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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 144 94
Rank change year-on-year +16 -50 -8
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 89 99 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.14% 1.48% 2.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.43% 24.38% 24.41%
Number of salaries quoted 69 68 131
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,555 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +5.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,002 £86,625 £106,289
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 313 406 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.02% 6.08% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 229 240 529
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,475 £30,644
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,250 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -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 30 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 30 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 +2 65 £68,750 +3.00% 304
East Midlands +1 22 £68,000 +4.62% 273
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 13 (14.61%) Confluence
2 4 (4.49%) IIS
2 4 (4.49%) nginx
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (67.42%) Azure
2 52 (58.43%) AWS
3 26 (29.21%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (17.98%) GitHub
5 15 (16.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (16.85%) Amazon S3
6 13 (14.61%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (13.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (12.36%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (12.36%) AWS KMS
8 11 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (12.36%) PaaS
9 9 (10.11%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.11%) GCP
9 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (10.11%) SaaS
10 8 (8.99%) Azure AKS
11 7 (7.87%) Amazon Glacier
11 7 (7.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.47%) Firewall
2 17 (19.10%) DNS
3 11 (12.36%) FTP
3 11 (12.36%) HTTP
3 11 (12.36%) SMTP
3 11 (12.36%) SSH
4 7 (7.87%) VPN
5 6 (6.74%) SD-WAN
5 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.74%) WAN
6 5 (5.62%) VLAN
7 4 (4.49%) BGP
7 4 (4.49%) DHCP
7 4 (4.49%) IMAP
7 4 (4.49%) Network Security
7 4 (4.49%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (4.49%) OSPF
8 3 (3.37%) IPsec
8 3 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (3.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.73%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.62%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.62%) Metadata
4 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.25%) Redis
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.12%) DB2
8 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.12%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.12%) MySQL
8 1 (1.12%) Parquet
8 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Git
2 21 (23.60%) Jenkins
3 14 (15.73%) JIRA
4 11 (12.36%) Vagrant
5 8 (8.99%) GitLab
6 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.25%) Subversion
7 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.12%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.12%) JMeter
7 1 (1.12%) Locust
General
1 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Finance
5 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Advertising
6 4 (4.49%) Billing
7 3 (3.37%) Law
7 3 (3.37%) Military
7 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Automotive
9 1 (1.12%) Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (34.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (22.47%) Senior
3 13 (14.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Architect
5 11 (12.36%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Lead
8 8 (8.99%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (8.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Data Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (6.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (6.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (4.49%) Azure Architect
13 3 (3.37%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
13 3 (3.37%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) ARM Templates
2 8 (8.99%) .NET
3 7 (7.87%) React
4 6 (6.74%) LDAP
4 6 (6.74%) Node.js
5 4 (4.49%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.37%) Apollo GraphQL
6 3 (3.37%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.37%) Kafka
6 3 (3.37%) OAuth
6 3 (3.37%) SAML
6 3 (3.37%) YAML
7 2 (2.25%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.25%) Django
7 2 (2.25%) gRPC
7 2 (2.25%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.25%) OpenID
7 2 (2.25%) PySpark
7 2 (2.25%) RESTful
8 1 (1.12%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.74%) Replication
4 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Derivative
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.12%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.34%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) VMS
3 11 (12.36%) Windows
4 9 (10.11%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.37%) Unix
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (77.53%) DevOps
2 45 (50.56%) CI/CD
3 42 (47.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (24.72%) Agile
5 21 (23.60%) Cloud Security
6 15 (16.85%) Containerisation
7 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (13.48%) Change Management
9 12 (13.48%) Configuration Management
10 11 (12.36%) Migration
11 10 (11.24%) Observability
11 10 (11.24%) Patch Management
12 9 (10.11%) Analytics
12 9 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (10.11%) Microservices
12 9 (10.11%) Test Automation
13 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (8.99%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (8.99%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.70%) Python
2 26 (29.21%) PowerShell
3 17 (19.10%) Java
4 15 (16.85%) Bicep
5 14 (15.73%) SQL
6 13 (14.61%) Groovy
7 11 (12.36%) Bash
8 9 (10.11%) C#
9 7 (7.87%) Perl
10 6 (6.74%) Go
10 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
10 6 (6.74%) Scala
11 3 (3.37%) T-SQL
12 2 (2.25%) Ruby
13 1 (1.12%) PHP
13 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.85%) Azure Certification
4 11 (12.36%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.62%) Degree
7 4 (4.49%) CCNP
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.25%) CCNA
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.12%) CCIE
9 1 (1.12%) CISSP
9 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.49%) GDPR
3 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.25%) QA
5 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (35.96%) Docker
2 9 (10.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.62%) DFS Replication
4 4 (4.49%) Dovecot
4 4 (4.49%) Postfix
4 4 (4.49%) Squid
4 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (30.34%) Kubernetes
2 19 (21.35%) Ansible
3 11 (12.36%) Grafana
4 10 (11.24%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.49%) Nessus
5 4 (4.49%) Proxmox
6 3 (3.37%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.25%) Argo
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.25%) Nagios
7 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.12%) Control-M
8 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) ServiceNow
2 9 (10.11%) SolarWinds
3 6 (6.74%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (5.62%) Cisco
4 5 (5.62%) Google
4 5 (5.62%) VMware
5 4 (4.49%) Databricks
5 4 (4.49%) Informatica
5 4 (4.49%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (4.49%) Meraki
5 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.37%) Adobe
6 3 (3.37%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.37%) Dell
6 3 (3.37%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.37%) Oracle
6 3 (3.37%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.37%) SAP
6 3 (3.37%) Zscaler