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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 38 57
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 -11
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 155 165 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.62% 7.65% 3.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.05% 45.33% 44.40%
Number of salaries quoted 117 101 129
10th Percentile £52,300 £50,000 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £81,500
North West median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -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 316 364 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.34% 16.87% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 244 204 345
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,313 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,692 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +16.15% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,144 £80,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +7 10 £65,000 -
Salford -16 3 £90,000 +29.71% 3
Cheadle -2 1 £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 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.94%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 104 (67.10%) AWS
2 84 (54.19%) Azure
3 36 (23.23%) GitHub
4 30 (19.35%) GCP
5 24 (15.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (15.48%) Serverless
6 19 (12.26%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (9.03%) Entra ID
10 12 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (7.74%) SaaS
11 11 (7.10%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.81%) Power Platform
12 9 (5.81%) Pulumi
13 8 (5.16%) Azure AKS
14 7 (4.52%) dbt
14 7 (4.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.03%) Firewall
2 6 (3.87%) VPN
3 5 (3.23%) Network Security
4 4 (2.58%) DNS
4 4 (2.58%) SAN
5 3 (1.94%) AMQP
5 3 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.65%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.52%) BigQuery
1 7 (4.52%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.58%) Flink
4 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.94%) Big Data
5 3 (1.94%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.94%) GIS
5 3 (1.94%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.94%) QGIS
6 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.29%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (13.55%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.61%) Git
3 16 (10.32%) GitLab
4 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.29%) JIRA
4 2 (1.29%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.29%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.65%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.10%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.45%) Finance
4 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.87%) Banking
4 6 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.87%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.58%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.29%) Retail
7 1 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 63 (40.65%) Senior
2 49 (31.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (14.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (14.84%) Software Engineer
4 20 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (12.26%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (10.32%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (10.32%) Data Engineer
6 16 (10.32%) Developer
7 15 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) GCP Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.45%) Security Engineer
9 10 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) Lead
11 8 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.87%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.90%) Spring
2 19 (12.26%) Spring Boot
3 17 (10.97%) React
4 16 (10.32%) Node.js
5 13 (8.39%) REST
6 12 (7.74%) .NET
7 8 (5.16%) Kafka
7 8 (5.16%) PySpark
8 7 (4.52%) ARM Templates
9 6 (3.87%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.87%) JWT
9 6 (3.87%) OAuth
10 5 (3.23%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.23%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.23%) OpenID
10 5 (3.23%) SAML
11 4 (2.58%) Great Expectations
11 4 (2.58%) Pandas
11 4 (2.58%) YAML
12 3 (1.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.87%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.97%) Linux
2 10 (6.45%) Windows
3 6 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.23%) Debian
4 5 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.58%) CentOS
5 4 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (77.42%) CI/CD
2 102 (65.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (56.77%) DevOps
4 61 (39.35%) Agile
5 54 (34.84%) Platform Engineering
6 37 (23.87%) Containerisation
7 34 (21.94%) Mentoring
8 30 (19.35%) Software Engineering
9 29 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (18.71%) Observability
10 27 (17.42%) Scrum
11 26 (16.77%) AI
11 26 (16.77%) Microservices
12 22 (14.19%) TDD
13 19 (12.26%) Collaborative Culture
14 18 (11.61%) Decision-Making
14 18 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.97%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (10.97%) RBAC
16 16 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (41.94%) Python
2 32 (20.65%) Java
3 21 (13.55%) Bash
3 21 (13.55%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.61%) SQL
5 17 (10.97%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.16%) Bicep
7 8 (5.16%) C#
8 7 (4.52%) Go
9 2 (1.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.10%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.16%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.29%) Degree
7 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 52 (33.55%) Docker
2 10 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (42.58%) Kubernetes
2 36 (23.23%) Ansible
3 10 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.81%) Grafana
5 8 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.58%) Puppet
8 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.29%) Argo
9 2 (1.29%) Istio
9 2 (1.29%) Packer
9 2 (1.29%) Rancher
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.03%) Google
3 10 (6.45%) VMware
4 7 (4.52%) Splunk
5 5 (3.23%) Databricks
5 5 (3.23%) New Relic
6 3 (1.94%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.94%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.29%) Pega
7 2 (1.29%) WSO2
8 1 (0.65%) F5
8 1 (0.65%) HP
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle