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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 83 98
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 312 250 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 3.58% 2.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.10% 24.22% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 232 217 316
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% -3.23%

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 778 1,032 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.40% 14.76% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 575 491 1,068
10th Percentile £31,100 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +22.73% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 22 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 22 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 -16 158 £70,000 -3.45% 82
Yorkshire -21 116 £70,905 +9.93% 29
North East -31 38 £49,222 -21.87% 39
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 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.28%) Apache
4 4 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.28%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.96%) JBoss
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 234 (75.00%) AWS
2 182 (58.33%) Azure
3 88 (28.21%) GitHub
4 82 (26.28%) Serverless
5 63 (20.19%) GCP
6 62 (19.87%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (13.14%) Amazon S3
11 40 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (8.01%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (7.05%) Entra ID
13 22 (7.05%) SaaS
14 19 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (6.09%) Azure AKS
14 19 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (5.77%) Amazon EventBridge
16 16 (5.13%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.78%) Firewall
2 34 (10.90%) DNS
3 30 (9.62%) TCP/IP
4 19 (6.09%) HTTP
5 13 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.85%) NGFW
6 12 (3.85%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.85%) Wireshark
7 7 (2.24%) Internet
8 6 (1.92%) VPN
9 4 (1.28%) AMQP
9 4 (1.28%) Network Security
10 2 (0.64%) SAN
10 2 (0.64%) SSH
11 1 (0.32%) BGP
11 1 (0.32%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.32%) DHCP
11 1 (0.32%) LAN
11 1 (0.32%) OSPF
11 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 18 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.24%) MySQL
9 6 (1.92%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (1.92%) Spark SQL
10 5 (1.60%) Redis
11 4 (1.28%) Big Data
11 4 (1.28%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.28%) GIS
11 4 (1.28%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.28%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 51 (16.35%) Jenkins
2 48 (15.38%) Git
3 43 (13.78%) GitLab
4 9 (2.88%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.24%) JIRA
5 7 (2.24%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.28%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.96%) JMeter
7 3 (0.96%) Locust
7 3 (0.96%) Maven
7 3 (0.96%) Selenium
8 2 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.64%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.32%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.18%) Public Sector
3 31 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.05%) Law
4 22 (7.05%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.13%) Finance
6 11 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.24%) Banking
8 6 (1.92%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.60%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.60%) Retail
10 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (22.44%) Senior
2 61 (19.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (17.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (16.35%) Developer
5 49 (15.71%) Lead
6 36 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 30 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (6.09%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.49%) Python Developer
13 13 (4.17%) AWS Developer
13 13 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.85%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.85%) Network Manager
14 12 (3.85%) Network Operations Manager
14 12 (3.85%) Operations Manager
15 11 (3.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.95%) React
2 51 (16.35%) Node.js
3 32 (10.26%) REST
4 29 (9.29%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (9.29%) RESTful
5 26 (8.33%) .NET
6 19 (6.09%) Django
6 19 (6.09%) Spring Boot
7 18 (5.77%) .NET Core
7 18 (5.77%) Spring
8 17 (5.45%) ARM Templates
8 17 (5.45%) Flask
9 16 (5.13%) AWS CDK
10 15 (4.81%) CSS
10 15 (4.81%) HTML
10 15 (4.81%) Vue
11 14 (4.49%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.17%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.17%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.81%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.81%) PKI
4 14 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.53%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) PACS
9 6 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.96%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.64%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.64%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 50 (16.03%) Linux
2 27 (8.65%) Windows
3 14 (4.49%) Unix
3 14 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.92%) Debian
6 5 (1.60%) CentOS
6 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (68.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 202 (64.74%) CI/CD
3 168 (53.85%) DevOps
4 133 (42.63%) Agile
5 92 (29.49%) Containerisation
6 91 (29.17%) Mentoring
7 80 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (23.40%) Observability
9 72 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
10 69 (22.12%) Microservices
11 53 (16.99%) Software Engineering
12 47 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (15.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 46 (14.74%) Coaching
14 43 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 40 (12.82%) Scrum
16 39 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
17 37 (11.86%) Test Automation
18 35 (11.22%) Deployment Automation
19 31 (9.94%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 145 (46.47%) Python
2 58 (18.59%) SQL
3 47 (15.06%) Java
4 46 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 45 (14.42%) TypeScript
6 41 (13.14%) Bash
7 31 (9.94%) Go
8 29 (9.29%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.17%) Bicep
10 9 (2.88%) C#
11 8 (2.56%) Groovy
12 7 (2.24%) C
13 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.64%) Perl
14 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.73%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.49%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.17%) Degree
6 8 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.88%) QA
2 8 (2.56%) GDPR
3 7 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.92%) DICOM
5 5 (1.60%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.96%) NIST
7 3 (0.96%) WCAG
8 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.64%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (34.29%) Docker
2 16 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.60%) vSphere
5 4 (1.28%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.64%) iptables
7 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (32.69%) Kubernetes
2 92 (29.49%) Ansible
3 43 (13.78%) Grafana
4 38 (12.18%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.53%) Argo
5 11 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.60%) Packer
8 4 (1.28%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.28%) Puppet
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.96%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.96%) Kibana
9 3 (0.96%) Rancher
10 2 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.64%) Istio
10 2 (0.64%) Nagios
10 2 (0.64%) systemd
11 1 (0.32%) Control-M
11 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 35 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.77%) Google
3 12 (3.85%) Arista
3 12 (3.85%) Aruba
3 12 (3.85%) NetScout
3 12 (3.85%) VMware
4 10 (3.21%) Splunk
5 9 (2.88%) Databricks
5 9 (2.88%) New Relic
6 5 (1.60%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.60%) HubSpot
6 5 (1.60%) IBM
6 5 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.28%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.96%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.96%) Oracle
9 2 (0.64%) BMC
9 2 (0.64%) Pega
9 2 (0.64%) WSO2