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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 59 83
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 393 473 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.87% 5.02% 2.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.62% 33.45% 34.53%
Number of salaries quoted 322 181 302
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £78,438
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £85,000
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 992 1,414 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.73% 15.01% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 801 488 970
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,350 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,125 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +9.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,026 £76,840 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -27 220 £71,750 +1.06% 77
Yorkshire +4 113 £69,655 -0.49% 34
North East -10 60 £55,750 -14.23% 24
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 23 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.05%) Apache
2 12 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.54%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.02%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.76%) JBoss
6 2 (0.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 284 (72.26%) AWS
2 195 (49.62%) Azure
3 101 (25.70%) GitHub
4 76 (19.34%) Serverless
5 73 (18.58%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (18.32%) GCP
7 62 (15.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 60 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (11.96%) Amazon S3
10 40 (10.18%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (9.67%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (9.67%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (7.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (6.87%) Azure AKS
15 22 (5.60%) SaaS
16 17 (4.33%) Entra ID
17 16 (4.07%) Amazon ECR
17 16 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (4.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.94%) Firewall
2 27 (6.87%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.36%) DNS
4 13 (3.31%) HTTP
5 9 (2.29%) VPN
6 7 (1.78%) Network Security
6 7 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.53%) NGFW
7 6 (1.53%) SAN
7 6 (1.53%) VXLAN
7 6 (1.53%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.76%) BGP
8 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.76%) SSH
9 2 (0.51%) AMQP
9 2 (0.51%) DHCP
9 2 (0.51%) DMZ
9 2 (0.51%) IPsec
9 2 (0.51%) WAN
10 1 (0.25%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.12%) DynamoDB
2 25 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (4.83%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.05%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.80%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.29%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.29%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.78%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.53%) MySQL
12 5 (1.27%) Big Data
12 5 (1.27%) Power BI
13 4 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.02%) Flink
13 4 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.02%) QGIS
13 4 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (18.58%) Jenkins
2 65 (16.54%) GitLab
3 43 (10.94%) Git
4 11 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 11 (2.80%) JIRA
5 10 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.78%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.53%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 3 (0.76%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.51%) Vite
12 1 (0.25%) Locust
12 1 (0.25%) MLflow
12 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 78 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.50%) Public Sector
3 25 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.11%) Finance
5 22 (5.60%) Law
6 15 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.78%) Banking
8 6 (1.53%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.27%) Retail
10 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Local Government
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 109 (27.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 108 (27.48%) Senior
3 70 (17.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 47 (11.96%) Lead
5 44 (11.20%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.92%) Developer
7 38 (9.67%) Data Engineer
8 34 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
9 33 (8.40%) Software Engineer
10 28 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (6.36%) Senior DevOps
11 25 (6.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 24 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 23 (5.85%) Principal Engineer
14 20 (5.09%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (4.58%) Architect
16 16 (4.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 16 (4.07%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 15 (3.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 15 (3.82%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.99%) Node.js
2 42 (10.69%) React
3 32 (8.14%) Spring Boot
4 31 (7.89%) Spring
5 28 (7.12%) ARM Templates
5 28 (7.12%) PySpark
6 27 (6.87%) REST
7 26 (6.62%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (6.11%) .NET
9 17 (4.33%) YAML
10 16 (4.07%) Kafka
10 16 (4.07%) Web Services
11 12 (3.05%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.05%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.29%) Next.js
12 9 (2.29%) OAuth
12 9 (2.29%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.29%) OpenID
12 9 (2.29%) Vue
13 8 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.05%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.54%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.29%) PKI
9 7 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.27%) Life Science
11 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.27%) PACS
11 5 (1.27%) Replication
12 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (18.58%) Linux
2 29 (7.38%) Windows
3 16 (4.07%) Unix
4 13 (3.31%) CentOS
4 13 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.02%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (70.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 266 (67.68%) CI/CD
3 228 (58.02%) DevOps
4 132 (33.59%) Agile
5 126 (32.06%) Platform Engineering
6 112 (28.50%) Mentoring
7 106 (26.97%) Containerisation
8 81 (20.61%) Observability
9 74 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (18.32%) AI
11 68 (17.30%) Microservices
12 65 (16.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 61 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
14 59 (15.01%) Test Automation
15 56 (14.25%) Software Engineering
16 54 (13.74%) Scrum
17 52 (13.23%) Coaching
18 50 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
19 41 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
20 34 (8.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 215 (54.71%) Python
2 76 (19.34%) Java
3 70 (17.81%) Bash
4 64 (16.28%) SQL
5 58 (14.76%) PowerShell
6 45 (11.45%) TypeScript
7 42 (10.69%) JavaScript
8 33 (8.40%) Bicep
9 31 (7.89%) Go
10 25 (6.36%) C#
11 18 (4.58%) Groovy
12 6 (1.53%) Ruby
13 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.76%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
15 1 (0.25%) Scala
15 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (23.41%) Security Cleared
2 71 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.16%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.34%) Degree
5 20 (5.09%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.51%) CCIE
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.56%) QA
3 10 (2.54%) GDPR
4 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.53%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.27%) DICOM
6 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 141 (35.88%) Docker
2 14 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.02%) vSphere
6 3 (0.76%) iptables
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 163 (41.48%) Kubernetes
2 106 (26.97%) Ansible
3 36 (9.16%) Grafana
4 30 (7.63%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.09%) Argo
6 18 (4.58%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.53%) Puppet
8 5 (1.27%) Istio
8 5 (1.27%) Packer
9 3 (0.76%) Control-M
9 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.76%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.76%) linkerd
9 3 (0.76%) systemd
10 2 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.51%) Kibana
10 2 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 44 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.36%) Google
3 22 (5.60%) Databricks
4 20 (5.09%) VMware
5 8 (2.04%) Splunk
6 7 (1.78%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.53%) Arista
7 6 (1.53%) Aruba
7 6 (1.53%) NetScout
8 5 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.27%) IBM
8 5 (1.27%) Oracle
9 4 (1.02%) Cisco
10 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.76%) F5
10 3 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.51%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.51%) Zscaler