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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 58 84
Rank change year-on-year -22 +26 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 386 480 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.85% 5.10% 2.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.43% 33.61% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 315 187 310
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £85,000
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 979 1,428 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.70% 15.16% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 787 502 996
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,013 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £81,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -7.41%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -29 217 £72,000 +0.01% 83
Yorkshire +2 111 £70,000 - 35
North East -18 58 £55,750 -14.23% 24
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 23 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.11%) Apache
2 12 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.59%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.04%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.78%) JBoss
6 2 (0.52%) Confluence
6 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 280 (72.54%) AWS
2 194 (50.26%) Azure
3 100 (25.91%) GitHub
4 73 (18.91%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (18.91%) Serverless
5 72 (18.65%) GCP
6 60 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
7 59 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (11.66%) Amazon S3
9 38 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (6.99%) Azure AKS
13 26 (6.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (5.44%) SaaS
15 16 (4.15%) Amazon ECR
15 16 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (4.15%) dbt
15 16 (4.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.14%) Firewall
2 27 (6.99%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.48%) DNS
4 13 (3.37%) HTTP
5 9 (2.33%) VPN
6 7 (1.81%) Network Security
6 7 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.55%) NGFW
7 6 (1.55%) SAN
7 6 (1.55%) VXLAN
7 6 (1.55%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.78%) BGP
8 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.78%) SSH
9 2 (0.52%) AMQP
9 2 (0.52%) DHCP
9 2 (0.52%) DMZ
9 2 (0.52%) IPsec
9 2 (0.52%) WAN
10 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.25%) DynamoDB
2 25 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.11%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.85%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.33%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.81%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.55%) MySQL
12 5 (1.30%) Big Data
12 5 (1.30%) Power BI
13 4 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.04%) Flink
13 4 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.04%) QGIS
13 4 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (18.65%) Jenkins
2 64 (16.58%) GitLab
3 41 (10.62%) Git
4 11 (2.85%) JIRA
5 10 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.81%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.30%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.78%) Maven
10 3 (0.78%) Selenium
11 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.52%) Vite
12 1 (0.26%) Locust
12 1 (0.26%) MLflow
12 1 (0.26%) PyCharm
General
1 76 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.51%) Public Sector
3 24 (6.22%) Finance
4 22 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.18%) Law
6 15 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.89%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.81%) Banking
8 6 (1.55%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.30%) Retail
10 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Legal
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Local Government
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (27.98%) Senior
2 106 (27.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (17.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 46 (11.92%) Lead
5 44 (11.40%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (10.10%) Developer
7 38 (9.84%) Data Engineer
8 34 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
9 33 (8.55%) Software Engineer
10 26 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (6.48%) Senior DevOps
11 25 (6.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 24 (6.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
14 20 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (4.66%) Architect
16 16 (4.15%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 16 (4.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 15 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
17 15 (3.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.25%) Node.js
2 42 (10.88%) React
3 31 (8.03%) Spring Boot
4 30 (7.77%) Spring
5 28 (7.25%) ARM Templates
5 28 (7.25%) PySpark
6 27 (6.99%) REST
7 26 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (6.22%) .NET
9 17 (4.40%) YAML
10 16 (4.15%) Kafka
10 16 (4.15%) Web Services
11 12 (3.11%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.11%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.33%) Next.js
12 9 (2.33%) OAuth
12 9 (2.33%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.33%) OpenID
12 9 (2.33%) Vue
13 8 (2.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.33%) PKI
8 7 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.30%) Life Science
10 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.30%) PACS
10 5 (1.30%) Replication
11 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.39%) Linux
2 28 (7.25%) Windows
3 15 (3.89%) Unix
4 12 (3.11%) CentOS
4 12 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.04%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (70.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 260 (67.36%) CI/CD
3 222 (57.51%) DevOps
4 131 (33.94%) Agile
5 125 (32.38%) Platform Engineering
6 111 (28.76%) Mentoring
7 104 (26.94%) Containerisation
8 81 (20.98%) Observability
9 72 (18.65%) AI
10 71 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (17.10%) Microservices
12 62 (16.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 59 (15.28%) Test Automation
14 58 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (14.51%) Software Engineering
16 54 (13.99%) Scrum
17 52 (13.47%) Coaching
18 48 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
19 41 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
20 34 (8.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 211 (54.66%) Python
2 75 (19.43%) Java
3 68 (17.62%) Bash
4 63 (16.32%) SQL
5 57 (14.77%) PowerShell
6 45 (11.66%) TypeScript
7 42 (10.88%) JavaScript
8 33 (8.55%) Bicep
9 31 (8.03%) Go
10 25 (6.48%) C#
11 18 (4.66%) Groovy
12 6 (1.55%) Ruby
13 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.78%) PHP
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) Perl
15 1 (0.26%) Scala
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 69 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.29%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.44%) Degree
5 20 (5.18%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.52%) CCIE
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.63%) QA
3 10 (2.59%) GDPR
4 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.55%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.30%) DICOM
6 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 137 (35.49%) Docker
2 14 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.85%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.04%) vSphere
6 3 (0.78%) iptables
7 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 160 (41.45%) Kubernetes
2 101 (26.17%) Ansible
3 36 (9.33%) Grafana
4 30 (7.77%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.18%) Argo
6 17 (4.40%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.30%) Istio
7 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.30%) Packer
7 5 (1.30%) Puppet
8 3 (0.78%) Control-M
8 3 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.78%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.78%) linkerd
8 3 (0.78%) systemd
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.52%) Kibana
9 2 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 43 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.48%) Google
3 22 (5.70%) Databricks
4 19 (4.92%) VMware
5 8 (2.07%) Splunk
6 7 (1.81%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.55%) Arista
7 6 (1.55%) Aruba
7 6 (1.55%) NetScout
8 5 (1.30%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.30%) IBM
8 5 (1.30%) Oracle
9 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.78%) Cisco
9 3 (0.78%) F5
9 3 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.52%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.52%) Pega
10 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.52%) Zscaler