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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 55 73
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 397 474 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.88% 4.99% 2.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.54% 33.50% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 323 182 287
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,813 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,050 £85,000
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 1,004 1,415 1,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.74% 14.89% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 801 494 895
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,150 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,026 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,625 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -31 222 £72,500 +3.57% 106
Yorkshire -3 109 £70,000 - 49
North East -7 66 £56,500 -13.08% 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 24 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.27%) Apache
4 12 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (2.77%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.01%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.76%) JBoss
8 2 (0.50%) Confluence
8 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.25%) IIS
9 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 280 (70.53%) AWS
2 195 (49.12%) Azure
3 101 (25.44%) GitHub
4 79 (19.90%) Serverless
5 73 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (18.14%) GCP
7 65 (16.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 59 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (12.59%) Amazon S3
10 46 (11.59%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (10.83%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (6.80%) Azure AKS
16 22 (5.54%) SaaS
17 18 (4.53%) Amazon ECR
18 17 (4.28%) dbt
18 17 (4.28%) Entra ID
18 17 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.32%) Firewall
2 27 (6.80%) TCP/IP
3 26 (6.55%) DNS
4 11 (2.77%) HTTP
5 9 (2.27%) VPN
6 7 (1.76%) Network Security
7 6 (1.51%) SAN
8 4 (1.01%) DHCP
9 3 (0.76%) BGP
9 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.76%) SSH
10 2 (0.50%) AMQP
10 2 (0.50%) DMZ
10 2 (0.50%) IPsec
10 2 (0.50%) WAN
10 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.50%) Wireless
11 1 (0.25%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.25%) LAN
11 1 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.05%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.04%) MongoDB
4 19 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.78%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (3.53%) BigQuery
8 12 (3.02%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.77%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.27%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.51%) MySQL
13 5 (1.26%) Big Data
13 5 (1.26%) Flink
13 5 (1.26%) Metadata
13 5 (1.26%) Power BI
14 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
14 4 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (1.01%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 74 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 69 (17.38%) GitLab
3 49 (12.34%) Git
4 12 (3.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.77%) JIRA
6 10 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.51%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.51%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 3 (0.76%) Selenium
11 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.50%) Vite
12 1 (0.25%) Locust
12 1 (0.25%) MLflow
12 1 (0.25%) PyCharm
General
1 81 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.60%) Public Sector
3 25 (6.30%) Finance
4 23 (5.79%) Law
5 22 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.76%) Banking
9 6 (1.51%) Retail
9 6 (1.51%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Games
12 1 (0.25%) Local Government
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 113 (28.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 108 (27.20%) Senior
3 73 (18.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 48 (12.09%) Lead
5 45 (11.34%) Platform Engineer
6 40 (10.08%) Data Engineer
7 39 (9.82%) Developer
8 36 (9.07%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (7.56%) Software Engineer
10 29 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (6.55%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (6.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 25 (6.30%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (4.53%) Architect
15 17 (4.28%) Principal DevOps Engineer
16 16 (4.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 16 (4.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 16 (4.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (13.10%) Node.js
2 39 (9.82%) React
3 34 (8.56%) Spring Boot
4 33 (8.31%) Spring
5 29 (7.30%) ARM Templates
5 29 (7.30%) PySpark
6 27 (6.80%) REST
7 26 (6.55%) .NET
8 24 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (4.53%) Kafka
9 18 (4.53%) YAML
10 16 (4.03%) Web Services
11 14 (3.53%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.77%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.27%) Next.js
13 9 (2.27%) OAuth
13 9 (2.27%) OAuth2
13 9 (2.27%) OpenID
13 9 (2.27%) Vue
14 8 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.41%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.27%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.51%) Life Science
10 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.26%) Replication
12 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.01%) PACS
12 4 (1.01%) PKI
12 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (19.40%) Linux
2 32 (8.06%) Windows
3 16 (4.03%) Unix
4 14 (3.53%) CentOS
4 14 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.02%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.01%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (72.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 274 (69.02%) CI/CD
3 234 (58.94%) DevOps
4 136 (34.26%) Agile
5 129 (32.49%) Platform Engineering
6 110 (27.71%) Mentoring
7 109 (27.46%) Containerisation
8 84 (21.16%) Observability
9 79 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (18.64%) AI
11 68 (17.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 65 (16.37%) Microservices
13 61 (15.37%) Test Automation
14 59 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
15 55 (13.85%) Software Engineering
16 54 (13.60%) Technical Leadership
17 53 (13.35%) Scrum
18 49 (12.34%) Coaching
19 39 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
20 37 (9.32%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 219 (55.16%) Python
2 79 (19.90%) Java
3 74 (18.64%) Bash
4 66 (16.62%) SQL
5 62 (15.62%) PowerShell
6 41 (10.33%) JavaScript
6 41 (10.33%) TypeScript
7 37 (9.32%) Bicep
8 32 (8.06%) Go
9 27 (6.80%) C#
10 18 (4.53%) Groovy
11 6 (1.51%) Ruby
12 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.76%) PHP
13 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) Scala
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.57%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.54%) Azure Certification
5 21 (5.29%) Degree
6 12 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.50%) CCIE
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.28%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.03%) QA
3 10 (2.52%) GDPR
4 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.51%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.01%) DICOM
6 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (38.04%) Docker
2 15 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.01%) vSphere
5 3 (0.76%) iptables
6 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 171 (43.07%) Kubernetes
2 104 (26.20%) Ansible
3 36 (9.07%) Grafana
4 30 (7.56%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.04%) Argo
5 20 (5.04%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.02%) Puppet
7 6 (1.51%) Istio
7 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.26%) Packer
9 4 (1.01%) linkerd
10 3 (0.76%) Control-M
10 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.76%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.76%) Kibana
10 3 (0.76%) systemd
11 2 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 49 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.55%) Google
3 23 (5.79%) Databricks
4 21 (5.29%) VMware
5 8 (2.02%) Splunk
6 7 (1.76%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.26%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.26%) IBM
7 5 (1.26%) Oracle
8 4 (1.01%) Cisco
9 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.76%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.76%) F5
9 3 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.50%) Confluent
10 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.50%) Pega
10 2 (0.50%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.50%) WSO2
10 2 (0.50%) Zscaler