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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 71 46
Rank change year-on-year +24 -25 +4
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 438 347 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.57% 2.78% 5.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.45% 36.72% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 147 207 390
10th Percentile £51,700 £47,950 £46,346
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,507 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £79,375 £82,548
90th Percentile £86,750 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

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 904 945 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.43% 7.57% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 492 516 1,035
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £32,969 £44,080 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,625 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.19% +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 7 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 7 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 +46 341 £65,000 -6.68% 273
Yorkshire -20 77 £70,000 +6.93% 72
North East +1 20 £72,500 +13.28% 28
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 (1.83%) Apache Spark
1 8 (1.83%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.23%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (31.74%) AWS
2 82 (18.72%) Azure
3 46 (10.50%) Serverless
4 39 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (7.76%) GitHub
6 27 (6.16%) GCP
7 26 (5.94%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.42%) PaaS
12 15 (3.42%) SaaS
13 14 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (1.83%) Datadog
17 7 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 254 (57.99%) VPN
2 251 (57.31%) Cisco IOS
3 10 (2.28%) Firewall
4 8 (1.83%) WAN
5 7 (1.60%) DNS
6 5 (1.14%) LAN
6 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.91%) DHCP
8 3 (0.68%) SAN
9 2 (0.46%) HTTP
9 2 (0.46%) Internet
9 2 (0.46%) Network Security
9 2 (0.46%) SSL
9 2 (0.46%) VLAN
10 1 (0.23%) AMQP
10 1 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.31%) DynamoDB
2 14 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.28%) Redis
5 8 (1.83%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.37%) Delta Lake
6 6 (1.37%) Metadata
6 6 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.37%) Spark SQL
7 5 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.91%) MySQL
9 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.46%) Big Data
10 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.23%) Cloudera CDH
11 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (5.48%) Jenkins
2 20 (4.57%) GitLab
3 15 (3.42%) Git
4 10 (2.28%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.60%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.37%) MLflow
6 6 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.68%) JIRA
7 3 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.46%) Locust
9 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.23%) git-flow
9 1 (0.23%) Mocha
9 1 (0.23%) Sinon.JS
General
1 256 (58.45%) Analytical Skills
2 255 (58.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 52 (11.87%) Social Skills
4 19 (4.34%) Finance
5 12 (2.74%) Games
6 11 (2.51%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.14%) Retail
8 4 (0.91%) Banking
8 4 (0.91%) Law
9 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 259 (59.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 60 (13.70%) Senior
3 42 (9.59%) Developer
4 37 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (6.39%) Lead
6 24 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (4.34%) Software Engineer
8 16 (3.65%) Senior Developer
9 14 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (2.97%) Java Developer
11 12 (2.74%) Python Developer
12 10 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (2.05%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (2.05%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (2.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (1.83%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (1.83%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 8 (1.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 7 (1.60%) AWS Developer
15 7 (1.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (60.73%) Elastic Stack
2 55 (12.56%) React
3 29 (6.62%) .NET
4 27 (6.16%) Node.js
5 25 (5.71%) REST
6 17 (3.88%) Django
7 15 (3.42%) Vue
8 12 (2.74%) .NET Core
8 12 (2.74%) CSS
8 12 (2.74%) FastAPI
8 12 (2.74%) Flask
8 12 (2.74%) HTML
9 10 (2.28%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.05%) RESTful
10 9 (2.05%) YAML
11 8 (1.83%) Amazon Corretto
11 8 (1.83%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.83%) Lambda Expressions
11 8 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (1.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 251 (57.31%) Cyberattack
2 42 (9.59%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.83%) e-Learning
5 8 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.91%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.91%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.46%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.46%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.23%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.23%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 280 (63.93%) Linux
2 262 (59.82%) Windows
3 251 (57.31%) Android
4 13 (2.97%) Unix
5 8 (1.83%) Debian
5 8 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.46%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (84.25%) DevOps
2 291 (66.44%) Problem-Solving
3 283 (64.61%) Platform Engineering
4 276 (63.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 260 (59.36%) Line Management
6 256 (58.45%) Mathematics
6 256 (58.45%) Storage Management
7 255 (58.22%) Risk Management
8 254 (57.99%) Task Automation
9 131 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 128 (29.22%) CI/CD
11 89 (20.32%) Agile
12 51 (11.64%) Containerisation
13 42 (9.59%) Software Engineering
14 41 (9.36%) Mentoring
15 38 (8.68%) Observability
16 37 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (8.45%) Microservices
17 28 (6.39%) Continuous Integration
18 22 (5.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 325 (74.20%) Python
2 273 (62.33%) PowerShell
3 270 (61.64%) Bash
4 39 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 38 (8.68%) TypeScript
6 36 (8.22%) SQL
7 24 (5.48%) C#
7 24 (5.48%) Java
8 12 (2.74%) Bicep
9 6 (1.37%) Go
10 2 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) Perl
11 1 (0.23%) PHP
11 1 (0.23%) R
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (2.97%) Security Cleared
2 12 (2.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.60%) AWS Certification
3 7 (1.60%) Azure Certification
4 4 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.91%) Degree
5 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.83%) QA
2 3 (0.68%) GDPR
2 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.46%) NIST
3 2 (0.46%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.23%) GRC
4 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 349 (79.68%) Docker
2 259 (59.13%) vSphere
3 253 (57.76%) Hyper-V
3 253 (57.76%) VMware NSX
4 10 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.37%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.68%) KVM
7 3 (0.68%) QEMU
7 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 301 (68.72%) Ansible
2 86 (19.63%) Kubernetes
3 31 (7.08%) Grafana
4 30 (6.85%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.37%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.91%) Argo
7 3 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.68%) Control-M
7 3 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.68%) Puppet
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.23%) Kibana
9 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 259 (59.13%) Splunk
2 255 (58.22%) Cisco
3 251 (57.31%) 3PAR
3 251 (57.31%) Juniper
4 22 (5.02%) Microsoft
5 15 (3.42%) Databricks
6 13 (2.97%) VMware
7 10 (2.28%) Google
8 5 (1.14%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.91%) Aruba
9 4 (0.91%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.91%) Foundry
9 4 (0.91%) Mellanox
9 4 (0.91%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.91%) Pega
9 4 (0.91%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.91%) WSO2
10 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.46%) Salesforce