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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 65 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 433 435 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.86% 4.64% 2.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.51% 28.03% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 345 152 237
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
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 2,219 1,552 2,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.52% 16.54% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,792 783 1,769
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,813 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £89,800 £80,000
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 9 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 9 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 -28 235 £72,500 +5.45% 131
Yorkshire +4 119 £72,250 +3.21% 85
North East -3 79 £56,500 -13.08% 41
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 (6.24%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.46%) Apache
4 13 (3.00%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.08%) 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
1 300 (69.28%) AWS
2 196 (45.27%) Azure
3 112 (25.87%) GitHub
4 92 (21.25%) Serverless
5 88 (20.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (16.40%) GCP
7 68 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (14.09%) Amazon S3
10 60 (13.86%) Amazon EC2
11 57 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (12.70%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 47 (10.85%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (6.24%) Azure AKS
15 27 (6.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (5.77%) SaaS
17 18 (4.16%) Amazon ECR
17 18 (4.16%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.77%) Firewall
2 17 (3.93%) DNS
2 17 (3.93%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.08%) VPN
4 8 (1.85%) Network Security
5 7 (1.62%) DHCP
6 5 (1.15%) SAN
7 4 (0.92%) BGP
7 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
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
10 1 (0.23%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (6.24%) DynamoDB
3 26 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.46%) BigQuery
8 14 (3.23%) Data Lake
9 13 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (2.77%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.08%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.85%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.62%) Big Data
13 7 (1.62%) MySQL
14 6 (1.39%) Metadata
14 6 (1.39%) Power BI
15 5 (1.15%) Flink
16 4 (0.92%) Data Vault
16 4 (0.92%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (18.94%) GitLab
2 72 (16.63%) Jenkins
3 60 (13.86%) Git
4 16 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.77%) JIRA
6 10 (2.31%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.39%) 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 97 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.85%) Finance
4 28 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.54%) Law
6 21 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.62%) Banking
7 7 (1.62%) Retail
8 6 (1.39%) Legal
8 6 (1.39%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Local Government
10 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (27.48%) Senior
2 114 (26.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (20.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (12.93%) Platform Engineer
5 55 (12.70%) Lead
6 46 (10.62%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (9.70%) Developer
8 35 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (6.93%) Principal Engineer
9 30 (6.93%) Software Engineer
10 29 (6.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (5.08%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.16%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.93%) Architect
15 17 (3.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.32%) Node.js
2 41 (9.47%) React
3 35 (8.08%) Spring
4 34 (7.85%) Spring Boot
5 33 (7.62%) PySpark
6 29 (6.70%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.24%) .NET
7 27 (6.24%) REST
8 20 (4.62%) Kafka
8 20 (4.62%) Web Services
9 18 (4.16%) YAML
10 15 (3.46%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (3.00%) FastAPI
12 12 (2.77%) Pulumi
13 10 (2.31%) Next.js
13 10 (2.31%) Vue
14 9 (2.08%) Flask
14 9 (2.08%) OAuth2
14 9 (2.08%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 99 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.31%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.62%) Life Science
9 6 (1.39%) Blog
10 5 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.15%) Replication
11 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.92%) NHS
11 4 (0.92%) PKI
11 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (19.86%) Linux
2 36 (8.31%) Windows
3 18 (4.16%) CentOS
3 18 (4.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.93%) Unix
5 15 (3.46%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (73.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 311 (71.82%) CI/CD
3 261 (60.28%) DevOps
4 143 (33.03%) Agile
4 143 (33.03%) Platform Engineering
5 112 (25.87%) Containerisation
5 112 (25.87%) Mentoring
6 103 (23.79%) Observability
7 96 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (17.78%) AI
9 71 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (16.17%) Microservices
10 70 (16.17%) Test Automation
11 68 (15.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 66 (15.24%) Software Engineering
12 66 (15.24%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (13.39%) Coaching
14 52 (12.01%) Infrastructure Automation
15 51 (11.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 51 (11.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 247 (57.04%) Python
2 83 (19.17%) Bash
2 83 (19.17%) Java
3 78 (18.01%) SQL
4 67 (15.47%) PowerShell
5 42 (9.70%) Bicep
6 41 (9.47%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.55%) JavaScript
8 30 (6.93%) C#
9 22 (5.08%) Go
10 20 (4.62%) Groovy
11 10 (2.31%) Ruby
12 4 (0.92%) Rust
12 4 (0.92%) Scala
13 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.69%) PHP
13 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.46%) Perl
14 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 97 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.55%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.62%) Degree
5 19 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.85%) 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 21 (4.85%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.93%) QA
3 10 (2.31%) 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
1 182 (42.03%) Docker
2 20 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.62%) 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
1 196 (45.27%) Kubernetes
2 113 (26.10%) Ansible
3 27 (6.24%) Grafana
3 27 (6.24%) Progress Chef
4 20 (4.62%) Argo
5 19 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.23%) Puppet
7 6 (1.39%) Istio
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.92%) linkerd
10 3 (0.69%) Control-M
10 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.69%) Kibana
10 3 (0.69%) Packer
10 3 (0.69%) systemd
11 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.23%) Nessus
12 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.39%) Google
3 25 (5.77%) Databricks
4 23 (5.31%) VMware
5 10 (2.31%) Splunk
6 7 (1.62%) Cisco
6 7 (1.62%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.15%) IBM
8 4 (0.92%) Confluent
8 4 (0.92%) Oracle
9 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.46%) F5
10 2 (0.46%) Pega
10 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.46%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.46%) WSO2
10 2 (0.46%) Zscaler