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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 38 60
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -22
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 166 164 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.72% 7.22% 3.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.85% 43.62% 44.19%
Number of salaries quoted 131 103 127
10th Percentile £52,000 £51,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,125 £78,125 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £70,400 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +10.76% -13.33%

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 333 376 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.46% 16.55% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 265 214 346
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,875 £81,875
North West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

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 18 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 18 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 +6 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -12 4 £90,000 +29.71% 1
Cheadle 0 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 7 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.81%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 116 (69.88%) AWS
2 85 (51.20%) Azure
3 41 (24.70%) GitHub
4 33 (19.88%) GCP
5 25 (15.06%) Serverless
6 24 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.23%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.63%) Entra ID
11 11 (6.63%) Pulumi
11 11 (6.63%) SaaS
12 9 (5.42%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (4.82%) Snowflake
14 7 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.04%) Firewall
2 6 (3.61%) Network Security
2 6 (3.61%) VPN
3 4 (2.41%) DNS
3 4 (2.41%) SAN
4 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.20%) AMQP
6 1 (0.60%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.42%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.82%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.01%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.41%) Flink
7 3 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.81%) GIS
7 3 (1.81%) QGIS
7 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.20%) Big Data
8 2 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.20%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.20%) Power BI
9 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (15.06%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.25%) Git
3 19 (11.45%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.20%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.20%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.20%) Vite
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) MLflow
5 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.60%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.63%) Finance
2 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.61%) Banking
3 6 (3.61%) Retail Banking
4 3 (1.81%) Aerospace
4 3 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Retail
6 1 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 70 (42.17%) Senior
2 48 (28.92%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (16.27%) Software Engineer
4 26 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (12.65%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (10.84%) Developer
7 17 (10.24%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (10.24%) Data Engineer
7 17 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (9.04%) Senior Developer
10 14 (8.43%) GCP Engineer
11 13 (7.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 12 (7.23%) Security Engineer
13 11 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (6.02%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 9 (5.42%) Lead
16 8 (4.82%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 7 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 7 (4.22%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.86%) React
2 19 (11.45%) Spring
3 18 (10.84%) Spring Boot
4 15 (9.04%) Node.js
5 12 (7.23%) .NET
5 12 (7.23%) REST
6 10 (6.02%) FastAPI
7 9 (5.42%) PySpark
8 8 (4.82%) ARM Templates
8 8 (4.82%) Kafka
8 8 (4.82%) Next.js
9 7 (4.22%) JWT
9 7 (4.22%) OAuth
10 6 (3.61%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.61%) OpenID
10 6 (3.61%) SAML
11 5 (3.01%) .NET Core
11 5 (3.01%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.01%) React Native
11 5 (3.01%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.48%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.81%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.20%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.20%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.64%) Linux
2 7 (4.22%) Windows
3 4 (2.41%) Debian
3 4 (2.41%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.81%) CentOS
4 3 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (77.11%) CI/CD
2 113 (68.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 93 (56.02%) DevOps
4 62 (37.35%) Agile
5 55 (33.13%) Platform Engineering
6 40 (24.10%) Containerisation
7 37 (22.29%) Mentoring
7 37 (22.29%) Software Engineering
8 34 (20.48%) AI
8 34 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (19.88%) Observability
10 28 (16.87%) Microservices
11 26 (15.66%) Scrum
12 25 (15.06%) TDD
13 20 (12.05%) Collaborative Culture
13 20 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (10.84%) Decision-Making
15 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.59%) Python
2 34 (20.48%) Java
3 25 (15.06%) Bash
4 23 (13.86%) PowerShell
5 21 (12.65%) SQL
6 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.04%) TypeScript
8 12 (7.23%) Go
9 11 (6.63%) C#
10 9 (5.42%) Bicep
11 5 (3.01%) Ruby
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Degree
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.01%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.01%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (36.14%) Docker
2 8 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (43.37%) Kubernetes
2 36 (21.69%) Ansible
3 12 (7.23%) Grafana
4 11 (6.63%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.41%) Argo
6 4 (2.41%) Istio
6 4 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.41%) Puppet
7 3 (1.81%) linkerd
8 2 (1.20%) Packer
8 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.04%) Google
3 9 (5.42%) VMware
4 7 (4.22%) Databricks
4 7 (4.22%) Splunk
5 3 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.20%) New Relic
6 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.20%) Pega
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.20%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.20%) WSO2
7 1 (0.60%) F5
7 1 (0.60%) HP
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle