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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 75 76
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 237 267 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.08% 2.96% 3.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.92% 32.32% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 184 184 303
10th Percentile £46,446 £41,400 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £76,125
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -6.25%

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 642 826 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.64% 9.16% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 490 467 932
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,375 £43,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,068 £74,144 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -7 114 £65,000 -9.71% 81
Yorkshire -10 93 £62,500 +13.64% 90
North East -2 30 £62,500 +8.70% 28
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 (3.38%) OpenStack
1 8 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.11%) Apache
2 5 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 170 (71.73%) AWS
2 132 (55.70%) Azure
3 61 (25.74%) GitHub
4 56 (23.63%) Serverless
5 47 (19.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (18.57%) GCP
7 41 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (13.50%) Amazon S3
10 31 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (11.39%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (10.13%) SaaS
13 16 (6.75%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (6.33%) PaaS
15 14 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (5.49%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (5.49%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (5.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.66%) Firewall
2 21 (8.86%) DNS
3 13 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.22%) HTTP
4 10 (4.22%) NGFW
4 10 (4.22%) VXLAN
4 10 (4.22%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (4.22%) Wireshark
5 7 (2.95%) Internet
6 4 (1.69%) AMQP
6 4 (1.69%) Network Security
6 4 (1.69%) VPN
6 4 (1.69%) WAN
7 3 (1.27%) DHCP
8 2 (0.84%) SAN
8 2 (0.84%) SSL
8 2 (0.84%) VLAN
9 1 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (13.08%) DynamoDB
3 18 (7.59%) NoSQL
4 17 (7.17%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.80%) Redis
7 8 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.53%) MySQL
8 6 (2.53%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.11%) Big Data
10 4 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.69%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (17.72%) Git
2 33 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 30 (12.66%) GitLab
4 7 (2.95%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.11%) CircleCI
5 5 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.27%) JIRA
7 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.84%) JMeter
7 2 (0.84%) Locust
7 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.42%) git-flow
General
1 54 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.44%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.49%) Law
5 12 (5.06%) Finance
5 12 (5.06%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.69%) Games
8 3 (1.27%) Banking
8 3 (1.27%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.84%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (20.68%) Senior
2 45 (18.99%) Developer
3 40 (16.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 39 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (13.08%) Lead
6 26 (10.97%) Software Engineer
7 23 (9.70%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.75%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.49%) .NET Developer
11 11 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.22%) AWS Developer
12 10 (4.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.22%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (4.22%) Network Manager
12 10 (4.22%) Network Operations Manager
12 10 (4.22%) Operations Manager
13 9 (3.80%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.27%) React
2 40 (16.88%) Node.js
3 35 (14.77%) .NET
4 33 (13.92%) REST
5 25 (10.55%) RESTful
6 22 (9.28%) Django
7 20 (8.44%) .NET Core
8 19 (8.02%) Vue
9 18 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (7.59%) FastAPI
10 17 (7.17%) Flask
11 16 (6.75%) CSS
11 16 (6.75%) HTML
12 15 (6.33%) AWS CDK
13 13 (5.49%) AngularJS
13 13 (5.49%) ASP.NET
13 13 (5.49%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (5.49%) Blazor
14 10 (4.22%) Spring
14 10 (4.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.33%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.64%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.22%) PKI
5 8 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) PACS
9 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.88%) Linux
2 19 (8.02%) Windows
3 10 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.38%) Unix
5 7 (2.95%) Debian
5 7 (2.95%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.11%) CentOS
6 5 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 147 (62.03%) CI/CD
3 126 (53.16%) DevOps
4 112 (47.26%) Agile
5 69 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (27.85%) Containerisation
7 65 (27.43%) Mentoring
8 58 (24.47%) Microservices
9 51 (21.52%) Observability
10 48 (20.25%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (19.41%) Software Engineering
12 38 (16.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 35 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (12.24%) Coaching
15 28 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (11.39%) Incident Response
17 23 (9.70%) Continuous Integration
18 22 (9.28%) Deployment Automation
19 21 (8.86%) Scrum
20 19 (8.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 93 (39.24%) Python
2 49 (20.68%) JavaScript
3 44 (18.57%) SQL
4 42 (17.72%) TypeScript
5 22 (9.28%) Bash
5 22 (9.28%) Go
6 20 (8.44%) C#
6 20 (8.44%) Java
7 17 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.06%) Bicep
9 7 (2.95%) C
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (10.55%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.33%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.69%) Degree
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.53%) QA
2 4 (1.69%) GDPR
2 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.27%) NIST
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.84%) DICOM
4 2 (0.84%) GRC
4 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (39.66%) Docker
2 13 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.38%) vSphere
4 4 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.27%) KVM
5 3 (1.27%) QEMU
5 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (32.91%) Ansible
2 75 (31.65%) Kubernetes
3 36 (15.19%) Grafana
4 33 (13.92%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.53%) Puppet
8 3 (1.27%) Argo
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.27%) Rancher
9 2 (0.84%) Control-M
9 2 (0.84%) Nagios
10 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.42%) Kibana
10 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.91%) Google
2 14 (5.91%) Splunk
3 12 (5.06%) VMware
4 10 (4.22%) Arista
4 10 (4.22%) Aruba
4 10 (4.22%) NetScout
5 9 (3.80%) New Relic
6 7 (2.95%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.11%) Databricks
7 5 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.69%) Pega
8 4 (1.69%) WSO2
9 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.84%) BMC
10 2 (0.84%) Foundry
11 1 (0.42%) Avaya
11 1 (0.42%) Salesforce