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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 68 64
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 440 408 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.83% 4.27% 2.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.83% 26.79% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 347 124 224
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -0.71% -6.48%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,925 £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 2,219 1,523 2,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.22% 15.95% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,770 760 1,558
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £86,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

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 October 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 October 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 -34 238 £72,000 +10.77% 204
Yorkshire +19 115 £69,310 -0.99% 83
North East +7 93 £57,500 -11.54% 45
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 (6.59%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.77%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.32%) Apache
4 15 (3.41%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.91%) IIS
7 3 (0.68%) Confluence
7 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 306 (69.55%) AWS
2 194 (44.09%) Azure
3 113 (25.68%) GitHub
4 91 (20.68%) Serverless
5 90 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 72 (16.36%) GCP
7 68 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (15.00%) Amazon S3
9 62 (14.09%) Amazon EC2
10 61 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (12.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (6.59%) Azure AKS
15 25 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
16 22 (5.00%) SaaS
17 20 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (4.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.68%) Firewall
2 18 (4.09%) DNS
3 15 (3.41%) 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 (0.45%) CTI
10 2 (0.45%) DMZ
10 2 (0.45%) IPsec
10 2 (0.45%) LAN
10 2 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.05%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.36%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.91%) DynamoDB
4 25 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.09%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (3.41%) BigQuery
7 15 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 14 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.50%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.82%) Big Data
10 8 (1.82%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.59%) MySQL
11 7 (1.59%) Power BI
12 6 (1.36%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.36%) Metadata
12 6 (1.36%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.91%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.91%) Flink
13 4 (0.91%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 103 (23.41%) GitLab
2 77 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 69 (15.68%) Git
4 19 (4.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (3.64%) JIRA
6 9 (2.05%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.36%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.91%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.45%) Vite
11 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.23%) MLflow
11 1 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 107 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 88 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 33 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.27%) Finance
5 26 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.68%) Law
7 7 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.59%) Retail
8 6 (1.36%) Legal
9 5 (1.14%) Local Government
10 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.45%) Advertising
12 2 (0.45%) Banking
12 2 (0.45%) Marketing
12 2 (0.45%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (28.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 119 (27.05%) Senior
3 83 (18.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (12.95%) Platform Engineer
5 50 (11.36%) Lead
6 45 (10.23%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
8 41 (9.32%) Developer
9 32 (7.27%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
11 29 (6.59%) Senior DevOps
11 29 (6.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 29 (6.59%) Software Engineer
12 28 (6.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.91%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 23 (5.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 18 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
18 17 (3.86%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.36%) Node.js
2 46 (10.45%) React
3 39 (8.86%) Spring
4 38 (8.64%) Spring Boot
5 31 (7.05%) PySpark
6 27 (6.14%) ARM Templates
7 26 (5.91%) REST
8 24 (5.45%) .NET
8 24 (5.45%) Kafka
9 20 (4.55%) Web Services
10 17 (3.86%) AngularJS
11 14 (3.18%) YAML
12 13 (2.95%) FastAPI
12 13 (2.95%) Pulumi
13 11 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (2.27%) AWS CDK
14 10 (2.27%) RESTful
15 9 (2.05%) Next.js
16 8 (1.82%) Nunjucks
16 8 (1.82%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 118 (26.82%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.77%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.59%) Life Science
9 6 (1.36%) Blog
9 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.14%) Replication
11 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.91%) NHS
11 4 (0.91%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.05%) Linux
2 37 (8.41%) Windows
3 24 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (5.00%) CentOS
5 20 (4.55%) Unix
6 13 (2.95%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (75.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 322 (73.18%) CI/CD
3 281 (63.86%) DevOps
4 162 (36.82%) Agile
5 146 (33.18%) Platform Engineering
6 120 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 116 (26.36%) Mentoring
8 104 (23.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 100 (22.73%) Observability
10 86 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
11 85 (19.32%) AI
12 77 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
13 72 (16.36%) Microservices
13 72 (16.36%) Test Automation
14 71 (16.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 70 (15.91%) Software Engineering
16 68 (15.45%) Coaching
17 59 (13.41%) Infrastructure Automation
18 58 (13.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 55 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 255 (57.95%) Python
2 90 (20.45%) Bash
3 87 (19.77%) Java
4 71 (16.14%) PowerShell
5 69 (15.68%) SQL
6 46 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 45 (10.23%) Bicep
8 34 (7.73%) JavaScript
9 29 (6.59%) C#
10 25 (5.68%) Go
11 20 (4.55%) Groovy
12 10 (2.27%) Ruby
13 5 (1.14%) Rust
14 4 (0.91%) Scala
15 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.68%) PHP
15 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.45%) Perl
16 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 117 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.09%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 20 (4.55%) Degree
5 12 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.45%) CCIE
10 2 (0.45%) CCNA
10 2 (0.45%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.09%) QA
3 7 (1.59%) GDPR
4 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 193 (43.86%) Docker
2 20 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.36%) vSphere
6 3 (0.68%) iptables
6 3 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 212 (48.18%) Kubernetes
2 123 (27.95%) Ansible
3 33 (7.50%) Progress Chef
4 32 (7.27%) Grafana
5 25 (5.68%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.32%) Argo
7 17 (3.86%) Puppet
8 7 (1.59%) Packer
9 6 (1.36%) Istio
9 6 (1.36%) 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 (0.45%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.45%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 58 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.05%) Google
3 26 (5.91%) Databricks
4 24 (5.45%) VMware
5 11 (2.50%) Splunk
6 9 (2.05%) Cisco
7 7 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.36%) Confluent
8 6 (1.36%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.14%) IBM
9 5 (1.14%) YouTube
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
12 2 (0.45%) F5
12 2 (0.45%) FIS
12 2 (0.45%) Zscaler