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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 64 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 429 411 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.79% 4.36% 2.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.66% 27.11% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 343 124 207
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £66,250 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +1.20% -6.48%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,822 £79,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,550 £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 2,182 1,516 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.10% 16.08% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,732 755 1,434
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,279 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,114 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,377 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -41 233 £71,500 +10.00% 171
Yorkshire +8 109 £69,310 -0.99% 98
North East +1 96 £59,000 -9.23% 53
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 31 (7.23%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.59%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.13%) Apache
4 17 (3.96%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.93%) IIS
7 3 (0.70%) Confluence
7 3 (0.70%) nginx
7 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 298 (69.46%) AWS
2 183 (42.66%) Azure
3 117 (27.27%) GitHub
4 91 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 83 (19.35%) Serverless
6 72 (16.78%) GCP
7 67 (15.62%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (15.38%) Amazon S3
9 61 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (13.52%) Amazon EC2
11 57 (13.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 57 (13.29%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (5.59%) Amazon ECR
15 23 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (5.13%) Azure AKS
16 22 (5.13%) SaaS
16 22 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (4.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.59%) Firewall
2 17 (3.96%) DNS
3 14 (3.26%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.10%) DHCP
5 8 (1.86%) VPN
6 7 (1.63%) Network Security
7 5 (1.17%) SAN
8 4 (0.93%) BGP
8 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 3 (0.70%) Wireless
10 2 (0.47%) AMQP
10 2 (0.47%) CTI
10 2 (0.47%) DMZ
10 2 (0.47%) IPsec
10 2 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.47%) NX-OS
10 2 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.53%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.59%) DynamoDB
4 23 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.43%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.03%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.80%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.80%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.33%) Power BI
11 8 (1.86%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.63%) Big Data
12 7 (1.63%) Metadata
13 6 (1.40%) DocumentDB
14 5 (1.17%) MySQL
14 5 (1.17%) Spark SQL
15 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.93%) Flink
15 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 109 (25.41%) GitLab
2 76 (17.72%) Jenkins
3 71 (16.55%) Git
4 22 (5.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.03%) JIRA
6 6 (1.40%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.40%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.40%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.93%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.47%) Vite
10 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.23%) MLflow
10 1 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 107 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.75%) Public Sector
3 39 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.46%) Finance
5 29 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (5.59%) Law
7 7 (1.63%) Legal
8 6 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.17%) Local Government
9 5 (1.17%) Retail
10 4 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.47%) Advertising
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Billing
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 133 (31.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 112 (26.11%) Senior
3 76 (17.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 58 (13.52%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (10.49%) Data Engineer
6 43 (10.02%) Lead
7 42 (9.79%) AWS Engineer
8 36 (8.39%) Developer
9 34 (7.93%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (6.99%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 27 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (6.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.06%) Software Engineer
13 22 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (4.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
16 16 (3.73%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.96%) Node.js
2 46 (10.72%) React
3 38 (8.86%) Spring
3 38 (8.86%) Spring Boot
4 31 (7.23%) PySpark
5 24 (5.59%) Kafka
6 23 (5.36%) .NET
7 21 (4.90%) ARM Templates
8 19 (4.43%) REST
9 17 (3.96%) Web Services
10 15 (3.50%) FastAPI
11 13 (3.03%) AngularJS
12 12 (2.80%) AWS CDK
13 11 (2.56%) Pulumi
14 10 (2.33%) YAML
15 9 (2.10%) Next.js
16 8 (1.86%) Express.js
16 8 (1.86%) Nunjucks
16 8 (1.86%) RESTful
17 7 (1.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 120 (27.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.63%) Life Science
7 7 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.40%) Blog
8 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.93%) Hackathon
9 4 (0.93%) NHS
9 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.38%) Linux
2 35 (8.16%) Windows
3 26 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (5.59%) CentOS
5 17 (3.96%) Unix
6 12 (2.80%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.47%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (76.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 320 (74.59%) CI/CD
3 280 (65.27%) DevOps
4 158 (36.83%) Agile
5 154 (35.90%) Platform Engineering
6 118 (27.51%) Containerisation
7 111 (25.87%) Mentoring
8 105 (24.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 96 (22.38%) Observability
10 88 (20.51%) AI
10 88 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (20.05%) Technical Leadership
12 72 (16.78%) Test Automation
13 71 (16.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 70 (16.32%) Software Engineering
15 65 (15.15%) Coaching
15 65 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
15 65 (15.15%) Microservices
16 62 (14.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 51 (11.89%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 254 (59.21%) Python
2 89 (20.75%) Bash
3 83 (19.35%) Java
4 65 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 65 (15.15%) SQL
5 48 (11.19%) TypeScript
6 44 (10.26%) Bicep
7 34 (7.93%) JavaScript
8 28 (6.53%) C#
9 27 (6.29%) Go
10 17 (3.96%) Groovy
11 10 (2.33%) Ruby
12 5 (1.17%) Rust
13 4 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.93%) Scala
14 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.70%) PHP
14 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 161 (37.53%) Security Cleared
2 123 (28.67%) SC Cleared
3 72 (16.78%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.13%) Degree
5 19 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.47%) CCIE
11 2 (0.47%) CCNA
11 2 (0.47%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.50%) QA
3 6 (1.40%) GDPR
4 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 200 (46.62%) Docker
2 18 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.40%) vSphere
6 5 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 210 (48.95%) Kubernetes
2 120 (27.97%) Ansible
3 33 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 29 (6.76%) Grafana
5 23 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.20%) Puppet
7 16 (3.73%) Argo
8 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.93%) Istio
9 4 (0.93%) linkerd
9 4 (0.93%) Packer
9 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.70%) Control-M
10 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.23%) Kibana
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 56 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.23%) Google
3 28 (6.53%) Databricks
4 25 (5.83%) VMware
5 13 (3.03%) Splunk
6 9 (2.10%) Cisco
7 7 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.40%) Confluent
8 6 (1.40%) YouTube
9 4 (0.93%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.93%) Mistral
9 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.47%) F5
11 2 (0.47%) FIS
11 2 (0.47%) Oracle
11 2 (0.47%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.47%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.23%) Palo Alto