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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 51 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 +38 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 383 484 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.88% 5.52% 2.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.94% 33.75% 33.83%
Number of salaries quoted 309 191 326
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,625 £54,250
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 £92,500 £87,500 £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 959 1,434 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.72% 16.35% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 759 504 1,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,650 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,125 £38,313 £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 £69,625
90th Percentile £89,000 £95,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 28 June 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 June 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 -25 222 £71,500 -1.03% 64
Yorkshire -3 106 £69,310 -0.99% 35
North East -16 55 £55,000 -15.38% 20
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 22 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.13%) Apache
2 12 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.35%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.04%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.78%) JBoss
7 2 (0.52%) Confluence
7 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 286 (74.67%) AWS
2 198 (51.70%) Azure
3 100 (26.11%) GitHub
4 78 (20.37%) GCP
5 73 (19.06%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (18.28%) Serverless
7 63 (16.45%) GitHub Actions
8 59 (15.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (12.01%) Amazon S3
10 39 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (7.31%) Azure AKS
14 25 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (4.96%) SaaS
16 17 (4.44%) Entra ID
17 16 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (4.18%) dbt
18 15 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.53%) Firewall
2 26 (6.79%) DNS
3 25 (6.53%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.92%) HTTP
5 13 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.13%) NGFW
6 12 (3.13%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.13%) Wireshark
7 11 (2.87%) VPN
8 8 (2.09%) Network Security
9 5 (1.31%) SAN
10 3 (0.78%) AMQP
10 3 (0.78%) Internet
10 3 (0.78%) SSH
11 1 (0.26%) BGP
11 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.26%) DHCP
11 1 (0.26%) LAN
11 1 (0.26%) OSPF
11 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.57%) DynamoDB
1 29 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.01%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (3.39%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (2.61%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.35%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.35%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.09%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.83%) MySQL
11 6 (1.57%) Big Data
12 5 (1.31%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.04%) Flink
13 4 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.04%) Power BI
13 4 (1.04%) QGIS
13 4 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (18.80%) Jenkins
2 59 (15.40%) GitLab
3 38 (9.92%) Git
4 9 (2.35%) JIRA
4 9 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.57%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.31%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.78%) Maven
9 3 (0.78%) Selenium
10 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.52%) Vite
11 1 (0.26%) Locust
11 1 (0.26%) MLflow
11 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.62%) Public Sector
3 28 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.48%) Finance
5 19 (4.96%) Law
6 18 (4.70%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.83%) Banking
9 6 (1.57%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.31%) Retail
11 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
14 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (29.50%) Senior
2 91 (23.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (16.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 44 (11.49%) Lead
5 43 (11.23%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (10.18%) Developer
7 38 (9.92%) Software Engineer
8 37 (9.66%) Data Engineer
9 34 (8.88%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (6.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 23 (6.01%) Senior DevOps
11 23 (6.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
14 17 (4.44%) Architect
15 16 (4.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 16 (4.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 15 (3.92%) Senior Developer
16 15 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.40%) Node.js
2 46 (12.01%) React
3 32 (8.36%) REST
4 28 (7.31%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (7.05%) ARM Templates
5 27 (7.05%) PySpark
5 27 (7.05%) Spring Boot
6 26 (6.79%) Spring
7 25 (6.53%) .NET
8 16 (4.18%) Kafka
8 16 (4.18%) Web Services
8 16 (4.18%) YAML
9 13 (3.39%) AngularJS
10 12 (3.13%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.61%) OAuth
11 10 (2.61%) RESTful
12 9 (2.35%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.35%) OpenID
12 9 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.84%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.70%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.92%) PKI
6 11 (2.87%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.57%) PACS
8 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.31%) Replication
10 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.78%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 64 (16.71%) Linux
2 28 (7.31%) Windows
3 15 (3.92%) Unix
4 9 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.83%) CentOS
6 7 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (69.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 257 (67.10%) CI/CD
3 209 (54.57%) DevOps
4 133 (34.73%) Agile
5 114 (29.77%) Mentoring
5 114 (29.77%) Platform Engineering
6 100 (26.11%) Containerisation
7 81 (21.15%) Observability
8 67 (17.49%) AI
9 66 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (17.23%) Microservices
10 62 (16.19%) Software Engineering
11 59 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (15.14%) Test Automation
13 56 (14.62%) Coaching
13 56 (14.62%) Scrum
14 50 (13.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 42 (10.97%) Continuous Integration
16 38 (9.92%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (9.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 211 (55.09%) Python
2 71 (18.54%) Java
3 64 (16.71%) Bash
4 63 (16.45%) SQL
5 54 (14.10%) PowerShell
6 48 (12.53%) TypeScript
7 46 (12.01%) JavaScript
8 34 (8.88%) Go
9 29 (7.57%) Bicep
10 26 (6.79%) C#
11 18 (4.70%) Groovy
12 6 (1.57%) Ruby
13 3 (0.78%) C
13 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.78%) PHP
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) Perl
15 1 (0.26%) Scala
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 61 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.74%) Degree
4 20 (5.22%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.70%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.66%) Data Quality
1 14 (3.66%) QA
2 10 (2.61%) GDPR
3 6 (1.57%) DICOM
3 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.57%) SOC 2
4 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 127 (33.16%) Docker
2 13 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.31%) vSphere
6 3 (0.78%) iptables
7 2 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 149 (38.90%) Kubernetes
2 95 (24.80%) Ansible
3 38 (9.92%) Grafana
4 32 (8.36%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.22%) Argo
6 16 (4.18%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.31%) Istio
7 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.31%) Packer
7 5 (1.31%) Puppet
8 3 (0.78%) Control-M
8 3 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.78%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.78%) linkerd
8 3 (0.78%) systemd
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.52%) Kibana
10 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 41 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.79%) Google
3 21 (5.48%) Databricks
4 18 (4.70%) VMware
5 12 (3.13%) Arista
5 12 (3.13%) Aruba
5 12 (3.13%) NetScout
6 7 (1.83%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.57%) Splunk
8 5 (1.31%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.31%) IBM
8 5 (1.31%) Oracle
9 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.78%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.78%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.52%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.52%) Pega
10 2 (0.52%) WSO2
11 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace