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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 40 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 194 151 226
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.72% 6.12% 5.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.00% 24.08% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 159 95 92
10th Percentile £50,500 £52,600 £47,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £67,500 £68,404
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% -1.32% -8.80%
75th Percentile £84,375 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,250 £86,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £71,250 £69,308
% change year-on-year +1.75% +2.80% -7.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 776 627 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.90% 25.42% 25.17%
Number of salaries quoted 620 382 648
10th Percentile £43,450 £40,004 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £71,435
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,925 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,250
% change year-on-year - +13.54% -4.58%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +5 6 £65,000 -
Stockport +5 4 £75,000 - 2
Cheadle +2 3 £72,500 -
Salford - 3 £90,000 - 12
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 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.03%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) 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
1 127 (65.46%) AWS
2 91 (46.91%) Azure
3 48 (24.74%) GitHub
4 37 (19.07%) GCP
5 31 (15.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (15.46%) Serverless
7 29 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.67%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (5.67%) SaaS
11 11 (5.67%) Snowflake
12 10 (5.15%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.64%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.22%) Firewall
2 7 (3.61%) Network Security
3 5 (2.58%) SAN
4 4 (2.06%) VPN
5 3 (1.55%) DNS
5 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.03%) AMQP
6 2 (1.03%) BGP
6 2 (1.03%) DMZ
6 2 (1.03%) IPsec
6 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.09%) BigQuery
3 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.06%) Flink
6 3 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.55%) GIS
6 3 (1.55%) QGIS
6 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.03%) Big Data
7 2 (1.03%) Chroma
7 2 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.03%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.03%) Power BI
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 26 (13.40%) Git
1 26 (13.40%) Jenkins
2 24 (12.37%) GitLab
3 4 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (2.06%) JIRA
4 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.03%) Vite
5 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.52%) MLflow
5 1 (0.52%) Mocha
5 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.19%) Finance
4 6 (3.09%) Banking
4 6 (3.09%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.06%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Local Government
7 2 (1.03%) Retail
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (38.14%) Senior
2 56 (28.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (27.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (11.86%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.31%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Developer
7 18 (9.28%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (8.76%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (8.25%) Lead
10 15 (7.73%) Senior Developer
11 14 (7.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 13 (6.70%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (6.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 12 (6.19%) GCP Engineer
13 12 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (6.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (5.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 11 (5.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.98%) Spring
2 30 (15.46%) Spring Boot
3 24 (12.37%) React
4 11 (5.67%) .NET
4 11 (5.67%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.15%) Next.js
5 10 (5.15%) Node.js
5 10 (5.15%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.64%) PySpark
7 8 (4.12%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.12%) Kafka
8 7 (3.61%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.61%) REST
9 6 (3.09%) JWT
9 6 (3.09%) OAuth
9 6 (3.09%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.09%) OpenID
9 6 (3.09%) React Native
9 6 (3.09%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (3.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.03%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.03%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.52%) Blog
10 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
10 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.37%) Linux
2 6 (3.09%) CentOS
2 6 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.58%) Windows
4 3 (1.55%) Unix
4 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.03%) Debian
5 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (75.26%) CI/CD
2 145 (74.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 125 (64.43%) DevOps
4 66 (34.02%) Platform Engineering
5 60 (30.93%) Agile
6 58 (29.90%) Containerisation
7 43 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (22.16%) Observability
7 43 (22.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 40 (20.62%) AI
8 40 (20.62%) Mentoring
9 39 (20.10%) Software Engineering
10 26 (13.40%) Microservices
11 24 (12.37%) Infrastructure Automation
11 24 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (10.82%) Cloud Security
12 21 (10.82%) Collaborative Culture
12 21 (10.82%) Scrum
13 20 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (9.79%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 114 (58.76%) Python
2 50 (25.77%) Java
3 41 (21.13%) Bash
4 28 (14.43%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.86%) SQL
6 20 (10.31%) Go
7 14 (7.22%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.70%) Bicep
9 12 (6.19%) TypeScript
10 10 (5.15%) C#
11 7 (3.61%) Ruby
12 4 (2.06%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 36 (18.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) CCIE
6 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.06%) QA
3 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (39.69%) Docker
2 9 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (53.61%) Kubernetes
2 67 (34.54%) Ansible
3 17 (8.76%) Grafana
4 16 (8.25%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.64%) Puppet
6 6 (3.09%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.58%) Argo
7 5 (2.58%) Istio
8 4 (2.06%) linkerd
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (10.82%) Google
1 21 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.15%) VMware
3 8 (4.12%) Splunk
4 7 (3.61%) Databricks
5 3 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.03%) Cisco
6 2 (1.03%) F5
6 2 (1.03%) Mistral
6 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.03%) Pega
6 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.03%) WSO2
6 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.52%) New Relic
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle