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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 213 315 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.99% 3.27% 4.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.69% 35.80% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 160 196 282
10th Percentile £50,588 £42,125 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £69,474
Median % change year-on-year - -2.84% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,813 £82,500
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 614 880 996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.75% 9.15% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 470 497 866
10th Percentile £28,975 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,875 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,750 £70,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +6.15% -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 25 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 25 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 -31 98 £65,000 -10.34% 169
Yorkshire -20 88 £68,000 +23.16% 154
North East +8 27 £67,539 +22.80% 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 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.76%) OpenStack
3 7 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 155 (72.77%) AWS
2 117 (54.93%) Azure
3 55 (25.82%) Serverless
4 51 (23.94%) GitHub
5 49 (23.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (16.90%) Amazon S3
8 35 (16.43%) GCP
9 30 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (13.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 29 (13.62%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (10.80%) SaaS
12 20 (9.39%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (7.51%) PaaS
14 14 (6.57%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (6.10%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (4.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.98%) DNS
2 14 (6.57%) Firewall
3 9 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.82%) HTTP
5 4 (1.88%) Internet
5 4 (1.88%) WAN
6 3 (1.41%) AMQP
6 3 (1.41%) DHCP
6 3 (1.41%) Network Security
6 3 (1.41%) SAN
7 2 (0.94%) SSL
7 2 (0.94%) VLAN
7 2 (0.94%) VPN
8 1 (0.47%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.90%) DynamoDB
2 28 (13.15%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.45%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.23%) Redis
5 8 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.82%) Delta Lake
7 6 (2.82%) Metadata
7 6 (2.82%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.35%) MySQL
8 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.88%) Big Data
10 3 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.47%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 38 (17.84%) Git
2 30 (14.08%) GitLab
3 24 (11.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.76%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.82%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.82%) MLflow
5 6 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.88%) JIRA
8 3 (1.41%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.94%) JMeter
9 2 (0.94%) Locust
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
General
1 62 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.63%) Finance
4 10 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.23%) Law
6 7 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.35%) Games
8 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.41%) Banking
8 3 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.94%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (21.60%) Developer
2 42 (19.72%) Senior
3 38 (17.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (17.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (15.49%) Lead
6 21 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.10%) .NET Developer
10 12 (5.63%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.69%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (28.64%) React
2 35 (16.43%) .NET
3 30 (14.08%) Node.js
4 26 (12.21%) REST
5 22 (10.33%) Django
5 22 (10.33%) RESTful
6 19 (8.92%) .NET Core
6 19 (8.92%) Vue
7 17 (7.98%) FastAPI
7 17 (7.98%) Flask
8 16 (7.51%) CSS
8 16 (7.51%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (7.51%) HTML
9 14 (6.57%) ASP.NET
10 13 (6.10%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (6.10%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.10%) Blazor
11 12 (5.63%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.16%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.88%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.94%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.84%) Linux
2 17 (7.98%) Windows
3 15 (7.04%) Unix
4 8 (3.76%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.29%) Debian
5 7 (3.29%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.88%) CentOS
8 3 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (69.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 141 (66.20%) CI/CD
3 124 (58.22%) DevOps
4 112 (52.58%) Agile
5 69 (32.39%) Containerisation
6 60 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (25.82%) Mentoring
8 50 (23.47%) Observability
9 48 (22.54%) Microservices
10 42 (19.72%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 36 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (16.90%) Software Engineering
13 27 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
13 27 (12.68%) Incident Response
14 26 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 22 (10.33%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (9.39%) AI
16 20 (9.39%) Root Cause Analysis
17 19 (8.92%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 76 (35.68%) Python
2 51 (23.94%) SQL
3 44 (20.66%) JavaScript
4 33 (15.49%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.39%) C#
5 20 (9.39%) Java
6 19 (8.92%) Bash
7 18 (8.45%) PowerShell
8 14 (6.57%) Go
9 12 (5.63%) Bicep
10 4 (1.88%) C
11 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.10%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.88%) Degree
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.29%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) GDPR
2 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.41%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.94%) GRC
4 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (48.36%) Docker
2 12 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.76%) vSphere
5 4 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.41%) KVM
6 3 (1.41%) QEMU
6 3 (1.41%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (37.56%) Kubernetes
2 61 (28.64%) Ansible
3 38 (17.84%) Grafana
4 35 (16.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.82%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.35%) Puppet
9 4 (1.88%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.41%) Argo
10 3 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.41%) Control-M
10 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.94%) Nagios
11 2 (0.94%) Rancher
12 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.47%) Kibana
12 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.57%) Splunk
3 13 (6.10%) VMware
4 12 (5.63%) Databricks
5 10 (4.69%) Google
6 8 (3.76%) New Relic
7 6 (2.82%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.35%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.88%) Foundry
9 4 (1.88%) Pega
9 4 (1.88%) WSO2
10 3 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.94%) BMC
12 1 (0.47%) Avaya
12 1 (0.47%) Dell
12 1 (0.47%) F5
12 1 (0.47%) Genesys
12 1 (0.47%) Salesforce