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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 68 66
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 435 442 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 4.68% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.66% 27.39% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 345 160 252
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.87% -6.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £85,000
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 2,213 1,614 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.66% 17.09% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,789 841 1,957
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +12.61% -7.50%
75th Percentile £79,750 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £93,657 £87,500 £79,225
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 3 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 3 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 -30 234 £72,500 +3.57% 145
Yorkshire 0 121 £72,250 +3.21% 98
North East +3 80 £56,500 -13.08% 49
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 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.45%) Apache
4 13 (2.99%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 303 (69.66%) AWS
2 199 (45.75%) Azure
3 113 (25.98%) GitHub
4 91 (20.92%) Serverless
5 88 (20.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 75 (17.24%) GCP
7 70 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
9 60 (13.79%) Amazon S3
10 56 (12.87%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (10.57%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (6.21%) Azure AKS
14 27 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (5.75%) SaaS
16 18 (4.14%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.21%) Firewall
2 19 (4.37%) DNS
2 19 (4.37%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.07%) VPN
4 8 (1.84%) Network Security
5 7 (1.61%) DHCP
6 5 (1.15%) SAN
7 4 (0.92%) BGP
7 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.69%) HTTP
8 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.69%) SSH
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
8 3 (0.69%) Wireless
9 2 (0.46%) AMQP
9 2 (0.46%) DMZ
9 2 (0.46%) IPsec
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (6.21%) DynamoDB
3 25 (5.75%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.68%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.45%) BigQuery
7 14 (3.22%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.07%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.84%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.61%) Big Data
12 7 (1.61%) MySQL
13 6 (1.38%) Metadata
13 6 (1.38%) Power BI
14 5 (1.15%) Flink
15 4 (0.92%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 81 (18.62%) GitLab
2 74 (17.01%) Jenkins
3 59 (13.56%) Git
4 16 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.76%) JIRA
6 10 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.46%) Vite
12 1 (0.23%) Locust
12 1 (0.23%) Maven
12 1 (0.23%) MLflow
12 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
12 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 98 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.82%) Finance
4 28 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.98%) Law
6 20 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.61%) Banking
7 7 (1.61%) Retail
8 6 (1.38%) Legal
8 6 (1.38%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Local Government
9 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (27.36%) Senior
2 116 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (12.64%) Lead
4 55 (12.64%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (10.57%) Data Engineer
6 42 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
7 41 (9.43%) Developer
8 36 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
9 30 (6.90%) Software Engineer
10 29 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (5.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (5.06%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.91%) Architect
15 17 (3.91%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.03%) Node.js
2 41 (9.43%) React
3 35 (8.05%) Spring
4 34 (7.82%) Spring Boot
5 33 (7.59%) PySpark
6 29 (6.67%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.21%) .NET
8 26 (5.98%) REST
9 20 (4.60%) Web Services
10 19 (4.37%) Kafka
11 18 (4.14%) YAML
12 15 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (3.22%) AngularJS
14 13 (2.99%) FastAPI
15 12 (2.76%) Pulumi
16 10 (2.30%) Next.js
16 10 (2.30%) Vue
17 9 (2.07%) Flask
17 9 (2.07%) OAuth2
17 9 (2.07%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 98 (22.53%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (3.22%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.61%) Life Science
10 6 (1.38%) Blog
11 5 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.15%) Replication
12 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.92%) NHS
12 4 (0.92%) PKI
12 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 87 (20.00%) Linux
2 36 (8.28%) Windows
3 18 (4.14%) CentOS
3 18 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.91%) Unix
5 15 (3.45%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (74.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 311 (71.49%) CI/CD
3 264 (60.69%) DevOps
4 142 (32.64%) Agile
4 142 (32.64%) Platform Engineering
5 114 (26.21%) Containerisation
5 114 (26.21%) Mentoring
6 102 (23.45%) Observability
7 96 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (17.47%) AI
9 71 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (16.09%) Microservices
10 70 (16.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 69 (15.86%) Test Automation
12 66 (15.17%) Software Engineering
12 66 (15.17%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (13.33%) Coaching
14 52 (11.95%) Infrastructure Automation
15 51 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 51 (11.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 248 (57.01%) Python
2 85 (19.54%) Bash
3 83 (19.08%) Java
4 77 (17.70%) SQL
5 67 (15.40%) PowerShell
6 42 (9.66%) Bicep
7 40 (9.20%) TypeScript
8 36 (8.28%) JavaScript
9 30 (6.90%) C#
10 24 (5.52%) Go
11 20 (4.60%) Groovy
12 10 (2.30%) Ruby
13 4 (0.92%) Rust
13 4 (0.92%) Scala
14 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 96 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.49%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.60%) Degree
5 19 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) CCIE
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CCNA
11 1 (0.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.68%) QA
3 10 (2.30%) GDPR
4 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) DICOM
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 181 (41.61%) Docker
2 20 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.15%) vSphere
6 3 (0.69%) iptables
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 195 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 115 (26.44%) Ansible
3 29 (6.67%) Grafana
4 27 (6.21%) Progress Chef
5 21 (4.83%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.60%) Argo
7 14 (3.22%) Puppet
8 6 (1.38%) Istio
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.92%) linkerd
11 3 (0.69%) Control-M
11 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.69%) Kibana
11 3 (0.69%) Packer
11 3 (0.69%) systemd
12 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.23%) Nessus
13 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.36%) Google
3 25 (5.75%) Databricks
4 23 (5.29%) VMware
5 10 (2.30%) Splunk
6 7 (1.61%) Cisco
6 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.15%) IBM
8 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.92%) Oracle
9 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.69%) Confluent
9 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.46%) Mistral
10 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.46%) Pega
10 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.46%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.46%) Zscaler