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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 40 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 192 157 231
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.81% 6.32% 5.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 52.89% 44.86% 54.10%
Number of salaries quoted 158 98 104
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,375 £48,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £67,563 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -3.48% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,438 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,875 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%

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 363 350 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.30% 14.09% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 292 192 256
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,125 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,125 £88,750 £83,750
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +4 9 £65,000 - 2
Stockport +7 4 £75,000 - 3
Salford -14 4 £90,000 +31.38%
Cheadle +2 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 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.56%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.04%) Apache
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 130 (67.71%) AWS
2 90 (46.88%) Azure
3 44 (22.92%) GitHub
4 39 (20.31%) GCP
5 33 (17.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (15.63%) Serverless
7 26 (13.54%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (5.73%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (5.73%) Pulumi
10 11 (5.73%) SaaS
11 9 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.69%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.69%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.69%) Snowflake
12 8 (4.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.81%) Firewall
2 7 (3.65%) Network Security
3 5 (2.60%) SAN
3 5 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.08%) DNS
4 4 (2.08%) VPN
5 3 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.04%) AMQP
6 2 (1.04%) BGP
6 2 (1.04%) DMZ
6 2 (1.04%) IPsec
6 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.21%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.65%) BigQuery
2 7 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.08%) Flink
4 4 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.56%) GIS
5 3 (1.56%) QGIS
5 3 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.04%) Big Data
6 2 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.04%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.04%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 26 (13.54%) Git
2 25 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.94%) GitLab
4 4 (2.08%) JIRA
5 3 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.04%) Vite
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
7 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.77%) Finance
4 6 (3.13%) Banking
4 6 (3.13%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Local Government
7 2 (1.04%) Retail
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (38.02%) Senior
2 53 (27.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 50 (26.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (13.02%) Software Engineer
5 19 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (9.90%) Developer
5 19 (9.90%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (8.85%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (8.33%) Lead
8 16 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 13 (6.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (6.25%) Security Engineer
11 11 (5.73%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (5.73%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.21%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.15%) Spring
2 30 (15.63%) Spring Boot
3 23 (11.98%) React
4 12 (6.25%) .NET
5 11 (5.73%) FastAPI
5 11 (5.73%) Node.js
6 9 (4.69%) Next.js
6 9 (4.69%) PySpark
7 8 (4.17%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.17%) Kafka
7 8 (4.17%) REST
8 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.13%) JWT
8 6 (3.13%) OAuth
8 6 (3.13%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.13%) OpenID
8 6 (3.13%) React Native
8 6 (3.13%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.13%) SAML
9 4 (2.08%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (3.65%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.08%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.04%) Online Gambling
10 2 (1.04%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.52%) Blog
11 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.52%) NHS
11 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.02%) Linux
2 5 (2.60%) CentOS
2 5 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.60%) Windows
3 4 (2.08%) Unix
4 3 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.04%) Debian
5 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 141 (73.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (62.50%) DevOps
4 63 (32.81%) Agile
4 63 (32.81%) Platform Engineering
5 55 (28.65%) Containerisation
6 45 (23.44%) Mentoring
7 42 (21.88%) Observability
8 41 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (21.35%) Software Engineering
9 39 (20.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (19.79%) AI
11 27 (14.06%) Microservices
12 25 (13.02%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (12.50%) Scrum
14 23 (11.98%) TDD
15 22 (11.46%) Collaborative Culture
15 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (10.42%) Cloud Security
17 18 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 107 (55.73%) Python
2 49 (25.52%) Java
3 37 (19.27%) Bash
4 28 (14.58%) PowerShell
5 22 (11.46%) SQL
6 20 (10.42%) Go
7 14 (7.29%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.77%) Bicep
8 13 (6.77%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.73%) C#
10 7 (3.65%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
11 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.63%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.04%) CCIE
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.04%) Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.60%) QA
2 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.56%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (39.06%) Docker
2 9 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (52.08%) Kubernetes
2 60 (31.25%) Ansible
3 17 (8.85%) Grafana
4 16 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.69%) Puppet
6 7 (3.65%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.60%) Argo
7 5 (2.60%) Istio
8 4 (2.08%) linkerd
9 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.52%) Packer
11 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (11.46%) Google
2 21 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.21%) VMware
4 8 (4.17%) Splunk
5 7 (3.65%) Databricks
6 3 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco
7 2 (1.04%) F5
7 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.04%) Pega
7 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.04%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.04%) WSO2
7 2 (1.04%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle