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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 -10
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 147 165 204
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.54% 7.67% 3.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.49% 45.96% 44.06%
Number of salaries quoted 107 101 132
10th Percentile £52,300 £50,000 £46,375
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 £74,063
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 297 359 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.13% 16.70% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 225 203 355
10th Percentile £32,700 £32,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,365 £44,632
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 £82,625 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,272 £82,500
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 24 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 24 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 +5 10 £65,000 - 2
Salford -15 3 £90,000 +29.71% 3
Stockport +1 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 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.04%) Apache
2 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.04%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (66.67%) AWS
2 85 (57.82%) Azure
3 35 (23.81%) GitHub
4 29 (19.73%) GCP
5 24 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (14.29%) Serverless
7 19 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.56%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (9.52%) Entra ID
11 13 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (8.16%) SaaS
13 10 (6.80%) Power Platform
14 9 (6.12%) Azure AKS
14 9 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (5.44%) Amazon S3
15 8 (5.44%) Pulumi
15 8 (5.44%) Snowflake
16 7 (4.76%) dbt
16 7 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.20%) Firewall
2 6 (4.08%) VPN
3 5 (3.40%) Network Security
4 4 (2.72%) SAN
5 3 (2.04%) AMQP
5 3 (2.04%) DNS
5 3 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 7 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.72%) Flink
4 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.04%) Big Data
5 3 (2.04%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.04%) GIS
5 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.04%) MySQL
5 3 (2.04%) QGIS
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) Power BI
6 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (12.93%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.24%) Git
3 15 (10.20%) GitLab
4 3 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.36%) JIRA
5 2 (1.36%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.68%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.80%) Finance
2 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.08%) Banking
4 6 (4.08%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.72%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.36%) Retail
7 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 59 (40.14%) Senior
2 48 (32.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 20 (13.61%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (12.93%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.88%) Data Engineer
8 15 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (10.20%) Developer
8 15 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (8.84%) GCP Engineer
9 13 (8.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 12 (8.16%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Security Engineer
13 7 (4.76%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.76%) Lead
13 7 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (4.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 6 (4.08%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.56%) Spring
2 16 (10.88%) Node.js
2 16 (10.88%) Spring Boot
3 14 (9.52%) React
4 13 (8.84%) REST
5 12 (8.16%) .NET
6 9 (6.12%) Kafka
7 8 (5.44%) PySpark
8 6 (4.08%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.08%) ARM Templates
9 5 (3.40%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.40%) JWT
9 5 (3.40%) OAuth
10 4 (2.72%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.72%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.72%) OpenID
10 4 (2.72%) Pandas
10 4 (2.72%) RESTful
10 4 (2.72%) SAML
10 4 (2.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.44%) Enterprise Cloud
2 8 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.68%) NHS
9 1 (0.68%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.24%) Linux
2 10 (6.80%) Windows
3 6 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.40%) Debian
4 5 (3.40%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.72%) CentOS
5 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 94 (63.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (55.78%) DevOps
4 64 (43.54%) Agile
5 52 (35.37%) Platform Engineering
6 32 (21.77%) Containerisation
6 32 (21.77%) Mentoring
7 28 (19.05%) Observability
7 28 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 27 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (18.37%) Scrum
9 25 (17.01%) Microservices
10 23 (15.65%) AI
11 22 (14.97%) TDD
12 20 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (12.93%) Collaborative Culture
14 18 (12.24%) Decision-Making
15 17 (11.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (10.88%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (10.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (41.50%) Python
2 30 (20.41%) Java
3 20 (13.61%) Bash
3 20 (13.61%) PowerShell
4 19 (12.93%) SQL
5 16 (10.88%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.44%) Bicep
7 8 (5.44%) C#
8 6 (4.08%) Go
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Degree
7 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.40%) QA
System Software
1 47 (31.97%) Docker
2 10 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.04%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (41.50%) Kubernetes
2 33 (22.45%) Ansible
3 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (6.12%) Grafana
5 8 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.72%) Puppet
8 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.04%) Rancher
9 2 (1.36%) Argo
9 2 (1.36%) Istio
9 2 (1.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.68%) linkerd
10 1 (0.68%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.16%) Google
3 10 (6.80%) VMware
4 7 (4.76%) Splunk
5 6 (4.08%) New Relic
6 5 (3.40%) Databricks
7 4 (2.72%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.04%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.36%) Pega
9 2 (1.36%) WSO2
10 1 (0.68%) F5
10 1 (0.68%) HP
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle