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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 65 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 432 435 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.84% 4.63% 2.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.77% 28.05% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 341 151 239
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,185 1,551 2,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.33% 16.52% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 779 1,769
10th Percentile £42,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,983 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £69,800
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 September 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 September 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 -28 236 £72,500 +7.41% 114
Yorkshire +4 117 £71,000 +1.43% 66
North East -2 79 £56,500 -13.08% 43
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 27 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.70%) Apache
4 13 (3.01%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 300 (69.44%) AWS
2 195 (45.14%) Azure
3 110 (25.46%) GitHub
4 95 (21.99%) Serverless
5 87 (20.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (16.90%) GCP
7 68 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (14.35%) Amazon S3
10 61 (14.12%) Amazon EC2
11 60 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
12 54 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
13 51 (11.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 45 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 27 (6.25%) Azure AKS
17 24 (5.56%) SaaS
18 19 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
19 18 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
19 18 (4.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.02%) Firewall
2 18 (4.17%) DNS
3 17 (3.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.08%) VPN
5 8 (1.85%) DHCP
5 8 (1.85%) Network Security
6 5 (1.16%) SAN
7 4 (0.93%) BGP
7 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.69%) AMQP
8 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.69%) SSH
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
8 3 (0.69%) Wireless
9 2 (0.46%) CTI
9 2 (0.46%) DMZ
9 2 (0.46%) IPsec
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.48%) DynamoDB
3 26 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 24 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.47%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.47%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.24%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.55%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.08%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.08%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.85%) Big Data
12 7 (1.62%) MySQL
13 6 (1.39%) Metadata
13 6 (1.39%) Power BI
14 5 (1.16%) Flink
15 4 (0.93%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.93%) DocumentDB
15 4 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 81 (18.75%) GitLab
2 71 (16.44%) Jenkins
3 60 (13.89%) Git
4 16 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (3.24%) JIRA
6 10 (2.31%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.39%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.46%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.46%) Vite
12 1 (0.23%) Locust
12 1 (0.23%) MLflow
12 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
12 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 97 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.20%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.87%) Finance
4 28 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.79%) Law
6 22 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.62%) Retail
8 6 (1.39%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.39%) Banking
8 6 (1.39%) Legal
9 5 (1.16%) Local Government
9 5 (1.16%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (27.55%) Senior
2 112 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 87 (20.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (12.96%) Lead
4 56 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (10.65%) Data Engineer
6 41 (9.49%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (9.49%) Developer
7 34 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
8 31 (7.18%) Software Engineer
9 29 (6.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 29 (6.71%) Principal Engineer
10 26 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (6.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 25 (5.79%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (5.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.94%) Architect
15 17 (3.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.57%) Node.js
2 42 (9.72%) React
3 36 (8.33%) Spring
4 35 (8.10%) Spring Boot
5 33 (7.64%) PySpark
6 29 (6.71%) ARM Templates
7 27 (6.25%) REST
8 26 (6.02%) .NET
9 20 (4.63%) Kafka
10 19 (4.40%) Web Services
11 16 (3.70%) YAML
12 15 (3.47%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.01%) FastAPI
14 12 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (2.78%) Pulumi
15 9 (2.08%) AWS CDK
15 9 (2.08%) Next.js
15 9 (2.08%) OAuth
15 9 (2.08%) OAuth2
15 9 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 103 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.31%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.62%) Life Science
10 6 (1.39%) Blog
11 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.16%) PKI
11 5 (1.16%) Replication
12 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.93%) NHS
12 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 88 (20.37%) Linux
2 37 (8.56%) Windows
3 19 (4.40%) CentOS
3 19 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.94%) Unix
5 15 (3.47%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.69%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (73.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 310 (71.76%) CI/CD
3 261 (60.42%) DevOps
4 143 (33.10%) Agile
5 140 (32.41%) Platform Engineering
6 112 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 111 (25.69%) Mentoring
8 103 (23.84%) Observability
9 96 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (18.29%) AI
11 72 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (16.20%) Microservices
12 70 (16.20%) Test Automation
13 67 (15.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 67 (15.51%) Software Engineering
13 67 (15.51%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (13.66%) Coaching
15 54 (12.50%) Scrum
16 52 (12.04%) Infrastructure Automation
16 52 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 248 (57.41%) Python
2 84 (19.44%) Java
3 83 (19.21%) Bash
4 78 (18.06%) SQL
5 68 (15.74%) PowerShell
6 43 (9.95%) TypeScript
7 42 (9.72%) Bicep
8 36 (8.33%) JavaScript
9 29 (6.71%) C#
10 22 (5.09%) Go
11 20 (4.63%) Groovy
12 10 (2.31%) Ruby
13 4 (0.93%) Rust
13 4 (0.93%) Scala
14 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 98 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 52 (12.04%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.86%) Degree
5 19 (4.40%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.46%) CCIE
11 2 (0.46%) CCNA
11 2 (0.46%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.94%) QA
3 10 (2.31%) GDPR
4 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.16%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.46%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) DICOM
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 182 (42.13%) Docker
2 20 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.39%) vSphere
6 3 (0.69%) iptables
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 195 (45.14%) Kubernetes
2 111 (25.69%) Ansible
3 29 (6.71%) Progress Chef
4 28 (6.48%) Grafana
5 20 (4.63%) Argo
5 20 (4.63%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.47%) Puppet
7 6 (1.39%) Istio
8 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.16%) Packer
9 4 (0.93%) linkerd
10 3 (0.69%) Control-M
10 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.69%) Kibana
10 3 (0.69%) systemd
11 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.64%) Google
3 25 (5.79%) Databricks
4 24 (5.56%) VMware
5 10 (2.31%) Splunk
6 8 (1.85%) Cisco
7 7 (1.62%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.16%) IBM
9 4 (0.93%) Confluent
9 4 (0.93%) Oracle
10 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.69%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.46%) FIS
11 2 (0.46%) Mistral
11 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.46%) Zscaler