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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 140 83
Rank change year-on-year +28 -57 +3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 143 141 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.59% 1.56% 3.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.57% 27.17% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 97 90 143
10th Percentile £50,750 £39,975 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,922 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +5.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,438 £79,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £90,000
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 453 519 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.19% 5.75% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 282 282 526
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £30,551
25th Percentile £39,188 £37,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,625
England median annual salary £60,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +3.85% -3.89%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +35 110 £72,500 +6.62% 31
East Midlands +22 33 £57,500 +4.55% 20
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 44 (30.77%) 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 98 (68.53%) AWS
2 72 (50.35%) Azure
3 51 (35.66%) Amazon S3
4 49 (34.27%) Amazon ELB
5 46 (32.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 45 (31.47%) Amazon EC2
7 44 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 43 (30.07%) AWS KMS
9 35 (24.48%) Amazon Glacier
10 31 (21.68%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (15.38%) GitHub
12 18 (12.59%) PaaS
13 17 (11.89%) GCP
14 15 (10.49%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (10.49%) IaaS
15 13 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (9.09%) SaaS
16 12 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (34.27%) 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 46 (32.17%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (10.49%) 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%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 50 (34.97%) Jenkins
2 48 (33.57%) Git
3 46 (32.17%) JIRA
4 43 (30.07%) Vagrant
5 11 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.20%) MLflow
7 5 (3.50%) GitLab
8 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.40%) Subversion
General
1 32 (22.38%) Public Sector
2 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.89%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (9.09%) 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%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (29.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (11.19%) Support Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (9.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) Infrastructure Support
4 14 (9.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Operations Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Senior
7 10 (6.99%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Architect
9 7 (4.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Developer
10 6 (4.20%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Lead
10 6 (4.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) LDAP
1 10 (6.99%) YAML
2 9 (6.29%) .NET
2 9 (6.29%) Django
3 8 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
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%) ARM Templates
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%) Blazor
6 5 (3.50%) Entity Framework
6 5 (3.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.98%) Replication
2 10 (6.99%) 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%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
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%) Clustering
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Embedded 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 45 (31.47%) VMS
3 42 (29.37%) 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%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (83.22%) DevOps
2 58 (40.56%) CI/CD
3 54 (37.76%) Cloud Security
4 50 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (30.77%) Configuration Management
6 41 (28.67%) 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 19 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (11.89%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (11.19%) Containerisation
14 14 (9.79%) Task Automation
15 13 (9.09%) AI
15 13 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 12 (8.39%) Machine Learning
16 12 (8.39%) Observability
17 10 (6.99%) Clean Code
17 10 (6.99%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 86 (60.14%) Python
2 64 (44.76%) PowerShell
3 45 (31.47%) Groovy
4 30 (20.98%) SQL
5 26 (18.18%) Java
6 20 (13.99%) Perl
7 16 (11.19%) Bash
8 14 (9.79%) Bicep
9 10 (6.99%) C#
10 8 (5.59%) Go
11 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
12 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
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
14 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (42.66%) Security Cleared
2 58 (40.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (23.08%) Azure Certification
4 21 (14.69%) AWS Certification
5 17 (11.89%) 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
10 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.40%) GDPR
1 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.70%) NIST
2 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 68 (47.55%) Docker
2 37 (25.87%) 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 47 (32.87%) Grafana
2 44 (30.77%) 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 41 (28.67%) ServiceNow
2 23 (16.08%) Juniper
3 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.09%) Cisco
5 12 (8.39%) Databricks
6 9 (6.29%) 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
9 4 (2.80%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (2.80%) Meraki
9 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.10%) Dell
10 3 (2.10%) IBM
10 3 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.10%) RedGate
10 3 (2.10%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.40%) Oracle