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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 62 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 432 437 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.86% 4.66% 2.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.48% 27.98% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 344 155 245
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £86,500
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 2,218 1,562 2,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.57% 16.64% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,792 796 1,874
10th Percentile £41,025 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,688 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,563 £75,313 £69,788
90th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £79,600
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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -32 235 £72,500 +3.57% 107
Yorkshire +5 119 £72,250 +3.21% 69
North East -7 78 £56,500 -13.08% 37
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 27 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.47%) Apache
4 13 (3.01%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 299 (69.21%) AWS
2 196 (45.37%) Azure
3 112 (25.93%) GitHub
4 91 (21.06%) Serverless
5 88 (20.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (16.44%) GCP
7 68 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
9 60 (13.89%) Amazon S3
10 56 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (10.65%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (6.25%) Azure AKS
14 27 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (5.79%) SaaS
16 18 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.79%) Firewall
2 17 (3.94%) DNS
2 17 (3.94%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.08%) VPN
4 8 (1.85%) Network Security
5 7 (1.62%) DHCP
6 5 (1.16%) SAN
7 4 (0.93%) BGP
7 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.69%) SSH
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
8 3 (0.69%) Wireless
9 2 (0.46%) AMQP
9 2 (0.46%) DMZ
9 2 (0.46%) IPsec
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 25 (5.79%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.47%) BigQuery
7 14 (3.24%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (2.78%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.08%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.85%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.62%) Big Data
12 7 (1.62%) MySQL
13 6 (1.39%) Metadata
13 6 (1.39%) Power BI
14 5 (1.16%) Flink
15 4 (0.93%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.69%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 81 (18.75%) GitLab
2 72 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 59 (13.66%) Git
4 16 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.78%) JIRA
6 10 (2.31%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.39%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.93%) 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%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 97 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.74%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.87%) Finance
4 28 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.56%) Law
6 20 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.62%) Banking
7 7 (1.62%) Retail
8 6 (1.39%) Legal
8 6 (1.39%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.16%) Local Government
10 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (27.55%) Senior
2 114 (26.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
5 55 (12.73%) Lead
6 46 (10.65%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
8 41 (9.49%) Developer
9 35 (8.10%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (6.94%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (6.94%) Software Engineer
11 29 (6.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (6.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.79%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (5.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.94%) Architect
16 17 (3.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.11%) Node.js
2 41 (9.49%) React
3 35 (8.10%) Spring
4 34 (7.87%) Spring Boot
5 33 (7.64%) PySpark
6 29 (6.71%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.25%) .NET
8 26 (6.02%) REST
9 20 (4.63%) Web Services
10 19 (4.40%) Kafka
11 18 (4.17%) YAML
12 14 (3.24%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (3.01%) FastAPI
14 12 (2.78%) Pulumi
15 10 (2.31%) Next.js
15 10 (2.31%) Vue
16 9 (2.08%) Flask
16 9 (2.08%) OAuth
16 9 (2.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 98 (22.69%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (3.24%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.31%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.62%) Life Science
10 6 (1.39%) Blog
11 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.16%) Replication
12 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.93%) NHS
12 4 (0.93%) PKI
12 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.69%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 86 (19.91%) Linux
2 36 (8.33%) Windows
3 18 (4.17%) CentOS
3 18 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.94%) Unix
5 15 (3.47%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (74.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 310 (71.76%) CI/CD
3 260 (60.19%) DevOps
4 143 (33.10%) Platform Engineering
5 142 (32.87%) Agile
6 112 (25.93%) Containerisation
6 112 (25.93%) Mentoring
7 103 (23.84%) Observability
8 96 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (17.82%) AI
10 71 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (16.20%) Microservices
12 69 (15.97%) Test Automation
13 68 (15.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 66 (15.28%) Software Engineering
14 66 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
15 58 (13.43%) Coaching
16 52 (12.04%) Infrastructure Automation
17 51 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 51 (11.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 247 (57.18%) Python
2 83 (19.21%) Bash
2 83 (19.21%) Java
3 78 (18.06%) SQL
4 67 (15.51%) PowerShell
5 42 (9.72%) Bicep
6 40 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 36 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 30 (6.94%) C#
9 22 (5.09%) Go
10 20 (4.63%) Groovy
11 10 (2.31%) Ruby
12 4 (0.93%) Rust
12 4 (0.93%) 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%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 96 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.63%) Degree
5 19 (4.40%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) CCIE
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CCNA
11 1 (0.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.70%) QA
3 10 (2.31%) GDPR
4 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.16%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) DICOM
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 181 (41.90%) Docker
2 20 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.16%) 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
1 195 (45.14%) Kubernetes
2 113 (26.16%) Ansible
3 27 (6.25%) Grafana
3 27 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 20 (4.63%) Argo
5 19 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.24%) Puppet
7 6 (1.39%) Istio
8 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.93%) linkerd
10 3 (0.69%) Control-M
10 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.69%) Kibana
10 3 (0.69%) Packer
10 3 (0.69%) systemd
11 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.41%) Google
3 25 (5.79%) Databricks
4 23 (5.32%) VMware
5 10 (2.31%) Splunk
6 7 (1.62%) Cisco
6 7 (1.62%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.16%) IBM
8 4 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.93%) Oracle
9 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.69%) Confluent
9 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.46%) Mistral
10 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.46%) Pega
10 2 (0.46%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.46%) WSO2
10 2 (0.46%) Zscaler