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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 67 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 444 419 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.86% 4.48% 2.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.93% 27.44% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 349 134 238
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,813 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £66,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £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 2,228 1,527 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.34% 16.33% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,780 763 1,665
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -33 239 £72,500 +11.54% 215
Yorkshire +13 120 £69,655 -0.49% 113
North East 0 88 £57,500 -11.54% 57
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 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.83%) Apache
4 14 (3.15%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.90%) IIS
7 3 (0.68%) Confluence
8 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) 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
1 309 (69.59%) AWS
2 197 (44.37%) Azure
3 117 (26.35%) GitHub
4 96 (21.62%) Serverless
5 91 (20.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (16.44%) GCP
7 70 (15.77%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (14.64%) Amazon S3
10 61 (13.74%) Amazon EC2
10 61 (13.74%) AWS Lambda
11 56 (12.61%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (12.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.31%) Azure AKS
15 26 (5.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (5.18%) SaaS
17 21 (4.73%) Amazon ECR
18 19 (4.28%) Amazon EMR
19 18 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.63%) Firewall
2 18 (4.05%) DNS
3 16 (3.60%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.03%) DHCP
5 8 (1.80%) VPN
6 7 (1.58%) Network Security
7 5 (1.13%) SAN
8 4 (0.90%) BGP
8 4 (0.90%) 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%) NX-OS
10 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.31%) DynamoDB
3 27 (6.08%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.83%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.38%) BigQuery
7 14 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.48%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.80%) Big Data
11 8 (1.80%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.58%) MySQL
13 6 (1.35%) Metadata
13 6 (1.35%) Power BI
14 5 (1.13%) DocumentDB
15 4 (0.90%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.90%) Flink
15 4 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 95 (21.40%) GitLab
2 78 (17.57%) Jenkins
3 66 (14.86%) Git
4 19 (4.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (3.60%) JIRA
6 10 (2.25%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.80%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.90%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.45%) Vite
13 1 (0.23%) Locust
13 1 (0.23%) MLflow
13 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
13 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 107 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 79 (17.79%) Public Sector
3 32 (7.21%) Finance
4 30 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.63%) Law
6 7 (1.58%) Aerospace
6 7 (1.58%) Retail
7 6 (1.35%) Legal
8 5 (1.13%) Local Government
9 4 (0.90%) Banking
9 4 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.90%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.45%) Advertising
11 2 (0.45%) Marketing
12 1 (0.23%) Games
12 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 122 (27.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (26.35%) Senior
3 86 (19.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (12.61%) Lead
6 46 (10.36%) Data Engineer
7 44 (9.91%) AWS Engineer
7 44 (9.91%) Developer
8 34 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
9 32 (7.21%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (6.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 29 (6.53%) Software Engineer
11 26 (5.86%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 26 (5.86%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (5.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 23 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (4.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.83%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.49%) Node.js
2 45 (10.14%) React
3 39 (8.78%) Spring
4 38 (8.56%) Spring Boot
5 32 (7.21%) PySpark
6 29 (6.53%) ARM Templates
7 26 (5.86%) REST
8 24 (5.41%) .NET
9 22 (4.95%) Kafka
10 20 (4.50%) Web Services
11 17 (3.83%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.38%) YAML
13 13 (2.93%) FastAPI
13 13 (2.93%) Pulumi
14 12 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (2.25%) AWS CDK
15 10 (2.25%) RESTful
15 10 (2.25%) Vue
16 9 (2.03%) Next.js
16 9 (2.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 115 (25.90%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.73%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.80%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.58%) Life Science
11 6 (1.35%) Blog
12 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.13%) PKI
12 5 (1.13%) Replication
13 4 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.90%) NHS
13 4 (0.90%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (21.40%) Linux
2 35 (7.88%) Windows
3 24 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (4.95%) CentOS
5 19 (4.28%) Unix
6 14 (3.15%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (75.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 321 (72.30%) CI/CD
3 278 (62.61%) DevOps
4 157 (35.36%) Agile
5 146 (32.88%) Platform Engineering
6 119 (26.80%) Containerisation
7 115 (25.90%) Mentoring
8 104 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (23.42%) Observability
9 83 (18.69%) AI
9 83 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (16.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 71 (15.99%) Microservices
11 71 (15.99%) Technical Leadership
12 70 (15.77%) Test Automation
13 67 (15.09%) Software Engineering
14 66 (14.86%) Coaching
15 55 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 54 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
17 53 (11.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 256 (57.66%) Python
2 87 (19.59%) Bash
2 87 (19.59%) Java
3 74 (16.67%) SQL
4 71 (15.99%) PowerShell
5 47 (10.59%) TypeScript
6 45 (10.14%) Bicep
7 36 (8.11%) JavaScript
8 29 (6.53%) C#
9 23 (5.18%) Go
10 21 (4.73%) Groovy
11 10 (2.25%) Ruby
12 5 (1.13%) Rust
13 4 (0.90%) Scala
14 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.68%) PHP
14 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 110 (24.77%) SC Cleared
3 61 (13.74%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.73%) Degree
5 20 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.45%) CCIE
11 2 (0.45%) CCNA
11 2 (0.45%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.05%) QA
3 9 (2.03%) GDPR
4 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) DICOM
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 195 (43.92%) Docker
2 20 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.35%) vSphere
6 3 (0.68%) iptables
7 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 208 (46.85%) Kubernetes
2 120 (27.03%) Ansible
3 32 (7.21%) Grafana
3 32 (7.21%) Progress Chef
4 24 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.50%) Argo
6 15 (3.38%) Puppet
7 7 (1.58%) Packer
8 6 (1.35%) Istio
9 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.90%) 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
13 1 (0.23%) logstash
13 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.98%) Google
3 26 (5.86%) Databricks
4 23 (5.18%) VMware
5 11 (2.48%) Splunk
6 8 (1.80%) Cisco
7 7 (1.58%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.13%) Confluent
9 5 (1.13%) IBM
10 4 (0.90%) Oracle
10 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.68%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.68%) YouTube
12 2 (0.45%) Mistral
12 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.45%) Zscaler