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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 -9
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 82 110 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.34% 4.39% 3.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.28% 37.67% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 58 76 121
10th Percentile £52,000 £47,231 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,875 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +10.76% -6.40%
75th Percentile £79,760 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,125 £84,056
North West median annual salary £66,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.64% +7.69% -7.14%

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 226 292 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.46% 11.66% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 166 171 323
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,987 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,528 £83,710
North West median annual salary £55,000 £61,103 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.99% +6.27% -

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 February 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 February 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 0 4 £73,801 +6.43% 2
Altrincham -10 2 £67,500 +3.85% 4
Stockport - 1 £60,000 -
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 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.76%) AWS
2 44 (53.66%) Azure
3 21 (25.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (21.95%) GCP
5 15 (18.29%) GitHub
6 13 (15.85%) Entra ID
6 13 (15.85%) SaaS
6 13 (15.85%) Serverless
7 12 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (14.63%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (9.76%) OneDrive
9 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
10 7 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (8.54%) Azure AKS
10 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.76%) Firewall
2 4 (4.88%) AMQP
2 4 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
4 2 (2.44%) Network Security
4 2 (2.44%) VPN
4 2 (2.44%) WAN
5 1 (1.22%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.10%) MySQL
4 4 (4.88%) Big Data
4 4 (4.88%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (4.88%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.66%) Redis
6 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Git
2 7 (8.54%) GitLab
2 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.44%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.44%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.22%) JIRA
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) Locust
5 1 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.32%) Finance
5 4 (4.88%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.44%) Law
6 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.44%) Retail
7 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) Cloud Engineer
1 22 (26.83%) Senior
2 16 (19.51%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (14.63%) Software Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Architect
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Software Engineering Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Software Manager
8 2 (2.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) REST
2 11 (13.41%) Node.js
3 10 (12.20%) .NET
3 10 (12.20%) React
4 7 (8.54%) Spring
4 7 (8.54%) Spring Boot
5 6 (7.32%) .NET Core
5 6 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.88%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.88%) gRPC
7 4 (4.88%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.88%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.88%) Swagger
8 3 (3.66%) Django
8 3 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.66%) RESTful
9 2 (2.44%) Kafka
9 2 (2.44%) WCF
9 2 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.39%) Linux
2 11 (13.41%) Windows
3 8 (9.76%) Debian
3 8 (9.76%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.10%) CentOS
5 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.66%) Unix
6 3 (3.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (58.54%) CI/CD
2 47 (57.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (56.10%) DevOps
4 38 (46.34%) Agile
5 25 (30.49%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (28.05%) Containerisation
7 22 (26.83%) Microservices
8 18 (21.95%) Observability
9 16 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (19.51%) Software Engineering
10 12 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (14.63%) Incident Response
11 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (12.20%) AI
12 10 (12.20%) Cost Optimisation
12 10 (12.20%) TDD
12 10 (12.20%) User Experience
13 9 (10.98%) Change Management
13 9 (10.98%) Scrum
13 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.49%) Python
2 12 (14.63%) Java
3 10 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.76%) C#
5 6 (7.32%) Bicep
5 6 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.10%) SQL
6 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.66%) Go
8 2 (2.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) 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 Machines
4 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (40.24%) Kubernetes
2 25 (30.49%) Ansible
3 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (10.98%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (7.32%) Puppet
6 5 (6.10%) Grafana
6 5 (6.10%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.88%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.66%) Rancher
9 2 (2.44%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (2.44%) Packer
10 1 (1.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) Splunk
3 9 (10.98%) Google
4 8 (9.76%) New Relic
5 6 (7.32%) VMware
6 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.88%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.44%) Foundry
9 1 (1.22%) Databricks
9 1 (1.22%) F5
9 1 (1.22%) HP
9 1 (1.22%) Oracle
9 1 (1.22%) Pega
9 1 (1.22%) WSO2