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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 44 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 194 126 208
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.58% 5.35% 5.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.90% 22.78% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 157 70 80
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,588 £47,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £83,750 £87,550
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -6.67%

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 779 553 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.37% 23.50% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 606 318 551
10th Percentile £44,375 £40,028 £40,000
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 £80,938 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,875 £89,125 £83,750
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year - +15.03% -5.82%

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 20 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 20 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 - 8
Stockport +2 4 £75,000 - 2
Salford - 4 £90,000 - 9
Cheadle +1 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 6 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) Apache
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 122 (62.89%) AWS
2 89 (45.88%) Azure
3 51 (26.29%) GitHub
4 38 (19.59%) GCP
5 32 (16.49%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (15.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (15.46%) Serverless
7 27 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.67%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (5.67%) OpenShift
9 11 (5.67%) Snowflake
10 10 (5.15%) Entra ID
10 10 (5.15%) SaaS
11 9 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.22%) Firewall
2 6 (3.09%) Network Security
3 5 (2.58%) DNS
3 5 (2.58%) SAN
4 3 (1.55%) AMQP
4 3 (1.55%) DHCP
4 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.55%) VPN
5 2 (1.03%) BGP
5 2 (1.03%) CTI
5 2 (1.03%) DMZ
5 2 (1.03%) IPsec
5 2 (1.03%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.09%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.58%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.06%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.55%) Big Data
5 3 (1.55%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.55%) Flink
5 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.03%) Chroma
6 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.03%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.03%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (13.92%) Git
1 27 (13.92%) GitLab
2 24 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.61%) JIRA
4 5 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.03%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.03%) Vite
6 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
6 1 (0.52%) Mocha
6 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.22%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.67%) Finance
4 6 (3.09%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.06%) Banking
5 4 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.06%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.03%) Law
6 2 (1.03%) Local Government
6 2 (1.03%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Legal
7 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (36.08%) Senior
2 59 (30.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (25.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (9.79%) Data Engineer
5 19 (9.79%) Software Engineer
6 18 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (9.28%) Developer
7 17 (8.76%) Lead
7 17 (8.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (7.73%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 13 (6.70%) Senior Developer
12 12 (6.19%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 12 (6.19%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (6.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (5.67%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (5.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.01%) Spring
2 32 (16.49%) Spring Boot
3 27 (13.92%) React
4 11 (5.67%) FastAPI
4 11 (5.67%) Pulumi
5 9 (4.64%) ARM Templates
5 9 (4.64%) Next.js
6 8 (4.12%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.12%) Node.js
6 8 (4.12%) PySpark
7 7 (3.61%) Kafka
8 6 (3.09%) .NET
8 6 (3.09%) JWT
8 6 (3.09%) OAuth
8 6 (3.09%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.09%) OpenID
8 6 (3.09%) React Native
8 6 (3.09%) REST
8 6 (3.09%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (29.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.03%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.03%) PKI
8 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.03%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.52%) Blog
9 1 (0.52%) NHS
9 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.40%) Linux
2 9 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.12%) CentOS
4 7 (3.61%) Windows
5 4 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.55%) Debian
6 3 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (75.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 145 (74.74%) CI/CD
3 130 (67.01%) DevOps
4 63 (32.47%) Platform Engineering
5 60 (30.93%) Containerisation
6 58 (29.90%) Agile
7 46 (23.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 44 (22.68%) AI
8 44 (22.68%) Observability
9 42 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (19.59%) Mentoring
11 35 (18.04%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (11.86%) Cloud Security
13 23 (11.86%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (11.86%) Microservices
14 22 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (10.82%) Analytics
16 19 (9.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 119 (61.34%) Python
2 49 (25.26%) Java
3 43 (22.16%) Bash
4 32 (16.49%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.86%) SQL
6 20 (10.31%) Go
7 14 (7.22%) Bicep
7 14 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.67%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.12%) C#
10 7 (3.61%) Ruby
11 5 (2.58%) Rust
12 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (38.66%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.71%) DV Cleared
2 46 (23.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.64%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.06%) Degree
5 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.03%) CCIE
6 2 (1.03%) CCNA
6 2 (1.03%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.09%) 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
4 2 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (41.75%) Docker
2 10 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.03%) vSphere
5 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 108 (55.67%) Kubernetes
2 71 (36.60%) Ansible
3 19 (9.79%) Grafana
4 18 (9.28%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.15%) Puppet
6 8 (4.12%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.09%) Argo
8 5 (2.58%) Istio
9 4 (2.06%) linkerd
10 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.03%) Packer
11 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.82%) Google
3 11 (5.67%) VMware
4 8 (4.12%) Databricks
4 8 (4.12%) Splunk
5 4 (2.06%) Cisco
6 3 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.55%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.55%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.03%) F5
7 2 (1.03%) FIS
7 2 (1.03%) Mistral
7 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) Pega
8 1 (0.52%) WSO2
8 1 (0.52%) YouTube