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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 148 80
Rank change year-on-year +17 -68 -7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 103 105 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.33% 1.53% 3.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.40% 25.12% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 77 76 135
10th Percentile £50,750 £40,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +5.60% -8.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £97,000 £85,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 328 418 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.24% 6.10% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 240 251 534
10th Percentile £29,225 £31,500 £30,150
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.76% +5.38% -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 20 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 20 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 +14 76 £70,000 +3.70% 23
East Midlands +12 25 £68,000 +4.62% 7
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 17 (16.50%) Confluence
2 7 (6.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.88%) IIS
3 4 (3.88%) nginx
4 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (62.14%) AWS
2 63 (61.17%) Azure
3 28 (27.18%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (24.27%) Amazon S3
5 21 (20.39%) Amazon ELB
6 19 (18.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (16.50%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (16.50%) GitHub
8 16 (15.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (14.56%) AWS KMS
10 13 (12.62%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (11.65%) PaaS
12 11 (10.68%) Amazon Glacier
12 11 (10.68%) GCP
12 11 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (9.71%) SaaS
14 9 (8.74%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (7.77%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (23.30%) Firewall
2 19 (18.45%) DNS
3 13 (12.62%) FTP
3 13 (12.62%) HTTP
3 13 (12.62%) SMTP
3 13 (12.62%) SSH
4 7 (6.80%) VPN
5 6 (5.83%) SD-WAN
5 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.83%) WAN
6 5 (4.85%) VLAN
7 4 (3.88%) BGP
7 4 (3.88%) DHCP
7 4 (3.88%) IMAP
7 4 (3.88%) Network Security
7 4 (3.88%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (3.88%) OSPF
8 3 (2.91%) IPsec
8 3 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.48%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (10.68%) Metadata
3 9 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.77%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.80%) Delta Lake
6 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.83%) Spark SQL
7 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.88%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.94%) Redis
11 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.97%) DB2
11 1 (0.97%) MySQL
11 1 (0.97%) Parquet
11 1 (0.97%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (24.27%) Git
1 25 (24.27%) Jenkins
2 18 (17.48%) JIRA
3 15 (14.56%) Vagrant
4 8 (7.77%) GitLab
5 6 (5.83%) MLflow
6 3 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.94%) Subversion
8 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.97%) JMeter
8 1 (0.97%) Locust
General
1 28 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.59%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Finance
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Advertising
6 4 (3.88%) Billing
6 4 (3.88%) Law
7 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Automotive
8 2 (1.94%) Military
9 1 (0.97%) Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (33.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.39%) Senior
3 15 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (12.62%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Architect
5 12 (11.65%) Operations Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (8.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Lead
8 8 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.71%) ARM Templates
2 9 (8.74%) .NET
2 9 (8.74%) YAML
3 8 (7.77%) PySpark
4 7 (6.80%) PyTorch
4 7 (6.80%) React
4 7 (6.80%) TensorFlow
5 6 (5.83%) Keras
5 6 (5.83%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (5.83%) LDAP
5 6 (5.83%) Metaflow
5 6 (5.83%) Node.js
5 6 (5.83%) NumPy
5 6 (5.83%) Pandas
5 6 (5.83%) scikit-learn
6 5 (4.85%) .NET Framework
6 5 (4.85%) OAuth
6 5 (4.85%) SAML
7 3 (2.91%) Apollo GraphQL
7 3 (2.91%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Replication
3 7 (6.80%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.80%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) Derivative
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.97%) PKI
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.16%) Linux
2 17 (16.50%) VMS
3 14 (13.59%) Windows
4 11 (10.68%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (7.77%) Unix
6 4 (3.88%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (74.76%) DevOps
2 53 (51.46%) CI/CD
3 43 (41.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (24.27%) Cloud Security
5 20 (19.42%) Agile
5 20 (19.42%) Containerisation
6 16 (15.53%) Configuration Management
7 15 (14.56%) Change Management
7 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (11.65%) Migration
9 12 (11.65%) Patch Management
10 11 (10.68%) Metadata Management
11 10 (9.71%) Machine Learning
11 10 (9.71%) Observability
11 10 (9.71%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (8.74%) Analytics
12 9 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (8.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.63%) Python
2 31 (30.10%) PowerShell
3 21 (20.39%) SQL
4 18 (17.48%) Java
5 17 (16.50%) Groovy
6 16 (15.53%) Bicep
7 10 (9.71%) Bash
7 10 (9.71%) C#
8 9 (8.74%) Perl
9 6 (5.83%) Go
9 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
9 6 (5.83%) Scala
10 3 (2.91%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.94%) Ruby
12 1 (0.97%) PHP
12 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.48%) Azure Certification
4 12 (11.65%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.83%) Degree
5 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.88%) CCNP
7 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.94%) CCNA
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.97%) CCIE
9 1 (0.97%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.88%) GDPR
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.94%) QA
5 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (39.81%) Docker
2 13 (12.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.77%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.88%) Dovecot
4 4 (3.88%) Postfix
4 4 (3.88%) Squid
4 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.91%) Firmware
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (32.04%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.33%) Ansible
3 15 (14.56%) Grafana
4 13 (12.62%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.83%) Kubeflow
6 4 (3.88%) Nessus
6 4 (3.88%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.91%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.94%) Nagios
8 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.97%) Argo
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.97%) Control-M
9 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.62%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.71%) Databricks
4 9 (8.74%) SolarWinds
5 6 (5.83%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (4.85%) Cisco
6 5 (4.85%) Google
6 5 (4.85%) VMware
7 4 (3.88%) Informatica
7 4 (3.88%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (3.88%) Meraki
7 4 (3.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.91%) Adobe
8 3 (2.91%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.91%) Dell
8 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.91%) Oracle
8 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.91%) SAP
8 3 (2.91%) Zscaler