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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 47 94
Rank change year-on-year -34 +47 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 369 488 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.88% 6.09% 2.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.00% 34.44% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 293 202 323
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,348 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,250
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 900 1,417 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.57% 17.68% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 688 491 1,053
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,329 £97,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -29 211 £70,950 -2.14% 75
Yorkshire -8 109 £69,310 -0.99% 30
North East -17 49 £55,000 -15.38% 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 19 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.71%) Apache
2 10 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.90%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.08%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.81%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 271 (73.44%) AWS
2 203 (55.01%) Azure
3 94 (25.47%) GitHub
4 75 (20.33%) Serverless
5 73 (19.78%) GCP
6 72 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (16.53%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (12.74%) Amazon S3
10 40 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (7.05%) Azure AKS
15 20 (5.42%) Entra ID
15 20 (5.42%) SaaS
16 19 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
18 14 (3.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.92%) Firewall
2 29 (7.86%) DNS
3 25 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.34%) HTTP
5 13 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.25%) NGFW
6 12 (3.25%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.25%) Wireshark
7 9 (2.44%) VPN
8 7 (1.90%) Internet
9 5 (1.36%) Network Security
10 4 (1.08%) SAN
11 3 (0.81%) AMQP
11 3 (0.81%) SSH
12 1 (0.27%) BGP
12 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.27%) DHCP
12 1 (0.27%) LAN
12 1 (0.27%) OSPF
12 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (8.67%) DynamoDB
3 26 (7.05%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.25%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.25%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.44%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.44%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.17%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.63%) Big Data
11 5 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (1.36%) MySQL
12 4 (1.08%) Flink
12 4 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.08%) GIS
12 4 (1.08%) Power BI
12 4 (1.08%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 63 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 58 (15.72%) GitLab
3 41 (11.11%) Git
4 8 (2.17%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
5 7 (1.90%) JIRA
6 5 (1.36%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.81%) Maven
8 3 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.81%) Selenium
9 2 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.54%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.27%) Locust
10 1 (0.27%) MLflow
10 1 (0.27%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.15%) Law
4 19 (5.15%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.88%) Finance
6 13 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.90%) Banking
8 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.36%) Retail
10 4 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Legal
13 1 (0.27%) Local Government
13 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (27.37%) Senior
2 78 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (17.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 46 (12.47%) Lead
5 43 (11.65%) Developer
5 43 (11.65%) Platform Engineer
6 36 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (9.76%) Software Engineer
7 34 (9.21%) Data Engineer
8 22 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
9 21 (5.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (4.07%) Architect
12 15 (4.07%) GCP Engineer
12 15 (4.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.79%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.79%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.52%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.72%) Node.js
2 44 (11.92%) React
3 32 (8.67%) REST
4 27 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (6.78%) .NET
5 25 (6.78%) ARM Templates
5 25 (6.78%) PySpark
6 24 (6.50%) Spring Boot
7 23 (6.23%) Spring
8 18 (4.88%) RESTful
9 16 (4.34%) Kafka
10 14 (3.79%) Web Services
11 13 (3.52%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.52%) YAML
12 10 (2.71%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.71%) OAuth
13 9 (2.44%) OAuth2
13 9 (2.44%) OpenID
13 9 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (2.17%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.26%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (4.07%) PKI
5 13 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.98%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) PACS
8 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.08%) Replication
11 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.81%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.53%) Linux
2 33 (8.94%) Windows
3 16 (4.34%) Unix
4 14 (3.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.36%) CentOS
6 5 (1.36%) Debian
6 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (68.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 244 (66.12%) CI/CD
3 196 (53.12%) DevOps
4 134 (36.31%) Agile
5 109 (29.54%) Mentoring
6 104 (28.18%) Platform Engineering
7 96 (26.02%) Containerisation
8 77 (20.87%) Observability
9 70 (18.97%) Microservices
10 63 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (15.45%) AI
11 57 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (15.45%) Software Engineering
12 56 (15.18%) Test Automation
13 55 (14.91%) Coaching
13 55 (14.91%) Scrum
14 44 (11.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (9.49%) Deployment Automation
17 33 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 188 (50.95%) Python
2 65 (17.62%) Java
3 61 (16.53%) SQL
4 57 (15.45%) Bash
5 48 (13.01%) TypeScript
6 46 (12.47%) PowerShell
7 45 (12.20%) JavaScript
8 35 (9.49%) Go
9 21 (5.69%) Bicep
10 19 (5.15%) C#
11 16 (4.34%) Groovy
12 7 (1.90%) C
13 3 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.81%) Ruby
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 55 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.69%) Degree
4 19 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 15 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.52%) QA
2 12 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.71%) GDPR
4 6 (1.63%) DICOM
5 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (30.89%) Docker
2 13 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.08%) vSphere
6 3 (0.81%) iptables
7 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (34.96%) Kubernetes
2 91 (24.66%) Ansible
3 36 (9.76%) Grafana
4 31 (8.40%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.88%) Argo
6 13 (3.52%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.36%) Packer
9 4 (1.08%) Puppet
9 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.81%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.81%) Istio
10 3 (0.81%) systemd
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.54%) Control-M
11 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.54%) Kibana
11 2 (0.54%) Rancher
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 41 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.69%) Databricks
2 21 (5.69%) Google
3 16 (4.34%) VMware
4 12 (3.25%) Arista
4 12 (3.25%) Aruba
4 12 (3.25%) NetScout
5 8 (2.17%) Splunk
6 7 (1.90%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.36%) IBM
8 4 (1.08%) New Relic
8 4 (1.08%) Oracle
9 3 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.81%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.54%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.54%) Pega
10 2 (0.54%) WSO2