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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 60 69
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 414 474 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.92% 4.96% 2.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.12% 33.69% 37.79%
Number of salaries quoted 334 181 280
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £85,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 1,032 1,407 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.80% 14.71% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 822 488 843
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £33,125 £42,369
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,020 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,875 £83,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - +1.96% -5.56%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -26 228 £72,250 +3.21% 114
Yorkshire +7 114 £72,500 +3.57% 58
North East -4 72 £56,500 -13.08% 27
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 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.38%) Apache
4 12 (2.90%) Jupyter
5 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.97%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.72%) JBoss
8 2 (0.48%) Confluence
8 2 (0.48%) IIS
8 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 293 (70.77%) AWS
2 201 (48.55%) Azure
3 104 (25.12%) GitHub
4 84 (20.29%) Serverless
5 75 (18.12%) GCP
6 73 (17.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 72 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (13.04%) Amazon S3
10 52 (12.56%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (6.28%) Azure AKS
15 23 (5.56%) SaaS
16 21 (5.07%) dbt
17 20 (4.83%) Amazon ECR
18 18 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 16 (3.86%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.97%) Firewall
2 27 (6.52%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.04%) DNS
4 9 (2.17%) HTTP
4 9 (2.17%) VPN
5 7 (1.69%) Network Security
6 6 (1.45%) SAN
7 5 (1.21%) DHCP
8 3 (0.72%) BGP
8 3 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.72%) SSH
9 2 (0.48%) AMQP
9 2 (0.48%) DMZ
9 2 (0.48%) IPsec
9 2 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.48%) WAN
9 2 (0.48%) Wireless
10 1 (0.24%) LAN
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.25%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.07%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.86%) BigQuery
7 15 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.14%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.66%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.17%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.93%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.69%) MySQL
13 6 (1.45%) Power BI
14 5 (1.21%) Big Data
14 5 (1.21%) Flink
14 5 (1.21%) Metadata
15 4 (0.97%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.97%) QGIS
15 4 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (18.36%) Jenkins
2 71 (17.15%) GitLab
3 54 (13.04%) Git
4 13 (3.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.66%) JIRA
6 10 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.45%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.45%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.72%) Maven
10 3 (0.72%) Selenium
11 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.48%) Vite
12 1 (0.24%) JMeter
12 1 (0.24%) Locust
12 1 (0.24%) MLflow
12 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 90 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.25%) Public Sector
3 27 (6.52%) Finance
4 23 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.31%) Law
6 20 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.69%) Banking
9 6 (1.45%) Retail
9 6 (1.45%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.72%) Legal
11 2 (0.48%) Advertising
11 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Local Government
12 1 (0.24%) Games
12 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 117 (28.26%) Senior
2 114 (27.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (18.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (12.08%) Lead
5 47 (11.35%) Platform Engineer
6 44 (10.63%) Data Engineer
7 42 (10.14%) Developer
8 36 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
9 32 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (7.25%) Software Engineer
11 27 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (6.28%) Principal Engineer
12 26 (6.28%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (6.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 23 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (4.35%) Architect
14 18 (4.35%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.11%) Senior Developer
15 17 (4.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (13.04%) Node.js
2 39 (9.42%) React
3 35 (8.45%) Spring Boot
4 34 (8.21%) Spring
5 30 (7.25%) PySpark
6 29 (7.00%) ARM Templates
7 28 (6.76%) REST
8 27 (6.52%) .NET
9 22 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (4.59%) Kafka
11 18 (4.35%) YAML
12 16 (3.86%) Web Services
13 15 (3.62%) AngularJS
14 11 (2.66%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.17%) Next.js
15 9 (2.17%) OAuth
15 9 (2.17%) OAuth2
15 9 (2.17%) OpenID
15 9 (2.17%) RESTful
15 9 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.38%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.45%) Life Science
12 5 (1.21%) Replication
12 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.97%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.97%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.72%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 80 (19.32%) Linux
2 33 (7.97%) Windows
3 18 (4.35%) Unix
4 15 (3.62%) CentOS
4 15 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.14%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.72%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (72.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 290 (70.05%) CI/CD
3 246 (59.42%) DevOps
4 143 (34.54%) Agile
5 133 (32.13%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (28.02%) Mentoring
7 111 (26.81%) Containerisation
8 92 (22.22%) Observability
9 84 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (17.87%) AI
11 70 (16.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 68 (16.43%) Microservices
13 63 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (15.22%) Test Automation
14 58 (14.01%) Software Engineering
15 57 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (12.80%) Coaching
16 53 (12.80%) Scrum
17 41 (9.90%) Infrastructure Automation
18 39 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 226 (54.59%) Python
2 81 (19.57%) Java
3 75 (18.12%) Bash
4 71 (17.15%) SQL
5 63 (15.22%) PowerShell
6 43 (10.39%) JavaScript
6 43 (10.39%) TypeScript
7 39 (9.42%) Bicep
8 31 (7.49%) Go
9 28 (6.76%) C#
10 18 (4.35%) Groovy
11 7 (1.69%) Ruby
12 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 2 (0.48%) Perl
14 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.24%) Scala
15 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 84 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.66%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.83%) Degree
6 12 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.48%) CCIE
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.11%) QA
3 10 (2.42%) GDPR
4 6 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.45%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.72%) DICOM
5 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 162 (39.13%) Docker
2 17 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.97%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) iptables
7 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 177 (42.75%) Kubernetes
2 104 (25.12%) Ansible
3 34 (8.21%) Grafana
4 28 (6.76%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.83%) Argo
5 20 (4.83%) Progress Chef
6 9 (2.17%) Puppet
7 6 (1.45%) Istio
8 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.97%) linkerd
9 4 (0.97%) Packer
10 3 (0.72%) Control-M
10 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.72%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.72%) Kibana
10 3 (0.72%) systemd
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.48%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 50 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.25%) Google
3 24 (5.80%) Databricks
4 21 (5.07%) VMware
5 8 (1.93%) Splunk
6 7 (1.69%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.21%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.21%) IBM
7 5 (1.21%) Oracle
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco
8 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.72%) Confluent
9 3 (0.72%) F5
9 3 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.48%) Pega
10 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.48%) WSO2
10 2 (0.48%) Zscaler