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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 58 69
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 405 468 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 4.92% 2.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.94% 33.40% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 330 177 284
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £86,750 £85,000
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 1,014 1,401 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.77% 14.72% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 811 482 857
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,125 £33,219 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,162 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,625 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,277
% change year-on-year - +2.72% -6.26%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -29 225 £72,500 +3.57% 103
Yorkshire +8 110 £71,250 +1.79% 51
North East -5 70 £56,500 -13.08% 33
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 26 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.46%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.21%) Apache
4 11 (2.72%) Jupyter
4 11 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.99%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.74%) JBoss
7 2 (0.49%) Confluence
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 287 (70.86%) AWS
2 199 (49.14%) Azure
3 102 (25.19%) GitHub
4 81 (20.00%) Serverless
5 76 (18.77%) GCP
6 73 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (17.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 59 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (12.59%) Amazon S3
10 47 (11.60%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
12 43 (10.62%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (6.42%) Azure AKS
16 22 (5.43%) SaaS
17 21 (5.19%) dbt
18 18 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
19 17 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 16 (3.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.64%) Firewall
2 29 (7.16%) TCP/IP
3 26 (6.42%) DNS
4 11 (2.72%) HTTP
5 9 (2.22%) VPN
6 7 (1.73%) Network Security
7 6 (1.48%) SAN
8 4 (0.99%) DHCP
9 3 (0.74%) BGP
9 3 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.74%) SSH
10 2 (0.49%) AMQP
10 2 (0.49%) DMZ
10 2 (0.49%) IPsec
10 2 (0.49%) WAN
10 2 (0.49%) Wireless
11 1 (0.25%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.25%) LAN
11 1 (0.25%) OSPF
11 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.91%) DynamoDB
2 26 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (4.94%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.95%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.21%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.72%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.22%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.98%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.48%) MySQL
12 6 (1.48%) Power BI
13 5 (1.23%) Big Data
13 5 (1.23%) Flink
13 5 (1.23%) Metadata
14 4 (0.99%) Data Vault
14 4 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (18.77%) Jenkins
2 69 (17.04%) GitLab
3 53 (13.09%) Git
4 13 (3.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.72%) JIRA
6 10 (2.47%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.48%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.48%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.74%) Maven
10 3 (0.74%) Selenium
11 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.49%) Vite
12 1 (0.25%) Locust
12 1 (0.25%) MLflow
12 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.83%) Public Sector
3 27 (6.67%) Finance
4 23 (5.68%) Law
5 22 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.73%) Banking
9 6 (1.48%) Retail
9 6 (1.48%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.49%) Advertising
11 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Local Government
12 1 (0.25%) Games
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 115 (28.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 113 (27.90%) Senior
3 72 (17.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (12.10%) Lead
5 44 (10.86%) Platform Engineer
6 43 (10.62%) Data Engineer
7 39 (9.63%) Developer
8 35 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (7.65%) Software Engineer
10 29 (7.16%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.42%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (6.42%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (6.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 25 (6.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (4.44%) Architect
14 18 (4.44%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 16 (3.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 15 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.84%) Node.js
2 40 (9.88%) React
3 35 (8.64%) Spring Boot
4 34 (8.40%) Spring
5 29 (7.16%) ARM Templates
5 29 (7.16%) PySpark
6 27 (6.67%) .NET
6 27 (6.67%) REST
7 24 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (4.44%) Kafka
8 18 (4.44%) YAML
9 16 (3.95%) Web Services
10 14 (3.46%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.72%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.22%) Next.js
12 9 (2.22%) OAuth
12 9 (2.22%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.22%) OpenID
12 9 (2.22%) Vue
13 8 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.48%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.46%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.48%) Life Science
10 5 (1.23%) Replication
10 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.99%) PACS
11 4 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 80 (19.75%) Linux
2 32 (7.90%) Windows
3 18 (4.44%) Unix
4 15 (3.70%) CentOS
4 15 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.96%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.73%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.74%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (72.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 283 (69.88%) CI/CD
3 241 (59.51%) DevOps
4 140 (34.57%) Agile
5 130 (32.10%) Platform Engineering
6 114 (28.15%) Mentoring
7 111 (27.41%) Containerisation
8 88 (21.73%) Observability
9 83 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (18.27%) AI
11 72 (17.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 67 (16.54%) Microservices
13 62 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (15.06%) Test Automation
15 58 (14.32%) Software Engineering
16 56 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
17 54 (13.33%) Scrum
18 52 (12.84%) Coaching
19 39 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
20 37 (9.14%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 225 (55.56%) Python
2 81 (20.00%) Java
3 74 (18.27%) Bash
4 68 (16.79%) SQL
5 62 (15.31%) PowerShell
6 41 (10.12%) JavaScript
6 41 (10.12%) TypeScript
7 37 (9.14%) Bicep
8 32 (7.90%) Go
9 28 (6.91%) C#
10 18 (4.44%) Groovy
11 7 (1.73%) Ruby
12 3 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.74%) PHP
13 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) Scala
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 81 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.88%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 21 (5.19%) Degree
6 12 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.49%) CCIE
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.95%) QA
3 10 (2.47%) GDPR
4 6 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.48%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.99%) DICOM
6 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 156 (38.52%) Docker
2 15 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.99%) vSphere
5 3 (0.74%) iptables
6 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 172 (42.47%) Kubernetes
2 104 (25.68%) Ansible
3 36 (8.89%) Grafana
4 30 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.94%) Argo
5 20 (4.94%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.98%) Puppet
7 6 (1.48%) Istio
8 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.23%) Packer
9 4 (0.99%) linkerd
10 3 (0.74%) Control-M
10 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.74%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.74%) Kibana
10 3 (0.74%) systemd
11 2 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.49%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 48 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.41%) Google
3 24 (5.93%) Databricks
4 21 (5.19%) VMware
5 8 (1.98%) Splunk
6 7 (1.73%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.23%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.23%) IBM
7 5 (1.23%) Oracle
8 4 (0.99%) Cisco
9 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.74%) F5
9 3 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.49%) Confluent
10 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.49%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.49%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.49%) WSO2
10 2 (0.49%) Zscaler