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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 72 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 232 282 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.08% 3.12% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.19% 33.65% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 180 189 289
10th Percentile £46,446 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,938 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -6.25%

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 641 838 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.75% 9.28% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 490 473 907
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -15 113 £65,000 -9.71% 85
Yorkshire -12 91 £63,750 +15.91% 89
North East +2 28 £65,000 +8.79% 25
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 (3.45%) OpenStack
1 8 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.16%) Apache
2 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 165 (71.12%) AWS
2 127 (54.74%) Azure
3 58 (25.00%) GitHub
4 56 (24.14%) Serverless
5 46 (19.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 42 (18.10%) GCP
7 40 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (14.22%) Amazon S3
8 33 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (13.36%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (11.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (9.91%) SaaS
12 18 (7.76%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (6.47%) PaaS
14 14 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (5.60%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (5.60%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (5.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.34%) Firewall
2 19 (8.19%) DNS
3 11 (4.74%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.45%) HTTP
5 7 (3.02%) Internet
6 6 (2.59%) NGFW
6 6 (2.59%) VXLAN
6 6 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.59%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.72%) AMQP
7 4 (1.72%) Network Security
7 4 (1.72%) VPN
7 4 (1.72%) WAN
8 3 (1.29%) DHCP
9 2 (0.86%) SAN
9 2 (0.86%) SSL
9 2 (0.86%) VLAN
10 1 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (13.36%) DynamoDB
3 18 (7.76%) NoSQL
4 17 (7.33%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.17%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.88%) Redis
7 8 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.59%) MySQL
9 5 (2.16%) Big Data
9 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.72%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (18.10%) Git
2 30 (12.93%) GitLab
2 30 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.02%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.16%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.29%) JIRA
6 2 (0.86%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.86%) JMeter
6 2 (0.86%) Locust
6 2 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.43%) git-flow
General
1 57 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.74%) Finance
4 11 (4.74%) Law
5 10 (4.31%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.72%) Games
8 3 (1.29%) Banking
8 3 (1.29%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.86%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (21.55%) Senior
2 44 (18.97%) Developer
3 40 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 39 (16.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (13.79%) Lead
6 27 (11.64%) Software Engineer
7 23 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.47%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.60%) .NET Developer
11 11 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.74%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (4.31%) AWS Developer
12 10 (4.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.45%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (3.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.88%) React
2 39 (16.81%) Node.js
3 36 (15.52%) .NET
4 32 (13.79%) REST
5 26 (11.21%) RESTful
6 22 (9.48%) Django
7 21 (9.05%) .NET Core
8 19 (8.19%) Vue
9 17 (7.33%) FastAPI
9 17 (7.33%) Flask
10 16 (6.90%) CSS
10 16 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (6.90%) HTML
11 14 (6.03%) AWS CDK
12 13 (5.60%) AngularJS
12 13 (5.60%) ASP.NET
12 13 (5.60%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (5.60%) Blazor
13 10 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (4.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.74%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.74%) Data Structures
3 8 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.59%) PKI
5 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.67%) Linux
2 19 (8.19%) Windows
3 10 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.88%) Unix
5 7 (3.02%) Debian
5 7 (3.02%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.16%) CentOS
8 3 (1.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (68.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 147 (63.36%) CI/CD
3 127 (54.74%) DevOps
4 115 (49.57%) Agile
5 66 (28.45%) Containerisation
5 66 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (26.72%) Mentoring
7 56 (24.14%) Microservices
8 54 (23.28%) Observability
9 47 (20.26%) Platform Engineering
10 46 (19.83%) Software Engineering
11 40 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 35 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (12.07%) Incident Response
14 27 (11.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 25 (10.78%) Coaching
16 22 (9.48%) Deployment Automation
17 21 (9.05%) Continuous Integration
18 20 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
18 20 (8.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 84 (36.21%) Python
2 49 (21.12%) JavaScript
3 44 (18.97%) SQL
4 40 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.05%) C#
6 20 (8.62%) Bash
6 20 (8.62%) Go
6 20 (8.62%) Java
7 17 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.17%) Bicep
9 7 (3.02%) C
10 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.03%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.74%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.72%) Degree
8 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.59%) QA
2 4 (1.72%) GDPR
2 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.29%) NIST
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.86%) GRC
4 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.86%) WCAG
5 1 (0.43%) DICOM
System Software
1 95 (40.95%) Docker
2 13 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.45%) vSphere
4 4 (1.72%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.29%) KVM
5 3 (1.29%) QEMU
5 3 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (33.19%) Kubernetes
2 73 (31.47%) Ansible
3 38 (16.38%) Grafana
4 35 (15.09%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.59%) Puppet
8 3 (1.29%) Argo
8 3 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.29%) Rancher
9 2 (0.86%) Control-M
9 2 (0.86%) Nagios
10 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.03%) Splunk
3 13 (5.60%) Google
4 12 (5.17%) VMware
5 9 (3.88%) New Relic
6 7 (3.02%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.59%) Arista
7 6 (2.59%) Aruba
7 6 (2.59%) NetScout
7 6 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.16%) Databricks
9 4 (1.72%) Pega
9 4 (1.72%) WSO2
10 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.29%) Foundry
11 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.86%) BMC
12 1 (0.43%) Dell
12 1 (0.43%) Salesforce