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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 43 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 184 155 231
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.81% 6.19% 4.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.97% 42.82% 50.88%
Number of salaries quoted 154 94 112
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £50,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £70,942 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +5.10% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,438 £77,500 £79,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,450 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,250 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.21% +3.70% -10.00%

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 361 362 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.51% 14.45% 9.50%
Number of salaries quoted 292 200 292
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £33,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,900 £84,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -15.38%

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 28 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 28 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 +4 10 £65,000 - 2
Salford -14 4 £90,000 +29.71% 1
Stockport +4 3 £75,000 - 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.63%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 125 (67.93%) AWS
2 87 (47.28%) Azure
3 42 (22.83%) GitHub
4 36 (19.57%) GCP
5 29 (15.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (15.76%) Serverless
6 24 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (5.98%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (5.98%) Pulumi
10 11 (5.98%) SaaS
11 10 (5.43%) Entra ID
11 10 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (4.89%) dbt
13 8 (4.35%) Azure AKS
13 8 (4.35%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.24%) Firewall
2 7 (3.80%) Network Security
3 6 (3.26%) SAN
4 4 (2.17%) DNS
4 4 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.17%) VPN
5 2 (1.09%) AMQP
5 2 (1.09%) BGP
5 2 (1.09%) DMZ
5 2 (1.09%) IPsec
5 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.09%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.72%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.17%) Flink
5 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.63%) GIS
6 3 (1.63%) QGIS
6 3 (1.63%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.09%) Big Data
7 2 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.09%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.09%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (14.67%) Git
2 25 (13.59%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.96%) GitLab
4 4 (2.17%) JIRA
5 3 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.09%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.09%) Vite
7 1 (0.54%) MLflow
7 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.54%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.07%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.52%) Finance
4 6 (3.26%) Banking
4 6 (3.26%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (38.59%) Senior
2 51 (27.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (27.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (13.59%) Software Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Developer
7 17 (9.24%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (9.24%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (8.15%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.61%) Lead
10 13 (7.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 12 (6.52%) GCP Engineer
11 12 (6.52%) Security Engineer
12 11 (5.98%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (5.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 10 (5.43%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) Spring
2 30 (16.30%) Spring Boot
3 22 (11.96%) React
4 11 (5.98%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.43%) .NET
5 10 (5.43%) Node.js
6 9 (4.89%) Next.js
6 9 (4.89%) PySpark
7 8 (4.35%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.35%) Kafka
7 8 (4.35%) REST
8 6 (3.26%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.26%) JWT
8 6 (3.26%) OAuth
8 6 (3.26%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.26%) OpenID
8 6 (3.26%) React Native
8 6 (3.26%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.26%) SAML
9 4 (2.17%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.09%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.09%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (2.72%) CentOS
2 5 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.17%) Debian
3 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.63%) Unix
4 3 (1.63%) Windows
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (76.63%) CI/CD
2 136 (73.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (64.13%) DevOps
4 63 (34.24%) Platform Engineering
5 62 (33.70%) Agile
6 54 (29.35%) Containerisation
7 45 (24.46%) Mentoring
8 41 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (20.65%) AI
9 38 (20.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (20.65%) Software Engineering
10 37 (20.11%) Observability
11 25 (13.59%) Microservices
11 25 (13.59%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (13.04%) Scrum
13 23 (12.50%) TDD
14 21 (11.41%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (10.33%) Cloud Security
16 18 (9.78%) Decision-Making
16 18 (9.78%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (54.89%) Python
2 47 (25.54%) Java
3 32 (17.39%) Bash
4 26 (14.13%) PowerShell
5 21 (11.41%) SQL
6 18 (9.78%) Go
7 13 (7.07%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.52%) Bicep
9 10 (5.43%) C#
10 6 (3.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.02%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.76%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.09%) CCIE
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Degree
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.26%) QA
2 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (40.76%) Docker
2 9 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (51.63%) Kubernetes
2 58 (31.52%) Ansible
3 17 (9.24%) Grafana
4 16 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.26%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.26%) Puppet
6 5 (2.72%) Istio
6 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.17%) Argo
7 4 (2.17%) linkerd
8 2 (1.09%) Packer
8 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 21 (11.41%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.87%) Google
3 10 (5.43%) VMware
4 8 (4.35%) Splunk
5 7 (3.80%) Databricks
6 3 (1.63%) F5
6 3 (1.63%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco
7 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle
7 2 (1.09%) Pega
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.09%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.09%) WSO2
7 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.54%) HP