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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 69 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 427 406 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.78% 4.23% 2.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.69% 26.69% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 344 123 215
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,700 £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 2,169 1,521 2,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.03% 15.84% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 759 1,500
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,750 £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 7 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 7 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 -34 231 £71,500 +10.00% 215
Yorkshire +16 110 £69,310 -0.99% 91
North East +7 95 £59,000 -9.23% 54
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 30 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.15%) Apache
4 17 (3.98%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.94%) 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
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 297 (69.56%) AWS
2 189 (44.26%) Azure
3 111 (26.00%) GitHub
4 90 (21.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (19.67%) Serverless
6 69 (16.16%) GCP
7 67 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (14.99%) Amazon S3
9 59 (13.82%) Amazon EC2
10 57 (13.35%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (13.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 56 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (6.56%) Azure AKS
14 24 (5.62%) Amazon ECR
15 23 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (5.15%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (5.15%) SaaS
17 19 (4.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.62%) Firewall
2 18 (4.22%) DNS
3 15 (3.51%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.11%) DHCP
5 8 (1.87%) VPN
6 7 (1.64%) Network Security
7 5 (1.17%) SAN
8 4 (0.94%) BGP
8 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.70%) AMQP
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%) CTI
10 2 (0.47%) DMZ
10 2 (0.47%) IPsec
10 2 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.47%) OSPF
10 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.03%) MongoDB
2 29 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (5.85%) DynamoDB
3 25 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.45%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.04%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.58%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.87%) Big Data
10 8 (1.87%) Power BI
11 7 (1.64%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.41%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.41%) Metadata
12 6 (1.41%) Spark SQL
13 5 (1.17%) MySQL
14 4 (0.94%) Chroma
14 4 (0.94%) Pinecone
14 4 (0.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (25.06%) GitLab
2 70 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 66 (15.46%) Git
4 19 (4.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.04%) JIRA
6 6 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.41%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.94%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
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
1 103 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 88 (20.61%) Public Sector
3 37 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.03%) Finance
5 27 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (5.39%) Law
7 7 (1.64%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.41%) Legal
8 6 (1.41%) Retail
9 5 (1.17%) Local Government
10 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.47%) Advertising
12 2 (0.47%) Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 124 (29.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 116 (27.17%) Senior
3 79 (18.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 58 (13.58%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (10.54%) Lead
6 44 (10.30%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
8 38 (8.90%) Developer
9 31 (7.26%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (6.32%) Software Engineer
13 26 (6.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 22 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (5.15%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
17 16 (3.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.24%) Node.js
2 45 (10.54%) React
3 35 (8.20%) Spring
3 35 (8.20%) Spring Boot
4 31 (7.26%) PySpark
5 25 (5.85%) ARM Templates
6 24 (5.62%) .NET
6 24 (5.62%) Kafka
7 20 (4.68%) REST
8 17 (3.98%) Web Services
9 15 (3.51%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.28%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.58%) AWS CDK
11 11 (2.58%) Pulumi
11 11 (2.58%) YAML
12 9 (2.11%) Next.js
13 8 (1.87%) Express.js
13 8 (1.87%) Nunjucks
13 8 (1.87%) OpenAPI
14 7 (1.64%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 116 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.64%) Life Science
9 6 (1.41%) Blog
9 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.94%) NHS
11 4 (0.94%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (21.78%) Linux
2 38 (8.90%) Windows
3 24 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (5.15%) CentOS
5 20 (4.68%) Unix
6 13 (3.04%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.70%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (75.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 317 (74.24%) CI/CD
3 275 (64.40%) DevOps
4 160 (37.47%) Agile
5 148 (34.66%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (27.17%) Containerisation
7 114 (26.70%) Mentoring
8 102 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 101 (23.65%) Observability
10 86 (20.14%) AI
10 86 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (18.27%) Technical Leadership
12 72 (16.86%) Test Automation
13 68 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 68 (15.93%) Software Engineering
14 67 (15.69%) Coaching
15 66 (15.46%) Microservices
16 62 (14.52%) Infrastructure Automation
17 60 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (12.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 250 (58.55%) Python
2 88 (20.61%) Bash
3 80 (18.74%) Java
4 69 (16.16%) PowerShell
5 64 (14.99%) SQL
6 46 (10.77%) TypeScript
7 45 (10.54%) Bicep
8 33 (7.73%) JavaScript
9 29 (6.79%) C#
10 25 (5.85%) Go
11 17 (3.98%) Groovy
12 10 (2.34%) Ruby
13 5 (1.17%) Rust
14 4 (0.94%) Scala
15 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.70%) PHP
15 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 149 (34.89%) Security Cleared
2 116 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 63 (14.75%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.68%) Degree
5 19 (4.45%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.47%) CCIE
11 2 (0.47%) CCNA
11 2 (0.47%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.62%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.51%) QA
3 7 (1.64%) GDPR
4 4 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 190 (44.50%) Docker
2 20 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.41%) vSphere
6 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 202 (47.31%) Kubernetes
2 115 (26.93%) Ansible
3 33 (7.73%) Progress Chef
4 29 (6.79%) Grafana
5 23 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.45%) Argo
7 18 (4.22%) Puppet
8 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.94%) Istio
9 4 (0.94%) linkerd
9 4 (0.94%) Packer
10 3 (0.70%) Control-M
10 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
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 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.03%) Google
3 28 (6.56%) Databricks
4 25 (5.85%) VMware
5 12 (2.81%) Splunk
6 9 (2.11%) Cisco
7 7 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.41%) Confluent
9 5 (1.17%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.17%) YouTube
10 4 (0.94%) Mistral
10 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.70%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.47%) F5
12 2 (0.47%) FIS
12 2 (0.47%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.47%) Oracle
12 2 (0.47%) Zscaler