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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 73 66
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 224 283 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.06% 3.10% 3.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.19% 33.89% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 174 185 289
10th Percentile £46,462 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 619 835 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.70% 9.16% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 475 466 865
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -10 110 £65,000 -8.44% 70
Yorkshire -15 87 £66,250 +20.45% 71
North East +4 27 £65,000 +15.04% 27
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 8 (3.57%) OpenStack
1 8 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.79%) Apache
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 157 (70.09%) AWS
2 124 (55.36%) Azure
3 57 (25.45%) GitHub
4 53 (23.66%) Serverless
5 44 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (17.86%) GCP
7 33 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (13.84%) Amazon S3
9 28 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (12.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (10.27%) SaaS
12 18 (8.04%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (7.14%) PaaS
14 14 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (5.80%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (5.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.38%) Firewall
2 19 (8.48%) DNS
3 11 (4.91%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.57%) HTTP
5 7 (3.13%) Internet
6 4 (1.79%) Network Security
6 4 (1.79%) VPN
6 4 (1.79%) WAN
7 3 (1.34%) AMQP
7 3 (1.34%) DHCP
7 3 (1.34%) NGFW
7 3 (1.34%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.34%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.89%) SAN
8 2 (0.89%) SSL
8 2 (0.89%) VLAN
9 1 (0.45%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.59%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.91%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.02%) Redis
6 8 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.23%) MySQL
8 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.79%) Big Data
10 3 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.34%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (18.30%) Git
2 30 (13.39%) GitLab
2 30 (13.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.13%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.23%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.23%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.34%) JIRA
7 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.89%) JMeter
7 2 (0.89%) Locust
7 2 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.45%) git-flow
General
1 55 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.80%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.91%) Finance
4 11 (4.91%) Law
5 10 (4.46%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.79%) Games
8 3 (1.34%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.34%) Banking
8 3 (1.34%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (21.43%) Senior
2 44 (19.64%) Developer
3 40 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (17.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (14.29%) Lead
6 23 (10.27%) Software Engineer
7 22 (9.82%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.80%) .NET Developer
11 12 (5.36%) Lead DevOps
12 11 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.46%) AWS Developer
13 10 (4.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.46%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.02%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 8 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.57%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (28.13%) React
2 36 (16.07%) .NET
3 35 (15.63%) Node.js
4 30 (13.39%) REST
5 23 (10.27%) RESTful
6 22 (9.82%) Django
7 21 (9.38%) .NET Core
8 19 (8.48%) Vue
9 17 (7.59%) FastAPI
9 17 (7.59%) Flask
10 16 (7.14%) CSS
10 16 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (7.14%) HTML
11 14 (6.25%) AWS CDK
12 13 (5.80%) ASP.NET
12 13 (5.80%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (5.80%) Blazor
13 12 (5.36%) AngularJS
14 9 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (4.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.91%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.34%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.34%) PKI
6 3 (1.34%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.89%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.41%) Linux
2 19 (8.48%) Windows
3 10 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.02%) Unix
5 6 (2.68%) Debian
5 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.79%) CentOS
8 3 (1.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (69.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 144 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 124 (55.36%) DevOps
4 114 (50.89%) Agile
5 64 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 62 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (25.89%) Mentoring
8 52 (23.21%) Observability
9 51 (22.77%) Microservices
10 44 (19.64%) Platform Engineering
11 42 (18.75%) Software Engineering
12 40 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 34 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (12.95%) Incident Response
15 28 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (9.82%) Coaching
17 21 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
17 21 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
18 20 (8.93%) Root Cause Analysis
19 19 (8.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 79 (35.27%) Python
2 47 (20.98%) JavaScript
3 43 (19.20%) SQL
4 37 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.38%) C#
6 20 (8.93%) Bash
7 19 (8.48%) Go
8 18 (8.04%) Java
9 17 (7.59%) PowerShell
10 12 (5.36%) Bicep
11 7 (3.13%) C
12 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.45%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.79%) Degree
8 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.68%) QA
2 4 (1.79%) GDPR
2 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.34%) NIST
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.89%) GRC
4 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.89%) WCAG
5 1 (0.45%) DICOM
System Software
1 96 (42.86%) Docker
2 13 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.57%) vSphere
5 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.34%) KVM
6 3 (1.34%) QEMU
6 3 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (33.93%) Kubernetes
2 68 (30.36%) Ansible
3 39 (17.41%) Grafana
4 36 (16.07%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.23%) Puppet
8 3 (1.34%) Argo
8 3 (1.34%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.89%) Control-M
9 2 (0.89%) Nagios
9 2 (0.89%) Rancher
10 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.45%) Kibana
10 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.25%) Splunk
3 13 (5.80%) VMware
4 11 (4.91%) Google
5 9 (4.02%) New Relic
6 6 (2.68%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.23%) Databricks
7 5 (2.23%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.79%) Pega
8 4 (1.79%) WSO2
9 3 (1.34%) Arista
9 3 (1.34%) Aruba
9 3 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.34%) Foundry
9 3 (1.34%) NetScout
10 2 (0.89%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.89%) BMC
11 1 (0.45%) F5
11 1 (0.45%) Verint