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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 65 64
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 439 410 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.83% 4.32% 2.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.77% 26.92% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 349 126 234
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,875 £87,500
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 2,220 1,523 2,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.24% 16.03% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 760 1,607
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,269 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.47%

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 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 28 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 -38 238 £72,000 +10.77% 185
Yorkshire +22 116 £69,310 -0.99% 78
North East +5 91 £57,500 -11.54% 43
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 29 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.33%) Apache
4 15 (3.42%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.91%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 306 (69.70%) AWS
2 193 (43.96%) Azure
3 114 (25.97%) GitHub
4 92 (20.96%) Serverless
5 90 (20.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (16.17%) GCP
7 69 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (15.72%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (15.03%) Amazon S3
9 63 (14.35%) Amazon EC2
10 61 (13.90%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (12.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 45 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.38%) Azure AKS
15 26 (5.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (5.01%) Amazon ECR
17 21 (4.78%) SaaS
18 20 (4.56%) Amazon EMR
19 18 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.69%) Firewall
2 18 (4.10%) DNS
3 16 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.05%) DHCP
5 8 (1.82%) VPN
6 7 (1.59%) Network Security
7 5 (1.14%) SAN
8 4 (0.91%) BGP
8 4 (0.91%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.68%) AMQP
9 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.68%) SSH
9 3 (0.68%) WAN
9 3 (0.68%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) IPsec
10 2 (0.46%) LAN
10 2 (0.46%) NX-OS
10 2 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.92%) DynamoDB
4 25 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (3.42%) BigQuery
8 14 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.51%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.82%) Big Data
10 8 (1.82%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.59%) MySQL
11 7 (1.59%) Power BI
11 7 (1.59%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.37%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.37%) Metadata
13 4 (0.91%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.91%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 101 (23.01%) GitLab
2 77 (17.54%) Jenkins
3 68 (15.49%) Git
4 19 (4.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (3.42%) JIRA
6 9 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.82%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.37%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.91%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.46%) Vite
12 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.23%) MLflow
12 1 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 107 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.82%) Public Sector
3 32 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (7.29%) Finance
4 26 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.69%) Law
6 7 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 7 (1.59%) Retail
7 6 (1.37%) Legal
8 5 (1.14%) Local Government
9 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.68%) Banking
10 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.46%) Advertising
11 2 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.23%) Games
12 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (28.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 118 (26.88%) Senior
3 85 (19.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (12.98%) Platform Engineer
5 51 (11.62%) Lead
6 46 (10.48%) Data Engineer
7 44 (10.02%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (9.57%) Developer
9 32 (7.29%) Azure Engineer
9 32 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (6.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 28 (6.38%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.92%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 23 (5.24%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 18 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
17 17 (3.87%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.16%) Node.js
2 45 (10.25%) React
3 39 (8.88%) Spring
4 38 (8.66%) Spring Boot
5 31 (7.06%) PySpark
6 28 (6.38%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.15%) REST
8 24 (5.47%) .NET
8 24 (5.47%) Kafka
9 20 (4.56%) Web Services
10 17 (3.87%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.42%) YAML
12 13 (2.96%) FastAPI
12 13 (2.96%) Pulumi
13 12 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (2.28%) AWS CDK
14 10 (2.28%) RESTful
15 9 (2.05%) Next.js
16 8 (1.82%) Nunjucks
16 8 (1.82%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 117 (26.65%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.59%) Life Science
9 7 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.37%) Blog
10 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.14%) Replication
11 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.91%) NHS
12 4 (0.91%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (21.87%) Linux
2 37 (8.43%) Windows
3 24 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (5.01%) CentOS
5 20 (4.56%) Unix
6 13 (2.96%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (75.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 320 (72.89%) CI/CD
3 280 (63.78%) DevOps
4 160 (36.45%) Agile
5 146 (33.26%) Platform Engineering
6 119 (27.11%) Containerisation
7 113 (25.74%) Mentoring
8 102 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 101 (23.01%) Observability
10 83 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
11 82 (18.68%) AI
12 74 (16.86%) Technical Leadership
13 71 (16.17%) Microservices
13 71 (16.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 71 (16.17%) Test Automation
14 67 (15.26%) Software Engineering
15 65 (14.81%) Coaching
16 58 (13.21%) Infrastructure Automation
17 56 (12.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 55 (12.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 253 (57.63%) Python
2 89 (20.27%) Bash
3 86 (19.59%) Java
4 71 (16.17%) PowerShell
5 70 (15.95%) SQL
6 45 (10.25%) Bicep
6 45 (10.25%) TypeScript
7 33 (7.52%) JavaScript
8 29 (6.61%) C#
9 23 (5.24%) Go
10 20 (4.56%) Groovy
11 10 (2.28%) Ruby
12 5 (1.14%) Rust
13 4 (0.91%) Scala
14 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.68%) PHP
14 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 115 (26.20%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.12%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.56%) Azure Certification
4 20 (4.56%) Degree
5 12 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) CCIE
10 2 (0.46%) CCNA
10 2 (0.46%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.10%) QA
3 8 (1.82%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.91%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.46%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 192 (43.74%) Docker
2 20 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.37%) vSphere
6 3 (0.68%) iptables
6 3 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 211 (48.06%) Kubernetes
2 123 (28.02%) Ansible
3 32 (7.29%) Grafana
3 32 (7.29%) Progress Chef
4 25 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.56%) Argo
6 16 (3.64%) Puppet
7 7 (1.59%) Packer
8 6 (1.37%) Istio
9 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.91%) linkerd
11 3 (0.68%) Control-M
11 3 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.68%) Kibana
11 3 (0.68%) systemd
12 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 56 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.83%) Google
3 27 (6.15%) Databricks
4 24 (5.47%) VMware
5 11 (2.51%) Splunk
6 8 (1.82%) Cisco
7 7 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.37%) Confluent
8 6 (1.37%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.14%) IBM
10 4 (0.91%) Oracle
10 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.68%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.68%) YouTube
12 2 (0.46%) Mistral
12 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.46%) Zscaler