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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 54 87
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 388 485 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.89% 5.48% 2.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 33.73% 33.95%
Number of salaries quoted 314 192 326
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,575 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £60,063 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
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 970 1,438 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.72% 16.24% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 772 507 1,031
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £89,875 £95,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 July 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 July 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 -28 225 £71,500 -0.68% 76
Yorkshire -6 107 £69,310 -0.99% 39
North East -19 56 £55,000 -15.38% 22
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 22 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.09%) Apache
2 12 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.32%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.03%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.52%) Confluence
6 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 288 (74.23%) AWS
2 201 (51.80%) Azure
3 102 (26.29%) GitHub
4 78 (20.10%) GCP
5 74 (19.07%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (18.30%) Serverless
7 64 (16.49%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (15.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (11.86%) Amazon S3
10 39 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (9.28%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (7.22%) Azure AKS
14 25 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (4.90%) SaaS
16 17 (4.38%) Entra ID
17 16 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (4.12%) dbt
18 15 (3.87%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.89%) Firewall
2 26 (6.70%) DNS
2 26 (6.70%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.87%) HTTP
4 13 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (3.09%) NGFW
5 12 (3.09%) VXLAN
5 12 (3.09%) Wireshark
6 11 (2.84%) VPN
7 8 (2.06%) Network Security
8 6 (1.55%) SAN
9 3 (0.77%) AMQP
9 3 (0.77%) Internet
9 3 (0.77%) SSH
10 1 (0.26%) BGP
10 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.26%) DHCP
10 1 (0.26%) LAN
10 1 (0.26%) OSPF
10 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.47%) DynamoDB
1 29 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.93%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.87%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (3.35%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.32%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.32%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.06%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.80%) MySQL
11 6 (1.55%) Big Data
12 5 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.03%) Flink
13 4 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.03%) Power BI
13 4 (1.03%) QGIS
13 4 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (19.07%) Jenkins
2 60 (15.46%) GitLab
3 39 (10.05%) Git
4 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.32%) JIRA
6 7 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.77%) Maven
10 3 (0.77%) Selenium
11 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.52%) Vite
12 1 (0.26%) Locust
12 1 (0.26%) MLflow
12 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.69%) Public Sector
3 28 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.67%) Finance
5 20 (5.15%) Law
6 18 (4.64%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.80%) Banking
9 6 (1.55%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.29%) Retail
11 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
14 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (29.38%) Senior
2 93 (23.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (17.01%) Cloud Engineer
4 45 (11.60%) Platform Engineer
5 44 (11.34%) Lead
6 39 (10.05%) Developer
7 38 (9.79%) Software Engineer
8 37 (9.54%) Data Engineer
9 35 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 24 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
11 24 (6.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.15%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (4.64%) Architect
13 18 (4.64%) GCP Engineer
14 17 (4.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 16 (4.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 15 (3.87%) Senior Developer
16 15 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.46%) Node.js
2 46 (11.86%) React
3 32 (8.25%) REST
4 28 (7.22%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (6.96%) ARM Templates
5 27 (6.96%) PySpark
5 27 (6.96%) Spring Boot
6 26 (6.70%) Spring
7 25 (6.44%) .NET
8 16 (4.12%) Kafka
8 16 (4.12%) Web Services
8 16 (4.12%) YAML
9 13 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 12 (3.09%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.58%) OAuth
11 10 (2.58%) RESTful
12 9 (2.32%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.32%) OpenID
12 9 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.64%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.87%) PKI
6 11 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.55%) PACS
9 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.29%) Replication
11 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (17.01%) Linux
2 28 (7.22%) Windows
3 15 (3.87%) Unix
4 9 (2.32%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.06%) CentOS
5 8 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (69.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 260 (67.01%) CI/CD
3 212 (54.64%) DevOps
4 133 (34.28%) Agile
5 118 (30.41%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (29.90%) Mentoring
7 101 (26.03%) Containerisation
8 80 (20.62%) Observability
9 68 (17.53%) AI
9 68 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (17.27%) Microservices
11 62 (15.98%) Software Engineering
12 61 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (15.21%) Test Automation
14 56 (14.43%) Coaching
14 56 (14.43%) Scrum
15 50 (12.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 43 (11.08%) Continuous Integration
17 40 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
18 35 (9.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 214 (55.15%) Python
2 71 (18.30%) Java
3 65 (16.75%) Bash
4 63 (16.24%) SQL
5 56 (14.43%) PowerShell
6 49 (12.63%) TypeScript
7 46 (11.86%) JavaScript
8 34 (8.76%) Go
9 31 (7.99%) Bicep
10 26 (6.70%) C#
11 18 (4.64%) Groovy
12 6 (1.55%) Ruby
13 3 (0.77%) C
13 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.77%) PHP
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) Perl
15 1 (0.26%) Scala
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 62 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.67%) Degree
4 20 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.90%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.61%) Data Quality
1 14 (3.61%) QA
2 10 (2.58%) GDPR
3 6 (1.55%) DICOM
3 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.55%) SOC 2
4 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 128 (32.99%) Docker
2 14 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.29%) vSphere
6 3 (0.77%) iptables
7 2 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 151 (38.92%) Kubernetes
2 97 (25.00%) Ansible
3 37 (9.54%) Grafana
4 31 (7.99%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.15%) Argo
6 17 (4.38%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.55%) Puppet
8 5 (1.29%) Istio
8 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.29%) Packer
9 3 (0.77%) Control-M
9 3 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.77%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.77%) linkerd
9 3 (0.77%) systemd
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.52%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 41 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.70%) Google
3 21 (5.41%) Databricks
4 19 (4.90%) VMware
5 12 (3.09%) Arista
5 12 (3.09%) Aruba
5 12 (3.09%) NetScout
6 7 (1.80%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.55%) Splunk
8 5 (1.29%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.29%) IBM
8 5 (1.29%) Oracle
9 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.77%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.77%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.77%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.52%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.52%) Pega
10 2 (0.52%) WSO2
11 1 (0.26%) Confluent