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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 66 110
Rank change year-on-year -28 +44 -29
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 303 251 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.81% 3.88% 2.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.45% 35.65% 29.60%
Number of salaries quoted 227 221 312
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% -3.23%

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 768 704 1,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.59% 10.88% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 567 494 1,068
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,037 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +21.89% -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -30 154 £70,000 -3.45% 64
Yorkshire -22 110 £72,500 +14.62% 37
North East -20 39 £48,445 -24.31% 24
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 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.65%) Apache
3 5 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.32%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.99%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 229 (75.58%) AWS
2 171 (56.44%) Azure
3 86 (28.38%) GitHub
4 80 (26.40%) Serverless
5 64 (21.12%) GCP
6 55 (18.15%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (17.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (14.19%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (13.86%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (13.86%) Amazon S3
10 23 (7.59%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (7.59%) SaaS
11 21 (6.93%) Entra ID
12 20 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (5.61%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (5.28%) Amazon EventBridge
14 16 (5.28%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (4.62%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.19%) Firewall
2 32 (10.56%) DNS
3 28 (9.24%) TCP/IP
4 18 (5.94%) HTTP
5 12 (3.96%) NGFW
5 12 (3.96%) VXLAN
5 12 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (3.96%) Wireshark
6 7 (2.31%) Internet
7 5 (1.65%) AMQP
7 5 (1.65%) VPN
8 4 (1.32%) Network Security
9 2 (0.66%) SAN
9 2 (0.66%) SSH
10 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.55%) DynamoDB
1 35 (11.55%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.31%) MySQL
8 6 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (1.98%) Redis
9 5 (1.65%) Big Data
9 5 (1.65%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.65%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.32%) GIS
10 4 (1.32%) QGIS
10 4 (1.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 49 (16.17%) Jenkins
2 48 (15.84%) Git
3 39 (12.87%) GitLab
4 9 (2.97%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.98%) JIRA
7 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.99%) JMeter
8 3 (0.99%) Locust
8 3 (0.99%) Maven
8 3 (0.99%) Selenium
8 3 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.66%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.33%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.55%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.26%) Law
5 21 (6.93%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.62%) Finance
7 11 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.31%) Banking
9 5 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.65%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.32%) Retail
11 3 (0.99%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Games
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (20.46%) Senior
2 57 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (17.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (16.83%) Developer
5 46 (15.18%) Lead
6 38 (12.54%) Software Engineer
7 26 (8.58%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.95%) Python Developer
11 14 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.29%) .NET Developer
12 13 (4.29%) AWS Developer
13 12 (3.96%) Network Manager
13 12 (3.96%) Network Operations Manager
13 12 (3.96%) Operations Manager
14 10 (3.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.13%) React
2 48 (15.84%) Node.js
3 33 (10.89%) REST
4 30 (9.90%) RESTful
5 29 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
6 28 (9.24%) .NET
7 20 (6.60%) Django
7 20 (6.60%) Spring Boot
8 19 (6.27%) Spring
9 18 (5.94%) .NET Core
9 18 (5.94%) Flask
10 17 (5.61%) Vue
11 16 (5.28%) AWS CDK
11 16 (5.28%) CSS
11 16 (5.28%) HTML
12 15 (4.95%) FastAPI
13 14 (4.62%) ARM Templates
14 13 (4.29%) AngularJS
14 13 (4.29%) ASP.NET
14 13 (4.29%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.95%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.95%) PKI
4 13 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.98%) PACS
9 5 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.85%) Linux
2 22 (7.26%) Windows
3 13 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.30%) Unix
5 9 (2.97%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.31%) Debian
7 6 (1.98%) CentOS
7 6 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (68.98%) Infrastructure as Code
2 194 (64.03%) CI/CD
3 159 (52.48%) DevOps
4 132 (43.56%) Agile
5 89 (29.37%) Containerisation
6 86 (28.38%) Mentoring
7 79 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (22.77%) Observability
9 66 (21.78%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (21.45%) Microservices
11 55 (18.15%) Software Engineering
12 48 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (15.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 43 (14.19%) Coaching
15 42 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 35 (11.55%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (11.55%) Scrum
17 33 (10.89%) Deployment Automation
18 32 (10.56%) Incident Response
19 30 (9.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 140 (46.20%) Python
2 55 (18.15%) SQL
3 49 (16.17%) JavaScript
4 46 (15.18%) TypeScript
5 44 (14.52%) Java
6 39 (12.87%) Bash
7 31 (10.23%) Go
8 27 (8.91%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.96%) Bicep
10 10 (3.30%) C#
11 7 (2.31%) C
12 6 (1.98%) Groovy
13 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.66%) Perl
14 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.93%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.30%) Degree
7 8 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.97%) QA
2 7 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.98%) DICOM
3 6 (1.98%) GDPR
4 5 (1.65%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.99%) NIST
5 3 (0.99%) WCAG
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) GRC
System Software
1 105 (34.65%) Docker
2 14 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.98%) vSphere
5 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.66%) iptables
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.33%) KVM
7 1 (0.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 100 (33.00%) Kubernetes
2 93 (30.69%) Ansible
3 43 (14.19%) Grafana
4 38 (12.54%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.31%) Argo
8 5 (1.65%) Packer
8 5 (1.65%) Puppet
9 3 (0.99%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.99%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.99%) Kibana
9 3 (0.99%) Rancher
10 2 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.66%) Istio
10 2 (0.66%) Nagios
10 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.66%) systemd
11 1 (0.33%) Control-M
11 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 32 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.27%) Google
3 12 (3.96%) Arista
3 12 (3.96%) Aruba
3 12 (3.96%) NetScout
3 12 (3.96%) VMware
4 11 (3.63%) Splunk
5 9 (2.97%) New Relic
6 6 (1.98%) Databricks
6 6 (1.98%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.98%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.65%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.65%) IBM
8 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.99%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle
9 2 (0.66%) BMC
9 2 (0.66%) F5
9 2 (0.66%) Pega