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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 445 414 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.85% 4.36% 2.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.86% 26.92% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 352 130 234
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,188 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,775 £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 2,241 1,538 2,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.32% 16.21% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,790 771 1,638
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -32 240 £72,500 +11.54% 188
Yorkshire +15 120 £69,310 -0.99% 85
North East -1 91 £57,500 -11.54% 45
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 28 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.04%) Apache
4 15 (3.37%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.90%) IIS
7 3 (0.67%) Confluence
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 310 (69.66%) AWS
2 197 (44.27%) Azure
3 116 (26.07%) GitHub
4 94 (21.12%) Serverless
5 91 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 74 (16.63%) GCP
7 70 (15.73%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (15.06%) Amazon S3
10 62 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
10 62 (13.93%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (13.03%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (12.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (9.89%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.29%) Azure AKS
15 26 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (5.17%) Amazon ECR
16 23 (5.17%) SaaS
17 19 (4.27%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.62%) Firewall
2 18 (4.04%) DNS
3 16 (3.60%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.02%) DHCP
5 8 (1.80%) VPN
6 7 (1.57%) Network Security
7 5 (1.12%) SAN
8 4 (0.90%) BGP
8 4 (0.90%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.67%) AMQP
9 3 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.67%) SSH
9 3 (0.67%) WAN
9 3 (0.67%) Wireless
10 2 (0.45%) CTI
10 2 (0.45%) DMZ
10 2 (0.45%) IPsec
10 2 (0.45%) LAN
10 2 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.97%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.29%) DynamoDB
2 28 (6.29%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.04%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.37%) BigQuery
7 14 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.47%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.80%) Big Data
10 8 (1.80%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.57%) MySQL
11 7 (1.57%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.35%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.35%) Metadata
12 6 (1.35%) Power BI
13 4 (0.90%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.90%) Flink
13 4 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (22.25%) GitLab
2 78 (17.53%) Jenkins
3 68 (15.28%) Git
4 19 (4.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (3.60%) JIRA
6 10 (2.25%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.80%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.90%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.45%) Vite
13 1 (0.22%) Locust
13 1 (0.22%) MLflow
13 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
13 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.88%) Public Sector
3 33 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.19%) Finance
5 26 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.62%) Law
7 7 (1.57%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.57%) Retail
8 6 (1.35%) Legal
9 5 (1.12%) Local Government
10 4 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.67%) Banking
11 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.45%) Advertising
12 2 (0.45%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Games
13 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 123 (27.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (26.29%) Senior
3 86 (19.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (12.81%) Platform Engineer
5 55 (12.36%) Lead
6 45 (10.11%) Data Engineer
7 44 (9.89%) Developer
8 43 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (7.19%) Azure Engineer
9 32 (7.19%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.29%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.84%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 26 (5.84%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (5.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 23 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 18 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
17 17 (3.82%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.46%) Node.js
2 45 (10.11%) React
3 39 (8.76%) Spring
3 39 (8.76%) Spring Boot
4 31 (6.97%) PySpark
5 28 (6.29%) ARM Templates
6 27 (6.07%) REST
7 24 (5.39%) .NET
7 24 (5.39%) Kafka
8 20 (4.49%) Web Services
9 18 (4.04%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.37%) YAML
11 13 (2.92%) FastAPI
11 13 (2.92%) Pulumi
12 12 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (2.25%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.25%) RESTful
14 9 (2.02%) Next.js
15 8 (1.80%) Jest
15 8 (1.80%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 117 (26.29%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.57%) Life Science
9 6 (1.35%) Blog
9 6 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.12%) Replication
10 5 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.90%) NHS
11 4 (0.90%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (21.57%) Linux
2 35 (7.87%) Windows
3 24 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (4.94%) CentOS
5 19 (4.27%) Unix
6 13 (2.92%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (75.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 322 (72.36%) CI/CD
3 280 (62.92%) DevOps
4 160 (35.96%) Agile
5 147 (33.03%) Platform Engineering
6 120 (26.97%) Containerisation
7 115 (25.84%) Mentoring
8 105 (23.60%) Observability
9 104 (23.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
11 83 (18.65%) AI
12 73 (16.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 73 (16.40%) Technical Leadership
13 72 (16.18%) Microservices
14 71 (15.96%) Test Automation
15 67 (15.06%) Software Engineering
16 66 (14.83%) Coaching
17 57 (12.81%) Infrastructure Automation
17 57 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 53 (11.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 256 (57.53%) Python
2 89 (20.00%) Bash
3 88 (19.78%) Java
4 72 (16.18%) PowerShell
5 70 (15.73%) SQL
6 47 (10.56%) TypeScript
7 45 (10.11%) Bicep
8 35 (7.87%) JavaScript
9 29 (6.52%) C#
10 23 (5.17%) Go
11 21 (4.72%) Groovy
12 10 (2.25%) Ruby
13 5 (1.12%) Rust
14 4 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.90%) Scala
15 3 (0.67%) PHP
15 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.45%) Perl
16 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 147 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 114 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 62 (13.93%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 20 (4.49%) Degree
5 10 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.45%) CCIE
10 2 (0.45%) CCNA
10 2 (0.45%) MCSE
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.27%) QA
3 8 (1.80%) GDPR
4 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) DICOM
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 195 (43.82%) Docker
2 20 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.35%) vSphere
6 3 (0.67%) iptables
6 3 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 210 (47.19%) Kubernetes
2 122 (27.42%) Ansible
3 33 (7.42%) Grafana
4 32 (7.19%) Progress Chef
5 25 (5.62%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.49%) Argo
7 16 (3.60%) Puppet
8 7 (1.57%) Packer
9 6 (1.35%) Istio
10 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.90%) linkerd
12 3 (0.67%) Control-M
12 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.67%) Kibana
12 3 (0.67%) systemd
13 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (0.45%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 57 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.97%) Google
3 26 (5.84%) Databricks
4 24 (5.39%) VMware
5 11 (2.47%) Splunk
6 8 (1.80%) Cisco
7 7 (1.57%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.57%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.35%) Confluent
9 5 (1.12%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.12%) IBM
10 4 (0.90%) Oracle
10 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.67%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.67%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.67%) YouTube
12 2 (0.45%) F5
12 2 (0.45%) Mistral
12 2 (0.45%) OpenAI