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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 54 92
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 372 477 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.84% 5.63% 2.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.41% 33.45% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 301 192 331
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,257 £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 £73,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,125
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 944 1,426 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.67% 16.83% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 744 502 1,050
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,550 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £38,918 £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 £74,990 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,125 £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 25 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 25 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 -27 218 £71,500 -0.68% 57
Yorkshire -4 100 £69,310 -0.99% 30
North East -15 54 £55,000 -15.38% 18
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 22 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.96%) Apache
2 11 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.42%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.08%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.81%) JBoss
7 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 277 (74.46%) AWS
2 194 (52.15%) Azure
3 93 (25.00%) GitHub
4 73 (19.62%) GCP
5 69 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (18.28%) Serverless
7 58 (15.59%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (14.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (12.37%) Amazon S3
10 38 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (9.14%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (7.53%) Azure AKS
15 25 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (5.11%) SaaS
17 17 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (4.57%) Entra ID
18 16 (4.30%) dbt
19 15 (4.03%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.37%) Firewall
2 25 (6.72%) DNS
2 25 (6.72%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.03%) HTTP
4 13 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (3.23%) NGFW
5 12 (3.23%) VXLAN
5 12 (3.23%) Wireshark
6 10 (2.69%) VPN
7 7 (1.88%) Network Security
8 4 (1.08%) SAN
9 3 (0.81%) Internet
9 3 (0.81%) SSH
10 2 (0.54%) AMQP
11 1 (0.27%) BGP
11 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.27%) DHCP
11 1 (0.27%) LAN
11 1 (0.27%) OSPF
11 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.80%) DynamoDB
1 29 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.18%) MongoDB
3 15 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (3.49%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.42%) Spark SQL
9 8 (2.15%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.15%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.88%) MySQL
11 5 (1.34%) Big Data
11 5 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.08%) Flink
12 4 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.08%) Power BI
12 4 (1.08%) QGIS
12 4 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (17.74%) Jenkins
2 57 (15.32%) GitLab
3 35 (9.41%) Git
4 9 (2.42%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.15%) JIRA
6 7 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.61%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.34%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.81%) Maven
10 3 (0.81%) 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%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.52%) Public Sector
3 27 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.38%) Finance
5 19 (5.11%) Law
6 18 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.88%) Banking
9 6 (1.61%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.34%) Retail
11 3 (0.81%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Legal
13 1 (0.27%) Local Government
13 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 110 (29.57%) Senior
2 83 (22.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (16.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (11.29%) Lead
4 42 (11.29%) Platform Engineer
5 39 (10.48%) Developer
6 38 (10.22%) Software Engineer
7 37 (9.95%) Data Engineer
8 35 (9.41%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (5.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
14 17 (4.57%) Architect
15 16 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (4.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 15 (4.03%) Senior Developer
17 14 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.59%) Node.js
2 45 (12.10%) React
3 32 (8.60%) REST
4 28 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (7.26%) ARM Templates
5 27 (7.26%) PySpark
6 25 (6.72%) .NET
7 23 (6.18%) Spring Boot
8 22 (5.91%) Spring
9 16 (4.30%) Kafka
9 16 (4.30%) YAML
10 15 (4.03%) Web Services
11 12 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.23%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.69%) OAuth
12 10 (2.69%) RESTful
13 9 (2.42%) Next.js
13 9 (2.42%) OAuth2
13 9 (2.42%) OpenID
13 9 (2.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.03%) PKI
6 11 (2.96%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.96%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.61%) PACS
8 6 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.34%) Replication
10 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.81%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.13%) Linux
2 29 (7.80%) Windows
3 15 (4.03%) Unix
4 9 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.08%) CentOS
6 4 (1.08%) Debian
6 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (68.01%) Infrastructure as Code
2 248 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 199 (53.49%) DevOps
4 130 (34.95%) Agile
5 111 (29.84%) Mentoring
6 110 (29.57%) Platform Engineering
7 94 (25.27%) Containerisation
8 82 (22.04%) Observability
9 65 (17.47%) AI
9 65 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (17.20%) Microservices
11 62 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 58 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (15.59%) Test Automation
13 55 (14.78%) Coaching
13 55 (14.78%) Scrum
14 43 (11.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 42 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
16 36 (9.68%) TDD
16 36 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 202 (54.30%) Python
2 67 (18.01%) Java
3 64 (17.20%) Bash
4 63 (16.94%) SQL
5 52 (13.98%) PowerShell
6 48 (12.90%) TypeScript
7 43 (11.56%) JavaScript
8 32 (8.60%) Go
9 27 (7.26%) Bicep
9 27 (7.26%) C#
10 17 (4.57%) Groovy
11 6 (1.61%) Ruby
12 3 (0.81%) C
12 3 (0.81%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.81%) 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 67 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.91%) Degree
4 20 (5.38%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.76%) Data Quality
1 14 (3.76%) QA
2 10 (2.69%) GDPR
3 6 (1.61%) DICOM
4 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.34%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (32.80%) Docker
2 12 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.34%) vSphere
6 3 (0.81%) iptables
7 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 138 (37.10%) Kubernetes
2 87 (23.39%) Ansible
3 38 (10.22%) Grafana
4 32 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.38%) Argo
6 15 (4.03%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.34%) Istio
8 5 (1.34%) Packer
9 4 (1.08%) Puppet
10 3 (0.81%) Control-M
10 3 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.81%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.81%) linkerd
10 3 (0.81%) systemd
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.54%) Kibana
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.45%) Google
3 21 (5.65%) Databricks
4 17 (4.57%) VMware
5 12 (3.23%) Arista
5 12 (3.23%) Aruba
5 12 (3.23%) NetScout
6 7 (1.88%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.88%) Splunk
7 5 (1.34%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.34%) IBM
7 5 (1.34%) Oracle
8 3 (0.81%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.54%) Pega
9 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.54%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.54%) WSO2
10 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow