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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 49 91
Rank change year-on-year -44 +42 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 349 488 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.78% 6.34% 2.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.72% 35.08% 32.59%
Number of salaries quoted 273 202 331
10th Percentile £46,289 £45,800 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +10.24% -9.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

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 857 1,391 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.37% 18.07% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 643 473 1,064
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,200 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £67,037 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.99% +21.89% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,837 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -40 200 £70,400 -2.90% 89
Yorkshire -21 103 £70,905 +2.76% 30
North East -18 46 £55,000 -15.38% 33
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 15 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.01%) Apache
3 7 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.15%) GeoServer
5 4 (1.15%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.86%) JBoss
7 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Confluence
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.29%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 254 (72.78%) AWS
2 203 (58.17%) Azure
3 88 (25.21%) GitHub
4 72 (20.63%) Serverless
5 71 (20.34%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (19.77%) GCP
7 59 (16.91%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (12.32%) Amazon S3
10 37 (10.60%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (7.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (7.16%) Azure AKS
14 19 (5.44%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (5.44%) Entra ID
15 17 (4.87%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (4.58%) SaaS
17 15 (4.30%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 44 (12.61%) Firewall
2 32 (9.17%) DNS
3 24 (6.88%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.58%) HTTP
5 13 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.44%) NGFW
6 12 (3.44%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.44%) Wireshark
7 8 (2.29%) VPN
8 7 (2.01%) Internet
9 5 (1.43%) Network Security
10 4 (1.15%) SAN
11 3 (0.86%) AMQP
11 3 (0.86%) SSH
12 1 (0.29%) BGP
12 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.29%) DHCP
12 1 (0.29%) LAN
12 1 (0.29%) OSPF
12 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (9.74%) DynamoDB
3 25 (7.16%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.15%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.58%) Spark SQL
9 7 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.01%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.72%) MySQL
11 5 (1.43%) Big Data
11 5 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.15%) Flink
12 4 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.15%) GIS
12 4 (1.15%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 58 (16.62%) GitLab
1 58 (16.62%) Jenkins
2 47 (13.47%) Git
3 8 (2.29%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.01%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.01%) JIRA
5 5 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.86%) Maven
6 3 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.86%) Selenium
7 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.57%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) Locust
8 1 (0.29%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (17.77%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.04%) Public Sector
3 27 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.44%) Telecoms
5 18 (5.16%) Finance
5 18 (5.16%) Law
6 12 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.01%) Banking
8 6 (1.72%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.43%) Retail
10 4 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
12 1 (0.29%) Local Government
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (27.51%) Senior
2 74 (21.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 67 (19.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 47 (13.47%) Lead
5 44 (12.61%) Developer
6 40 (11.46%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (9.74%) Software Engineer
8 33 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (8.88%) Data Engineer
10 21 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
10 21 (6.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.87%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.30%) GCP Engineer
15 14 (4.01%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 13 (3.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 13 (3.72%) Java Developer
16 13 (3.72%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.76%) Node.js
2 42 (12.03%) React
3 31 (8.88%) REST
4 27 (7.74%) .NET
4 27 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (6.30%) ARM Templates
5 22 (6.30%) RESTful
5 22 (6.30%) Spring Boot
6 21 (6.02%) Spring
7 20 (5.73%) PySpark
8 16 (4.58%) Kafka
9 13 (3.72%) .NET Core
10 12 (3.44%) AngularJS
10 12 (3.44%) YAML
11 11 (3.15%) AWS CDK
11 11 (3.15%) Web Services
12 10 (2.87%) ASP.NET
12 10 (2.87%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (2.87%) Blazor
13 9 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.16%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (4.30%) PKI
6 14 (4.01%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.58%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.72%) PACS
9 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.15%) Replication
12 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.62%) Linux
2 34 (9.74%) Windows
3 17 (4.87%) Unix
4 14 (4.01%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.43%) Debian
7 4 (1.15%) CentOS
7 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (66.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 231 (66.19%) CI/CD
3 186 (53.30%) DevOps
4 139 (39.83%) Agile
5 108 (30.95%) Mentoring
6 96 (27.51%) Platform Engineering
7 91 (26.07%) Containerisation
8 74 (21.20%) Observability
9 70 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (19.77%) Microservices
11 54 (15.47%) Coaching
11 54 (15.47%) Scrum
12 52 (14.90%) Test Automation
13 51 (14.61%) Software Engineering
14 49 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (12.61%) AI
16 41 (11.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 38 (10.89%) Continuous Integration
17 38 (10.89%) Deployment Automation
18 36 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 170 (48.71%) Python
2 61 (17.48%) Java
3 60 (17.19%) SQL
4 55 (15.76%) Bash
5 42 (12.03%) PowerShell
5 42 (12.03%) TypeScript
6 41 (11.75%) JavaScript
7 32 (9.17%) Go
8 18 (5.16%) Bicep
9 16 (4.58%) C#
10 13 (3.72%) Groovy
11 7 (2.01%) C
12 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.57%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.57%) Ruby
14 1 (0.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (14.90%) Security Cleared
2 46 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.02%) Degree
4 18 (5.16%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.16%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.58%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.15%) QA
2 10 (2.87%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.87%) GDPR
3 6 (1.72%) DICOM
4 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (31.23%) Docker
2 13 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.43%) vSphere
5 3 (0.86%) iptables
5 3 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 90 (25.79%) Ansible
3 38 (10.89%) Grafana
4 33 (9.46%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.16%) Argo
6 10 (2.87%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.43%) Packer
8 5 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.15%) Puppet
10 3 (0.86%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.86%) Istio
10 3 (0.86%) Rancher
10 3 (0.86%) systemd
11 2 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.57%) Control-M
11 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.57%) Kibana
12 1 (0.29%) linkerd
12 1 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.44%) Google
3 18 (5.16%) Databricks
4 17 (4.87%) VMware
5 12 (3.44%) Arista
5 12 (3.44%) Aruba
5 12 (3.44%) NetScout
6 9 (2.58%) Splunk
7 7 (2.01%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.43%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.43%) IBM
8 5 (1.43%) New Relic
9 4 (1.15%) Oracle
9 4 (1.15%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.86%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.57%) BMC
11 2 (0.57%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.57%) Pega
11 2 (0.57%) WSO2