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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 138 83
Rank change year-on-year +45 -55 +4
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 143 136 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.52% 1.53% 3.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.66% 27.15% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 97 86 142
10th Percentile £50,750 £39,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% -5.19%
75th Percentile £74,762 £72,373 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £76,875 £93,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 401 501 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.06% 5.62% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 287 269 527
10th Percentile £29,550 £32,900 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,050 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,625 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.19% +3.85% -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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +39 108 £72,500 +8.61% 37
East Midlands +36 35 £57,500 +17.15% 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 43 (30.07%) Confluence
2 9 (6.29%) nginx
3 7 (4.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (69.93%) AWS
2 71 (49.65%) Azure
3 50 (34.97%) Amazon S3
4 48 (33.57%) Amazon ELB
5 45 (31.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 44 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
7 43 (30.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 42 (29.37%) AWS KMS
9 34 (23.78%) Amazon Glacier
10 29 (20.28%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (15.38%) GitHub
12 17 (11.89%) GCP
12 17 (11.89%) PaaS
13 15 (10.49%) SaaS
14 14 (9.79%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (8.39%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (8.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (33.57%) Firewall
2 32 (22.38%) DNS
3 27 (18.88%) FTP
3 27 (18.88%) HTTP
3 27 (18.88%) SMTP
3 27 (18.88%) SSH
4 13 (9.09%) VPN
5 8 (5.59%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (5.59%) IMAP
5 8 (5.59%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (4.90%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.80%) BGP
7 4 (2.80%) DHCP
7 4 (2.80%) IPsec
7 4 (2.80%) Network Security
7 4 (2.80%) OSPF
7 4 (2.80%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.80%) WAN
8 3 (2.10%) VLAN
8 3 (2.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.47%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.29%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.90%) Metadata
7 6 (4.20%) Big Data
7 6 (4.20%) Delta Lake
7 6 (4.20%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.40%) MySQL
9 2 (1.40%) Redis
9 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.40%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 50 (34.97%) Jenkins
2 47 (32.87%) Git
3 45 (31.47%) JIRA
4 42 (29.37%) Vagrant
5 10 (6.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.20%) MLflow
7 5 (3.50%) GitLab
8 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.40%) Subversion
9 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.70%) JMeter
9 1 (0.70%) Locust
General
1 33 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.38%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.89%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.59%) Finance
7 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.80%) Law
8 3 (2.10%) Advertising
8 3 (2.10%) Billing
9 2 (1.40%) Automotive
9 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (30.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (17.48%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (10.49%) Support Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (9.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
5 13 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Senior
6 12 (8.39%) Operations Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Architect
8 9 (6.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Lead
10 7 (4.90%) Administrator
10 7 (4.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) LDAP
2 9 (6.29%) Django
3 8 (5.59%) .NET
3 8 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (5.59%) YAML
4 7 (4.90%) ARM Templates
4 7 (4.90%) Flask
4 7 (4.90%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.90%) TensorFlow
5 6 (4.20%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.20%) Keras
5 6 (4.20%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (4.20%) Metaflow
5 6 (4.20%) NumPy
5 6 (4.20%) Pandas
5 6 (4.20%) PySpark
5 6 (4.20%) scikit-learn
6 5 (3.50%) Entity Framework
6 5 (3.50%) OAuth
6 5 (3.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.98%) Replication
2 12 (8.39%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.59%) Cyberattack
4 7 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.40%) IoT
7 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.70%) Clustering
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.70%) PKI
8 1 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 64 (44.76%) Linux
2 44 (30.77%) VMS
3 41 (28.67%) Windows
4 26 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (5.59%) Android
5 8 (5.59%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.59%) Unix
6 2 (1.40%) AIX
6 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (81.12%) DevOps
2 60 (41.96%) CI/CD
3 53 (37.06%) Cloud Security
4 50 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (30.07%) Configuration Management
6 40 (27.97%) Change Management
7 33 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (22.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (19.58%) Patch Management
10 24 (16.78%) Agile
11 18 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (11.89%) Containerisation
12 17 (11.89%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (9.79%) Task Automation
14 13 (9.09%) AI
14 13 (9.09%) Observability
15 12 (8.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (8.39%) Machine Learning
16 10 (6.99%) Clean Code
16 10 (6.99%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 86 (60.14%) Python
2 63 (44.06%) PowerShell
3 45 (31.47%) Groovy
4 29 (20.28%) Java
5 28 (19.58%) SQL
6 20 (13.99%) Perl
7 16 (11.19%) Bash
8 15 (10.49%) Bicep
9 9 (6.29%) C#
10 8 (5.59%) Go
11 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
12 3 (2.10%) VB
13 2 (1.40%) Korn
13 2 (1.40%) PHP
13 2 (1.40%) Ruby
13 2 (1.40%) Scala
13 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (43.36%) Security Cleared
2 59 (41.26%) SC Cleared
3 32 (22.38%) Azure Certification
4 21 (14.69%) AWS Certification
5 16 (11.19%) Degree
6 6 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.80%) CCNP
7 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.40%) GDPR
1 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.40%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.70%) NIST
2 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (48.25%) Docker
2 36 (25.17%) Active Directory
3 29 (20.28%) DFS Replication
4 9 (6.29%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.59%) Dovecot
5 8 (5.59%) Postfix
5 8 (5.59%) Squid
5 8 (5.59%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.59%) vSphere
6 6 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.10%) Firmware
8 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (32.17%) Grafana
2 42 (29.37%) Prometheus
3 41 (28.67%) Ansible
4 35 (24.48%) Kubernetes
5 8 (5.59%) Nessus
5 8 (5.59%) Proxmox
6 6 (4.20%) Kubeflow
7 3 (2.10%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.40%) Nagios
8 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.40%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.70%) Argo
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.70%) Istio
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (27.97%) ServiceNow
2 22 (15.38%) Juniper
3 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.09%) Cisco
5 10 (6.99%) Databricks
5 10 (6.99%) SolarWinds
6 9 (6.29%) Splunk
7 8 (5.59%) 3PAR
7 8 (5.59%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (5.59%) VMware
8 5 (3.50%) Google
8 5 (3.50%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (2.80%) Meraki
9 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.80%) SAP
10 3 (2.10%) Dell
10 3 (2.10%) IBM
10 3 (2.10%) Informatica
10 3 (2.10%) Oracle
10 3 (2.10%) RedGate