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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 64 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 435 451 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 4.74% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.45% 27.50% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 346 168 256
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £70,000 £65,482
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +6.90% -6.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £85,000
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 2,237 1,640 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.79% 17.25% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,812 863 2,069
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +10.60% -5.82%
75th Percentile £79,377 £75,625 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -33 233 £72,500 +3.57% 148
Yorkshire +14 122 £72,000 +2.86% 87
North East +6 80 £56,500 -13.08% 49
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 28 (6.44%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.45%) Apache
4 13 (2.99%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 303 (69.66%) AWS
2 202 (46.44%) Azure
3 111 (25.52%) GitHub
4 92 (21.15%) Serverless
5 88 (20.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 76 (17.47%) GCP
7 69 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (14.48%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (13.79%) Amazon S3
10 59 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
11 55 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
12 54 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
13 48 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 46 (10.57%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (5.98%) Azure AKS
15 26 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (5.75%) SaaS
17 19 (4.37%) dbt
18 18 (4.14%) Amazon EMR
19 17 (3.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.98%) Firewall
2 19 (4.37%) TCP/IP
3 18 (4.14%) DNS
4 9 (2.07%) VPN
5 8 (1.84%) Network Security
6 6 (1.38%) DHCP
7 5 (1.15%) SAN
8 4 (0.92%) BGP
8 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.69%) HTTP
9 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.69%) SSH
9 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 3 (0.69%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) AMQP
10 2 (0.46%) DMZ
10 2 (0.46%) IPsec
10 2 (0.46%) LAN
10 2 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (6.21%) DynamoDB
3 25 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.52%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.68%) BigQuery
6 16 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.22%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.07%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.84%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.61%) Big Data
12 7 (1.61%) MySQL
13 6 (1.38%) Metadata
13 6 (1.38%) Power BI
14 5 (1.15%) Flink
15 4 (0.92%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 78 (17.93%) GitLab
2 76 (17.47%) Jenkins
3 60 (13.79%) Git
4 16 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.53%) JIRA
6 10 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.46%) Vite
12 1 (0.23%) Locust
12 1 (0.23%) MLflow
12 1 (0.23%) Mocha
12 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
12 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 97 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.86%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.82%) Finance
4 28 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.75%) Law
6 20 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.61%) Banking
7 7 (1.61%) Retail
8 6 (1.38%) Legal
8 6 (1.38%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Local Government
9 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (27.59%) Senior
2 115 (26.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (12.64%) Platform Engineer
5 54 (12.41%) Lead
6 47 (10.80%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
8 40 (9.20%) Developer
9 36 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (7.36%) Software Engineer
11 30 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
12 29 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.98%) Senior Data Engineer
13 26 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
13 26 (5.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 22 (5.06%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.91%) Architect
16 17 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (3.91%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.49%) Node.js
2 40 (9.20%) React
3 35 (8.05%) Spring
4 34 (7.82%) Spring Boot
5 33 (7.59%) PySpark
6 29 (6.67%) .NET
6 29 (6.67%) ARM Templates
7 26 (5.98%) REST
8 20 (4.60%) Web Services
9 19 (4.37%) Kafka
10 18 (4.14%) YAML
11 15 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (2.99%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.99%) FastAPI
13 12 (2.76%) Pulumi
14 10 (2.30%) Next.js
15 9 (2.07%) Flask
15 9 (2.07%) OAuth2
15 9 (2.07%) OpenID
15 9 (2.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 97 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (3.22%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.61%) Life Science
10 6 (1.38%) Blog
11 5 (1.15%) Replication
12 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.92%) NHS
12 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (20.00%) Linux
2 35 (8.05%) Windows
3 18 (4.14%) CentOS
3 18 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.91%) Unix
5 15 (3.45%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (73.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 311 (71.49%) CI/CD
3 261 (60.00%) DevOps
4 144 (33.10%) Agile
5 142 (32.64%) Platform Engineering
6 114 (26.21%) Mentoring
7 113 (25.98%) Containerisation
8 101 (23.22%) Observability
9 95 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (17.24%) AI
11 72 (16.55%) Microservices
12 70 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (16.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 68 (15.63%) Software Engineering
13 68 (15.63%) Test Automation
14 65 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
15 57 (13.10%) Coaching
16 52 (11.95%) Infrastructure Automation
16 52 (11.95%) Scrum
17 50 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 248 (57.01%) Python
2 84 (19.31%) Bash
2 84 (19.31%) Java
3 78 (17.93%) SQL
4 66 (15.17%) PowerShell
5 41 (9.43%) Bicep
6 40 (9.20%) TypeScript
7 38 (8.74%) JavaScript
8 30 (6.90%) C#
9 24 (5.52%) Go
10 20 (4.60%) Groovy
11 10 (2.30%) Ruby
12 4 (0.92%) Scala
13 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.69%) PHP
13 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.46%) Perl
14 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.46%) Rust
14 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 95 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.03%) DV Cleared
4 19 (4.37%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.37%) Degree
5 9 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.46%) CCIE
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.91%) QA
3 10 (2.30%) GDPR
4 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) DICOM
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 180 (41.38%) Docker
2 20 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.92%) vSphere
6 3 (0.69%) iptables
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 193 (44.37%) Kubernetes
2 114 (26.21%) Ansible
3 29 (6.67%) Grafana
4 27 (6.21%) Progress Chef
5 21 (4.83%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.60%) Argo
7 14 (3.22%) Puppet
8 6 (1.38%) Istio
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.92%) linkerd
11 3 (0.69%) Control-M
11 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.69%) Kibana
11 3 (0.69%) Packer
11 3 (0.69%) systemd
12 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.23%) Nessus
13 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.36%) Google
3 25 (5.75%) Databricks
4 22 (5.06%) VMware
5 10 (2.30%) Splunk
6 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.38%) Cisco
8 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.15%) IBM
9 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.92%) Oracle
10 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.69%) Confluent
10 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.46%) F5
11 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.46%) Pega
11 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.46%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.46%) Zscaler