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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 65 47
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 +2
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 408 364 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.47% 2.85% 5.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.92% 37.53% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 121 208 416
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,125 £46,925
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,380 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,225 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -3.96% -3.45%
75th Percentile £78,790 £79,063 £81,563
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 1,022 970 1,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.20% 7.58% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 448 529 1,089
10th Percentile £27,350 £33,950 £31,900
25th Percentile £32,000 £44,106 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -13.93% +2.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,625 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -5.11%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +31 335 £65,000 -4.98% 96
Yorkshire -42 57 £70,000 +7.69% 54
North East 0 16 £65,000 +0.41% 27
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 (1.96%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.25%) IIS
3 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.25%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (26.96%) AWS
2 70 (17.16%) Azure
3 31 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.62%) Serverless
5 22 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (5.39%) GitHub
6 21 (5.15%) GCP
7 19 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (4.41%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (2.70%) PaaS
12 10 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.21%) SaaS
13 9 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.72%) AWS CodeBuild
15 7 (1.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 253 (62.01%) VPN
2 251 (61.52%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (2.21%) WAN
4 8 (1.96%) Firewall
5 7 (1.72%) DNS
5 7 (1.72%) LAN
6 4 (0.98%) DHCP
7 3 (0.74%) SAN
7 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
8 2 (0.49%) Internet
8 2 (0.49%) SSL
8 2 (0.49%) VLAN
9 1 (0.25%) MQTT
9 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.72%) Redis
4 6 (1.47%) Delta Lake
4 6 (1.47%) Metadata
4 6 (1.47%) Spark SQL
5 5 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.49%) MySQL
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.25%) Big Data
9 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.25%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.13%) Jenkins
2 20 (4.90%) GitLab
3 10 (2.45%) CircleCI
3 10 (2.45%) Git
4 7 (1.72%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.47%) MLflow
5 6 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.74%) JIRA
6 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.25%) git-flow
7 1 (0.25%) Mocha
7 1 (0.25%) Sinon.JS
General
1 257 (62.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 253 (62.01%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (9.56%) Social Skills
4 17 (4.17%) Finance
5 12 (2.94%) Games
6 9 (2.21%) Public Sector
7 4 (0.98%) Banking
8 3 (0.74%) Law
8 3 (0.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 261 (63.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (13.24%) Senior
3 34 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (7.60%) Developer
5 24 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (5.88%) Lead
6 15 (3.68%) Senior Developer
7 13 (3.19%) Java Developer
8 12 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (2.94%) Software Engineer
9 11 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (2.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (2.21%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (1.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (1.96%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (1.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (1.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (1.72%) Operations Engineer
13 6 (1.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (65.20%) Elastic Stack
2 37 (9.07%) React
3 24 (5.88%) .NET
4 21 (5.15%) REST
5 19 (4.66%) Node.js
6 10 (2.45%) ARM Templates
7 9 (2.21%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.21%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.21%) YAML
8 8 (1.96%) Amazon Corretto
8 8 (1.96%) Lambda Expressions
8 8 (1.96%) Vue
9 7 (1.72%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.72%) Pandas
9 7 (1.72%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.72%) TensorFlow
9 7 (1.72%) Web Services
10 6 (1.47%) Django
10 6 (1.47%) NumPy
10 6 (1.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 251 (61.52%) Cyberattack
2 32 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.96%) e-Learning
5 8 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.98%) AI Agents
7 4 (0.98%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.49%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.25%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.25%) NVMe
10 1 (0.25%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 276 (67.65%) Linux
2 262 (64.22%) Windows
3 251 (61.52%) Android
4 11 (2.70%) Unix
5 7 (1.72%) Debian
5 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (86.03%) DevOps
2 279 (68.38%) Problem-Solving
3 274 (67.16%) Platform Engineering
4 272 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 259 (63.48%) Line Management
6 255 (62.50%) Risk Management
7 254 (62.25%) Mathematics
7 254 (62.25%) Task Automation
8 253 (62.01%) Storage Management
9 103 (25.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 102 (25.00%) CI/CD
11 68 (16.67%) Agile
12 39 (9.56%) Containerisation
13 31 (7.60%) Mentoring
13 31 (7.60%) Software Engineering
14 28 (6.86%) Microservices
15 26 (6.37%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (6.37%) Observability
16 25 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 309 (75.74%) Python
2 271 (66.42%) PowerShell
3 270 (66.18%) Bash
4 30 (7.35%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.62%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.88%) C#
7 23 (5.64%) SQL
8 20 (4.90%) Java
9 9 (2.21%) Bicep
10 6 (1.47%) Go
11 2 (0.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.25%) PHP
12 1 (0.25%) R
12 1 (0.25%) Rust
12 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (2.21%) Azure Certification
2 6 (1.47%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.23%) SC Cleared
4 4 (0.98%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.98%) Degree
5 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.23%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 328 (80.39%) Docker
2 258 (63.24%) vSphere
3 252 (61.76%) Hyper-V
3 252 (61.76%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.23%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.74%) KVM
7 3 (0.74%) QEMU
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 304 (74.51%) Ansible
2 80 (19.61%) Kubernetes
3 27 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 26 (6.37%) Grafana
5 6 (1.47%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.98%) Argo
6 4 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.74%) Control-M
7 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.49%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.25%) SCCM
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 259 (63.48%) Splunk
2 257 (62.99%) Cisco
3 251 (61.52%) 3PAR
3 251 (61.52%) Juniper
4 20 (4.90%) Microsoft
5 14 (3.43%) Databricks
6 12 (2.94%) VMware
7 7 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.47%) Aruba
8 6 (1.47%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.47%) Google
8 6 (1.47%) Mellanox
8 6 (1.47%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.98%) Foundry
9 4 (0.98%) Pega
9 4 (0.98%) WSO2
10 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.74%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.49%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.49%) Salesforce