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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 149 86
Rank change year-on-year +52 -63 -4
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 124 138 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.16% 1.56% 3.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.35% 27.66% 24.62%
Number of salaries quoted 92 87 142
10th Percentile £50,750 £39,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £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 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,875 £79,700 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 361 499 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.29% 5.65% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 272 271 541
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% -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 17 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 17 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 +34 95 £72,500 +6.62% 46
East Midlands +25 29 £61,250 +41.90% 28
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 34 (27.42%) Confluence
2 8 (6.45%) nginx
3 7 (5.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.81%) IIS
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (71.77%) AWS
2 69 (55.65%) Azure
3 41 (33.06%) Amazon S3
4 39 (31.45%) Amazon ELB
5 36 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 35 (28.23%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (27.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 33 (26.61%) AWS KMS
9 29 (23.39%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (20.97%) Amazon Glacier
11 21 (16.94%) GitHub
12 17 (13.71%) PaaS
13 16 (12.90%) GCP
14 14 (11.29%) SaaS
15 13 (10.48%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (9.68%) IaaS
17 11 (8.87%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 40 (32.26%) Firewall
2 27 (21.77%) DNS
3 22 (17.74%) FTP
3 22 (17.74%) HTTP
3 22 (17.74%) SMTP
3 22 (17.74%) SSH
4 7 (5.65%) IMAP
4 7 (5.65%) OpenLDAP
4 7 (5.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.03%) VPN
6 4 (3.23%) BGP
6 4 (3.23%) DHCP
6 4 (3.23%) IPsec
6 4 (3.23%) Network Security
6 4 (3.23%) OSPF
6 4 (3.23%) SD-WAN
6 4 (3.23%) WAN
7 3 (2.42%) VLAN
7 3 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (29.03%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.26%) DynamoDB
5 8 (6.45%) Metadata
6 7 (5.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.84%) Big Data
7 6 (4.84%) Delta Lake
7 6 (4.84%) Spark SQL
8 4 (3.23%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.61%) MySQL
10 2 (1.61%) Redis
10 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.61%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.81%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 41 (33.06%) Jenkins
2 38 (30.65%) Git
3 36 (29.03%) JIRA
4 33 (26.61%) Vagrant
5 6 (4.84%) MLflow
5 6 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (4.03%) GitLab
7 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.61%) Subversion
8 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) Locust
General
1 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.97%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.29%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Finance
5 4 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.23%) Law
6 3 (2.42%) Advertising
6 3 (2.42%) Billing
7 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Automotive
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (29.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (16.94%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Senior
4 13 (10.48%) Support Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Operations Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Architect
7 10 (8.06%) Lead
7 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Administrator
9 7 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.84%) Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) Django
1 9 (7.26%) LDAP
2 8 (6.45%) .NET
2 8 (6.45%) YAML
3 7 (5.65%) ARM Templates
3 7 (5.65%) Flask
3 7 (5.65%) PyTorch
3 7 (5.65%) TensorFlow
4 6 (4.84%) Keras
4 6 (4.84%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (4.84%) Metaflow
4 6 (4.84%) NumPy
4 6 (4.84%) Pandas
4 6 (4.84%) PySpark
4 6 (4.84%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.03%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.03%) OAuth
5 5 (4.03%) SAML
6 4 (3.23%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.55%) Replication
2 13 (10.48%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.61%) IoT
7 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.81%) Derivative
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) PKI
8 1 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (36.29%) Linux
2 35 (28.23%) VMS
3 26 (20.97%) Windows
4 20 (16.13%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (6.45%) Unix
6 7 (5.65%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.61%) AIX
7 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (78.23%) DevOps
2 58 (46.77%) CI/CD
3 49 (39.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (35.48%) Cloud Security
5 34 (27.42%) Configuration Management
6 31 (25.00%) Change Management
7 23 (18.55%) Agile
7 23 (18.55%) Patch Management
8 21 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 16 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (10.48%) Machine Learning
12 12 (9.68%) AI
12 12 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (9.68%) Observability
13 10 (8.06%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (7.26%) Clean Code
14 9 (7.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (54.03%) Python
2 43 (34.68%) PowerShell
3 36 (29.03%) Groovy
4 27 (21.77%) SQL
5 24 (19.35%) Java
6 15 (12.10%) Bicep
6 15 (12.10%) Perl
7 9 (7.26%) C#
8 8 (6.45%) Bash
8 8 (6.45%) Go
9 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.42%) Scala
11 2 (1.61%) Korn
11 2 (1.61%) PHP
11 2 (1.61%) Ruby
11 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (41.13%) Security Cleared
2 48 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 29 (23.39%) Azure Certification
4 17 (13.71%) AWS Certification
5 13 (10.48%) Degree
6 6 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.23%) CCNP
7 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.61%) CCNA
10 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.81%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.42%) GDPR
2 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.61%) QA
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (41.94%) Docker
2 29 (23.39%) Active Directory
3 22 (17.74%) DFS Replication
4 7 (5.65%) Dovecot
4 7 (5.65%) Postfix
4 7 (5.65%) Squid
5 6 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.42%) Firmware
7 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (29.03%) Grafana
2 34 (27.42%) Kubernetes
3 32 (25.81%) Prometheus
4 29 (23.39%) Ansible
5 7 (5.65%) Nessus
5 7 (5.65%) Proxmox
6 6 (4.84%) Kubeflow
7 3 (2.42%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.61%) Nagios
8 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.61%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.81%) Argo
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.81%) Istio
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 16 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.87%) Databricks
3 11 (8.87%) Juniper
4 10 (8.06%) SolarWinds
5 8 (6.45%) VMware
6 7 (5.65%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (4.03%) Cisco
7 5 (4.03%) Google
7 5 (4.03%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (4.03%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.03%) SAP
8 4 (3.23%) Informatica
8 4 (3.23%) Meraki
9 3 (2.42%) Adobe
9 3 (2.42%) Dell
9 3 (2.42%) IBM
9 3 (2.42%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle
9 3 (2.42%) RedGate