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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 152 80
Rank change year-on-year +31 -72 -3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 116 119 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.63% 1.51% 3.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.43% 25.81% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 88 81 138
10th Percentile £50,750 £39,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £79,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 347 461 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.87% 5.84% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 257 268 537
10th Percentile £29,550 £32,500 £30,608
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,251 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.19% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,914 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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 +18 81 £70,000 +3.70% 35
East Midlands +30 33 £65,000 +53.55% 28
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 24 (20.69%) Confluence
2 7 (6.03%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.31%) nginx
4 3 (2.59%) IIS
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (69.83%) AWS
2 71 (61.21%) Azure
3 30 (25.86%) Amazon S3
4 28 (24.14%) Amazon ELB
4 28 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (21.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (19.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 22 (18.97%) AWS KMS
9 18 (15.52%) GitHub
10 17 (14.66%) Amazon Glacier
10 17 (14.66%) GCP
11 13 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (11.21%) PaaS
11 13 (11.21%) SaaS
12 12 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (9.48%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (8.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (8.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.72%) Firewall
2 23 (19.83%) DNS
3 18 (15.52%) FTP
3 18 (15.52%) HTTP
3 18 (15.52%) SMTP
3 18 (15.52%) SSH
4 6 (5.17%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.17%) VPN
5 5 (4.31%) IMAP
5 5 (4.31%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (4.31%) SD-WAN
5 5 (4.31%) WAN
6 4 (3.45%) BGP
6 4 (3.45%) DHCP
6 4 (3.45%) Network Security
6 4 (3.45%) OSPF
6 4 (3.45%) VLAN
7 3 (2.59%) IPsec
7 3 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.55%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.76%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.90%) Metadata
4 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.17%) Big Data
5 6 (5.17%) Delta Lake
5 6 (5.17%) Spark SQL
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.45%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.72%) Redis
8 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.72%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 33 (28.45%) Git
2 30 (25.86%) Jenkins
3 26 (22.41%) JIRA
4 22 (18.97%) Vagrant
5 6 (5.17%) GitLab
5 6 (5.17%) MLflow
6 5 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.72%) Subversion
8 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.86%) JMeter
8 1 (0.86%) Locust
General
1 28 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.66%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.48%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (7.76%) Finance
5 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Billing
6 4 (3.45%) Law
7 3 (2.59%) Advertising
8 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Automotive
9 1 (0.86%) Military
9 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (31.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (16.38%) Senior
3 17 (14.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (12.07%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) Architect
5 12 (10.34%) Operations Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Lead
8 8 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Administrator
11 5 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) .NET
1 9 (7.76%) Django
2 8 (6.90%) ARM Templates
2 8 (6.90%) YAML
3 7 (6.03%) Flask
3 7 (6.03%) LDAP
3 7 (6.03%) PyTorch
3 7 (6.03%) TensorFlow
4 6 (5.17%) Keras
4 6 (5.17%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (5.17%) Metaflow
4 6 (5.17%) NumPy
4 6 (5.17%) Pandas
4 6 (5.17%) PySpark
4 6 (5.17%) React
4 6 (5.17%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.31%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.31%) Node.js
5 5 (4.31%) OAuth
5 5 (4.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.07%) Replication
3 7 (6.03%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) IoT
7 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) Derivative
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.86%) PKI
8 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.90%) Linux
2 24 (20.69%) VMS
3 19 (16.38%) Windows
4 16 (13.79%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (6.90%) Unix
6 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.72%) AIX
7 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (74.14%) DevOps
2 58 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 50 (43.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (29.31%) Cloud Security
5 28 (24.14%) Agile
6 23 (19.83%) Configuration Management
7 21 (18.10%) Change Management
8 19 (16.38%) Containerisation
9 17 (14.66%) Patch Management
9 17 (14.66%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (11.21%) Machine Learning
12 12 (10.34%) Observability
12 12 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.48%) AI
14 10 (8.62%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
14 10 (8.62%) Migration
14 10 (8.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (50.86%) Python
2 37 (31.90%) PowerShell
3 25 (21.55%) Groovy
4 22 (18.97%) Java
4 22 (18.97%) SQL
5 15 (12.93%) Bicep
6 13 (11.21%) Perl
7 11 (9.48%) Bash
8 10 (8.62%) C#
9 7 (6.03%) Go
9 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.59%) Scala
11 2 (1.72%) Korn
11 2 (1.72%) Ruby
11 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.86%) PHP
12 1 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 38 (32.76%) SC Cleared
3 23 (19.83%) Azure Certification
4 15 (12.93%) AWS Certification
5 10 (8.62%) Degree
6 6 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.45%) CCNP
9 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.72%) CCNA
11 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.86%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.59%) GDPR
2 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.72%) QA
3 1 (0.86%) NIST
3 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (43.97%) Docker
2 20 (17.24%) Active Directory
3 13 (11.21%) DFS Replication
4 6 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.31%) Dovecot
5 5 (4.31%) Postfix
5 5 (4.31%) Squid
6 3 (2.59%) Firmware
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (32.76%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.69%) Ansible
2 24 (20.69%) Grafana
3 20 (17.24%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.17%) Kubeflow
5 5 (4.31%) Nessus
5 5 (4.31%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.59%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.72%) Nagios
7 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.72%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.86%) Argo
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.86%) Istio
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) ServiceNow
2 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.76%) Databricks
4 8 (6.90%) SolarWinds
5 7 (6.03%) VMware
6 5 (4.31%) Cisco
6 5 (4.31%) Google
6 5 (4.31%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (4.31%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (4.31%) SAP
7 4 (3.45%) Informatica
7 4 (3.45%) Juniper
7 4 (3.45%) Meraki
8 3 (2.59%) Adobe
8 3 (2.59%) Dell
8 3 (2.59%) IBM
8 3 (2.59%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.59%) Oracle
8 3 (2.59%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.59%) Salesforce