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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 67 60
Rank change year-on-year -35 -7 -13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 204 309 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.92% 3.25% 4.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.89% 35.23% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 158 194 289
10th Percentile £50,513 £41,400 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% - -6.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 602 877 1,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.67% 9.21% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 463 496 887
10th Percentile £28,800 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 94 £65,000 -9.71% 309
Yorkshire -18 85 £68,000 +23.64% 248
North East +6 25 £70,079 +27.42% 62
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 (3.92%) OpenStack
1 8 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.96%) Apache
2 4 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 145 (71.08%) AWS
2 117 (57.35%) Azure
3 53 (25.98%) Serverless
4 50 (24.51%) GitHub
5 45 (22.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 38 (18.63%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (16.67%) GCP
8 29 (14.22%) Amazon S3
8 29 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (13.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (11.27%) SaaS
11 22 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (7.84%) PaaS
14 14 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (6.37%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (6.37%) AWS Step Functions
16 11 (5.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.33%) DNS
2 14 (6.86%) Firewall
3 9 (4.41%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.94%) HTTP
5 4 (1.96%) Internet
5 4 (1.96%) WAN
6 3 (1.47%) AMQP
6 3 (1.47%) DHCP
6 3 (1.47%) Network Security
7 2 (0.98%) SAN
7 2 (0.98%) SSL
7 2 (0.98%) VLAN
7 2 (0.98%) VPN
8 1 (0.49%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.73%) DynamoDB
1 28 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.41%) Redis
4 8 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.45%) MySQL
6 5 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.96%) Big Data
8 3 (1.47%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.47%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (18.63%) Git
2 30 (14.71%) GitLab
3 24 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.43%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.94%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.45%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.47%) JIRA
9 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.98%) JMeter
9 2 (0.98%) Locust
9 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.49%) git-flow
General
1 56 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.39%) Finance
4 10 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.41%) Law
6 8 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.43%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.45%) Games
9 3 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.47%) Banking
9 3 (1.47%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.98%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (22.06%) Developer
2 43 (21.08%) Senior
3 37 (18.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 37 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (15.69%) Lead
5 22 (10.78%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (9.31%) Software Engineer
7 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (7.35%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.37%) .NET Developer
10 12 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.90%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.90%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.41%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.92%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.92%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.94%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (29.41%) React
2 34 (16.67%) .NET
3 30 (14.71%) Node.js
4 27 (13.24%) REST
5 22 (10.78%) Django
5 22 (10.78%) RESTful
6 19 (9.31%) .NET Core
6 19 (9.31%) Vue
7 17 (8.33%) FastAPI
7 17 (8.33%) Flask
8 16 (7.84%) CSS
8 16 (7.84%) HTML
9 15 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (6.37%) ASP.NET
10 13 (6.37%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (6.37%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.37%) Blazor
11 12 (5.88%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.39%) Data Structures
3 8 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.96%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.47%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.98%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.65%) Linux
2 17 (8.33%) Windows
3 9 (4.41%) Unix
3 9 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.43%) Debian
4 7 (3.43%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.96%) CentOS
7 3 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 132 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 120 (58.82%) DevOps
4 112 (54.90%) Agile
5 61 (29.90%) Containerisation
6 60 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (26.96%) Mentoring
8 50 (24.51%) Observability
9 47 (23.04%) Microservices
10 43 (21.08%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (19.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 36 (17.65%) Software Engineering
13 34 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (13.73%) Incident Response
15 26 (12.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (10.29%) Deployment Automation
17 20 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
18 19 (9.31%) Coaching
18 19 (9.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 68 (33.33%) Python
2 44 (21.57%) SQL
3 43 (21.08%) JavaScript
4 33 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 19 (9.31%) Bash
5 19 (9.31%) C#
5 19 (9.31%) Java
6 16 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.86%) Go
8 12 (5.88%) Bicep
9 4 (1.96%) C
10 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.49%) Perl
11 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.37%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.39%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.47%) Degree
8 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.94%) QA
2 4 (1.96%) GDPR
2 4 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.47%) NIST
4 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.98%) GRC
4 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (46.57%) Docker
2 13 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.43%) vSphere
5 3 (1.47%) KVM
5 3 (1.47%) QEMU
5 3 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.47%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 60 (29.41%) Ansible
3 37 (18.14%) Grafana
4 34 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.45%) Puppet
8 3 (1.47%) Argo
8 3 (1.47%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.98%) Control-M
9 2 (0.98%) Nagios
9 2 (0.98%) Rancher
10 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.49%) Kibana
10 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.35%) Splunk
3 12 (5.88%) VMware
4 9 (4.41%) Google
4 9 (4.41%) New Relic
5 6 (2.94%) Databricks
5 6 (2.94%) SaltStack
6 5 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.96%) Pega
7 4 (1.96%) WSO2
8 3 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.47%) Foundry
9 2 (0.98%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.98%) BMC
10 1 (0.49%) Avaya
10 1 (0.49%) Dell
10 1 (0.49%) F5
10 1 (0.49%) Genesys
10 1 (0.49%) Salesforce