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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 66 105
Rank change year-on-year -27 +39 -23
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 294 251 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.89% 3.94% 2.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.20% 37.41% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 220 222 312
10th Percentile £46,125 £44,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.02%

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 750 671 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.82% 10.53% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 550 502 1,057
10th Percentile £30,975 £35,000 £28,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% +21.36% -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -26 145 £70,000 -3.45% 72
Yorkshire -16 112 £75,000 +16.28% 48
North East -16 37 £48,445 -24.31% 29
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 (2.72%) OpenStack
1 8 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.36%) Apache
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.36%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.02%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 228 (77.55%) AWS
2 164 (55.78%) Azure
3 86 (29.25%) GitHub
4 83 (28.23%) Serverless
5 65 (22.11%) GCP
6 53 (18.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (17.69%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (13.95%) Amazon S3
11 40 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (8.16%) SaaS
14 20 (6.80%) Entra ID
15 19 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (5.44%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (5.44%) PaaS
17 15 (5.10%) Amazon EventBridge
18 14 (4.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.63%) Firewall
2 31 (10.54%) DNS
3 29 (9.86%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.12%) HTTP
5 12 (4.08%) NGFW
5 12 (4.08%) VXLAN
5 12 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (4.08%) Wireshark
6 7 (2.38%) Internet
7 5 (1.70%) Network Security
7 5 (1.70%) VPN
8 4 (1.36%) AMQP
9 2 (0.68%) SAN
10 1 (0.34%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.34%) SSH
10 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.56%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.46%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.78%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.74%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.06%) Redis
9 6 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.04%) MySQL
10 4 (1.36%) Big Data
10 4 (1.36%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.36%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.36%) GIS
10 4 (1.36%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.36%) QGIS
11 3 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (17.69%) Jenkins
2 51 (17.35%) Git
3 35 (11.90%) GitLab
4 9 (3.06%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.04%) JIRA
7 4 (1.36%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.36%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.02%) JMeter
8 3 (1.02%) Locust
8 3 (1.02%) Maven
8 3 (1.02%) Selenium
9 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.68%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.34%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.56%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.14%) Law
4 21 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.42%) Finance
6 11 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.04%) Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.36%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Retail
9 3 (1.02%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.68%) Games
10 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (20.41%) Senior
2 57 (19.39%) Developer
3 55 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (17.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (13.27%) Lead
6 36 (12.24%) Software Engineer
7 27 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (6.46%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (6.12%) Python Developer
10 15 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.76%) AWS Developer
12 13 (4.42%) .NET Developer
12 13 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (4.08%) Network Manager
13 12 (4.08%) Network Operations Manager
13 12 (4.08%) Operations Manager
14 10 (3.40%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.43%) React
2 47 (15.99%) Node.js
3 36 (12.24%) REST
4 34 (11.56%) Elastic Stack
5 30 (10.20%) RESTful
6 28 (9.52%) .NET
7 25 (8.50%) Django
8 23 (7.82%) Spring Boot
9 22 (7.48%) Spring
10 21 (7.14%) Flask
11 20 (6.80%) Vue
12 19 (6.46%) CSS
12 19 (6.46%) HTML
13 18 (6.12%) .NET Core
13 18 (6.12%) FastAPI
14 17 (5.78%) AngularJS
15 16 (5.44%) AWS CDK
16 13 (4.42%) ASP.NET
16 13 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (4.42%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.10%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.10%) Data Structures
3 15 (5.10%) PKI
4 9 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.04%) PACS
7 5 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.02%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.29%) Linux
2 18 (6.12%) Windows
3 12 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.06%) Unix
5 7 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.04%) Debian
7 5 (1.70%) CentOS
7 5 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (68.03%) Infrastructure as Code
2 186 (63.27%) CI/CD
3 155 (52.72%) DevOps
4 131 (44.56%) Agile
5 85 (28.91%) Containerisation
6 82 (27.89%) Mentoring
7 79 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (21.77%) Observability
8 64 (21.77%) Platform Engineering
9 63 (21.43%) Microservices
10 51 (17.35%) Software Engineering
11 48 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 38 (12.93%) Coaching
13 38 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 35 (11.90%) Scrum
15 31 (10.54%) Incident Response
16 30 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (9.86%) Test Automation
18 28 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 135 (45.92%) Python
2 56 (19.05%) SQL
3 54 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 45 (15.31%) TypeScript
5 44 (14.97%) Java
6 33 (11.22%) Bash
7 31 (10.54%) Go
8 19 (6.46%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.40%) C#
10 9 (3.06%) Bicep
11 7 (2.38%) C
12 6 (2.04%) Groovy
13 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) Perl
14 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.48%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.06%) Degree
7 7 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.40%) QA
2 7 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.04%) DICOM
4 5 (1.70%) GDPR
4 5 (1.70%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.02%) NIST
5 3 (1.02%) WCAG
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
System Software
1 110 (37.41%) Docker
2 12 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.04%) vSphere
5 4 (1.36%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.34%) iptables
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 95 (32.31%) Kubernetes
2 93 (31.63%) Ansible
3 41 (13.95%) Grafana
4 35 (11.90%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.70%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (1.70%) Packer
8 4 (1.36%) Argo
8 4 (1.36%) Puppet
9 3 (1.02%) HP Fortify
9 3 (1.02%) Kibana
9 3 (1.02%) Rancher
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) Istio
10 2 (0.68%) Nagios
10 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.34%) Control-M
11 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.34%) systemd
Vendors
1 26 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.80%) Google
3 12 (4.08%) Arista
3 12 (4.08%) Aruba
3 12 (4.08%) NetScout
4 11 (3.74%) Splunk
4 11 (3.74%) VMware
5 9 (3.06%) New Relic
6 6 (2.04%) Pega
6 6 (2.04%) WSO2
7 5 (1.70%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.70%) Databricks
7 5 (1.70%) IBM
7 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.70%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.02%) Oracle
9 2 (0.68%) BMC
9 2 (0.68%) F5
9 2 (0.68%) HubSpot