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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -25 -12 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 213 320 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.01% 3.30% 4.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.35% 36.04% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 159 197 292
10th Percentile £50,550 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £69,750
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -3.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -6.25%

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 620 888 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.87% 9.15% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 475 501 880
10th Percentile £28,850 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £84,150
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.76% +5.38% -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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -23 95 £65,000 -10.34% 49
Yorkshire -10 90 £70,000 +26.29% 40
North East +4 28 £67,539 +22.80% 11
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 10 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.76%) OpenStack
3 7 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 156 (73.24%) AWS
2 118 (55.40%) Azure
3 55 (25.82%) Serverless
4 52 (24.41%) GitHub
5 50 (23.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (18.78%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (16.90%) Amazon S3
8 35 (16.43%) GCP
9 31 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (14.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (14.08%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (10.80%) SaaS
12 20 (9.39%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (7.98%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (7.51%) PaaS
15 14 (6.57%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (6.10%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (4.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.98%) DNS
2 14 (6.57%) Firewall
3 9 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.82%) HTTP
5 4 (1.88%) WAN
6 3 (1.41%) AMQP
6 3 (1.41%) DHCP
6 3 (1.41%) Network Security
6 3 (1.41%) SAN
7 2 (0.94%) Internet
7 2 (0.94%) SSL
7 2 (0.94%) VLAN
7 2 (0.94%) VPN
8 1 (0.47%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.90%) DynamoDB
2 26 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.45%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.23%) Redis
6 7 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.82%) Delta Lake
7 6 (2.82%) Metadata
7 6 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.82%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.35%) MySQL
8 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.88%) Big Data
10 3 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (16.90%) Git
2 29 (13.62%) GitLab
3 25 (11.74%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.76%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.82%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.82%) MLflow
5 6 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.88%) JIRA
8 3 (1.41%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.94%) JMeter
9 2 (0.94%) Locust
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
General
1 62 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.63%) Finance
4 10 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.23%) Law
6 7 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.35%) Games
8 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.41%) Banking
8 3 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.94%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (21.60%) Developer
2 44 (20.66%) Senior
3 39 (18.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (17.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (15.96%) Lead
6 21 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.10%) .NET Developer
10 12 (5.63%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.69%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (28.64%) React
2 36 (16.90%) .NET
3 30 (14.08%) Node.js
4 26 (12.21%) REST
5 22 (10.33%) Django
5 22 (10.33%) RESTful
6 19 (8.92%) .NET Core
6 19 (8.92%) Vue
7 17 (7.98%) FastAPI
7 17 (7.98%) Flask
8 16 (7.51%) CSS
8 16 (7.51%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (7.51%) HTML
9 14 (6.57%) ASP.NET
10 13 (6.10%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (6.10%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.10%) Blazor
11 12 (5.63%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.94%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.16%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.88%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.94%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.90%) Linux
2 16 (7.51%) Windows
3 15 (7.04%) Unix
4 7 (3.29%) Debian
4 7 (3.29%) Ubuntu
4 7 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.88%) CentOS
7 3 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (70.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 144 (67.61%) CI/CD
3 127 (59.62%) DevOps
4 114 (53.52%) Agile
5 69 (32.39%) Containerisation
6 61 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (26.29%) Mentoring
8 49 (23.00%) Observability
9 48 (22.54%) Microservices
10 42 (19.72%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (17.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 37 (17.37%) Software Engineering
13 36 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
14 27 (12.68%) Incident Response
15 26 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (10.33%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (9.39%) AI
17 20 (9.39%) Root Cause Analysis
18 19 (8.92%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 77 (36.15%) Python
2 52 (24.41%) SQL
3 45 (21.13%) JavaScript
4 31 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.39%) C#
5 20 (9.39%) Java
6 19 (8.92%) Bash
6 19 (8.92%) PowerShell
7 13 (6.10%) Go
8 12 (5.63%) Bicep
9 2 (0.94%) C
9 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.92%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.57%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.88%) Degree
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.29%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) GDPR
2 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.41%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.94%) GRC
4 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (47.89%) Docker
2 12 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.76%) vSphere
5 4 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.41%) KVM
6 3 (1.41%) QEMU
6 3 (1.41%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (37.09%) Kubernetes
2 59 (27.70%) Ansible
3 37 (17.37%) Grafana
4 35 (16.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.82%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.35%) Puppet
9 4 (1.88%) Argo
9 4 (1.88%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.41%) Control-M
10 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.94%) Nagios
11 2 (0.94%) Rancher
12 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.47%) Kibana
12 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.57%) Splunk
3 13 (6.10%) Databricks
3 13 (6.10%) VMware
4 10 (4.69%) Google
5 8 (3.76%) New Relic
6 6 (2.82%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.88%) Foundry
8 4 (1.88%) Pega
8 4 (1.88%) WSO2
9 3 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.94%) BMC
11 1 (0.47%) Dell
11 1 (0.47%) F5
11 1 (0.47%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.47%) Verint