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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 148 103
Rank change year-on-year +6 -45 -4
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 83 98 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.06% 1.54% 2.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.04% 24.50% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 64 67 123
10th Percentile £49,350 £51,228 £47,776
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -8.76%
75th Percentile £78,760 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £86,750 £97,500
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 307 400 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.92% 6.27% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 223 231 522
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £39,000 £39,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,758 £75,000 £78,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -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 14 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 14 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 -9 58 £70,000 +2.94% 34
East Midlands +7 23 £69,000 +6.15% 51
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 12 (14.46%) Confluence
2 4 (4.82%) IIS
2 4 (4.82%) nginx
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (68.67%) Azure
2 48 (57.83%) AWS
3 23 (27.71%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (15.66%) Amazon S3
5 13 (15.66%) GitHub
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (13.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (12.05%) PaaS
8 9 (10.84%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (10.84%) Amazon ELB
8 9 (10.84%) AWS KMS
8 9 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (10.84%) SaaS
9 8 (9.64%) GCP
9 8 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (8.43%) Azure AKS
10 7 (8.43%) Serverless
11 6 (7.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.69%) Firewall
2 15 (18.07%) DNS
3 9 (10.84%) FTP
3 9 (10.84%) HTTP
3 9 (10.84%) SMTP
3 9 (10.84%) SSH
4 7 (8.43%) VPN
5 6 (7.23%) SD-WAN
5 6 (7.23%) WAN
6 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
6 5 (6.02%) VLAN
7 4 (4.82%) BGP
7 4 (4.82%) DHCP
7 4 (4.82%) IMAP
7 4 (4.82%) Network Security
7 4 (4.82%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (4.82%) OSPF
8 3 (3.61%) IPsec
8 3 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (3.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.82%) Metadata
4 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.20%) DB2
7 1 (1.20%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.20%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.20%) MySQL
7 1 (1.20%) Parquet
7 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (28.92%) Git
2 19 (22.89%) Jenkins
3 13 (15.66%) JIRA
4 9 (10.84%) Vagrant
5 8 (9.64%) GitLab
6 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.41%) Subversion
7 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.20%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.20%) JMeter
7 1 (1.20%) Locust
7 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.23%) Finance
3 6 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Billing
4 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Advertising
6 3 (3.61%) Military
6 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
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 18 (21.69%) Senior
3 12 (14.46%) Architect
3 12 (14.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (9.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Lead
7 7 (8.43%) Operations Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (7.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Cisco Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.64%) ARM Templates
2 7 (8.43%) .NET
2 7 (8.43%) React
3 6 (7.23%) LDAP
3 6 (7.23%) Node.js
4 4 (4.82%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.61%) Apollo GraphQL
5 3 (3.61%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.61%) Kafka
5 3 (3.61%) YAML
6 2 (2.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.41%) Django
6 2 (2.41%) gRPC
6 2 (2.41%) OAuth
6 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.41%) OpenID
6 2 (2.41%) PySpark
6 2 (2.41%) RESTful
6 2 (2.41%) SAML
7 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.02%) Replication
4 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
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%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.20%) PKI
6 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (28.92%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) VMS
3 10 (12.05%) Windows
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.61%) Unix
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (75.90%) DevOps
2 44 (53.01%) CI/CD
3 40 (48.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (27.71%) Agile
5 18 (21.69%) Cloud Security
6 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.66%) Containerisation
8 11 (13.25%) Migration
8 11 (13.25%) Observability
8 11 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (12.05%) Change Management
9 10 (12.05%) Configuration Management
10 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (10.84%) Microservices
10 9 (10.84%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.64%) Analytics
11 8 (9.64%) Cost Optimisation
11 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (8.43%) DevSecOps
12 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) Python
2 23 (27.71%) PowerShell
3 15 (18.07%) Java
4 13 (15.66%) Bicep
5 11 (13.25%) Groovy
6 10 (12.05%) Bash
6 10 (12.05%) SQL
7 8 (9.64%) C#
8 6 (7.23%) Go
8 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
9 5 (6.02%) Perl
10 4 (4.82%) Scala
11 2 (2.41%) Ruby
11 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.20%) PHP
12 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) Azure Certification
4 11 (13.25%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.23%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.82%) CCNP
7 4 (4.82%) Degree
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (2.41%) CCNA
10 1 (1.20%) CCIE
10 1 (1.20%) CISSP
10 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.82%) DFS Replication
3 4 (4.82%) Dovecot
3 4 (4.82%) Postfix
3 4 (4.82%) Squid
3 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (32.53%) Kubernetes
2 19 (22.89%) Ansible
3 9 (10.84%) Grafana
4 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.82%) Nessus
5 4 (4.82%) Proxmox
6 3 (3.61%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.41%) Argo
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.41%) Nagios
7 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.20%) Control-M
8 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.20%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow
2 7 (8.43%) SolarWinds
3 5 (6.02%) Cisco
3 5 (6.02%) Google
3 5 (6.02%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (6.02%) VMware
4 4 (4.82%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (4.82%) Meraki
4 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.61%) Adobe
5 3 (3.61%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.61%) Dell
5 3 (3.61%) Informatica
5 3 (3.61%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle
5 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.61%) SAP
5 3 (3.61%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.41%) Databricks