Terraform Job Trends in the North of England

Terraform
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 70 49
Rank change year-on-year -36 -21 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 189 346 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.92% 2.78% 5.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.24% 36.46% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 145 208 369
10th Percentile £51,550 £48,025 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,507 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £78,790 £80,313 £82,548
90th Percentile £86,150 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.02%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 625 949 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.36% 7.63% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 492 520 1,005
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £33,406 £44,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.03% +4.62% -3.70%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Terraform job vacancy trend in the North of England

Terraform
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the North of England

Terraform
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West -29 93 £65,000 -7.14% 148
Yorkshire -23 75 £70,000 +7.69% 51
North East +1 21 £72,500 +13.28% 21
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.23%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (74.60%) AWS
2 85 (44.97%) Azure
3 48 (25.40%) Serverless
4 42 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (19.58%) GitHub
6 27 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 27 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (14.29%) GCP
7 26 (13.76%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (13.23%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (8.99%) SaaS
11 16 (8.47%) PaaS
12 14 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (3.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.29%) Firewall
2 7 (3.70%) WAN
3 6 (3.17%) DNS
4 5 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.12%) LAN
6 3 (1.59%) DHCP
6 3 (1.59%) Network Security
6 3 (1.59%) SAN
7 2 (1.06%) AMQP
7 2 (1.06%) HTTP
7 2 (1.06%) Internet
7 2 (1.06%) SSL
7 2 (1.06%) VLAN
7 2 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.93%) DynamoDB
2 14 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.76%) Redis
6 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.17%) Delta Lake
7 6 (3.17%) Metadata
7 6 (3.17%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.12%) MySQL
10 3 (1.59%) Big Data
11 2 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.58%) GitLab
3 15 (7.94%) Git
4 10 (5.29%) CircleCI
5 7 (3.70%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.17%) MLflow
6 6 (3.17%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.12%) JIRA
8 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.06%) JMeter
9 2 (1.06%) Locust
10 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.53%) git-flow
10 1 (0.53%) Mocha
10 1 (0.53%) Sinon.JS
General
1 54 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.52%) Finance
3 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.82%) Games
5 7 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.65%) Law
6 5 (2.65%) Retail
7 4 (2.12%) Banking
7 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.59%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (29.63%) Senior
2 43 (22.75%) Developer
3 36 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (15.87%) Lead
5 24 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (10.58%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.88%) Python Developer
9 12 (6.35%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.82%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (4.23%) AWS Developer
13 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 7 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (30.16%) React
2 29 (15.34%) .NET
3 27 (14.29%) Node.js
4 26 (13.76%) REST
5 19 (10.05%) Django
6 16 (8.47%) Vue
7 15 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (7.41%) FastAPI
8 14 (7.41%) Flask
9 13 (6.88%) CSS
9 13 (6.88%) HTML
10 12 (6.35%) .NET Core
11 11 (5.82%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.29%) RESTful
13 9 (4.76%) ARM Templates
13 9 (4.76%) Spring
13 9 (4.76%) Spring Boot
13 9 (4.76%) YAML
14 8 (4.23%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.70%) e-Learning
4 7 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.12%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.12%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.34%) Linux
2 13 (6.88%) Unix
3 10 (5.29%) Windows
4 9 (4.76%) Debian
4 9 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.06%) CentOS
6 2 (1.06%) VMS
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (70.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 130 (68.78%) CI/CD
3 119 (62.96%) DevOps
4 92 (48.68%) Agile
5 53 (28.04%) Containerisation
6 44 (23.28%) Mentoring
7 41 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (21.69%) Software Engineering
8 39 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (20.63%) Microservices
9 38 (20.11%) Observability
10 33 (17.46%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
12 25 (13.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (11.11%) TDD
13 21 (11.11%) Test Automation
14 20 (10.58%) Clean Code
15 19 (10.05%) Cloud Security
15 19 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.10%) Python
2 40 (21.16%) JavaScript
3 39 (20.63%) SQL
4 36 (19.05%) TypeScript
5 24 (12.70%) Java
6 23 (12.17%) C#
7 20 (10.58%) PowerShell
8 18 (9.52%) Bash
9 13 (6.88%) Bicep
10 4 (2.12%) Go
11 2 (1.06%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
12 1 (0.53%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.12%) Degree
4 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.23%) QA
2 4 (2.12%) GDPR
2 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.59%) NIST
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.06%) GRC
4 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (52.91%) Docker
2 9 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.70%) vSphere
4 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.59%) KVM
6 3 (1.59%) QEMU
7 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (43.92%) Kubernetes
2 50 (26.46%) Ansible
3 31 (16.40%) Grafana
4 29 (15.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.17%) Kubeflow
6 4 (2.12%) Puppet
7 3 (1.59%) Argo
7 3 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.59%) Control-M
7 3 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.53%) Kibana
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.41%) Databricks
3 12 (6.35%) VMware
4 11 (5.82%) Google
5 9 (4.76%) Splunk
6 5 (2.65%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.12%) Foundry
7 4 (2.12%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.12%) Pega
7 4 (2.12%) WSO2
8 3 (1.59%) Aruba
8 3 (1.59%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.59%) Cisco
8 3 (1.59%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.59%) Mellanox
8 3 (1.59%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.06%) New Relic
9 2 (1.06%) Salesforce