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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 60 70
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 419 463 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.89% 4.79% 2.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.29% 33.38% 37.76%
Number of salaries quoted 328 174 261
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £87,125 £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 1,040 1,387 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.70% 14.35% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 817 480 779
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +8.86% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,250
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 13 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 13 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 -27 229 £72,500 +3.57% 162
Yorkshire +19 117 £72,500 +3.57% 74
North East -6 73 £56,500 -13.08% 46
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 26 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.34%) Apache
4 12 (2.86%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.72%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.72%) IIS
6 3 (0.72%) JBoss
7 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 2 (0.48%) 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
1 293 (69.93%) AWS
2 198 (47.26%) Azure
3 105 (25.06%) GitHub
4 86 (20.53%) Serverless
5 84 (20.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 76 (18.14%) GCP
7 70 (16.71%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (12.89%) Amazon S3
10 53 (12.65%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (11.93%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (9.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (5.97%) Azure AKS
15 24 (5.73%) SaaS
16 20 (4.77%) Amazon ECR
16 20 (4.77%) dbt
17 19 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 17 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.40%) Firewall
2 26 (6.21%) TCP/IP
3 23 (5.49%) DNS
4 9 (2.15%) VPN
5 8 (1.91%) Network Security
6 7 (1.67%) HTTP
7 6 (1.43%) DHCP
8 5 (1.19%) SAN
9 4 (0.95%) BGP
9 4 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.72%) SSH
10 3 (0.72%) WAN
10 3 (0.72%) Wireless
11 2 (0.48%) AMQP
11 2 (0.48%) DMZ
11 2 (0.48%) IPsec
11 2 (0.48%) LAN
11 2 (0.48%) OSPF
11 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.92%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.01%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.82%) BigQuery
7 15 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.86%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.15%) Spark SQL
10 8 (1.91%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.67%) MySQL
12 6 (1.43%) Metadata
12 6 (1.43%) Power BI
13 5 (1.19%) Big Data
13 5 (1.19%) Flink
14 4 (0.95%) Data Vault
14 4 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (17.90%) Jenkins
2 71 (16.95%) GitLab
3 54 (12.89%) Git
4 13 (3.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.63%) JIRA
6 10 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.43%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.43%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.72%) Maven
10 3 (0.72%) Selenium
11 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.48%) Vite
12 1 (0.24%) Locust
12 1 (0.24%) MLflow
12 1 (0.24%) PyCharm
General
1 88 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.56%) Public Sector
3 32 (7.64%) Finance
4 23 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.25%) Law
6 20 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.15%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.67%) Banking
8 7 (1.67%) Retail
9 6 (1.43%) Legal
9 6 (1.43%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.19%) Local Government
11 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.48%) Advertising
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Marketing
14 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (28.40%) Senior
2 110 (26.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (12.41%) Platform Engineer
5 51 (12.17%) Lead
6 44 (10.50%) Data Engineer
7 43 (10.26%) Developer
8 37 (8.83%) Azure Engineer
9 35 (8.35%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (7.40%) Software Engineer
11 28 (6.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (6.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.97%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (4.30%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.30%) Senior Developer
16 17 (4.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
17 16 (3.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.41%) Node.js
2 40 (9.55%) React
3 35 (8.35%) Spring Boot
4 34 (8.11%) Spring
5 30 (7.16%) .NET
5 30 (7.16%) PySpark
6 29 (6.92%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.44%) REST
8 19 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (4.53%) Kafka
8 19 (4.53%) Web Services
9 18 (4.30%) YAML
10 15 (3.58%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.86%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.15%) Next.js
12 9 (2.15%) OAuth
12 9 (2.15%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.15%) OpenID
12 9 (2.15%) RESTful
12 9 (2.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 91 (21.72%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.06%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.34%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.91%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.43%) Life Science
12 5 (1.19%) Replication
13 4 (0.95%) Blog
13 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.95%) NHS
13 4 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (20.53%) Linux
2 34 (8.11%) Windows
3 19 (4.53%) Unix
4 15 (3.58%) CentOS
4 15 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.34%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (73.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 295 (70.41%) CI/CD
3 250 (59.67%) DevOps
4 142 (33.89%) Agile
5 135 (32.22%) Platform Engineering
6 115 (27.45%) Mentoring
7 112 (26.73%) Containerisation
8 96 (22.91%) Observability
9 85 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (17.42%) AI
11 70 (16.71%) Microservices
12 68 (16.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 65 (15.51%) Software Engineering
14 64 (15.27%) Test Automation
15 62 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
16 59 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
17 55 (13.13%) Coaching
18 52 (12.41%) Scrum
19 43 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 42 (10.02%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 232 (55.37%) Python
2 84 (20.05%) Java
3 77 (18.38%) Bash
4 72 (17.18%) SQL
5 63 (15.04%) PowerShell
6 41 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 40 (9.55%) Bicep
7 40 (9.55%) JavaScript
8 31 (7.40%) C#
9 28 (6.68%) Go
10 21 (5.01%) Groovy
11 10 (2.39%) Ruby
12 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 2 (0.48%) Perl
14 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.24%) Rust
15 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 113 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.79%) DV Cleared
4 19 (4.53%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.53%) Degree
5 10 (2.39%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.48%) CCIE
8 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.77%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.82%) QA
3 10 (2.39%) GDPR
4 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.19%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) DICOM
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (39.62%) Docker
2 19 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.95%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) iptables
7 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 181 (43.20%) Kubernetes
2 106 (25.30%) Ansible
3 31 (7.40%) Grafana
4 25 (5.97%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.49%) Progress Chef
6 20 (4.77%) Argo
7 11 (2.63%) Puppet
8 6 (1.43%) Istio
9 4 (0.95%) linkerd
9 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.72%) Control-M
10 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.72%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.72%) Kibana
10 3 (0.72%) Packer
10 3 (0.72%) systemd
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.48%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 52 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.64%) Google
3 24 (5.73%) Databricks
4 21 (5.01%) VMware
5 8 (1.91%) Splunk
6 7 (1.67%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.19%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.19%) Cisco
7 5 (1.19%) IBM
8 4 (0.95%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.95%) Oracle
9 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.72%) Confluent
9 3 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.48%) F5
10 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.48%) Pega
10 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.48%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.48%) Zscaler