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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 57 65
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 411 473 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 4.93% 2.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.79% 33.64% 38.34%
Number of salaries quoted 330 182 270
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,482
Median % change year-on-year - +6.90% -9.68%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £86,050 £87,500
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 1,033 1,406 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.78% 14.66% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 823 491 798
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £32,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -32 227 £72,500 +3.57% 116
Yorkshire +2 112 £73,750 +5.36% 64
North East -3 72 £56,500 -13.08% 30
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 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.65%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.41%) Apache
4 12 (2.92%) Jupyter
5 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.73%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.73%) JBoss
7 2 (0.49%) Confluence
7 2 (0.49%) IIS
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.24%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 290 (70.56%) AWS
2 199 (48.42%) Azure
3 104 (25.30%) GitHub
4 82 (19.95%) Serverless
5 74 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 74 (18.00%) GCP
6 71 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (12.90%) Amazon S3
9 51 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (11.44%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (6.33%) Azure AKS
15 23 (5.60%) SaaS
16 20 (4.87%) Amazon ECR
16 20 (4.87%) dbt
17 18 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (3.89%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.03%) Firewall
2 27 (6.57%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.08%) DNS
4 9 (2.19%) HTTP
4 9 (2.19%) VPN
5 7 (1.70%) Network Security
6 6 (1.46%) SAN
7 5 (1.22%) DHCP
8 3 (0.73%) BGP
8 3 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.73%) SSH
9 2 (0.49%) AMQP
9 2 (0.49%) DMZ
9 2 (0.49%) IPsec
9 2 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.49%) WAN
9 2 (0.49%) Wireless
10 1 (0.24%) LAN
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.06%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.89%) BigQuery
7 15 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.92%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.68%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.19%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.95%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.70%) MySQL
13 6 (1.46%) Power BI
14 5 (1.22%) Big Data
14 5 (1.22%) Flink
14 5 (1.22%) Metadata
15 4 (0.97%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.97%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (18.25%) Jenkins
2 71 (17.27%) GitLab
3 54 (13.14%) Git
4 13 (3.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.68%) JIRA
6 10 (2.43%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.70%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.46%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.46%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.73%) Maven
10 3 (0.73%) Selenium
11 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.49%) Vite
12 1 (0.24%) JMeter
12 1 (0.24%) Locust
12 1 (0.24%) MLflow
12 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.87%) Public Sector
3 27 (6.57%) Finance
4 22 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.35%) Law
5 20 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.70%) Banking
8 6 (1.46%) Retail
8 6 (1.46%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.73%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.73%) Legal
10 2 (0.49%) Advertising
10 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.49%) Local Government
11 1 (0.24%) Games
11 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 114 (27.74%) Senior
2 113 (27.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (18.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (12.17%) Lead
5 49 (11.92%) Platform Engineer
6 43 (10.46%) Data Engineer
7 42 (10.22%) Developer
8 36 (8.76%) Azure Engineer
9 32 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
10 29 (7.06%) Software Engineer
11 28 (6.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
12 26 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (6.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 22 (5.35%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (4.38%) Architect
14 18 (4.38%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.14%) Senior Developer
15 17 (4.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (12.41%) Node.js
2 37 (9.00%) React
3 35 (8.52%) Spring Boot
4 34 (8.27%) Spring
5 30 (7.30%) PySpark
6 29 (7.06%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.57%) REST
8 26 (6.33%) .NET
9 22 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (4.62%) Kafka
11 18 (4.38%) YAML
12 17 (4.14%) Web Services
13 15 (3.65%) AngularJS
14 11 (2.68%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.19%) Next.js
15 9 (2.19%) OAuth
15 9 (2.19%) OAuth2
15 9 (2.19%) OpenID
15 9 (2.19%) Vue
16 8 (1.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (22.14%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.43%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.46%) Life Science
12 5 (1.22%) Replication
12 5 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.97%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.73%) PACS
14 3 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 82 (19.95%) Linux
2 33 (8.03%) Windows
3 18 (4.38%) Unix
4 15 (3.65%) CentOS
4 15 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.16%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.73%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (72.99%) Infrastructure as Code
2 287 (69.83%) CI/CD
3 244 (59.37%) DevOps
4 141 (34.31%) Agile
5 134 (32.60%) Platform Engineering
6 115 (27.98%) Mentoring
7 111 (27.01%) Containerisation
8 91 (22.14%) Observability
9 83 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (18.00%) AI
11 70 (17.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 66 (16.06%) Microservices
13 63 (15.33%) Test Automation
14 62 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (13.87%) Software Engineering
15 57 (13.87%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (12.90%) Coaching
17 51 (12.41%) Scrum
18 40 (9.73%) Infrastructure Automation
19 39 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 224 (54.50%) Python
2 80 (19.46%) Java
3 75 (18.25%) Bash
4 71 (17.27%) SQL
5 63 (15.33%) PowerShell
6 41 (9.98%) TypeScript
7 40 (9.73%) JavaScript
8 39 (9.49%) Bicep
9 30 (7.30%) Go
10 28 (6.81%) C#
11 19 (4.62%) Groovy
12 7 (1.70%) Ruby
13 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.73%) PHP
15 2 (0.49%) Perl
15 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.24%) Scala
16 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 85 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.73%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.35%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.87%) Degree
6 12 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.49%) CCIE
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.14%) QA
3 10 (2.43%) GDPR
4 6 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.46%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.73%) DICOM
5 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 163 (39.66%) Docker
2 17 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.97%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) iptables
7 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 178 (43.31%) Kubernetes
2 105 (25.55%) Ansible
3 34 (8.27%) Grafana
4 28 (6.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.11%) Progress Chef
6 20 (4.87%) Argo
7 9 (2.19%) Puppet
8 6 (1.46%) Istio
9 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.97%) linkerd
10 4 (0.97%) Packer
11 3 (0.73%) Control-M
11 3 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.73%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.73%) Kibana
11 3 (0.73%) systemd
12 2 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.49%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 50 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.30%) Google
3 24 (5.84%) Databricks
4 21 (5.11%) VMware
5 8 (1.95%) Splunk
6 7 (1.70%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.22%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.22%) IBM
7 5 (1.22%) Oracle
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco
8 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.73%) Confluent
9 3 (0.73%) F5
9 3 (0.73%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.49%) Pega
10 2 (0.49%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.49%) WSO2
10 2 (0.49%) Zscaler