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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 107 148
Rank change year-on-year -34 +41 +6
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 117 135 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.91% 2.52% 1.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.55% 29.67% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 104 91 156
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £103,200 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 383 455 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.97% 8.48% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 312 289 610
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,438 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -41 82 £80,000 +10.34% 37
East Midlands -13 35 £67,500 +14.89% 18
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 8 (6.84%) IIS
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 78 (66.67%) Azure
2 49 (41.88%) AWS
3 36 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (20.51%) PaaS
5 14 (11.97%) Amazon S3
5 14 (11.97%) Azure AKS
5 14 (11.97%) GitHub
6 13 (11.11%) Azure App Service
7 12 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (10.26%) GCP
7 12 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.40%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (9.40%) Serverless
9 8 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.84%) npm
9 8 (6.84%) NuGet
9 8 (6.84%) SaaS
9 8 (6.84%) SonarCloud
10 6 (5.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.69%) Firewall
2 6 (5.13%) DNS
2 6 (5.13%) Network Security
2 6 (5.13%) VPN
3 2 (1.71%) DHCP
3 2 (1.71%) VLAN
4 1 (0.85%) NAS
4 1 (0.85%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.85%) Metadata
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (12.82%) Git
2 5 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.56%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.56%) GitLab
3 3 (2.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.71%) JMeter
4 2 (1.71%) Locust
5 1 (0.85%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.40%) Finance
4 7 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.42%) Law
7 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Advertising
8 2 (1.71%) Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Billing
8 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 38 (32.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (29.91%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (20.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (19.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 16 (13.68%) Lead
6 14 (11.97%) Senior
7 11 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (8.55%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.84%) Test Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Architect
12 6 (5.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
13 5 (4.27%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (3.42%) Software Engineer
14 4 (3.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.53%) .NET
2 13 (11.11%) Node.js
3 12 (10.26%) React
4 11 (9.40%) .NET Framework
5 10 (8.55%) ASP.NET
5 10 (8.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (7.69%) YAML
7 8 (6.84%) Kafka
8 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (4.27%) Entity Framework
9 4 (3.42%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (2.56%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.56%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.56%) REST
11 2 (1.71%) Gherkin
11 2 (1.71%) Middleware
11 2 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.85%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.56%) PKI
5 3 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.71%) SCADA
6 2 (1.71%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.97%) Linux
1 14 (11.97%) Windows
2 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.71%) CentOS
3 2 (1.71%) Debian
3 2 (1.71%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (81.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 69 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 63 (53.85%) DevOps
4 36 (30.77%) Observability
5 30 (25.64%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 24 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (18.80%) Mentoring
9 20 (17.09%) DevSecOps
10 19 (16.24%) Agile
10 19 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (16.24%) Microservices
11 17 (14.53%) Test Automation
12 16 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (12.82%) Roadmaps
14 13 (11.11%) Cloud Security
14 13 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (10.26%) AI
15 12 (10.26%) API Management
15 12 (10.26%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 27 (23.08%) Python
2 23 (19.66%) SQL
3 19 (16.24%) Bash
4 18 (15.38%) Bicep
5 13 (11.11%) C#
6 6 (5.13%) Java
6 6 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.27%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.71%) Scala
8 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.85%) Groovy
9 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.56%) Degree
6 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.71%) CISSP
7 2 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.85%) CCNA
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.71%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) GxP
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (26.50%) Docker
2 7 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (35.04%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.68%) Ansible
3 10 (8.55%) Grafana
4 5 (4.27%) Argo
4 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.56%) Istio
6 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.71%) Puppet
7 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) VMware
3 8 (6.84%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.42%) Databricks
5 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.71%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.71%) Peregrine
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco
7 1 (0.85%) Citrix
7 1 (0.85%) Commvault
7 1 (0.85%) Google
7 1 (0.85%) OpenText
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype
7 1 (0.85%) Veeam