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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 41 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 198 137 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.70% 5.71% 5.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.29% 23.74% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 160 82 84
10th Percentile £50,875 £51,375 £45,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £84,063 £78,438 £79,063
90th Percentile £90,125 £83,650 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.43% -5.36% -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 783 577 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.66% 24.03% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 615 341 574
10th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,250 £80,875
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +14.04% -5.00%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +5 8 £65,000 - 2
Stockport +3 4 £75,000 -
Salford - 4 £90,000 - 9
Cheadle +1 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 6 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 128 (64.65%) AWS
2 92 (46.46%) Azure
3 48 (24.24%) GitHub
4 38 (19.19%) GCP
5 32 (16.16%) Serverless
6 31 (15.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.06%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (5.56%) OpenShift
12 11 (5.56%) SaaS
12 11 (5.56%) Snowflake
13 10 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.55%) Entra ID
14 9 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.08%) Firewall
2 7 (3.54%) Network Security
3 5 (2.53%) DNS
3 5 (2.53%) SAN
4 4 (2.02%) VPN
5 3 (1.52%) AMQP
5 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.01%) BGP
6 2 (1.01%) CTI
6 2 (1.01%) DHCP
6 2 (1.01%) DMZ
6 2 (1.01%) IPsec
6 2 (1.01%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.05%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.03%) BigQuery
3 6 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.02%) Flink
5 4 (2.02%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.52%) Big Data
6 3 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.01%) Chroma
7 2 (1.01%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.01%) Power BI
8 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (13.13%) Git
2 25 (12.63%) GitLab
3 24 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.54%) JIRA
5 4 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.01%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.01%) Vite
7 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.51%) Mocha
7 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.51%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.07%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.06%) Finance
4 6 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.53%) Banking
5 5 (2.53%) Retail Banking
6 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Law
7 2 (1.01%) Local Government
7 2 (1.01%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (37.37%) Senior
2 56 (28.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (25.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (11.62%) Software Engineer
5 21 (10.61%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (10.10%) Data Engineer
7 19 (9.60%) Developer
8 18 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (8.59%) Lead
10 16 (8.08%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (7.58%) Senior Developer
12 14 (7.07%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 13 (6.57%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
14 12 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 12 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (5.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 11 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.17%) Spring
2 33 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 27 (13.64%) React
4 11 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.05%) Next.js
5 10 (5.05%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.55%) .NET
6 9 (4.55%) Node.js
6 9 (4.55%) PySpark
7 8 (4.04%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.04%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.04%) Kafka
7 8 (4.04%) REST
8 6 (3.03%) JWT
8 6 (3.03%) OAuth
8 6 (3.03%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.03%) OpenID
8 6 (3.03%) React Native
8 6 (3.03%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.54%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.02%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.01%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.01%) PKI
7 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.01%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.51%) Blog
8 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.13%) Linux
2 7 (3.54%) CentOS
2 7 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.54%) Windows
3 3 (1.52%) Debian
3 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.52%) Unix
3 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (74.75%) CI/CD
1 148 (74.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 129 (65.15%) DevOps
3 65 (32.83%) Platform Engineering
4 61 (30.81%) Agile
5 59 (29.80%) Containerisation
6 45 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (22.22%) Observability
8 43 (21.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 42 (21.21%) AI
10 41 (20.71%) Mentoring
11 39 (19.70%) Software Engineering
12 25 (12.63%) Microservices
12 25 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
14 23 (11.62%) Scrum
15 22 (11.11%) Cloud Security
16 20 (10.10%) Collaborative Culture
16 20 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (58.59%) Python
2 51 (25.76%) Java
3 41 (20.71%) Bash
4 30 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 24 (12.12%) SQL
6 20 (10.10%) Go
7 14 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.57%) Bicep
8 13 (6.57%) JavaScript
9 10 (5.05%) C#
10 7 (3.54%) Ruby
11 4 (2.02%) Rust
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 40 (20.20%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.02%) Degree
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.01%) CCIE
8 2 (1.01%) CCNA
8 2 (1.01%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.02%) QA
3 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.52%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (40.40%) Docker
2 11 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.52%) vSphere
5 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (54.04%) Kubernetes
2 68 (34.34%) Ansible
3 17 (8.59%) Grafana
4 16 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.05%) Puppet
6 8 (4.04%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.53%) Argo
7 5 (2.53%) Istio
8 4 (2.02%) linkerd
9 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.01%) Packer
10 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.01%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.11%) Google
3 12 (6.06%) VMware
4 8 (4.04%) Databricks
4 8 (4.04%) Splunk
5 4 (2.02%) Cisco
6 3 (1.52%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.52%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.01%) F5
7 2 (1.01%) FIS
7 2 (1.01%) Mistral
7 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.01%) Pega
7 2 (1.01%) WSO2
7 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.51%) New Relic
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) YouTube