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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 82 124 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.79% 4.64% 5.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.80% 42.47% 38.62%
Number of salaries quoted 62 65 120
10th Percentile £52,050 £51,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +4.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £88,750 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,996 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.44% +9.22% -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 201 292 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.84% 10.92% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 154 147 297
10th Percentile £32,688 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +1.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £89,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +3.79%

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 15 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 15 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 +1 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Stockport +2 1 £60,000 - 7
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 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) Apache
2 4 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (57.32%) Azure
2 44 (53.66%) AWS
3 18 (21.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (18.29%) GCP
4 15 (18.29%) SaaS
5 14 (17.07%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (17.07%) GitHub
6 11 (13.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (13.41%) Serverless
7 10 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (12.20%) Entra ID
8 8 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (9.76%) OneDrive
8 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
9 7 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (6.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Firewall
2 3 (3.66%) AMQP
3 2 (2.44%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) Network Security
3 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 2 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.88%) Big Data
2 4 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.88%) MySQL
3 3 (3.66%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (3.66%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.44%) Redis
5 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.32%) Git
2 6 (7.32%) GitLab
3 3 (3.66%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.22%) JIRA
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) Locust
General
1 14 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.54%) Finance
4 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.44%) Law
5 2 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Senior
2 21 (25.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (20.73%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Architect
9 3 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.66%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Software Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.66%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) .NET
2 10 (12.20%) React
2 10 (12.20%) REST
3 9 (10.98%) Node.js
4 8 (9.76%) .NET Core
5 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.10%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (6.10%) Spring
5 5 (6.10%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.66%) gRPC
7 3 (3.66%) Material-UI
7 3 (3.66%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.66%) RESTful
7 3 (3.66%) Swagger
8 2 (2.44%) Django
8 2 (2.44%) Kafka
8 2 (2.44%) WCF
8 2 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Linux
2 11 (13.41%) Windows
3 6 (7.32%) Debian
3 6 (7.32%) Ubuntu
3 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.88%) CentOS
6 3 (3.66%) Unix
6 3 (3.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (60.98%) Infrastructure as Code
2 46 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 46 (56.10%) DevOps
3 38 (46.34%) Agile
4 24 (29.27%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (25.61%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.61%) Microservices
6 18 (21.95%) Observability
7 17 (20.73%) Software Engineering
8 16 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (14.63%) AI
9 12 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (12.20%) Incident Response
11 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (10.98%) Cost Optimisation
12 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (10.98%) User Experience
13 8 (9.76%) E-Discovery
13 8 (9.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.05%) Python
2 12 (14.63%) C#
3 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.76%) Java
5 6 (7.32%) Bash
5 6 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.32%) SQL
6 5 (6.10%) Bicep
7 3 (3.66%) Go
7 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (31.71%) Docker
2 12 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.88%) vSphere
4 3 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (35.37%) Kubernetes
2 22 (26.83%) Ansible
3 9 (10.98%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (8.54%) Grafana
5 7 (8.54%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.10%) Puppet
7 3 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.44%) Rancher
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (1.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.63%) Splunk
3 8 (9.76%) New Relic
4 7 (8.54%) Google
5 6 (7.32%) VMware
6 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.66%) Databricks
7 3 (3.66%) Foundry
7 3 (3.66%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.22%) Dell
8 1 (1.22%) Pega
8 1 (1.22%) WSO2