Terraform Job Trends in the Midlands

Terraform
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 150 146
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 73 80 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 1.52% 1.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.83% 23.26% 19.97%
Number of salaries quoted 61 63 137
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,239 £43,000
25th Percentile £61,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £82,000 £99,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.54% +3.67% -6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 294 344 766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.00% 6.55% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 224 243 652
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,500 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,300 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,778 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Terraform job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Terraform
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the Midlands

Terraform
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
West Midlands -24 46 £70,000 +3.51% 25
East Midlands -19 25 £69,000 +6.15% 8
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (10.96%) IIS
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (69.86%) Azure
2 40 (54.79%) AWS
3 20 (27.40%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (13.70%) GitHub
4 10 (13.70%) PaaS
4 10 (13.70%) SaaS
5 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.96%) Datadog
6 8 (10.96%) GCP
7 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
7 7 (9.59%) npm
7 7 (9.59%) NuGet
7 7 (9.59%) SonarCloud
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.85%) Azure AKS
9 5 (6.85%) dbt
9 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (6.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.59%) Firewall
2 5 (6.85%) DNS
3 3 (4.11%) DHCP
3 3 (4.11%) Network Security
3 3 (4.11%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.11%) VLAN
3 3 (4.11%) VPN
3 3 (4.11%) WAN
4 1 (1.37%) BGP
4 1 (1.37%) Broadband
4 1 (1.37%) IPsec
4 1 (1.37%) NAS
4 1 (1.37%) OSPF
4 1 (1.37%) SAN
4 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.85%) Metadata
4 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.74%) Redis
7 1 (1.37%) DB2
7 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.37%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) Parquet
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.37%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (26.03%) Git
2 10 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.48%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.48%) GitLab
3 4 (5.48%) JIRA
4 3 (4.11%) JMeter
4 3 (4.11%) Locust
5 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.37%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.37%) Maven
6 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Finance
3 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Advertising
4 3 (4.11%) Banking
4 3 (4.11%) Billing
4 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.11%) Military
5 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Automotive
6 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (28.77%) Senior
3 14 (19.18%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (15.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (15.07%) Lead
5 8 (10.96%) Architect
5 8 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (10.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Architect
9 4 (5.48%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) React
2 11 (15.07%) .NET
2 11 (15.07%) Node.js
3 8 (10.96%) ARM Templates
3 8 (10.96%) YAML
4 6 (8.22%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.48%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.48%) Kafka
6 3 (4.11%) Apollo GraphQL
6 3 (4.11%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (2.74%) Django
7 2 (2.74%) LDAP
7 2 (2.74%) OAuth
7 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.74%) OpenID
7 2 (2.74%) RESTful
7 2 (2.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.11%) PKI
4 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Derivative
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.29%) Linux
2 8 (10.96%) Windows
3 3 (4.11%) Unix
4 2 (2.74%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Android
5 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) Debian
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (69.86%) DevOps
2 43 (58.90%) CI/CD
3 40 (54.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (28.77%) Agile
5 16 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (21.92%) Observability
5 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (19.18%) Containerisation
6 14 (19.18%) Microservices
6 14 (19.18%) Migration
7 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (15.07%) Cloud Security
9 11 (15.07%) Mentoring
10 10 (13.70%) Cost Optimisation
10 10 (13.70%) DevSecOps
11 9 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (10.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.36%) Python
2 20 (27.40%) PowerShell
3 14 (19.18%) Bash
4 12 (16.44%) Bicep
4 12 (16.44%) Java
5 10 (13.70%) SQL
6 9 (12.33%) C#
7 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.22%) Scala
8 3 (4.11%) Go
8 3 (4.11%) Groovy
9 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.37%) PHP
10 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
1 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
2 6 (8.22%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) CCNP
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.11%) WCAG
4 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (34.25%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) Firmware
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (39.73%) Kubernetes
2 19 (26.03%) Ansible
3 6 (8.22%) Grafana
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.74%) Argo
5 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.37%) Control-M
6 1 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.37%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.59%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (6.85%) Google
3 5 (6.85%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (6.85%) SolarWinds
4 4 (5.48%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.11%) Adobe
5 3 (4.11%) Informatica
5 3 (4.11%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.74%) Databricks
6 2 (2.74%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.74%) VMware
7 1 (1.37%) BMC
7 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.37%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.37%) Zscaler