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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 57 83
Rank change year-on-year -21 +26 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 400 484 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.92% 5.14% 2.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.20% 33.43% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 324 190 310
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,875 £87,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 995 1,448 1,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.78% 15.36% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 798 512 998
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £81,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -7.41%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -28 227 £71,750 -0.33% 103
Yorkshire 0 112 £69,310 -0.99% 38
North East -14 61 £55,000 -15.38% 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 23 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.25%) Apache
2 13 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.50%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.00%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Confluence
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 292 (73.00%) AWS
2 205 (51.25%) Azure
3 104 (26.00%) GitHub
4 78 (19.50%) GCP
5 75 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (18.25%) Serverless
7 62 (15.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 62 (15.50%) GitHub Actions
8 46 (11.50%) Amazon S3
9 38 (9.50%) Amazon EC2
9 38 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (9.25%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (7.00%) Azure AKS
13 26 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (5.00%) SaaS
15 17 (4.25%) Entra ID
16 16 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (4.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 51 (12.75%) Firewall
2 29 (7.25%) TCP/IP
3 27 (6.75%) DNS
4 15 (3.75%) HTTP
5 13 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.00%) NGFW
6 12 (3.00%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.00%) Wireshark
7 10 (2.50%) VPN
8 8 (2.00%) Network Security
9 6 (1.50%) SAN
10 3 (0.75%) AMQP
10 3 (0.75%) BGP
10 3 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.75%) SSH
11 2 (0.50%) DHCP
11 2 (0.50%) DMZ
11 2 (0.50%) IPsec
11 2 (0.50%) WAN
12 1 (0.25%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.25%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.00%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.75%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.25%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.25%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.00%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.75%) MySQL
12 6 (1.50%) Big Data
13 5 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.25%) Power BI
14 4 (1.00%) Flink
14 4 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (1.00%) QGIS
14 4 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 65 (16.25%) GitLab
3 42 (10.50%) Git
4 11 (2.75%) JIRA
5 10 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.50%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.75%) Maven
10 3 (0.75%) Selenium
11 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.50%) Vite
12 1 (0.25%) Locust
12 1 (0.25%) MLflow
12 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.50%) Public Sector
3 28 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.25%) Finance
5 22 (5.50%) Law
6 17 (4.25%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.75%) Banking
9 6 (1.50%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.25%) Retail
11 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Local Government
14 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (27.75%) Senior
2 108 (27.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 68 (17.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 46 (11.50%) Lead
5 45 (11.25%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) Developer
7 38 (9.50%) Data Engineer
8 34 (8.50%) Azure Engineer
8 34 (8.50%) Software Engineer
9 26 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (6.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 22 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
13 20 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (4.50%) Architect
15 17 (4.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 16 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
16 16 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 15 (3.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (14.25%) Node.js
2 43 (10.75%) React
3 32 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 31 (7.75%) Spring
5 29 (7.25%) REST
6 28 (7.00%) ARM Templates
6 28 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
6 28 (7.00%) PySpark
7 24 (6.00%) .NET
8 17 (4.25%) YAML
9 16 (4.00%) Kafka
9 16 (4.00%) Web Services
10 13 (3.25%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.00%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.25%) Next.js
12 9 (2.25%) OAuth
12 9 (2.25%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.25%) OpenID
12 9 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.75%) PKI
6 12 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.50%) PACS
10 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.25%) Life Science
11 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.25%) Replication
12 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (18.25%) Linux
2 28 (7.00%) Windows
3 15 (3.75%) Unix
4 13 (3.25%) CentOS
4 13 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 267 (66.75%) CI/CD
3 227 (56.75%) DevOps
4 135 (33.75%) Agile
5 126 (31.50%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (29.00%) Mentoring
7 109 (27.25%) Containerisation
8 81 (20.25%) Observability
9 72 (18.00%) AI
10 71 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 69 (17.25%) Microservices
12 65 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 60 (15.00%) Test Automation
15 58 (14.50%) Coaching
15 58 (14.50%) Software Engineering
16 56 (14.00%) Scrum
17 47 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
18 43 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
19 34 (8.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 223 (55.75%) Python
2 77 (19.25%) Java
3 69 (17.25%) Bash
4 64 (16.00%) SQL
5 58 (14.50%) PowerShell
6 45 (11.25%) TypeScript
7 44 (11.00%) JavaScript
8 34 (8.50%) Go
9 33 (8.25%) Bicep
10 25 (6.25%) C#
11 18 (4.50%) Groovy
12 6 (1.50%) Ruby
13 3 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
15 1 (0.25%) Scala
15 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 69 (17.25%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.50%) Degree
5 21 (5.25%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.50%) CCIE
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.50%) QA
3 10 (2.50%) GDPR
4 6 (1.50%) DICOM
4 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.50%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 138 (34.50%) Docker
2 15 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.25%) vSphere
6 3 (0.75%) iptables
7 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 163 (40.75%) Kubernetes
2 111 (27.75%) Ansible
3 38 (9.50%) Grafana
4 32 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.00%) Argo
6 17 (4.25%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.50%) Puppet
8 5 (1.25%) Istio
8 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.25%) Packer
9 3 (0.75%) Control-M
9 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.75%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.75%) linkerd
9 3 (0.75%) systemd
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.50%) Kibana
10 2 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.75%) Google
3 22 (5.50%) Databricks
4 20 (5.00%) VMware
5 12 (3.00%) Arista
5 12 (3.00%) Aruba
5 12 (3.00%) NetScout
6 8 (2.00%) Splunk
7 7 (1.75%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.25%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.25%) IBM
8 5 (1.25%) Oracle
9 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco
9 3 (0.75%) F5
9 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.75%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.50%) Pega
10 2 (0.50%) WSO2