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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 38 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 186 158 236
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.81% 6.28% 5.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 51.38% 43.65% 52.44%
Number of salaries quoted 155 97 109
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £69,384 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% +2.79% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,150 £85,500
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 362 362 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.46% 14.39% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 293 200 281
10th Percentile £35,150 £32,500 £33,750
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% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £84,919
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +8 9 £65,000 - 3
Salford -13 4 £90,000 +29.71%
Stockport +5 3 £75,000 - 2
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 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.61%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 126 (67.74%) AWS
2 88 (47.31%) Azure
3 43 (23.12%) GitHub
4 36 (19.35%) GCP
5 30 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (15.59%) Serverless
7 25 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.91%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (5.91%) Pulumi
11 11 (5.91%) SaaS
12 10 (5.38%) Entra ID
12 10 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.84%) dbt
13 9 (4.84%) Snowflake
14 8 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (3.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.60%) Firewall
2 7 (3.76%) Network Security
3 6 (3.23%) SAN
4 4 (2.15%) DNS
4 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.15%) VPN
5 2 (1.08%) AMQP
5 2 (1.08%) BGP
5 2 (1.08%) DMZ
5 2 (1.08%) IPsec
5 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.08%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.30%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.69%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.69%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.15%) Flink
5 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.61%) GIS
6 3 (1.61%) QGIS
6 3 (1.61%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.08%) Big Data
7 2 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.08%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.08%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (14.52%) Git
2 25 (13.44%) Jenkins
3 21 (11.29%) GitLab
4 4 (2.15%) JIRA
5 3 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.08%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.08%) Vite
7 1 (0.54%) MLflow
7 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.54%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.99%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.45%) Finance
4 6 (3.23%) Banking
4 6 (3.23%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 72 (38.71%) Senior
2 51 (27.42%) Cloud Engineer
2 51 (27.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (12.90%) Software Engineer
4 19 (10.22%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (10.22%) Data Engineer
5 18 (9.68%) Developer
5 18 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 17 (9.14%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (9.14%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.06%) Senior Developer
8 14 (7.53%) Lead
9 13 (6.99%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.45%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (6.45%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.91%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.38%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.13%) Spring
2 29 (15.59%) Spring Boot
3 21 (11.29%) React
4 11 (5.91%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.38%) .NET
5 10 (5.38%) Node.js
6 9 (4.84%) Next.js
6 9 (4.84%) PySpark
7 8 (4.30%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.30%) Kafka
7 8 (4.30%) REST
8 6 (3.23%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.23%) JWT
8 6 (3.23%) OAuth
8 6 (3.23%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.23%) OpenID
8 6 (3.23%) React Native
8 6 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (3.23%) SAML
9 4 (2.15%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.30%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.08%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.83%) Linux
2 5 (2.69%) CentOS
2 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Windows
4 3 (1.61%) Debian
4 3 (1.61%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.61%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (75.81%) CI/CD
2 137 (73.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (63.44%) DevOps
4 63 (33.87%) Platform Engineering
5 61 (32.80%) Agile
6 54 (29.03%) Containerisation
7 44 (23.66%) Mentoring
8 40 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (20.97%) Observability
10 38 (20.43%) AI
10 38 (20.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 37 (19.89%) Software Engineering
12 25 (13.44%) Microservices
13 24 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (12.37%) Scrum
15 22 (11.83%) TDD
16 21 (11.29%) Collaborative Culture
17 20 (10.75%) Cloud Security
17 20 (10.75%) Infrastructure Automation
18 18 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (55.38%) Python
2 46 (24.73%) Java
3 34 (18.28%) Bash
4 27 (14.52%) PowerShell
5 22 (11.83%) SQL
6 19 (10.22%) Go
7 13 (6.99%) Bicep
7 13 (6.99%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.38%) C#
10 6 (3.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (30.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.59%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.08%) CCIE
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.08%) Degree
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.23%) QA
2 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (39.78%) Docker
2 9 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.76%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (51.08%) Kubernetes
2 58 (31.18%) Ansible
3 17 (9.14%) Grafana
4 16 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.76%) Puppet
6 6 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.69%) Istio
8 4 (2.15%) Argo
8 4 (2.15%) linkerd
8 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.75%) Google
3 10 (5.38%) VMware
4 8 (4.30%) Splunk
5 7 (3.76%) Databricks
6 3 (1.61%) F5
6 3 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco
7 2 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle
7 2 (1.08%) Pega
7 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.08%) WSO2
7 2 (1.08%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.54%) HP