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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 63 110
Rank change year-on-year -33 +47 -28
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 274 254 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.80% 3.96% 2.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.53% 37.46% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 207 225 312
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +6.74% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £86,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% -4.02%

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 730 678 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.80% 10.57% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 533 503 1,060
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £28,975
25th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,800 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -30 133 £67,500 -6.90% 72
Yorkshire -24 105 £65,000 +1.56% 48
North East -13 36 £48,445 -23.71% 29
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 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.55%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.46%) Apache
4 4 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.46%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.09%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 214 (78.10%) AWS
2 155 (56.57%) Azure
3 80 (29.20%) GitHub
4 74 (27.01%) Serverless
5 62 (22.63%) GCP
6 50 (18.25%) GitHub Actions
7 48 (17.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (13.87%) Amazon S3
10 35 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (8.76%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (8.76%) SaaS
13 20 (7.30%) Entra ID
14 17 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (5.84%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (5.84%) PaaS
16 15 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (5.11%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (5.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 42 (15.33%) Firewall
2 31 (11.31%) DNS
3 29 (10.58%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.57%) HTTP
5 12 (4.38%) NGFW
5 12 (4.38%) VXLAN
5 12 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (4.38%) Wireshark
6 7 (2.55%) Internet
7 5 (1.82%) Network Security
7 5 (1.82%) VPN
8 4 (1.46%) AMQP
9 2 (0.73%) SAN
10 1 (0.36%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.14%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.41%) DynamoDB
3 18 (6.57%) NoSQL
4 17 (6.20%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.38%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.28%) Redis
7 9 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.19%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.19%) MySQL
9 4 (1.46%) Big Data
9 4 (1.46%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.46%) GIS
9 4 (1.46%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.46%) QGIS
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 44 (16.06%) Git
2 43 (15.69%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.95%) GitLab
4 6 (2.19%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.46%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.46%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.09%) JIRA
6 3 (1.09%) JMeter
6 3 (1.09%) Locust
6 3 (1.09%) Maven
6 3 (1.09%) Selenium
7 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.73%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.36%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.66%) Telecoms
5 20 (7.30%) Law
6 11 (4.01%) Finance
6 11 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.82%) Banking
8 4 (1.46%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.73%) Games
10 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (20.44%) Senior
2 50 (18.25%) Developer
2 50 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (16.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (13.14%) Lead
5 34 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 25 (9.12%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.57%) Python Developer
8 17 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) .NET Developer
10 13 (4.74%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.38%) Network Manager
11 12 (4.38%) Network Operations Manager
11 12 (4.38%) Operations Manager
12 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.63%) React
2 46 (16.79%) Node.js
3 31 (11.31%) REST
4 29 (10.58%) .NET
5 27 (9.85%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (9.85%) RESTful
6 25 (9.12%) Django
7 21 (7.66%) Flask
8 20 (7.30%) Spring Boot
8 20 (7.30%) Vue
9 19 (6.93%) CSS
9 19 (6.93%) HTML
10 18 (6.57%) .NET Core
10 18 (6.57%) FastAPI
10 18 (6.57%) Spring
11 16 (5.84%) AWS CDK
12 14 (5.11%) AngularJS
13 13 (4.74%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.74%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.74%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.47%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.47%) Data Structures
2 15 (5.47%) PKI
3 13 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.19%) PACS
8 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.23%) Linux
2 19 (6.93%) Windows
3 12 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.28%) Unix
5 6 (2.19%) Debian
5 6 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.82%) CentOS
6 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (67.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 171 (62.41%) CI/CD
3 141 (51.46%) DevOps
4 122 (44.53%) Agile
5 81 (29.56%) Mentoring
6 79 (28.83%) Containerisation
7 76 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (21.53%) Observability
8 59 (21.53%) Platform Engineering
9 57 (20.80%) Microservices
10 50 (18.25%) Software Engineering
11 43 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (14.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 38 (13.87%) Coaching
14 37 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 32 (11.68%) Scrum
16 30 (10.95%) Incident Response
17 28 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
18 25 (9.12%) Design Patterns
18 25 (9.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 123 (44.89%) Python
2 55 (20.07%) JavaScript
3 49 (17.88%) SQL
4 44 (16.06%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.14%) Java
6 31 (11.31%) Go
7 30 (10.95%) Bash
8 18 (6.57%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.65%) C#
10 9 (3.28%) Bicep
11 7 (2.55%) C
12 3 (1.09%) Groovy
12 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.66%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.92%) Degree
7 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) QA
2 6 (2.19%) DICOM
2 6 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.46%) GDPR
3 4 (1.46%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.09%) NIST
4 3 (1.09%) WCAG
5 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.73%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 101 (36.86%) Docker
2 12 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.55%) vSphere
5 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 84 (30.66%) Ansible
2 79 (28.83%) Kubernetes
3 38 (13.87%) Grafana
4 33 (12.04%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.46%) Puppet
9 3 (1.09%) Argo
9 3 (1.09%) HP Fortify
9 3 (1.09%) Rancher
10 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.73%) Nagios
10 2 (0.73%) Packer
10 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) Control-M
11 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.93%) Google
3 12 (4.38%) Arista
3 12 (4.38%) Aruba
3 12 (4.38%) NetScout
3 12 (4.38%) VMware
4 11 (4.01%) Splunk
5 9 (3.28%) New Relic
6 5 (1.82%) Pega
6 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.82%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.82%) WSO2
7 4 (1.46%) Databricks
8 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.73%) BMC
9 2 (0.73%) F5
10 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.36%) HP
10 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle