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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 69 63
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 428 406 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.77% 4.22% 2.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.62% 26.61% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 342 124 227
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,308 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -0.71% -6.48%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,550 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,181 1,526 2,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.04% 15.87% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 764 1,552
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,823 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,613 £85,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -5.11%

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 4 October 2026.

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 4 October 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
North West -34 233 £71,500 +10.00% 253
Yorkshire +5 110 £69,310 -0.99% 127
North East +10 94 £59,000 -9.23% 87
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 29 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (5.37%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.91%) Apache
4 16 (3.74%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.93%) IIS
7 3 (0.70%) Confluence
7 3 (0.70%) nginx
7 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 297 (69.39%) AWS
2 191 (44.63%) Azure
3 111 (25.93%) GitHub
4 89 (20.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (19.63%) Serverless
6 68 (15.89%) GCP
7 67 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (14.95%) Amazon S3
9 59 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
10 57 (13.32%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (12.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.54%) Azure AKS
15 24 (5.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (5.37%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (5.14%) SaaS
18 21 (4.91%) Amazon EMR
19 19 (4.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.61%) Firewall
2 18 (4.21%) DNS
3 15 (3.50%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.10%) DHCP
5 8 (1.87%) VPN
6 7 (1.64%) Network Security
7 5 (1.17%) SAN
8 4 (0.93%) BGP
8 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.70%) AMQP
9 3 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 3 (0.70%) Wireless
10 2 (0.47%) CTI
10 2 (0.47%) DMZ
10 2 (0.47%) IPsec
10 2 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.47%) OSPF
10 2 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.01%) Amazon RDS
1 30 (7.01%) MongoDB
2 25 (5.84%) DynamoDB
2 25 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (4.44%) Data Lake
4 15 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.04%) BigQuery
6 12 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.57%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.87%) Big Data
8 8 (1.87%) Power BI
9 7 (1.64%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.40%) DocumentDB
10 6 (1.40%) Metadata
10 6 (1.40%) MySQL
10 6 (1.40%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.93%) Chroma
11 4 (0.93%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (24.53%) GitLab
2 70 (16.36%) Jenkins
3 66 (15.42%) Git
4 19 (4.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.04%) JIRA
6 6 (1.40%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.40%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.40%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.93%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.47%) Vite
10 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.23%) MLflow
10 1 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 103 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 87 (20.33%) Public Sector
3 36 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.01%) Finance
5 27 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (5.61%) Law
7 7 (1.64%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.40%) Legal
8 6 (1.40%) Retail
9 5 (1.17%) Local Government
10 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.47%) Advertising
12 2 (0.47%) Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 123 (28.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 116 (27.10%) Senior
3 80 (18.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 58 (13.55%) Platform Engineer
5 47 (10.98%) Lead
6 43 (10.05%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
8 38 (8.88%) Developer
9 31 (7.24%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (7.01%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (6.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.54%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (6.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (6.31%) Software Engineer
13 26 (6.07%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 22 (5.14%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (4.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
17 16 (3.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.98%) Node.js
2 45 (10.51%) React
3 35 (8.18%) Spring
3 35 (8.18%) Spring Boot
4 30 (7.01%) PySpark
5 26 (6.07%) ARM Templates
6 24 (5.61%) .NET
6 24 (5.61%) Kafka
7 20 (4.67%) REST
8 17 (3.97%) Web Services
9 15 (3.50%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.27%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.57%) Pulumi
11 11 (2.57%) YAML
12 10 (2.34%) AWS CDK
13 9 (2.10%) Next.js
14 8 (1.87%) Express.js
14 8 (1.87%) Nunjucks
14 8 (1.87%) OpenAPI
15 7 (1.64%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 115 (26.87%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.91%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.64%) Life Science
10 6 (1.40%) Blog
10 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.17%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.93%) NHS
12 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (21.73%) Linux
2 37 (8.64%) Windows
3 24 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (5.14%) CentOS
5 20 (4.67%) Unix
6 13 (3.04%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.64%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.70%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (75.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 317 (74.07%) CI/CD
3 275 (64.25%) DevOps
4 159 (37.15%) Agile
5 147 (34.35%) Platform Engineering
6 115 (26.87%) Containerisation
6 115 (26.87%) Mentoring
7 102 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 101 (23.60%) Observability
9 87 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
10 86 (20.09%) AI
11 77 (17.99%) Technical Leadership
12 72 (16.82%) Test Automation
13 69 (16.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 69 (16.12%) Software Engineering
14 67 (15.65%) Coaching
15 66 (15.42%) Microservices
16 61 (14.25%) Infrastructure Automation
17 60 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (12.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 249 (58.18%) Python
2 89 (20.79%) Bash
3 79 (18.46%) Java
4 70 (16.36%) PowerShell
5 63 (14.72%) SQL
6 45 (10.51%) Bicep
6 45 (10.51%) TypeScript
7 33 (7.71%) JavaScript
8 29 (6.78%) C#
9 25 (5.84%) Go
10 17 (3.97%) Groovy
11 10 (2.34%) Ruby
12 5 (1.17%) Rust
13 4 (0.93%) Scala
14 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.70%) PHP
14 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 147 (34.35%) Security Cleared
2 115 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.49%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.67%) Degree
5 19 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.47%) CCIE
11 2 (0.47%) CCNA
11 2 (0.47%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.50%) QA
3 7 (1.64%) GDPR
4 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 189 (44.16%) Docker
2 20 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.40%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.47%) iptables
7 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 201 (46.96%) Kubernetes
2 115 (26.87%) Ansible
3 33 (7.71%) Progress Chef
4 30 (7.01%) Grafana
5 24 (5.61%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.44%) Argo
7 17 (3.97%) Puppet
8 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.93%) Istio
9 4 (0.93%) linkerd
9 4 (0.93%) Packer
10 3 (0.70%) Control-M
10 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.47%) systemd
11 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.01%) Google
3 28 (6.54%) Databricks
4 24 (5.61%) VMware
5 11 (2.57%) Splunk
6 9 (2.10%) Cisco
7 7 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.40%) Confluent
9 5 (1.17%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.17%) YouTube
10 4 (0.93%) Mistral
10 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.70%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.47%) F5
12 2 (0.47%) FIS
12 2 (0.47%) Oracle
12 2 (0.47%) Zscaler