9 (10.84%) Cost Optimisation
11 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (10.84%) User Experience
12 8 (9.64%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.12%) Python
2 12 (14.46%) C#
3 10 (12.05%) Java
3 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.43%) SQL
5 6 (7.23%) Bash
5 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.02%) Bicep
7 4 (4.82%) Go
8 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Docker
2 12 (14.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.82%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.82%) vSphere
4 3 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (37.35%) Kubernetes
2 24 (28.92%) Ansible
3 9 (10.84%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (8.43%) Grafana
5 7 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.23%) Puppet
7 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.61%) Rancher
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.46%) Splunk
3 8 (9.64%) Google
3 8 (9.64%) New Relic
4 6 (7.23%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.02%) VMware
6 4 (4.82%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.61%) Databricks
7 3 (3.61%) Foundry
8 1 (1.20%) Dell
8 1 (1.20%) Pega
8 1 (1.20%) WSO2