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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 52 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 194 113 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.53% 4.79% 4.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.90% 21.08% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 157 59 72
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £69,654
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.68% -7.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £83,813
90th Percentile £93,500 £82,750 £87,950
North West median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.70% -6.90%

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 779 536 971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.17% 22.73% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 592 310 505
10th Percentile £43,000 £38,675 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,375 £91,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +17.12% -7.50%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 8 £65,000 - 7
Stockport +3 4 £75,000 - 5
Salford -13 4 £90,000 +21.95% 1
Cheadle -2 3 £72,500 - 3
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 5 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.03%) Apache
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 117 (60.31%) AWS
2 86 (44.33%) Azure
3 48 (24.74%) GitHub
4 37 (19.07%) GCP
5 30 (15.46%) Serverless
6 28 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (13.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.19%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.67%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (5.15%) SaaS
13 10 (5.15%) Snowflake
14 9 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.64%) Entra ID
14 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (4.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.22%) Firewall
2 6 (3.09%) DNS
2 6 (3.09%) Network Security
3 5 (2.58%) SAN
4 3 (1.55%) DHCP
4 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.55%) VPN
5 2 (1.03%) AMQP
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%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.61%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.58%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.58%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.06%) Chroma
4 4 (2.06%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.55%) Flink
5 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.55%) Power BI
5 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.03%) Big Data
6 2 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (16.49%) GitLab
2 27 (13.92%) Git
3 22 (11.34%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.64%) JIRA
5 5 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.06%) Vagrant
7 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.03%) Vite
9 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.52%) MLflow
9 1 (0.52%) Mocha
9 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 45 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.15%) Finance
4 5 (2.58%) Aerospace
4 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.03%) Law
6 2 (1.03%) Local Government
7 1 (0.52%) Banking
7 1 (0.52%) Legal
7 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (36.60%) Senior
2 65 (33.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (21.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (12.37%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (9.28%) Data Engineer
6 17 (8.76%) Developer
6 17 (8.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 16 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (8.25%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Lead
8 15 (7.73%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (7.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) Security Engineer
10 13 (6.70%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 13 (6.70%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.15%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.53%) Spring
1 34 (17.53%) Spring Boot
2 30 (15.46%) React
3 13 (6.70%) FastAPI
4 10 (5.15%) Pulumi
5 9 (4.64%) Next.js
6 8 (4.12%) PySpark
7 7 (3.61%) Node.js
8 6 (3.09%) .NET
8 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.09%) JWT
8 6 (3.09%) Kafka
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%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.09%) SAML
9 5 (2.58%) ARM Templates
9 5 (2.58%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 53 (27.32%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.03%) FMCG
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.03%) PKI
10 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.49%) Linux
2 11 (5.67%) Windows
3 8 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.61%) CentOS
5 4 (2.06%) Unix
5 4 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.03%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (76.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 143 (73.71%) CI/CD
3 128 (65.98%) DevOps
4 63 (32.47%) Platform Engineering
5 60 (30.93%) Agile
6 58 (29.90%) Containerisation
7 51 (26.29%) AI
8 46 (23.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 44 (22.68%) Mentoring
10 41 (21.13%) Observability
11 40 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (17.53%) Software Engineering
13 32 (16.49%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (15.98%) Cloud Security
15 26 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (12.89%) Infrastructure Automation
17 22 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (10.82%) Analytics
18 21 (10.82%) Coaching
18 21 (10.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 125 (64.43%) Python
2 53 (27.32%) Java
3 47 (24.23%) Bash
4 31 (15.98%) PowerShell
5 24 (12.37%) Go
6 21 (10.82%) SQL
7 17 (8.76%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.70%) Bicep
9 11 (5.67%) JavaScript
10 8 (4.12%) C#
11 7 (3.61%) Ruby
12 5 (2.58%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 84 (43.30%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.80%) DV Cleared
3 49 (25.26%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.61%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.09%) Degree
6 4 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.03%) CCIE
7 2 (1.03%) CCNA
7 2 (1.03%) MCSE
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.06%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.06%) QA
3 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 83 (42.78%) Docker
2 13 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.06%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (57.73%) Kubernetes
2 72 (37.11%) Ansible
3 16 (8.25%) Grafana
4 15 (7.73%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.19%) Puppet
6 10 (5.15%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.09%) Argo
8 4 (2.06%) Istio
8 4 (2.06%) linkerd
8 4 (2.06%) Packer
8 4 (2.06%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.52%) Opsview
Vendors
1 27 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.82%) Google
3 14 (7.22%) VMware
4 8 (4.12%) Databricks
4 8 (4.12%) Splunk
5 6 (3.09%) YouTube
6 4 (2.06%) Cisco
6 4 (2.06%) Mistral
6 4 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.03%) F5
7 2 (1.03%) FIS
7 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle