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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 434 454 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.91% 4.75% 2.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.43% 27.63% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 345 170 256
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.87% -6.43%
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 2,234 1,643 2,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.83% 17.21% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 872 2,063
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.65% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £78,750
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 25 August 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 August 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 -30 234 £72,500 +3.57% 77
Yorkshire +10 121 £72,250 +3.21% 36
North East +4 79 £56,500 -13.08% 26
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 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.46%) Apache
4 13 (3.00%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 302 (69.59%) AWS
2 201 (46.31%) Azure
3 111 (25.58%) GitHub
4 91 (20.97%) Serverless
5 86 (19.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 75 (17.28%) GCP
7 69 (15.90%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (13.13%) Amazon EC2
9 57 (13.13%) Amazon S3
10 52 (11.98%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (11.98%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (10.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (5.99%) Azure AKS
14 25 (5.76%) SaaS
15 24 (5.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (4.38%) dbt
17 17 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (3.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.99%) Firewall
2 19 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 18 (4.15%) DNS
4 9 (2.07%) VPN
5 8 (1.84%) Network Security
6 6 (1.38%) DHCP
7 5 (1.15%) SAN
8 4 (0.92%) BGP
8 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.69%) HTTP
9 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.69%) SSH
9 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 3 (0.69%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) AMQP
10 2 (0.46%) DMZ
10 2 (0.46%) IPsec
10 2 (0.46%) LAN
10 2 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.22%) DynamoDB
2 26 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.53%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.69%) BigQuery
6 16 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.07%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.84%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.61%) MySQL
13 6 (1.38%) Big Data
13 6 (1.38%) Metadata
13 6 (1.38%) Power BI
14 5 (1.15%) Flink
15 4 (0.92%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 78 (17.97%) GitLab
2 75 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 60 (13.82%) Git
4 16 (3.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.53%) JIRA
6 10 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.46%) Vite
12 1 (0.23%) Locust
12 1 (0.23%) MLflow
12 1 (0.23%) Mocha
12 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
12 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 97 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.90%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.83%) Finance
4 26 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.30%) Law
6 20 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.61%) Banking
7 7 (1.61%) Retail
8 6 (1.38%) Legal
8 6 (1.38%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Local Government
9 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 121 (27.88%) Senior
2 115 (26.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (20.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (12.67%) Lead
4 55 (12.67%) Platform Engineer
5 47 (10.83%) Data Engineer
6 41 (9.45%) Developer
7 40 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
8 36 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
9 33 (7.60%) Software Engineer
10 30 (6.91%) Principal Engineer
11 29 (6.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
12 26 (5.99%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (5.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 22 (5.07%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.15%) Senior Developer
14 18 (4.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.69%) Architect
15 16 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.52%) Node.js
2 40 (9.22%) React
3 37 (8.53%) Spring
4 36 (8.29%) Spring Boot
5 32 (7.37%) PySpark
6 29 (6.68%) .NET
6 29 (6.68%) ARM Templates
7 26 (5.99%) REST
8 20 (4.61%) Web Services
9 19 (4.38%) Kafka
10 18 (4.15%) YAML
11 15 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (3.00%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.00%) FastAPI
13 12 (2.76%) Pulumi
14 10 (2.30%) Next.js
15 9 (2.07%) CSS
15 9 (2.07%) OAuth
15 9 (2.07%) OpenID
15 9 (2.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 97 (22.35%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.38%) Blog
11 6 (1.38%) Life Science
12 5 (1.15%) Replication
13 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.92%) NHS
13 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.69%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 87 (20.05%) Linux
2 35 (8.06%) Windows
3 18 (4.15%) CentOS
3 18 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.92%) Unix
5 15 (3.46%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (73.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 311 (71.66%) CI/CD
3 261 (60.14%) DevOps
4 146 (33.64%) Agile
5 142 (32.72%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (26.73%) Mentoring
7 114 (26.27%) Containerisation
8 101 (23.27%) Observability
9 94 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (17.05%) AI
11 71 (16.36%) Microservices
12 70 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 70 (16.13%) Test Automation
13 69 (15.90%) Software Engineering
14 68 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (15.21%) Technical Leadership
16 58 (13.36%) Coaching
17 54 (12.44%) Scrum
18 50 (11.52%) Infrastructure Automation
19 48 (11.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 245 (56.45%) Python
2 85 (19.59%) Java
3 82 (18.89%) Bash
4 77 (17.74%) SQL
5 66 (15.21%) PowerShell
6 41 (9.45%) Bicep
7 40 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 38 (8.76%) JavaScript
9 30 (6.91%) C#
10 24 (5.53%) Go
11 20 (4.61%) Groovy
12 10 (2.30%) Ruby
13 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.69%) PHP
13 3 (0.69%) Scala
14 2 (0.46%) Perl
14 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.46%) Rust
14 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 95 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.06%) DV Cleared
4 19 (4.38%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.38%) Degree
5 9 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.46%) CCIE
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.92%) QA
3 10 (2.30%) GDPR
4 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) DICOM
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (41.24%) Docker
2 20 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.92%) vSphere
6 3 (0.69%) iptables
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 194 (44.70%) Kubernetes
2 114 (26.27%) Ansible
3 29 (6.68%) Grafana
4 27 (6.22%) Progress Chef
5 21 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.61%) Argo
7 14 (3.23%) Puppet
8 6 (1.38%) Istio
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.92%) linkerd
11 3 (0.69%) Control-M
11 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.69%) Kibana
11 3 (0.69%) Packer
11 3 (0.69%) systemd
12 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.37%) Google
3 24 (5.53%) Databricks
4 22 (5.07%) VMware
5 10 (2.30%) Splunk
6 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.38%) Cisco
8 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.15%) IBM
9 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.92%) Oracle
10 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.69%) Confluent
10 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.46%) F5
11 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.46%) Pega
11 2 (0.46%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.46%) WSO2
11 2 (0.46%) Zscaler