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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 37 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 174 166 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.77% 6.93% 3.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.43% 43.57% 46.78%
Number of salaries quoted 139 104 126
10th Percentile £51,850 £52,875 £46,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £53,813
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 £77,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,875
North West median annual salary £71,500 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.68% +10.76% -13.33%

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 345 381 481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.49% 15.89% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 280 216 334
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +14.11% -12.96%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,889 £82,938
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -10.57%

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 3 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 3 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 +7 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -10 4 £90,000 +29.71% 1
Cheadle +2 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 8 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.72%) Apache
2 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.72%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 124 (71.26%) AWS
2 84 (48.28%) Azure
3 44 (25.29%) GitHub
4 37 (21.26%) GCP
5 28 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (15.52%) Serverless
7 24 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (10.92%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (6.90%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.32%) Pulumi
11 11 (6.32%) SaaS
12 10 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (5.17%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.17%) Entra ID
13 9 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (4.60%) dbt
14 8 (4.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.92%) Firewall
2 8 (4.60%) Network Security
3 6 (3.45%) SAN
3 6 (3.45%) VPN
4 4 (2.30%) DNS
5 3 (1.72%) AMQP
5 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.57%) BGP
6 1 (0.57%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.57%) DMZ
6 1 (0.57%) IPsec
6 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.75%) Relational Database
2 9 (5.17%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.87%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.87%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.30%) Flink
7 3 (1.72%) Big Data
7 3 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.72%) GIS
7 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.72%) QGIS
7 3 (1.72%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.15%) MySQL
8 2 (1.15%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (14.94%) Jenkins
2 24 (13.79%) Git
3 20 (11.49%) GitLab
4 3 (1.72%) JIRA
5 2 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.15%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.15%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.15%) Vite
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.90%) Finance
2 12 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.45%) Banking
3 6 (3.45%) Retail Banking
4 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.15%) Retail
6 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (42.53%) Senior
2 49 (28.16%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (20.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (15.52%) Software Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) Developer
6 17 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.05%) Security Engineer
9 13 (7.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Lead
11 10 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.79%) React
2 23 (13.22%) Spring
3 22 (12.64%) Spring Boot
4 15 (8.62%) Node.js
5 11 (6.32%) FastAPI
5 11 (6.32%) REST
6 10 (5.75%) .NET
7 9 (5.17%) Next.js
7 9 (5.17%) PySpark
8 8 (4.60%) ARM Templates
8 8 (4.60%) Kafka
9 7 (4.02%) JWT
9 7 (4.02%) OAuth
10 6 (3.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.45%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.45%) OpenID
10 6 (3.45%) React Native
10 6 (3.45%) Ruby on Rails
10 6 (3.45%) SAML
11 4 (2.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.60%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.87%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.15%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.15%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.92%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) CentOS
2 5 (2.87%) Debian
2 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (76.44%) CI/CD
2 125 (71.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (59.20%) DevOps
4 63 (36.21%) Agile
5 58 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 44 (25.29%) Containerisation
7 42 (24.14%) Mentoring
8 37 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.26%) Software Engineering
9 36 (20.69%) AI
10 32 (18.39%) Observability
11 28 (16.09%) Microservices
12 27 (15.52%) Scrum
13 24 (13.79%) TDD
14 22 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (11.49%) Collaborative Culture
15 20 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 18 (10.34%) Cloud Security
16 18 (10.34%) Decision-Making
16 18 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (51.72%) Python
2 39 (22.41%) Java
3 26 (14.94%) Bash
4 25 (14.37%) PowerShell
5 22 (12.64%) SQL
6 18 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
8 13 (7.47%) Go
9 11 (6.32%) Bicep
10 10 (5.75%) C#
11 6 (3.45%) Ruby
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.20%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.15%) Degree
7 1 (0.57%) CCIE
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.45%) QA
2 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (36.78%) Docker
2 10 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.87%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (47.13%) Kubernetes
2 45 (25.86%) Ansible
3 13 (7.47%) Grafana
4 12 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.87%) Puppet
6 4 (2.30%) Argo
6 4 (2.30%) Istio
6 4 (2.30%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.72%) linkerd
8 2 (1.15%) Packer
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.57%) Rancher
9 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 19 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.34%) Google
3 11 (6.32%) VMware
4 7 (4.02%) Databricks
4 7 (4.02%) Splunk
5 3 (1.72%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.72%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.15%) F5
6 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.15%) Oracle
6 2 (1.15%) Pega
6 2 (1.15%) WSO2
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco
7 1 (0.57%) HP
7 1 (0.57%) Zscaler