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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 153 123
Rank change year-on-year -1 -30 +28
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 74 93 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.86% 1.56% 1.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.75% 23.60% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 60 66 140
10th Percentile £48,725 £51,196 £44,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £69,308 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +10.89% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £86,875 £98,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 299 394 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.49% 6.60% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 224 238 613
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,382 £37,090
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,375 £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 11 February 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 February 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 -20 46 £65,500 -5.96% 32
East Midlands +3 26 £70,000 +7.69% 6
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 7 (9.46%) IIS
2 4 (5.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (70.27%) Azure
2 40 (54.05%) AWS
3 24 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (14.86%) GitHub
6 10 (13.51%) PaaS
7 9 (12.16%) GCP
8 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (10.81%) SaaS
9 7 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (9.46%) Datadog
9 7 (9.46%) Serverless
10 6 (8.11%) Amazon S3
10 6 (8.11%) Azure AKS
10 6 (8.11%) npm
10 6 (8.11%) NuGet
10 6 (8.11%) SonarCloud
11 5 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (6.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.51%) Firewall
2 6 (8.11%) DNS
2 6 (8.11%) SD-WAN
2 6 (8.11%) VPN
2 6 (8.11%) WAN
3 5 (6.76%) VLAN
4 4 (5.41%) BGP
4 4 (5.41%) DHCP
4 4 (5.41%) Network Security
4 4 (5.41%) OSPF
5 3 (4.05%) IPsec
5 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.05%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.35%) Broadband
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.35%) NAS
6 1 (1.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.76%) Metadata
4 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.70%) Redis
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.35%) DB2
7 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.35%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.35%) MySQL
7 1 (1.35%) Parquet
7 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (25.68%) Git
2 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.11%) GitLab
4 5 (6.76%) JIRA
5 3 (4.05%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.35%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.35%) JMeter
7 1 (1.35%) Locust
7 1 (1.35%) Maven
7 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Finance
3 5 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Billing
5 3 (4.05%) Advertising
5 3 (4.05%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Military
5 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Automotive
6 2 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (27.03%) Senior
3 12 (16.22%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) Architect
6 8 (10.81%) Lead
6 8 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (9.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.05%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) .NET
1 11 (14.86%) React
2 10 (13.51%) Node.js
3 9 (12.16%) ARM Templates
4 7 (9.46%) YAML
5 6 (8.11%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.41%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.41%) Kafka
7 3 (4.05%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.05%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.70%) Django
8 2 (2.70%) gRPC
8 2 (2.70%) OAuth
8 2 (2.70%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.70%) OpenID
8 2 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (2.70%) PySpark
8 2 (2.70%) RESTful
8 2 (2.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.35%) SCADA
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) Windows
3 3 (4.05%) Unix
4 2 (2.70%) VMS
5 1 (1.35%) Android
5 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (75.68%) DevOps
2 44 (59.46%) CI/CD
3 39 (52.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (29.73%) Agile
5 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
6 13 (17.57%) Microservices
6 13 (17.57%) Migration
6 13 (17.57%) Observability
7 12 (16.22%) Test Automation
8 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.51%) Cloud Security
10 9 (12.16%) DevSecOps
10 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
11 8 (10.81%) Task Automation
12 7 (9.46%) Cost Optimisation
12 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.14%) Python
2 19 (25.68%) PowerShell
3 14 (18.92%) Bash
4 11 (14.86%) Java
5 10 (13.51%) Bicep
6 9 (12.16%) C#
6 9 (12.16%) SQL
7 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.76%) Scala
9 4 (5.41%) Go
10 3 (4.05%) Groovy
11 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.35%) PHP
12 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
1 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.81%) Azure Certification
3 7 (9.46%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.41%) CCNP
6 4 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.35%) CCIE
8 1 (1.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.05%) GDPR
2 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.05%) QA
3 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (31.08%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (27.03%) Ansible
3 4 (5.41%) Grafana
4 3 (4.05%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.70%) Argo
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.35%) Control-M
6 1 (1.35%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) SolarWinds
3 6 (8.11%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (8.11%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco
4 5 (6.76%) Google
5 4 (5.41%) Meraki
5 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.41%) VMware
6 3 (4.05%) Adobe
6 3 (4.05%) Dell
6 3 (4.05%) Informatica
6 3 (4.05%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.05%) SAP
6 3 (4.05%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.70%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.70%) Databricks
7 2 (2.70%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.35%) Talend