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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 151 102
Rank change year-on-year +7 -49 -2
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 84 98 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.07% 1.50% 2.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.27% 24.69% 24.19%
Number of salaries quoted 65 67 127
10th Percentile £50,750 £51,196 £48,263
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +5.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,501 £86,750 £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 308 397 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.92% 6.09% 10.95%
Number of salaries quoted 225 231 522
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £30,680
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,516 £75,000 £79,875
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 7 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 7 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 -1 60 £70,000 +3.70% 37
East Midlands +15 22 £68,000 +4.62% 53
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 11 (13.10%) Confluence
2 4 (4.76%) IIS
2 4 (4.76%) nginx
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.86%) Azure
2 49 (58.33%) AWS
3 24 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.67%) GitHub
5 13 (15.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 11 (13.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (11.90%) PaaS
8 10 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.71%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (10.71%) AWS KMS
9 9 (10.71%) GCP
9 9 (10.71%) SaaS
10 8 (9.52%) Azure AKS
10 8 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (8.33%) Datadog
12 6 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.43%) Firewall
2 15 (17.86%) DNS
3 9 (10.71%) FTP
3 9 (10.71%) HTTP
3 9 (10.71%) SMTP
3 9 (10.71%) SSH
4 7 (8.33%) VPN
5 6 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 6 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 6 (7.14%) WAN
6 5 (5.95%) VLAN
7 4 (4.76%) BGP
7 4 (4.76%) DHCP
7 4 (4.76%) IMAP
7 4 (4.76%) Network Security
7 4 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (4.76%) OSPF
8 3 (3.57%) IPsec
8 3 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (3.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.95%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.76%) Metadata
6 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.38%) Redis
8 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.19%) DB2
8 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.19%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.19%) MySQL
8 1 (1.19%) Parquet
8 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.19%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Git
2 19 (22.62%) Jenkins
3 12 (14.29%) JIRA
4 9 (10.71%) Vagrant
5 8 (9.52%) GitLab
6 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.38%) Subversion
7 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.19%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.19%) JMeter
7 1 (1.19%) Locust
7 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Finance
5 4 (4.76%) Advertising
5 4 (4.76%) Billing
6 3 (3.57%) Law
6 3 (3.57%) Military
6 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (36.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (21.43%) Senior
3 13 (15.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Architect
5 10 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (11.90%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Lead
7 7 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Architect
11 3 (3.57%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
11 3 (3.57%) Strategy Architect
11 3 (3.57%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.71%) ARM Templates
2 7 (8.33%) .NET
2 7 (8.33%) React
3 6 (7.14%) LDAP
3 6 (7.14%) Node.js
4 4 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.57%) Apollo GraphQL
5 3 (3.57%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.57%) Kafka
5 3 (3.57%) OAuth
5 3 (3.57%) SAML
5 3 (3.57%) YAML
6 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.38%) Django
6 2 (2.38%) gRPC
6 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.38%) OpenID
6 2 (2.38%) PySpark
6 2 (2.38%) RESTful
7 1 (1.19%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.95%) Replication
4 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) Derivative
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.19%) PKI
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.76%) Linux
2 11 (13.10%) VMS
3 10 (11.90%) Windows
4 7 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.57%) Unix
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (76.19%) DevOps
2 44 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 40 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (26.19%) Agile
5 18 (21.43%) Cloud Security
6 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.10%) Migration
7 11 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (11.90%) Change Management
8 10 (11.90%) Configuration Management
8 10 (11.90%) Observability
9 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.71%) Microservices
9 9 (10.71%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.52%) Analytics
10 8 (9.52%) Task Automation
11 7 (8.33%) DevSecOps
11 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (8.33%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (41.67%) Python
2 24 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 15 (17.86%) Java
4 14 (16.67%) Bicep
5 11 (13.10%) Bash
5 11 (13.10%) Groovy
5 11 (13.10%) SQL
6 8 (9.52%) C#
7 6 (7.14%) Go
7 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.95%) Perl
9 4 (4.76%) Scala
10 2 (2.38%) Ruby
10 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.19%) PHP
11 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 10 (11.90%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.76%) CCNP
6 4 (4.76%) Degree
7 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.38%) CCNA
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.19%) CCIE
8 1 (1.19%) CISSP
8 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.57%) GDPR
2 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (34.52%) Docker
2 7 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.76%) DFS Replication
3 4 (4.76%) Dovecot
3 4 (4.76%) Postfix
3 4 (4.76%) Squid
3 4 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (22.62%) Ansible
3 9 (10.71%) Grafana
4 8 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.76%) Nessus
5 4 (4.76%) Proxmox
6 3 (3.57%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.38%) Argo
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.38%) Nagios
7 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.19%) Control-M
8 1 (1.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.19%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) SolarWinds
3 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (5.95%) Cisco
5 5 (5.95%) Google
5 5 (5.95%) VMware
6 4 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (4.76%) Meraki
6 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.57%) Adobe
7 3 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.57%) Dell
7 3 (3.57%) Informatica
7 3 (3.57%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.57%) Oracle
7 3 (3.57%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.57%) SAP
7 3 (3.57%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.38%) Databricks