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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 66 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 431 428 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.83% 4.60% 2.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.76% 27.90% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 338 142 238
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,063 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +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 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 2,181 1,534 2,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.26% 16.47% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,752 763 1,738
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,625 £69,750
90th Percentile £93,738 £87,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -31 234 £72,500 +11.54% 242
Yorkshire +12 119 £70,000 - 138
North East -2 78 £56,500 -13.08% 65
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 (6.26%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.71%) Apache
4 13 (3.02%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.70%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 301 (69.84%) AWS
2 193 (44.78%) Azure
3 111 (25.75%) GitHub
4 95 (22.04%) Serverless
5 88 (20.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (16.47%) GCP
7 68 (15.78%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (15.31%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (14.15%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (14.15%) Amazon S3
10 60 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (12.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (9.98%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (6.26%) Azure AKS
14 27 (6.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (5.34%) SaaS
16 19 (4.41%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (4.18%) Amazon ECR
17 18 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.57%) Firewall
2 17 (3.94%) DNS
3 16 (3.71%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.86%) DHCP
4 8 (1.86%) VPN
5 7 (1.62%) Network Security
6 5 (1.16%) SAN
7 4 (0.93%) BGP
7 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.70%) AMQP
8 3 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.70%) SSH
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
8 3 (0.70%) Wireless
9 2 (0.46%) CTI
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 30 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.50%) DynamoDB
3 26 (6.03%) MongoDB
4 24 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.48%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.48%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.25%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.55%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.09%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.09%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.86%) Big Data
12 7 (1.62%) MySQL
13 6 (1.39%) Metadata
13 6 (1.39%) Power BI
14 4 (0.93%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.93%) Flink
14 4 (0.93%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (19.26%) GitLab
2 74 (17.17%) Jenkins
3 60 (13.92%) Git
4 16 (3.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (3.25%) JIRA
6 10 (2.32%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.39%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.46%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.46%) Vite
12 1 (0.23%) Locust
12 1 (0.23%) MLflow
12 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
12 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 98 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 33 (7.66%) Finance
4 28 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.80%) Law
6 22 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.62%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.62%) Retail
8 6 (1.39%) Legal
9 5 (1.16%) Banking
9 5 (1.16%) Local Government
10 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.93%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 116 (26.91%) Senior
2 113 (26.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 87 (20.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (13.23%) Lead
4 57 (13.23%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (10.44%) Data Engineer
6 42 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
7 41 (9.51%) Developer
8 33 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (7.19%) Software Engineer
10 29 (6.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 29 (6.73%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (6.03%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (6.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.57%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (5.10%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 19 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
15 18 (4.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.71%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.60%) Node.js
2 43 (9.98%) React
3 36 (8.35%) Spring
4 35 (8.12%) Spring Boot
5 32 (7.42%) PySpark
6 29 (6.73%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.26%) REST
8 26 (6.03%) .NET
9 20 (4.64%) Web Services
10 19 (4.41%) Kafka
11 16 (3.71%) AngularJS
11 16 (3.71%) YAML
12 13 (3.02%) FastAPI
12 13 (3.02%) Pulumi
13 11 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (2.32%) Vue
15 9 (2.09%) AWS CDK
15 9 (2.09%) Next.js
15 9 (2.09%) OAuth
15 9 (2.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 106 (24.59%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (4.87%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.62%) Life Science
8 6 (1.39%) Blog
8 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.16%) PKI
9 5 (1.16%) Replication
10 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (20.65%) Linux
2 36 (8.35%) Windows
3 20 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (4.41%) CentOS
5 17 (3.94%) Unix
6 14 (3.25%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.70%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (74.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 311 (72.16%) CI/CD
3 263 (61.02%) DevOps
4 146 (33.87%) Agile
5 141 (32.71%) Platform Engineering
6 114 (26.45%) Containerisation
7 111 (25.75%) Mentoring
8 102 (23.67%) Observability
9 97 (22.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 80 (18.56%) AI
11 74 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (16.24%) Microservices
13 69 (16.01%) Test Automation
14 67 (15.55%) Software Engineering
14 67 (15.55%) Technical Leadership
15 65 (15.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 61 (14.15%) Coaching
17 54 (12.53%) Scrum
18 53 (12.30%) Infrastructure Automation
19 52 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 248 (57.54%) Python
2 84 (19.49%) Java
3 83 (19.26%) Bash
4 77 (17.87%) SQL
5 69 (16.01%) PowerShell
6 43 (9.98%) TypeScript
7 42 (9.74%) Bicep
8 36 (8.35%) JavaScript
9 29 (6.73%) C#
10 22 (5.10%) Go
11 21 (4.87%) Groovy
12 10 (2.32%) Ruby
13 5 (1.16%) Rust
14 4 (0.93%) Scala
15 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.70%) PHP
15 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.46%) Perl
16 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 99 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 54 (12.53%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.10%) Degree
5 19 (4.41%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.86%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.46%) CCIE
11 2 (0.46%) CCNA
11 2 (0.46%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.87%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.94%) QA
3 10 (2.32%) GDPR
4 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) DICOM
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 185 (42.92%) Docker
2 20 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.62%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) iptables
6 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 198 (45.94%) Kubernetes
2 113 (26.22%) Ansible
3 30 (6.96%) Progress Chef
4 29 (6.73%) Grafana
5 21 (4.87%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.64%) Argo
7 15 (3.48%) Puppet
8 6 (1.39%) Istio
9 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.16%) Packer
10 4 (0.93%) linkerd
11 3 (0.70%) Control-M
11 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.70%) Kibana
11 3 (0.70%) systemd
12 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.19%) Google
3 25 (5.80%) Databricks
3 25 (5.80%) VMware
4 10 (2.32%) Splunk
5 8 (1.86%) Cisco
6 7 (1.62%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.16%) IBM
8 4 (0.93%) Confluent
8 4 (0.93%) Oracle
8 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.70%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.46%) F5
10 2 (0.46%) FIS
10 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.46%) Zscaler