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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 75 53
Rank change year-on-year -32 -22 -6
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 189 339 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.00% 2.78% 5.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.93% 36.14% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 146 203 347
10th Percentile £51,625 £43,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,254 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £78,790 £79,375 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 611 938 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.45% 7.68% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 487 511 964
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,875 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,750 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.85% -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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -23 92 £65,000 -7.14% 63
Yorkshire -17 74 £68,000 +4.62% 26
North East +11 23 £67,539 +13.51% 17
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 9 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.23%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.59%) Apache
3 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 143 (75.66%) AWS
2 91 (48.15%) Azure
3 46 (24.34%) Serverless
4 42 (22.22%) GitHub
5 41 (21.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (15.87%) GCP
7 27 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 25 (13.23%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (12.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (12.17%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (10.58%) SaaS
12 17 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (8.47%) PaaS
14 13 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (4.23%) Datadog
18 7 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.88%) Firewall
2 9 (4.76%) DNS
3 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.70%) WAN
5 5 (2.65%) HTTP
6 4 (2.12%) LAN
6 4 (2.12%) SAN
7 3 (1.59%) DHCP
7 3 (1.59%) Network Security
8 2 (1.06%) AMQP
8 2 (1.06%) SSL
8 2 (1.06%) VLAN
8 2 (1.06%) VPN
9 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.34%) DynamoDB
2 15 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.35%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.76%) Redis
6 8 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.17%) Delta Lake
7 6 (3.17%) Metadata
7 6 (3.17%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.12%) MySQL
10 3 (1.59%) Big Data
11 2 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (13.76%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.11%) GitLab
3 17 (8.99%) Git
4 9 (4.76%) CircleCI
4 9 (4.76%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.17%) MLflow
7 5 (2.65%) JIRA
8 4 (2.12%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.12%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.06%) JMeter
9 2 (1.06%) Locust
10 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.53%) git-flow
10 1 (0.53%) Mocha
10 1 (0.53%) Sinon.JS
General
1 55 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.99%) Finance
3 10 (5.29%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.76%) Games
5 8 (4.23%) Law
6 6 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.65%) Retail
8 4 (2.12%) Banking
9 3 (1.59%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (26.98%) Senior
2 41 (21.69%) Developer
3 39 (20.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (15.34%) Lead
5 23 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 16 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.35%) Python Developer
8 12 (6.35%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.82%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (5.29%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 9 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Operations Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.10%) React
2 30 (15.87%) .NET
3 28 (14.81%) Node.js
4 24 (12.70%) REST
5 19 (10.05%) Django
6 18 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (8.47%) Vue
8 14 (7.41%) FastAPI
8 14 (7.41%) Flask
9 13 (6.88%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.88%) CSS
9 13 (6.88%) HTML
10 11 (5.82%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.29%) RESTful
12 9 (4.76%) YAML
13 8 (4.23%) ARM Templates
13 8 (4.23%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (4.23%) Spring
13 8 (4.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.65%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.12%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.12%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.87%) Linux
2 13 (6.88%) Unix
3 11 (5.82%) Windows
4 8 (4.23%) Debian
4 8 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.06%) CentOS
6 2 (1.06%) VMS
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (71.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 133 (70.37%) CI/CD
3 119 (62.96%) DevOps
4 91 (48.15%) Agile
5 57 (30.16%) Containerisation
6 44 (23.28%) Mentoring
6 44 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (22.75%) Observability
8 39 (20.63%) Software Engineering
9 38 (20.11%) Microservices
10 36 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (17.99%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (12.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 21 (11.11%) Incident Response
16 19 (10.05%) Cloud Security
16 19 (10.05%) Infrastructure Automation
17 18 (9.52%) Clean Code
17 18 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (38.62%) Python
2 40 (21.16%) JavaScript
2 40 (21.16%) SQL
3 34 (17.99%) TypeScript
4 23 (12.17%) C#
5 22 (11.64%) Java
6 21 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 20 (10.58%) Bash
8 13 (6.88%) Bicep
9 7 (3.70%) Go
10 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.65%) Degree
6 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.70%) QA
2 4 (2.12%) GDPR
2 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.59%) NIST
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.06%) GRC
4 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (51.85%) Docker
2 9 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.23%) vSphere
4 4 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.59%) KVM
5 3 (1.59%) QEMU
6 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (41.80%) Kubernetes
2 52 (27.51%) Ansible
3 35 (18.52%) Grafana
4 32 (16.93%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.17%) Kubeflow
6 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.12%) Argo
7 4 (2.12%) Control-M
7 4 (2.12%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.12%) Puppet
7 4 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.59%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.53%) Kibana
9 1 (0.53%) Nagios
9 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.41%) Databricks
3 13 (6.88%) VMware
4 11 (5.82%) Google
5 10 (5.29%) Splunk
6 5 (2.65%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.12%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.12%) Foundry
7 4 (2.12%) New Relic
7 4 (2.12%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.12%) Pega
7 4 (2.12%) WSO2
8 3 (1.59%) Aruba
8 3 (1.59%) Cisco
8 3 (1.59%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.59%) Mellanox
8 3 (1.59%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.53%) OpenAI