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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 177 163 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.77% 6.56% 4.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.72% 43.35% 47.56%
Number of salaries quoted 145 101 118
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £78,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £71,750 £71,991 £65,500
% change year-on-year -0.33% +9.91% -12.67%

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 349 376 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.47% 15.12% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 284 208 318
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +16.59% -14.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,633 £83,825
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.00%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -
Salford -14 4 £90,000 +29.71% 3
Cheadle +1 3 £72,500 -
Stockport +3 2 £75,000 - 3
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 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.69%) Apache
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.69%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.13%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 125 (70.62%) AWS
2 85 (48.02%) Azure
3 41 (23.16%) GitHub
4 35 (19.77%) GCP
5 29 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (16.38%) Serverless
6 23 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (10.73%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (6.21%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.21%) Pulumi
9 11 (6.21%) SaaS
10 10 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (5.08%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.08%) Entra ID
11 9 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.52%) dbt
12 8 (4.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.60%) Firewall
2 7 (3.95%) Network Security
3 6 (3.39%) SAN
4 4 (2.26%) DNS
4 4 (2.26%) VPN
5 3 (1.69%) AMQP
5 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.13%) BGP
6 2 (1.13%) DMZ
6 2 (1.13%) IPsec
6 2 (1.13%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.13%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.52%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.82%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.82%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.26%) Flink
7 3 (1.69%) Big Data
7 3 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.69%) GIS
7 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.69%) QGIS
7 3 (1.69%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.13%) MySQL
8 2 (1.13%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (14.69%) Git
2 23 (12.99%) Jenkins
3 21 (11.86%) GitLab
4 4 (2.26%) JIRA
5 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.13%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.13%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.13%) Vite
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
7 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.56%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.34%) Finance
2 13 (7.34%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.39%) Banking
3 6 (3.39%) Retail Banking
4 4 (2.26%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.13%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (38.98%) Senior
2 50 (28.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 46 (25.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (14.69%) Software Engineer
5 18 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (10.17%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (10.17%) Data Engineer
5 18 (10.17%) Developer
6 17 (9.60%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (8.47%) Senior Developer
9 13 (7.34%) Security Engineer
9 13 (7.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.78%) Lead
11 11 (6.21%) GCP Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.65%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (5.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.82%) Spring
2 27 (15.25%) Spring Boot
3 22 (12.43%) React
4 12 (6.78%) Node.js
5 11 (6.21%) FastAPI
6 9 (5.08%) .NET
6 9 (5.08%) Next.js
6 9 (5.08%) PySpark
6 9 (5.08%) REST
7 8 (4.52%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.52%) Kafka
8 6 (3.39%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.39%) JWT
8 6 (3.39%) OAuth
8 6 (3.39%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.39%) OpenID
8 6 (3.39%) React Native
8 6 (3.39%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.39%) SAML
9 4 (2.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.13%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.13%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) NHS
10 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.43%) Linux
2 6 (3.39%) CentOS
2 6 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.82%) Debian
3 5 (2.82%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.13%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (75.71%) CI/CD
2 129 (72.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (62.71%) DevOps
4 63 (35.59%) Agile
5 61 (34.46%) Platform Engineering
6 50 (28.25%) Containerisation
7 42 (23.73%) Mentoring
8 39 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (20.90%) AI
10 36 (20.34%) Software Engineering
11 34 (19.21%) Observability
12 30 (16.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (15.25%) Microservices
14 26 (14.69%) Scrum
15 23 (12.99%) TDD
15 23 (12.99%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (11.30%) Collaborative Culture
17 19 (10.73%) Cloud Security
18 18 (10.17%) Decision-Making
18 18 (10.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (53.67%) Python
2 45 (25.42%) Java
3 29 (16.38%) Bash
4 25 (14.12%) PowerShell
5 22 (12.43%) SQL
6 16 (9.04%) Go
7 15 (8.47%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.91%) TypeScript
9 11 (6.21%) Bicep
10 9 (5.08%) C#
11 6 (3.39%) Ruby
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.08%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.12%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.13%) CCIE
6 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.13%) Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.39%) QA
2 5 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (38.98%) Docker
2 9 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (50.85%) Kubernetes
2 54 (30.51%) Ansible
3 15 (8.47%) Grafana
4 14 (7.91%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.82%) Puppet
6 4 (2.26%) Argo
6 4 (2.26%) Istio
6 4 (2.26%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.69%) linkerd
8 2 (1.13%) Packer
8 2 (1.13%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.17%) Google
3 10 (5.65%) VMware
4 8 (4.52%) Splunk
5 7 (3.95%) Databricks
6 3 (1.69%) F5
6 3 (1.69%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.69%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.13%) Cisco
7 2 (1.13%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (1.13%) Pega
7 2 (1.13%) WSO2
7 2 (1.13%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) HP