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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 76 84
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 238 258 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.98% 3.07% 2.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.50% 31.89% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 187 184 317
10th Percentile £45,750 £41,825 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

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 652 809 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.43% 9.64% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 490 466 1,014
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £83,389
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -9 112 £65,000 -8.44% 70
Yorkshire -7 95 £62,500 +13.64% 44
North East -11 31 £60,000 +6.19% 9
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 8 (3.36%) OpenStack
1 8 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.68%) Apache
2 4 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 176 (73.95%) AWS
2 133 (55.88%) Azure
3 63 (26.47%) GitHub
4 58 (24.37%) Serverless
5 47 (19.75%) GCP
6 46 (19.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (18.91%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (17.23%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (13.87%) Amazon S3
10 32 (13.45%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (12.18%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (10.08%) SaaS
13 23 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (6.72%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (6.30%) Entra ID
15 15 (6.30%) PaaS
16 13 (5.46%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (5.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.71%) Firewall
2 24 (10.08%) DNS
3 16 (6.72%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.46%) HTTP
5 12 (5.04%) NGFW
5 12 (5.04%) VXLAN
5 12 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (5.04%) Wireshark
6 7 (2.94%) Internet
7 4 (1.68%) AMQP
7 4 (1.68%) Network Security
7 4 (1.68%) VPN
7 4 (1.68%) WAN
8 3 (1.26%) DHCP
9 2 (0.84%) SAN
9 2 (0.84%) SSL
10 1 (0.42%) LAN
10 1 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (13.45%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.04%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.78%) Redis
6 8 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.52%) MySQL
7 6 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.68%) Big Data
8 4 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.42%) GIS
9 1 (0.42%) QGIS
9 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (17.23%) Git
2 36 (15.13%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.76%) GitLab
4 7 (2.94%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.10%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.68%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.26%) JIRA
8 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.84%) JMeter
8 2 (0.84%) Locust
8 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.42%) git-flow
9 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 54 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.72%) Law
5 15 (6.30%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.04%) Finance
7 8 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.68%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.68%) Games
9 3 (1.26%) Banking
9 3 (1.26%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (18.91%) Senior
2 44 (18.49%) Developer
3 42 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (16.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 29 (12.18%) Lead
6 26 (10.92%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.72%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.46%) .NET Developer
11 12 (5.04%) Network Manager
11 12 (5.04%) Network Operations Manager
11 12 (5.04%) Operations Manager
12 10 (4.20%) AWS Developer
12 10 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.78%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.78%) Lead DevOps
14 8 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.36%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.15%) React
2 41 (17.23%) Node.js
3 34 (14.29%) .NET
4 32 (13.45%) REST
5 25 (10.50%) RESTful
6 22 (9.24%) Django
7 20 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (7.56%) .NET Core
8 18 (7.56%) FastAPI
8 18 (7.56%) Vue
9 17 (7.14%) Flask
10 15 (6.30%) AWS CDK
10 15 (6.30%) CSS
10 15 (6.30%) HTML
11 13 (5.46%) ASP.NET
11 13 (5.46%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (5.46%) Blazor
12 12 (5.04%) AngularJS
13 11 (4.62%) Spring
13 11 (4.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.72%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.04%) PKI
4 11 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.68%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.26%) PACS
9 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.97%) Linux
2 17 (7.14%) Windows
3 9 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.36%) Unix
5 7 (2.94%) Debian
5 7 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.10%) CentOS
6 5 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (66.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 148 (62.18%) CI/CD
3 128 (53.78%) DevOps
4 112 (47.06%) Agile
5 71 (29.83%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (28.99%) Containerisation
7 67 (28.15%) Mentoring
8 57 (23.95%) Microservices
9 50 (21.01%) Observability
10 47 (19.75%) Platform Engineering
11 45 (18.91%) Software Engineering
12 36 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (13.03%) Coaching
14 29 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (10.92%) Incident Response
16 22 (9.24%) Deployment Automation
16 22 (9.24%) Scrum
17 19 (7.98%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 99 (41.60%) Python
2 50 (21.01%) JavaScript
3 43 (18.07%) TypeScript
4 40 (16.81%) SQL
5 26 (10.92%) Go
6 23 (9.66%) Bash
7 22 (9.24%) Java
8 18 (7.56%) C#
9 17 (7.14%) PowerShell
10 12 (5.04%) Bicep
11 7 (2.94%) C
12 1 (0.42%) Perl
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.72%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.10%) Degree
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.52%) QA
2 4 (1.68%) GDPR
2 4 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.26%) DICOM
3 3 (1.26%) NIST
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.84%) GRC
4 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (38.24%) Docker
2 13 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.94%) vSphere
4 4 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.26%) KVM
5 3 (1.26%) QEMU
5 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (33.61%) Ansible
2 74 (31.09%) Kubernetes
3 37 (15.55%) Grafana
4 34 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.52%) Puppet
8 4 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.26%) Argo
9 3 (1.26%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.26%) Rancher
10 2 (0.84%) Control-M
10 2 (0.84%) Nagios
11 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.42%) Kibana
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.88%) Google
3 13 (5.46%) Splunk
4 12 (5.04%) Arista
4 12 (5.04%) Aruba
4 12 (5.04%) NetScout
5 11 (4.62%) VMware
6 9 (3.78%) New Relic
7 7 (2.94%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.10%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.68%) Pega
9 4 (1.68%) WSO2
10 3 (1.26%) Databricks
10 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.84%) BMC
11 2 (0.84%) Foundry
12 1 (0.42%) Avaya
12 1 (0.42%) Genesys