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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 137 147
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 +13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 78 73 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.69% 1.51% 1.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.32% 25.09% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 69 60 152
10th Percentile £52,480 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,502 £82,875 £98,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%

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 308 291 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.73% 6.02% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 240 242 668
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,650 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,382 £36,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,235 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -0.51% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,482 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.88% +16.67% -11.11%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -29 45 £70,000 +3.61% 25
East Midlands -24 31 £69,000 +6.15% 11
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 9 (11.54%) IIS
2 4 (5.13%) Confluence
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (76.92%) Azure
2 37 (47.44%) AWS
3 23 (29.49%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.10%) PaaS
5 9 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (11.54%) GitHub
5 9 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (11.54%) npm
5 9 (11.54%) NuGet
5 9 (11.54%) SonarCloud
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon S3
6 8 (10.26%) GCP
7 7 (8.97%) Datadog
7 7 (8.97%) SaaS
8 6 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.69%) Pulumi
9 5 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.41%) dbt
9 5 (6.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.26%) Firewall
2 7 (8.97%) DNS
3 2 (2.56%) Network Security
3 2 (2.56%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.56%) VLAN
3 2 (2.56%) VPN
3 2 (2.56%) WAN
4 1 (1.28%) Broadband
4 1 (1.28%) DHCP
4 1 (1.28%) NAS
4 1 (1.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.41%) Metadata
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.56%) Redis
5 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) DB2
6 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.28%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.28%) Parquet
6 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (26.92%) Git
2 8 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.13%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.13%) JIRA
4 3 (3.85%) GitLab
4 3 (3.85%) JMeter
4 3 (3.85%) Locust
5 1 (1.28%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.28%) Maven
5 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.54%) Finance
4 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.13%) Billing
6 3 (3.85%) Advertising
6 3 (3.85%) Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Military
7 2 (2.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.28%) Automotive
8 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.28%) Law
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (32.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (28.21%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (25.64%) Senior
4 16 (20.51%) Lead
5 13 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Architect
7 8 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (10.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (5.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Lead Architect
10 4 (5.13%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.23%) Node.js
1 15 (19.23%) React
2 14 (17.95%) .NET
3 10 (12.82%) YAML
4 7 (8.97%) ARM Templates
5 6 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 5 (6.41%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.13%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.13%) Kafka
8 3 (3.85%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.85%) Gherkin
8 3 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.56%) Django
9 2 (2.56%) PySpark
10 1 (1.28%) EDI
10 1 (1.28%) JSON
10 1 (1.28%) REST
10 1 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.28%) Online Gambling
5 1 (1.28%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.08%) Linux
2 10 (12.82%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.28%) Android
4 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.28%) CentOS
4 1 (1.28%) Debian
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (65.38%) DevOps
2 49 (62.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (60.26%) CI/CD
4 21 (26.92%) Agile
5 18 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (23.08%) Observability
5 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (20.51%) Containerisation
6 16 (20.51%) Microservices
6 16 (20.51%) Migration
7 14 (17.95%) DevSecOps
7 14 (17.95%) Test Automation
8 13 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
9 12 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 11 (14.10%) Cloud Security
11 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (10.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.90%) Python
2 24 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 19 (24.36%) Bash
4 15 (19.23%) Bicep
5 12 (15.38%) SQL
6 11 (14.10%) C#
7 8 (10.26%) Java
8 6 (7.69%) Scala
9 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.28%) Go
11 1 (1.28%) Groovy
11 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.28%) PHP
11 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 15 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (6.41%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.41%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.28%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.41%) QA
2 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.85%) GDPR
3 3 (3.85%) WCAG
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (34.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.51%) Ansible
3 7 (8.97%) Grafana
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.56%) Argo
5 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.28%) Control-M
6 1 (1.28%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.28%) Puppet
6 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (5.13%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.85%) Adobe
4 3 (3.85%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Informatica
4 3 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.85%) SAP
4 3 (3.85%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.56%) Databricks
5 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.28%) BMC
6 1 (1.28%) Commvault
6 1 (1.28%) IBM
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.28%) Talend
6 1 (1.28%) Veeam
6 1 (1.28%) VMware