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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 136 124
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +8
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 83 94 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.02% 1.52% 2.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.48% 23.04% 22.93%
Number of salaries quoted 64 62 135
10th Percentile £49,350 £51,326 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £61,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +10.89% -10.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,126 £87,375 £98,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -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 302 408 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.70% 6.59% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 222 238 593
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68,688 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 0 56 £70,000 +0.50% 40
East Midlands +7 25 £69,000 +6.15% 54
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 9 (10.84%) Confluence
2 7 (8.43%) IIS
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.61%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (68.67%) Azure
2 46 (55.42%) AWS
3 25 (30.12%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (15.66%) GitHub
5 12 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (12.05%) PaaS
7 9 (10.84%) GCP
7 9 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (10.84%) SaaS
7 9 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.43%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (8.43%) AWS KMS
9 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (8.43%) Serverless
10 6 (7.23%) npm
10 6 (7.23%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.28%) Firewall
2 13 (15.66%) DNS
3 7 (8.43%) FTP
3 7 (8.43%) HTTP
3 7 (8.43%) SMTP
3 7 (8.43%) SSH
3 7 (8.43%) VPN
4 6 (7.23%) SD-WAN
4 6 (7.23%) WAN
5 5 (6.02%) VLAN
6 4 (4.82%) BGP
6 4 (4.82%) DHCP
6 4 (4.82%) Network Security
6 4 (4.82%) OSPF
7 3 (3.61%) IMAP
7 3 (3.61%) IPsec
7 3 (3.61%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.25%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.02%) Metadata
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.20%) DB2
6 1 (1.20%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.20%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) Parquet
6 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (27.71%) Git
2 18 (21.69%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.05%) JIRA
4 7 (8.43%) GitLab
4 7 (8.43%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.41%) Subversion
7 1 (1.20%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.20%) JMeter
7 1 (1.20%) Locust
7 1 (1.20%) Maven
7 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Finance
4 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Billing
6 3 (3.61%) Military
6 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Advertising
7 2 (2.41%) Automotive
7 2 (2.41%) Banking
7 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.41%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (25.30%) Senior
3 12 (14.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Architect
4 11 (13.25%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Lead
6 8 (9.64%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (9.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (8.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Cisco Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) .NET
1 11 (13.25%) React
2 10 (12.05%) Node.js
3 8 (9.64%) ARM Templates
4 7 (8.43%) YAML
5 6 (7.23%) .NET Framework
6 5 (6.02%) LDAP
7 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.82%) Kafka
8 3 (3.61%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.61%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (3.61%) gRPC
9 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.41%) Django
9 2 (2.41%) OAuth
9 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.41%) OpenID
9 2 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.41%) PySpark
9 2 (2.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.82%) Replication
4 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Derivative
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) PKI
6 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) SCADA
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (27.71%) Linux
2 12 (14.46%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) VMS
4 5 (6.02%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.61%) Unix
6 1 (1.20%) Android
6 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (77.11%) DevOps
2 48 (57.83%) CI/CD
3 41 (49.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (28.92%) Agile
5 16 (19.28%) Cloud Security
5 16 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.66%) Microservices
6 13 (15.66%) Migration
6 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
7 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
7 12 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (14.46%) Observability
8 10 (12.05%) DevSecOps
9 9 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (9.64%) Analytics
10 8 (9.64%) Change Management
10 8 (9.64%) Configuration Management
11 7 (8.43%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (8.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) Python
2 24 (28.92%) PowerShell
3 15 (18.07%) Java
4 13 (15.66%) Bash
5 12 (14.46%) Bicep
5 12 (14.46%) SQL
6 11 (13.25%) C#
7 10 (12.05%) Groovy
8 6 (7.23%) Go
8 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
9 5 (6.02%) Scala
10 4 (4.82%) Perl
11 2 (2.41%) Ruby
11 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.20%) PHP
12 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.25%) Azure Certification
4 10 (12.05%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.82%) CCNP
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.61%) Degree
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.20%) CCIE
9 1 (1.20%) CCNA
9 1 (1.20%) CISSP
9 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.61%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) Docker
2 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.61%) DFS Replication
4 3 (3.61%) Dovecot
4 3 (3.61%) Firmware
4 3 (3.61%) Postfix
4 3 (3.61%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (33.73%) Kubernetes
2 19 (22.89%) Ansible
3 8 (9.64%) Grafana
4 6 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.61%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (3.61%) Nessus
5 3 (3.61%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.41%) Argo
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.41%) Nagios
6 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (1.20%) Control-M
7 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.20%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) SolarWinds
3 6 (7.23%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (6.02%) Cisco
4 5 (6.02%) Google
4 5 (6.02%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (6.02%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.02%) VMware
5 4 (4.82%) Meraki
5 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.61%) Adobe
6 3 (3.61%) Dell
6 3 (3.61%) Informatica
6 3 (3.61%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (3.61%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.61%) Oracle
6 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.61%) SAP
6 3 (3.61%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.41%) AppDynamics