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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 +10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 417 471 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 4.92% 2.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.02% 33.67% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 333 181 269
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.87% -8.07%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £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 1,042 1,399 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.76% 14.62% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 828 487 793
10th Percentile £31,775 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,188 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,288 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 7 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 7 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 -29 231 £72,250 +3.67% 146
Yorkshire +15 114 £72,500 +3.57% 71
North East -4 72 £56,500 -13.08% 34
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 27 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.36%) Apache
4 12 (2.88%) Jupyter
5 11 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.72%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.72%) JBoss
7 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 2 (0.48%) IIS
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 (70.26%) AWS
2 198 (47.48%) Azure
3 103 (24.70%) GitHub
4 86 (20.62%) Serverless
5 80 (19.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 74 (17.75%) GCP
7 68 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (14.15%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (13.19%) Amazon S3
10 52 (12.47%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (11.75%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
12 42 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (6.24%) Azure AKS
15 23 (5.52%) SaaS
16 22 (5.28%) dbt
17 20 (4.80%) Amazon ECR
17 20 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 17 (4.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.43%) Firewall
2 26 (6.24%) TCP/IP
3 22 (5.28%) DNS
4 8 (1.92%) VPN
5 7 (1.68%) HTTP
5 7 (1.68%) Network Security
6 6 (1.44%) SAN
7 5 (1.20%) DHCP
8 3 (0.72%) BGP
8 3 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.72%) SSH
9 2 (0.48%) AMQP
9 2 (0.48%) DMZ
9 2 (0.48%) IPsec
9 2 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.48%) WAN
9 2 (0.48%) Wireless
10 1 (0.24%) LAN
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.95%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.04%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (4.08%) BigQuery
7 15 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.12%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.64%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.16%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.92%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.68%) MySQL
13 6 (1.44%) Metadata
13 6 (1.44%) Power BI
14 5 (1.20%) Big Data
14 5 (1.20%) Flink
15 4 (0.96%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (17.51%) Jenkins
2 71 (17.03%) GitLab
3 54 (12.95%) Git
4 13 (3.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.64%) JIRA
6 10 (2.40%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.44%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.96%) 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%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.48%) Vite
12 1 (0.24%) Locust
12 1 (0.24%) MLflow
12 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 91 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.39%) Public Sector
3 30 (7.19%) Finance
4 23 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.28%) Law
6 20 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.68%) Banking
8 7 (1.68%) Retail
9 6 (1.44%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.20%) Legal
11 4 (0.96%) Local Government
12 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Advertising
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Marketing
14 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (28.30%) Senior
2 111 (26.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (19.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (11.99%) Lead
4 50 (11.99%) Platform Engineer
5 44 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 43 (10.31%) Developer
7 37 (8.87%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (8.39%) AWS Engineer
9 31 (7.43%) Software Engineer
10 29 (6.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (6.24%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (6.24%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (6.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 23 (5.52%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (4.32%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.32%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.08%) Architect
14 17 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.47%) Node.js
2 39 (9.35%) React
3 36 (8.63%) Spring Boot
4 35 (8.39%) Spring
5 30 (7.19%) PySpark
6 29 (6.95%) ARM Templates
7 28 (6.71%) .NET
8 27 (6.47%) REST
9 20 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (4.56%) Kafka
11 18 (4.32%) YAML
12 17 (4.08%) Web Services
13 15 (3.60%) AngularJS
14 11 (2.64%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.16%) Next.js
15 9 (2.16%) OAuth
15 9 (2.16%) OAuth2
15 9 (2.16%) OpenID
15 9 (2.16%) RESTful
15 9 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 91 (21.82%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.44%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.44%) Life Science
12 5 (1.20%) Replication
12 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.72%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.14%) Linux
2 35 (8.39%) Windows
3 19 (4.56%) Unix
4 15 (3.60%) CentOS
4 15 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.36%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.72%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (72.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 291 (69.78%) CI/CD
3 247 (59.23%) DevOps
4 144 (34.53%) Agile
5 135 (32.37%) Platform Engineering
6 118 (28.30%) Mentoring
7 110 (26.38%) Containerisation
8 92 (22.06%) Observability
9 86 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (17.99%) AI
11 69 (16.55%) Microservices
11 69 (16.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 63 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (15.11%) Test Automation
13 61 (14.63%) Software Engineering
14 58 (13.91%) Technical Leadership
15 56 (13.43%) Coaching
16 53 (12.71%) Scrum
17 43 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 42 (10.07%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 228 (54.68%) Python
2 84 (20.14%) Java
3 76 (18.23%) Bash
4 72 (17.27%) SQL
5 65 (15.59%) PowerShell
6 42 (10.07%) TypeScript
7 39 (9.35%) Bicep
7 39 (9.35%) JavaScript
8 30 (7.19%) C#
9 27 (6.47%) Go
10 19 (4.56%) Groovy
11 9 (2.16%) Ruby
12 5 (1.20%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 2 (0.48%) Perl
14 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.24%) Scala
15 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.83%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.04%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.04%) Degree
5 11 (2.64%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) CCIE
8 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.08%) QA
3 10 (2.40%) GDPR
4 6 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.44%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.72%) DICOM
5 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (40.05%) Docker
2 18 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.96%) 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
1 180 (43.17%) Kubernetes
2 104 (24.94%) Ansible
3 32 (7.67%) Grafana
4 26 (6.24%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.04%) Progress Chef
6 20 (4.80%) Argo
7 10 (2.40%) Puppet
8 6 (1.44%) Istio
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.96%) linkerd
10 4 (0.96%) Packer
11 3 (0.72%) Control-M
11 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.72%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.72%) Kibana
11 3 (0.72%) systemd
12 2 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.48%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.67%) Google
3 24 (5.76%) Databricks
4 22 (5.28%) VMware
5 8 (1.92%) Splunk
6 7 (1.68%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.20%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.20%) IBM
7 5 (1.20%) Oracle
8 4 (0.96%) Cisco
8 4 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.72%) Confluent
9 3 (0.72%) F5
9 3 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.48%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.48%) WSO2
10 2 (0.48%) Zscaler