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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 35 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 -11
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 153 166 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.62% 7.78% 3.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.51% 45.73% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 114 101 130
10th Percentile £52,150 £50,000 £46,125
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 £73,438
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 309 363 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.28% 17.02% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 237 204 346
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £31,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £44,263
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 £82,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,144 £81,875
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 27 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 27 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 +7 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -16 3 £90,000 +29.71% 4
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 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.96%) Apache
3 3 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.96%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (67.32%) AWS
2 84 (54.90%) Azure
3 36 (23.53%) GitHub
4 30 (19.61%) GCP
5 25 (16.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (14.38%) Serverless
7 19 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (9.15%) Entra ID
11 12 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (7.84%) SaaS
12 10 (6.54%) Amazon S3
13 9 (5.88%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (5.88%) Power Platform
13 9 (5.88%) Pulumi
14 8 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (5.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (4.58%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.15%) Firewall
2 6 (3.92%) VPN
3 5 (3.27%) Network Security
4 4 (2.61%) DNS
4 4 (2.61%) SAN
5 3 (1.96%) AMQP
5 3 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.65%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.58%) BigQuery
1 7 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.27%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.61%) Flink
5 3 (1.96%) Big Data
5 3 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.96%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.96%) GIS
5 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.96%) MySQL
5 3 (1.96%) QGIS
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.42%) Git
3 17 (11.11%) GitLab
4 3 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.31%) JIRA
5 2 (1.31%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.31%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.65%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.19%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.88%) Finance
4 6 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.92%) Banking
4 6 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.92%) Retail Banking
5 4 (2.61%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.31%) Retail
7 1 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (40.52%) Senior
2 50 (32.68%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (15.03%) Software Engineer
4 22 (14.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (13.07%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (12.42%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (10.46%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (10.46%) Data Engineer
8 15 (9.80%) Developer
8 15 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) GCP Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Security Engineer
11 10 (6.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.58%) Lead
14 6 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.42%) Spring
2 18 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 16 (10.46%) Node.js
3 16 (10.46%) React
4 13 (8.50%) REST
5 12 (7.84%) .NET
6 8 (5.23%) Kafka
6 8 (5.23%) PySpark
7 7 (4.58%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.92%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.92%) JWT
8 6 (3.92%) OAuth
9 5 (3.27%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.27%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.27%) OpenID
9 5 (3.27%) SAML
10 4 (2.61%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.61%) Pandas
10 4 (2.61%) RESTful
10 4 (2.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.58%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.76%) Linux
2 10 (6.54%) Windows
3 6 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.27%) Debian
4 5 (3.27%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.61%) CentOS
5 4 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (77.12%) CI/CD
2 100 (65.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 86 (56.21%) DevOps
4 62 (40.52%) Agile
5 54 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
6 36 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 33 (21.57%) Mentoring
8 30 (19.61%) Software Engineering
9 29 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (18.30%) Observability
11 27 (17.65%) Scrum
12 26 (16.99%) Microservices
13 25 (16.34%) AI
14 22 (14.38%) TDD
15 20 (13.07%) Collaborative Culture
16 19 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (11.76%) Decision-Making
18 17 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
18 17 (11.11%) RBAC
19 16 (10.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.83%) Python
2 32 (20.92%) Java
3 21 (13.73%) Bash
3 21 (13.73%) PowerShell
4 19 (12.42%) SQL
5 17 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.54%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.23%) Bicep
7 8 (5.23%) C#
7 8 (5.23%) Go
8 2 (1.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.31%) Degree
7 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.27%) QA
System Software
1 50 (32.68%) Docker
2 10 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (42.48%) Kubernetes
2 36 (23.53%) Ansible
3 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.88%) Grafana
5 8 (5.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.61%) Puppet
8 3 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.96%) Rancher
9 2 (1.31%) Argo
9 2 (1.31%) Istio
9 2 (1.31%) Packer
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) Google
3 10 (6.54%) VMware
4 7 (4.58%) Splunk
5 5 (3.27%) Databricks
5 5 (3.27%) New Relic
6 3 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.96%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.31%) Pega
7 2 (1.31%) WSO2
8 1 (0.65%) F5
8 1 (0.65%) HP
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle