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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 36 53
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 150 165 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.58% 7.73% 3.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.67% 45.83% 44.20%
Number of salaries quoted 111 101 130
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +15.18% -10.34%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £82,500
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 302 360 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.19% 16.87% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 231 202 347
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £31,700
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,400 £81,750
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 26 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 26 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 +6 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -16 3 £90,000 +29.71% 4
Stockport 0 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 6 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.00%) Apache
3 3 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.00%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (66.67%) AWS
2 84 (56.00%) Azure
3 35 (23.33%) GitHub
4 30 (20.00%) GCP
5 24 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (14.00%) Serverless
7 19 (12.67%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.33%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (8.67%) Entra ID
11 12 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (7.33%) SaaS
13 9 (6.00%) Azure AKS
13 9 (6.00%) Power Platform
14 8 (5.33%) Amazon S3
14 8 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (5.33%) Pulumi
14 8 (5.33%) Snowflake
15 7 (4.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.00%) Firewall
2 6 (4.00%) VPN
3 5 (3.33%) Network Security
4 4 (2.67%) SAN
5 3 (2.00%) AMQP
5 3 (2.00%) DNS
5 3 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.67%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.67%) BigQuery
1 7 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.67%) Flink
4 4 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.00%) Big Data
5 3 (2.00%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.00%) GIS
5 3 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.00%) MySQL
5 3 (2.00%) QGIS
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) Power BI
6 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.00%) Git
3 16 (10.67%) GitLab
4 3 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.33%) JIRA
5 2 (1.33%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.67%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.67%) Finance
2 10 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.00%) Banking
3 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (4.00%) Retail Banking
4 4 (2.67%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.33%) Retail
6 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (41.33%) Senior
2 48 (32.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (14.67%) Software Engineer
4 20 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (12.67%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (12.67%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (10.67%) Data Engineer
7 15 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (10.00%) Developer
7 15 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) GCP Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.00%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Security Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.67%) Lead
14 6 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 6 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.00%) Spring
2 17 (11.33%) Spring Boot
3 16 (10.67%) Node.js
4 15 (10.00%) React
5 13 (8.67%) REST
6 12 (8.00%) .NET
7 9 (6.00%) Kafka
8 8 (5.33%) PySpark
9 6 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.00%) ARM Templates
10 5 (3.33%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.33%) JWT
10 5 (3.33%) OAuth
11 4 (2.67%) Great Expectations
11 4 (2.67%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.67%) OpenID
11 4 (2.67%) Pandas
11 4 (2.67%) RESTful
11 4 (2.67%) SAML
11 4 (2.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 8 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.67%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.67%) NHS
8 1 (0.67%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.00%) Linux
2 10 (6.67%) Windows
3 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.33%) Debian
4 5 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.67%) CentOS
5 4 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Unix
6 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 97 (64.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (55.33%) DevOps
4 63 (42.00%) Agile
5 53 (35.33%) Platform Engineering
6 35 (23.33%) Containerisation
7 33 (22.00%) Mentoring
8 29 (19.33%) Software Engineering
9 28 (18.67%) Observability
10 27 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (18.00%) Scrum
11 25 (16.67%) Microservices
12 23 (15.33%) AI
13 22 (14.67%) TDD
14 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (12.67%) Collaborative Culture
16 18 (12.00%) Decision-Making
17 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
17 16 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 16 (10.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (42.67%) Python
2 31 (20.67%) Java
3 21 (14.00%) Bash
4 20 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 19 (12.67%) SQL
6 16 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.33%) Bicep
8 8 (5.33%) C#
9 7 (4.67%) Go
10 2 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.33%) Degree
6 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 50 (33.33%) Docker
2 9 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (42.67%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.33%) Ansible
3 10 (6.67%) Grafana
4 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.67%) Puppet
7 3 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.00%) Rancher
8 2 (1.33%) Argo
8 2 (1.33%) Istio
8 2 (1.33%) Packer
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.67%) linkerd
9 1 (0.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.67%) Google
3 11 (7.33%) VMware
4 7 (4.67%) Splunk
5 5 (3.33%) Databricks
5 5 (3.33%) New Relic
6 4 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (2.00%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.33%) Pega
8 2 (1.33%) WSO2
9 1 (0.67%) F5
9 1 (0.67%) HP
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle