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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 84 94
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 323 312 429
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.75% 4.12% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.88% 25.85% 32.11%
Number of salaries quoted 244 209 325
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,950 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,125 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 810 1,207 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.39% 15.93% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 595 476 1,067
10th Percentile £30,850 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,001 £97,528 £79,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,563 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.79% +10.39% -9.32%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -5 178 £69,310 -4.40% 80
Yorkshire -27 101 £69,310 +4.62% 41
North East -17 44 £50,000 -23.08% 34
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 10 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.24%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.93%) Apache
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.93%) JBoss
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 240 (74.30%) AWS
2 197 (60.99%) Azure
3 87 (26.93%) GitHub
4 69 (21.36%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (21.36%) Serverless
5 68 (21.05%) GCP
6 61 (18.89%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (16.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (11.46%) Amazon S3
8 37 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (7.12%) Azure AKS
11 21 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (6.19%) Entra ID
13 19 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (5.57%) SaaS
15 17 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (4.95%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 45 (13.93%) Firewall
2 34 (10.53%) DNS
3 27 (8.36%) TCP/IP
4 19 (5.88%) HTTP
5 13 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.72%) NGFW
6 12 (3.72%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.72%) Wireshark
7 7 (2.17%) Internet
7 7 (2.17%) VPN
8 5 (1.55%) Network Security
9 4 (1.24%) SAN
10 3 (0.93%) AMQP
10 3 (0.93%) SSH
11 1 (0.31%) BGP
11 1 (0.31%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.31%) DHCP
11 1 (0.31%) LAN
11 1 (0.31%) OSPF
11 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (9.29%) DynamoDB
3 25 (7.74%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.10%) BigQuery
8 10 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.48%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.86%) MySQL
11 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.24%) Big Data
12 4 (1.24%) Flink
12 4 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.24%) GIS
12 4 (1.24%) QGIS
13 3 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 53 (16.41%) GitLab
3 48 (14.86%) Git
4 9 (2.79%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.48%) JIRA
6 7 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.86%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.93%) Maven
9 3 (0.93%) Selenium
10 2 (0.62%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.31%) JMeter
11 1 (0.31%) Locust
11 1 (0.31%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.31%) Public Sector
3 28 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.43%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.50%) Law
6 19 (5.88%) Finance
7 12 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.17%) Banking
9 6 (1.86%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.55%) Retail
11 4 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (24.46%) Senior
2 72 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (17.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 44 (13.62%) Developer
5 43 (13.31%) Lead
6 37 (11.46%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (9.29%) Software Engineer
8 25 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (7.74%) Data Engineer
9 18 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (5.57%) Senior DevOps
9 18 (5.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (3.72%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.72%) Network Manager
12 12 (3.72%) Network Operations Manager
12 12 (3.72%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.79%) Node.js
2 40 (12.38%) React
3 31 (9.60%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (9.29%) REST
5 27 (8.36%) .NET
6 24 (7.43%) RESTful
7 20 (6.19%) Spring Boot
8 19 (5.88%) Spring
9 18 (5.57%) ARM Templates
10 15 (4.64%) .NET Core
10 15 (4.64%) PySpark
11 14 (4.33%) Kafka
12 13 (4.02%) AWS CDK
13 12 (3.72%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.72%) ASP.NET
13 12 (3.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (3.72%) Blazor
14 11 (3.41%) YAML
15 10 (3.10%) Web Services
16 9 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.64%) PKI
5 14 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.02%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.10%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.86%) PACS
10 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.24%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.93%) Replication
14 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.62%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 58 (17.96%) Linux
2 34 (10.53%) Windows
3 17 (5.26%) Unix
4 14 (4.33%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.55%) Debian
7 4 (1.24%) CentOS
7 4 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (66.25%) CI/CD
2 213 (65.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 178 (55.11%) DevOps
4 132 (40.87%) Agile
5 98 (30.34%) Mentoring
6 83 (25.70%) Containerisation
7 81 (25.08%) Platform Engineering
8 71 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (21.36%) Microservices
9 69 (21.36%) Observability
10 50 (15.48%) Scrum
11 49 (15.17%) Coaching
12 47 (14.55%) Test Automation
13 46 (14.24%) Software Engineering
14 43 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (13.00%) Continuous Integration
15 42 (13.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 38 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
17 36 (11.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 34 (10.53%) AI
Programming Languages
1 151 (46.75%) Python
2 57 (17.65%) Java
3 52 (16.10%) SQL
4 49 (15.17%) Bash
5 39 (12.07%) TypeScript
6 37 (11.46%) JavaScript
7 36 (11.15%) PowerShell
8 31 (9.60%) Go
9 16 (4.95%) C#
10 14 (4.33%) Bicep
11 12 (3.72%) Groovy
12 7 (2.17%) C
13 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.50%) Degree
4 19 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 15 (4.64%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.79%) GDPR
2 8 (2.48%) QA
3 6 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.86%) DICOM
4 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.24%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.31%) GRC
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (30.34%) Docker
2 14 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.86%) vSphere
5 3 (0.93%) iptables
5 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (33.13%) Kubernetes
2 90 (27.86%) Ansible
3 42 (13.00%) Grafana
4 36 (11.15%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.26%) Argo
6 11 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.48%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.55%) Packer
10 4 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.93%) Control-M
11 3 (0.93%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.93%) Puppet
11 3 (0.93%) Rancher
11 3 (0.93%) systemd
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.62%) Istio
12 2 (0.62%) Kibana
12 2 (0.62%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.95%) Databricks
2 16 (4.95%) Google
3 14 (4.33%) VMware
4 12 (3.72%) Arista
4 12 (3.72%) Aruba
4 12 (3.72%) NetScout
5 10 (3.10%) Splunk
6 8 (2.48%) New Relic
7 6 (1.86%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.55%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.55%) IBM
9 4 (1.24%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.93%) Oracle
10 3 (0.93%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.62%) Pega
11 2 (0.62%) WSO2