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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 71 88
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 -7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 242 266 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.97% 3.35% 2.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.07% 33.08% 31.06%
Number of salaries quoted 190 192 316
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,050 £46,278
25th Percentile £53,313 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +7.51% -10.31%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 671 804 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.46% 10.11% 9.50%
Number of salaries quoted 505 470 1,005
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,900 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -3 115 £65,875 -5.89% 70
Yorkshire -16 95 £62,500 +11.11% 42
North East -6 32 £55,000 -3.51% 9
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 (3.31%) OpenStack
1 8 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.65%) Apache
2 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 182 (75.21%) AWS
2 137 (56.61%) Azure
3 66 (27.27%) GitHub
4 57 (23.55%) Serverless
5 51 (21.07%) GCP
6 47 (19.42%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 43 (17.77%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (14.05%) Amazon S3
10 31 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (11.98%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (9.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (9.09%) SaaS
14 17 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (7.02%) Entra ID
15 16 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (6.61%) PaaS
16 13 (5.37%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (5.37%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 36 (14.88%) Firewall
2 26 (10.74%) DNS
3 17 (7.02%) TCP/IP
4 14 (5.79%) HTTP
5 12 (4.96%) NGFW
5 12 (4.96%) VXLAN
5 12 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (4.96%) Wireshark
6 7 (2.89%) Internet
7 5 (2.07%) VPN
8 4 (1.65%) AMQP
8 4 (1.65%) Network Security
8 4 (1.65%) WAN
9 3 (1.24%) DHCP
9 3 (1.24%) SAN
10 2 (0.83%) SSL
11 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.41%) LAN
11 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (13.22%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.02%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.96%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.72%) Redis
6 8 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.48%) MySQL
7 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.07%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (1.65%) Big Data
9 4 (1.65%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.41%) QGIS
11 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (17.36%) Git
2 37 (15.29%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.57%) GitLab
4 7 (2.89%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.65%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.24%) JIRA
7 3 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.83%) JMeter
8 2 (0.83%) Locust
9 1 (0.41%) git-flow
9 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 57 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.61%) Law
4 16 (6.61%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.55%) Finance
6 8 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.65%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.65%) Games
8 3 (1.24%) Banking
8 3 (1.24%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (18.18%) Senior
2 43 (17.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (16.94%) Cloud Engineer
3 41 (16.94%) Developer
4 30 (12.40%) Lead
5 26 (10.74%) Software Engineer
6 22 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (6.61%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.37%) .NET Developer
9 12 (4.96%) Network Manager
9 12 (4.96%) Network Operations Manager
9 12 (4.96%) Operations Manager
10 10 (4.13%) AWS Developer
10 10 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
12 8 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.31%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (27.27%) React
2 41 (16.94%) Node.js
3 32 (13.22%) .NET
3 32 (13.22%) REST
4 25 (10.33%) RESTful
5 22 (9.09%) Django
5 22 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (7.44%) .NET Core
6 18 (7.44%) FastAPI
6 18 (7.44%) Vue
7 17 (7.02%) Flask
8 15 (6.20%) AWS CDK
8 15 (6.20%) CSS
8 15 (6.20%) HTML
9 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET
9 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (5.37%) Blazor
10 12 (4.96%) AngularJS
11 10 (4.13%) Spring
11 10 (4.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.07%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.02%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.96%) PKI
4 11 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.65%) PACS
9 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.83%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.88%) Linux
2 17 (7.02%) Windows
3 9 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.89%) Debian
4 7 (2.89%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.89%) Unix
5 5 (2.07%) CentOS
5 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (66.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 154 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 129 (53.31%) DevOps
4 112 (46.28%) Agile
5 72 (29.75%) Containerisation
5 72 (29.75%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (28.51%) Mentoring
7 57 (23.55%) Microservices
8 52 (21.49%) Observability
9 50 (20.66%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 36 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (13.22%) Coaching
14 31 (12.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (10.74%) Incident Response
17 22 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
17 22 (9.09%) Scrum
18 20 (8.26%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.56%) Python
2 50 (20.66%) JavaScript
3 42 (17.36%) SQL
3 42 (17.36%) TypeScript
4 28 (11.57%) Go
5 24 (9.92%) Bash
6 21 (8.68%) Java
7 18 (7.44%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.61%) C#
9 14 (5.79%) Bicep
10 7 (2.89%) C
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.02%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (4.13%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.48%) Degree
6 6 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.89%) QA
2 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.65%) DICOM
3 4 (1.65%) GDPR
4 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.24%) NIST
4 3 (1.24%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.83%) GRC
5 2 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (38.43%) Docker
2 13 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.89%) vSphere
4 4 (1.65%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.24%) KVM
5 3 (1.24%) QEMU
5 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (33.06%) Ansible
2 74 (30.58%) Kubernetes
3 39 (16.12%) Grafana
4 36 (14.88%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.48%) Puppet
8 3 (1.24%) Argo
8 3 (1.24%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.24%) Rancher
9 2 (0.83%) Control-M
9 2 (0.83%) Nagios
10 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.20%) Google
3 13 (5.37%) Splunk
4 12 (4.96%) Arista
4 12 (4.96%) Aruba
4 12 (4.96%) NetScout
5 11 (4.55%) VMware
6 9 (3.72%) New Relic
7 7 (2.89%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.65%) Pega
9 4 (1.65%) WSO2
10 3 (1.24%) Databricks
10 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.83%) BMC
11 2 (0.83%) F5
11 2 (0.83%) Foundry
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle