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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 53 94
Rank change year-on-year -29 +41 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 368 480 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.84% 5.82% 2.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.87% 33.76% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 295 194 333
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,375 £82,500
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 923 1,422 1,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.61% 17.26% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 718 497 1,060
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,800 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,997 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -25 214 £70,400 -2.21% 60
Yorkshire -10 101 £69,310 -0.99% 25
North East -17 53 £55,000 -15.38% 19
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 20 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.72%) Apache
2 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.17%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.09%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.82%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 274 (74.46%) AWS
2 196 (53.26%) Azure
3 95 (25.82%) GitHub
4 73 (19.84%) GCP
5 70 (19.02%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (18.75%) Serverless
7 59 (16.03%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (11.96%) Amazon S3
10 37 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (9.51%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (9.51%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (7.34%) Azure AKS
13 24 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (5.16%) SaaS
15 18 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (4.89%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (3.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.23%) Firewall
2 26 (7.07%) DNS
3 25 (6.79%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.35%) HTTP
5 13 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.26%) NGFW
6 12 (3.26%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.26%) Wireshark
7 10 (2.72%) VPN
8 6 (1.63%) Network Security
9 5 (1.36%) Internet
10 4 (1.09%) SAN
11 3 (0.82%) SSH
12 2 (0.54%) AMQP
13 1 (0.27%) BGP
13 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
13 1 (0.27%) DHCP
13 1 (0.27%) LAN
13 1 (0.27%) OSPF
13 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.34%) DynamoDB
3 25 (6.79%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.26%) BigQuery
6 11 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.45%) Spark SQL
8 8 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.17%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.63%) MySQL
10 5 (1.36%) Big Data
10 5 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (1.09%) Flink
11 4 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.09%) Power BI
11 4 (1.09%) QGIS
11 4 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 68 (18.48%) Jenkins
2 57 (15.49%) GitLab
3 36 (9.78%) Git
4 9 (2.45%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.17%) JIRA
6 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.63%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.36%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.82%) Maven
10 3 (0.82%) Selenium
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.54%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.54%) Vite
12 1 (0.27%) Locust
12 1 (0.27%) MLflow
12 1 (0.27%) PyCharm
General
1 60 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.43%) Finance
5 19 (5.16%) Law
5 19 (5.16%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.90%) Banking
8 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.36%) Retail
10 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
12 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 106 (28.80%) Senior
2 83 (22.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (16.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 43 (11.68%) Lead
4 43 (11.68%) Platform Engineer
5 40 (10.87%) Developer
6 36 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (9.78%) Software Engineer
7 35 (9.51%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
10 21 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (4.35%) Architect
12 16 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 15 (4.08%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.49%) Node.js
2 44 (11.96%) React
3 32 (8.70%) REST
4 29 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (7.34%) ARM Templates
6 26 (7.07%) PySpark
7 24 (6.52%) .NET
8 23 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 22 (5.98%) Spring
10 16 (4.35%) Kafka
11 15 (4.08%) Web Services
11 15 (4.08%) YAML
12 12 (3.26%) AngularJS
12 12 (3.26%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.72%) OAuth
13 10 (2.72%) RESTful
13 10 (2.72%) Vue
14 9 (2.45%) OAuth2
14 9 (2.45%) OpenID
15 8 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (17.66%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.89%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.08%) PKI
6 11 (2.99%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) PACS
8 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.09%) Replication
11 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.82%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.82%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.30%) Linux
2 31 (8.42%) Windows
3 15 (4.08%) Unix
4 11 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.09%) CentOS
6 4 (1.09%) Debian
6 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (68.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 246 (66.85%) CI/CD
3 197 (53.53%) DevOps
4 129 (35.05%) Agile
5 107 (29.08%) Mentoring
5 107 (29.08%) Platform Engineering
6 95 (25.82%) Containerisation
7 82 (22.28%) Observability
8 64 (17.39%) Microservices
9 63 (17.12%) AI
10 62 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (16.03%) Software Engineering
12 58 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
13 57 (15.49%) Test Automation
14 54 (14.67%) Scrum
15 52 (14.13%) Coaching
16 44 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 43 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (9.51%) TDD
19 34 (9.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 199 (54.08%) Python
2 66 (17.93%) Java
3 63 (17.12%) Bash
4 61 (16.58%) SQL
5 51 (13.86%) PowerShell
6 49 (13.32%) TypeScript
7 44 (11.96%) JavaScript
8 35 (9.51%) Go
9 25 (6.79%) Bicep
9 25 (6.79%) C#
10 17 (4.62%) Groovy
11 5 (1.36%) C
11 5 (1.36%) Ruby
12 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.54%) PHP
13 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.98%) Degree
4 20 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.53%) Data Quality
1 13 (3.53%) QA
2 10 (2.72%) GDPR
3 6 (1.63%) DICOM
4 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 120 (32.61%) Docker
2 12 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.36%) vSphere
6 3 (0.82%) iptables
7 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 137 (37.23%) Kubernetes
2 88 (23.91%) Ansible
3 39 (10.60%) Grafana
4 33 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.43%) Argo
6 15 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.36%) Istio
8 5 (1.36%) Packer
9 4 (1.09%) Puppet
10 3 (0.82%) Control-M
10 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.82%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.82%) linkerd
10 3 (0.82%) systemd
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.54%) Kibana
11 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 42 (11.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.98%) Google
3 21 (5.71%) Databricks
4 17 (4.62%) VMware
5 12 (3.26%) Arista
5 12 (3.26%) Aruba
5 12 (3.26%) NetScout
6 7 (1.90%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.90%) Splunk
7 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.36%) IBM
8 4 (1.09%) Oracle
9 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.82%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.54%) New Relic
10 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.54%) Pega
10 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.54%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.54%) WSO2