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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 41 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 192 137 221
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.61% 5.70% 5.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.13% 23.87% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 156 81 81
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £65,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -6.22% -7.59%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.43% -5.36% -6.67%

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 764 574 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.40% 23.90% 25.40%
Number of salaries quoted 600 338 565
10th Percentile £44,875 £40,028 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,250 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £56,379
% change year-on-year - +15.29% -6.03%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 8 £65,000 - 3
Stockport +2 4 £75,000 -
Salford - 4 £90,000 - 9
Cheadle +1 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 6 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.56%) Apache
3 3 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 124 (64.58%) AWS
2 89 (46.35%) Azure
3 48 (25.00%) GitHub
4 38 (19.79%) GCP
5 32 (16.67%) Serverless
6 30 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (15.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (5.73%) OpenShift
11 11 (5.73%) Snowflake
12 10 (5.21%) SaaS
12 10 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (4.69%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.81%) Firewall
2 6 (3.13%) Network Security
3 5 (2.60%) DNS
3 5 (2.60%) SAN
4 3 (1.56%) AMQP
4 3 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.56%) VPN
5 2 (1.04%) BGP
5 2 (1.04%) CTI
5 2 (1.04%) DHCP
5 2 (1.04%) DMZ
5 2 (1.04%) IPsec
5 2 (1.04%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.13%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.08%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.56%) Big Data
5 3 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.56%) Flink
5 3 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.04%) Chroma
6 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.04%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.04%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (13.54%) Git
2 24 (12.50%) GitLab
3 23 (11.98%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.65%) JIRA
5 4 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.04%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.04%) Vite
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
7 1 (0.52%) Mocha
7 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.73%) Finance
4 6 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.08%) Banking
5 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.08%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.04%) Law
6 2 (1.04%) Local Government
6 2 (1.04%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Legal
7 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (36.98%) Senior
2 54 (28.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (25.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (11.46%) Software Engineer
5 21 (10.94%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (9.90%) Data Engineer
7 18 (9.38%) Developer
8 17 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (8.85%) Lead
8 17 (8.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (7.29%) Senior Developer
10 14 (7.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 13 (6.77%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) Security Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.67%) Spring
2 31 (16.15%) Spring Boot
3 26 (13.54%) React
4 11 (5.73%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.21%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.69%) Next.js
6 9 (4.69%) Node.js
7 8 (4.17%) .NET
7 8 (4.17%) ARM Templates
7 8 (4.17%) PySpark
8 7 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.65%) Kafka
8 7 (3.65%) REST
9 6 (3.13%) JWT
9 6 (3.13%) OAuth
9 6 (3.13%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.13%) OpenID
9 6 (3.13%) React Native
9 6 (3.13%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (27.60%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.73%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.56%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.56%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.04%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.04%) PKI
8 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.04%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.52%) Blog
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.54%) Linux
2 7 (3.65%) CentOS
2 7 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.65%) Windows
3 3 (1.56%) Debian
3 3 (1.56%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.56%) Unix
3 3 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 144 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (65.10%) DevOps
3 63 (32.81%) Platform Engineering
4 58 (30.21%) Agile
4 58 (30.21%) Containerisation
5 44 (22.92%) Observability
6 43 (22.40%) AI
7 42 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (21.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 40 (20.83%) Mentoring
9 38 (19.79%) Software Engineering
10 24 (12.50%) Microservices
10 24 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (11.46%) Cloud Security
13 21 (10.94%) Scrum
14 20 (10.42%) Analytics
14 20 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (59.38%) Python
2 48 (25.00%) Java
3 41 (21.35%) Bash
4 30 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.98%) SQL
6 20 (10.42%) Go
7 14 (7.29%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.77%) Bicep
9 12 (6.25%) JavaScript
10 9 (4.69%) C#
11 7 (3.65%) Ruby
12 4 (2.08%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 39 (20.31%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.08%) Degree
7 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.04%) CCIE
8 2 (1.04%) CCNA
8 2 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.08%) QA
3 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (40.63%) Docker
2 11 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.56%) vSphere
5 2 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 104 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 65 (33.85%) Ansible
3 18 (9.38%) Grafana
4 17 (8.85%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.21%) Puppet
6 8 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.60%) Argo
7 5 (2.60%) Istio
8 4 (2.08%) linkerd
9 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.04%) Packer
10 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.94%) Google
3 12 (6.25%) VMware
4 8 (4.17%) Databricks
4 8 (4.17%) Splunk
5 4 (2.08%) Cisco
6 3 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.56%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.04%) F5
7 2 (1.04%) FIS
7 2 (1.04%) Mistral
7 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.04%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) Pega
8 1 (0.52%) WSO2
8 1 (0.52%) YouTube