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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -29 -12 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 208 316 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.98% 3.21% 4.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.77% 35.67% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 158 196 290
10th Percentile £51,775 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 616 886 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.86% 8.99% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 478 505 877
10th Percentile £28,925 £34,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,625 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -11.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,434
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -24 95 £65,000 -10.34% 78
Yorkshire -20 86 £70,000 +23.97% 70
North East 0 27 £70,079 +27.42% 18
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 (4.33%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 152 (73.08%) AWS
2 111 (53.37%) Azure
3 52 (25.00%) Serverless
4 48 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (22.60%) GitHub
6 36 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (16.35%) Amazon S3
8 32 (15.38%) GCP
9 29 (13.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (13.94%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (10.58%) SaaS
13 18 (8.65%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (7.69%) PaaS
15 13 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (5.77%) Amazon EventBridge
17 11 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (5.29%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.69%) DNS
2 13 (6.25%) Firewall
3 8 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.40%) HTTP
5 4 (1.92%) WAN
6 3 (1.44%) DHCP
6 3 (1.44%) Network Security
6 3 (1.44%) SAN
7 2 (0.96%) AMQP
7 2 (0.96%) Internet
7 2 (0.96%) SSL
7 2 (0.96%) VLAN
7 2 (0.96%) VPN
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.83%) DynamoDB
2 24 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.17%) SQL Server
4 16 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.33%) Redis
7 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.88%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.88%) Metadata
8 6 (2.88%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.88%) Spark SQL
9 5 (2.40%) MySQL
9 5 (2.40%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.44%) Big Data
11 2 (0.96%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 34 (16.35%) Git
2 30 (14.42%) GitLab
3 24 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.37%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.88%) MLflow
6 6 (2.88%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.92%) JIRA
9 3 (1.44%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.96%) JMeter
10 2 (0.96%) Locust
11 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.48%) git-flow
General
1 61 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.25%) Finance
3 12 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.81%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.85%) Law
6 6 (2.88%) Games
6 6 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.44%) Banking
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
7 3 (1.44%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (22.12%) Senior
2 44 (21.15%) Developer
3 38 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (16.83%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (16.35%) Lead
6 20 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Python Developer
9 12 (5.77%) Lead DevOps
10 11 (5.29%) .NET Developer
11 10 (4.81%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.37%) React
2 35 (16.83%) .NET
3 29 (13.94%) Node.js
4 25 (12.02%) REST
5 21 (10.10%) Django
6 20 (9.62%) RESTful
7 18 (8.65%) .NET Core
7 18 (8.65%) Vue
8 16 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (7.69%) FastAPI
8 16 (7.69%) Flask
9 15 (7.21%) CSS
9 15 (7.21%) HTML
10 12 (5.77%) ASP.NET
11 11 (5.29%) AngularJS
11 11 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (5.29%) AWS CDK
11 11 (5.29%) Blazor
12 9 (4.33%) YAML
13 8 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.81%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.96%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.96%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.48%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.31%) Linux
2 15 (7.21%) Unix
2 15 (7.21%) Windows
3 7 (3.37%) Debian
3 7 (3.37%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.44%) CentOS
6 3 (1.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (70.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 141 (67.79%) CI/CD
3 125 (60.10%) DevOps
4 111 (53.37%) Agile
5 65 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 58 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (26.44%) Mentoring
8 48 (23.08%) Observability
9 45 (21.63%) Microservices
10 41 (19.71%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 37 (17.79%) Software Engineering
13 35 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.50%) Incident Response
15 25 (12.02%) Deployment Automation
15 25 (12.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
17 19 (9.13%) AI
17 19 (9.13%) Coaching
17 19 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.58%) Python
2 49 (23.56%) SQL
3 42 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 32 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.10%) C#
6 20 (9.62%) Java
7 19 (9.13%) Bash
7 19 (9.13%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.77%) Bicep
9 11 (5.29%) Go
10 2 (0.96%) C
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (9.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.81%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.92%) Degree
7 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.37%) QA
2 4 (1.92%) GDPR
2 4 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.44%) NIST
4 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.96%) GRC
4 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (49.04%) Docker
2 11 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.85%) vSphere
5 4 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.44%) KVM
6 3 (1.44%) QEMU
6 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (37.98%) Kubernetes
2 58 (27.88%) Ansible
3 37 (17.79%) Grafana
4 35 (16.83%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.88%) Kubeflow
8 4 (1.92%) Argo
8 4 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.92%) Puppet
9 3 (1.44%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.44%) Control-M
9 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.96%) Nagios
10 2 (0.96%) Rancher
11 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.48%) Kibana
11 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.73%) Splunk
3 13 (6.25%) Databricks
3 13 (6.25%) VMware
4 9 (4.33%) Google
5 7 (3.37%) New Relic
6 5 (2.40%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.92%) Foundry
7 4 (1.92%) Pega
7 4 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.92%) WSO2
8 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.96%) BMC
10 1 (0.48%) Avaya
10 1 (0.48%) Dell
10 1 (0.48%) F5
10 1 (0.48%) Genesys
10 1 (0.48%) Salesforce