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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 72 49
Rank change year-on-year -31 -23 -1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 190 340 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.98% 2.78% 5.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.65% 36.44% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 147 201 362
10th Percentile £51,700 £48,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £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 £81,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,400 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 620 933 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.46% 7.64% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 493 505 989
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,450
25th Percentile £35,750 £44,106 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 18 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 18 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 -34 91 £65,000 -7.14% 163
Yorkshire -18 75 £70,000 +5.88% 48
North East +2 24 £70,079 +9.50% 22
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 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.21%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.58%) 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
1 143 (75.26%) AWS
2 89 (46.84%) Azure
3 47 (24.74%) Serverless
4 42 (22.11%) GitHub
5 41 (21.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (15.79%) GCP
7 29 (15.26%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (14.21%) Amazon S3
9 25 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (8.95%) SaaS
12 16 (8.42%) PaaS
13 13 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (3.68%) dbt
16 7 (3.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.84%) Firewall
2 9 (4.74%) DNS
3 8 (4.21%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.68%) WAN
5 5 (2.63%) HTTP
6 4 (2.11%) LAN
6 4 (2.11%) SAN
7 3 (1.58%) DHCP
7 3 (1.58%) Network Security
8 2 (1.05%) AMQP
8 2 (1.05%) Internet
8 2 (1.05%) SSL
8 2 (1.05%) VLAN
8 2 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.32%) DynamoDB
2 14 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (5.79%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.74%) Redis
6 7 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.16%) Delta Lake
7 6 (3.16%) Metadata
7 6 (3.16%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.11%) MySQL
10 3 (1.58%) Big Data
11 2 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (14.21%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.05%) GitLab
3 15 (7.89%) Git
4 9 (4.74%) CircleCI
5 8 (4.21%) TeamCity
6 7 (3.68%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.16%) MLflow
8 5 (2.63%) JIRA
9 4 (2.11%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.11%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.05%) JMeter
10 2 (1.05%) Locust
11 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.53%) git-flow
11 1 (0.53%) Mocha
11 1 (0.53%) Sinon.JS
General
1 54 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.47%) Finance
3 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.26%) Games
5 8 (4.21%) Law
6 7 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.16%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.63%) Retail
9 4 (2.11%) Banking
9 4 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.58%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (28.42%) Senior
2 42 (22.11%) Developer
3 39 (20.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.26%) Lead
5 23 (12.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.84%) Python Developer
9 11 (5.79%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.79%) Lead DevOps
10 9 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) AWS Developer
11 8 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Operations Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (29.47%) React
2 29 (15.26%) .NET
3 27 (14.21%) Node.js
4 26 (13.68%) REST
5 19 (10.00%) Django
6 18 (9.47%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (8.42%) Vue
8 14 (7.37%) FastAPI
8 14 (7.37%) Flask
9 13 (6.84%) CSS
9 13 (6.84%) HTML
10 12 (6.32%) .NET Core
11 11 (5.79%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.26%) RESTful
13 9 (4.74%) Spring
13 9 (4.74%) Spring Boot
13 9 (4.74%) YAML
14 8 (4.21%) ARM Templates
14 8 (4.21%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (22.11%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.74%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.16%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.11%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.26%) Linux
2 13 (6.84%) Unix
3 11 (5.79%) Windows
4 8 (4.21%) Debian
4 8 (4.21%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.05%) CentOS
6 2 (1.05%) VMS
6 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (72.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (70.53%) CI/CD
3 120 (63.16%) DevOps
4 91 (47.89%) Agile
5 56 (29.47%) Containerisation
6 44 (23.16%) Mentoring
7 41 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (21.58%) Software Engineering
8 39 (20.53%) Microservices
8 39 (20.53%) Observability
9 38 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (16.84%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (15.26%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (11.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 20 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (10.53%) TDD
14 20 (10.53%) Test Automation
15 19 (10.00%) Clean Code
15 19 (10.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 75 (39.47%) Python
2 40 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 39 (20.53%) SQL
4 35 (18.42%) TypeScript
5 24 (12.63%) C#
5 24 (12.63%) Java
6 21 (11.05%) PowerShell
7 20 (10.53%) Bash
8 13 (6.84%) Bicep
9 7 (3.68%) Go
10 2 (1.05%) Ruby
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.68%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.63%) Degree
6 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.21%) QA
2 4 (2.11%) GDPR
2 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.58%) NIST
4 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.05%) GRC
4 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (51.58%) Docker
2 9 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.21%) vSphere
4 6 (3.16%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.58%) KVM
6 3 (1.58%) QEMU
7 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.05%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 52 (27.37%) Ansible
3 35 (18.42%) Grafana
4 32 (16.84%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.16%) Kubeflow
6 4 (2.11%) Control-M
6 4 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (2.11%) Puppet
7 3 (1.58%) Argo
7 3 (1.58%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.58%) 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 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.37%) Databricks
3 13 (6.84%) VMware
4 11 (5.79%) Google
5 8 (4.21%) Splunk
6 5 (2.63%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.11%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.11%) Foundry
7 4 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.11%) Pega
7 4 (2.11%) WSO2
8 3 (1.58%) Aruba
8 3 (1.58%) Cisco
8 3 (1.58%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.58%) Mellanox
8 3 (1.58%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.05%) New Relic
9 2 (1.05%) Salesforce