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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 435 451 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.94% 4.70% 2.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.27% 33.16% 37.92%
Number of salaries quoted 345 167 254
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £46,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 1,054 1,360 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.70% 14.17% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 831 465 756
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,550 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,050 £80,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.26%

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 19 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 19 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 -27 233 £72,500 +3.57% 115
Yorkshire +25 122 £70,000 - 57
North East -1 80 £55,750 -14.23% 33
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 16 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.45%) Apache
4 13 (2.99%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) JBoss
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 304 (69.89%) AWS
2 202 (46.44%) Azure
3 108 (24.83%) GitHub
4 93 (21.38%) Serverless
5 87 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 76 (17.47%) GCP
7 69 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (13.56%) Amazon S3
10 56 (12.87%) Amazon EC2
11 54 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (12.18%) Amazon ECS
13 46 (10.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 44 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (5.75%) Azure AKS
15 25 (5.75%) SaaS
16 24 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (4.37%) dbt
18 18 (4.14%) Amazon ECR
19 17 (3.91%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.44%) Firewall
2 21 (4.83%) TCP/IP
3 20 (4.60%) DNS
4 9 (2.07%) VPN
5 8 (1.84%) Network Security
6 6 (1.38%) DHCP
7 5 (1.15%) HTTP
7 5 (1.15%) SAN
8 4 (0.92%) BGP
8 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.69%) SSH
9 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 3 (0.69%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) AMQP
10 2 (0.46%) DMZ
10 2 (0.46%) IPsec
10 2 (0.46%) LAN
10 2 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 26 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.68%) BigQuery
6 16 (3.68%) Relational Database
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%) MySQL
13 6 (1.38%) Big Data
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 78 (17.93%) GitLab
2 77 (17.70%) Jenkins
3 60 (13.79%) Git
4 16 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.53%) JIRA
5 11 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.38%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.38%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.46%) Maven
9 2 (0.46%) Selenium
9 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.46%) Vite
10 1 (0.23%) Locust
10 1 (0.23%) MLflow
10 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
General
1 96 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.40%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.82%) Finance
4 27 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.75%) Law
6 19 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.61%) Banking
7 7 (1.61%) Retail
7 7 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.38%) Legal
8 6 (1.38%) 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
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (27.82%) Senior
2 117 (26.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (20.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 54 (12.41%) Lead
5 52 (11.95%) Platform Engineer
6 46 (10.57%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.66%) Developer
8 40 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (7.36%) Software Engineer
11 30 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
12 29 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 27 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (6.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (5.06%) Principal DevOps Engineer
16 18 (4.14%) Senior Developer
17 16 (3.68%) Architect
17 16 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
17 16 (3.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (12.18%) Node.js
2 41 (9.43%) React
3 37 (8.51%) Spring
3 37 (8.51%) Spring Boot
4 32 (7.36%) PySpark
5 29 (6.67%) .NET
5 29 (6.67%) ARM Templates
6 27 (6.21%) REST
7 19 (4.37%) Kafka
7 19 (4.37%) Web Services
8 18 (4.14%) YAML
9 17 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.22%) AngularJS
11 13 (2.99%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.30%) Next.js
13 9 (2.07%) AWS CDK
13 9 (2.07%) Flask
13 9 (2.07%) OAuth2
13 9 (2.07%) RESTful
13 9 (2.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 97 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.22%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.38%) Life Science
11 5 (1.15%) Blog
11 5 (1.15%) Replication
12 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.92%) NHS
12 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 87 (20.00%) Linux
2 35 (8.05%) 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
1 323 (74.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 311 (71.49%) CI/CD
3 262 (60.23%) DevOps
4 147 (33.79%) Agile
5 140 (32.18%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (26.67%) Mentoring
7 115 (26.44%) Containerisation
8 98 (22.53%) Observability
9 95 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (17.01%) AI
11 72 (16.55%) Microservices
11 72 (16.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 69 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (15.86%) Test Automation
13 68 (15.63%) Software Engineering
14 65 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
15 58 (13.33%) Coaching
16 54 (12.41%) Scrum
17 49 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
18 48 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 245 (56.32%) Python
2 86 (19.77%) Java
3 84 (19.31%) Bash
4 76 (17.47%) SQL
5 66 (15.17%) PowerShell
6 43 (9.89%) TypeScript
7 40 (9.20%) Bicep
7 40 (9.20%) JavaScript
8 30 (6.90%) C#
9 26 (5.98%) Go
10 20 (4.60%) Groovy
11 10 (2.30%) Ruby
12 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 2 (0.46%) Perl
14 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.46%) Rust
14 2 (0.46%) Scala
14 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 94 (21.61%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.03%) DV Cleared
4 19 (4.37%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.37%) Degree
5 9 (2.07%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.46%) CCIE
7 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.91%) QA
3 10 (2.30%) GDPR
4 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) DICOM
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (41.15%) Docker
2 20 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.92%) 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
1 192 (44.14%) Kubernetes
2 116 (26.67%) Ansible
3 30 (6.90%) Grafana
4 26 (5.98%) Progress Chef
5 23 (5.29%) 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%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.23%) Nessus
13 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.13%) Google
3 24 (5.52%) Databricks
4 22 (5.06%) VMware
5 9 (2.07%) Splunk
6 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.38%) Cisco
8 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.15%) IBM
9 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.92%) Oracle
10 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.69%) Confluent
10 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.46%) F5
11 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.46%) Pega
11 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.46%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.46%) Zscaler