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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 83 97
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 304 248 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.70% 3.49% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.43% 24.10% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 224 216 321
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% -3.23%

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 771 1,029 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.31% 14.49% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 567 487 1,081
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 April 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 25 April 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 -15 157 £69,310 -4.40% 63
Yorkshire -26 111 £69,310 +7.46% 20
North East -33 36 £48,445 -23.10% 30
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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.32%) Apache
3 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.32%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.99%) JBoss
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 226 (74.34%) AWS
2 182 (59.87%) Azure
3 86 (28.29%) GitHub
4 74 (24.34%) Serverless
5 64 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (20.39%) GCP
6 62 (20.39%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (17.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (13.49%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (12.83%) Amazon S3
10 38 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (7.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (7.24%) Azure AKS
12 22 (7.24%) Entra ID
13 19 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (6.25%) SaaS
14 18 (5.92%) Amazon EventBridge
15 16 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 44 (14.47%) Firewall
2 34 (11.18%) DNS
3 27 (8.88%) TCP/IP
4 19 (6.25%) HTTP
5 13 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.95%) NGFW
6 12 (3.95%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.95%) Wireshark
7 7 (2.30%) Internet
7 7 (2.30%) VPN
8 5 (1.64%) Network Security
9 4 (1.32%) AMQP
10 3 (0.99%) SSH
11 2 (0.66%) SAN
12 1 (0.33%) BGP
12 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.33%) DHCP
12 1 (0.33%) LAN
12 1 (0.33%) OSPF
12 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.83%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.18%) DynamoDB
3 20 (6.58%) MongoDB
4 18 (5.92%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.93%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.30%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.97%) MySQL
10 6 (1.97%) Spark SQL
11 5 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.64%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.32%) Big Data
12 4 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.32%) GIS
12 4 (1.32%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.32%) QGIS
13 3 (0.99%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 53 (17.43%) Jenkins
2 47 (15.46%) Git
3 46 (15.13%) GitLab
4 7 (2.30%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.30%) JIRA
4 7 (2.30%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.99%) Maven
6 3 (0.99%) Selenium
7 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.66%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) Locust
8 1 (0.33%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (19.41%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.83%) Public Sector
3 30 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.57%) Law
4 23 (7.57%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.59%) Finance
6 11 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.30%) Banking
8 6 (1.97%) Retail
8 6 (1.97%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (22.04%) Senior
2 62 (20.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (18.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 46 (15.13%) Developer
4 46 (15.13%) Lead
5 33 (10.86%) Software Engineer
6 31 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 17 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.28%) AWS Developer
13 12 (3.95%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.95%) Network Manager
13 12 (3.95%) Network Operations Manager
13 12 (3.95%) Operations Manager
14 10 (3.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.78%) Node.js
2 50 (16.45%) React
3 31 (10.20%) REST
4 29 (9.54%) Elastic Stack
5 28 (9.21%) RESTful
6 25 (8.22%) .NET
7 19 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 18 (5.92%) .NET Core
8 18 (5.92%) Spring
9 17 (5.59%) ARM Templates
10 16 (5.26%) AWS CDK
11 13 (4.28%) ASP.NET
11 13 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.28%) Blazor
11 13 (4.28%) Flask
12 12 (3.95%) Django
13 11 (3.62%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.62%) Vue
14 10 (3.29%) FastAPI
14 10 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.93%) PKI
5 14 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.97%) PACS
10 6 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.99%) Replication
13 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
14 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.11%) Linux
2 29 (9.54%) Windows
3 14 (4.61%) Unix
3 14 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.96%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.97%) Debian
6 5 (1.64%) CentOS
6 5 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (66.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 195 (64.14%) CI/CD
3 163 (53.62%) DevOps
4 129 (42.43%) Agile
5 92 (30.26%) Mentoring
6 89 (29.28%) Containerisation
7 76 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (22.70%) Microservices
9 68 (22.37%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (21.38%) Observability
11 50 (16.45%) Software Engineering
12 49 (16.12%) Coaching
13 43 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (14.14%) Scrum
13 43 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 41 (13.49%) Continuous Integration
15 40 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 37 (12.17%) Test Automation
17 36 (11.84%) Deployment Automation
18 31 (10.20%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 139 (45.72%) Python
2 53 (17.43%) SQL
3 48 (15.79%) Java
4 42 (13.82%) Bash
5 41 (13.49%) TypeScript
6 40 (13.16%) JavaScript
7 31 (10.20%) Go
8 29 (9.54%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.28%) Bicep
10 10 (3.29%) Groovy
11 9 (2.96%) C#
12 7 (2.30%) C
13 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.33%) Perl
15 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.54%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.91%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (4.61%) Azure Certification
4 14 (4.61%) Degree
5 8 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.63%) GDPR
2 7 (2.30%) QA
3 6 (1.97%) DICOM
3 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.64%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.66%) GRC
6 2 (0.66%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (31.91%) Docker
2 16 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.32%) vSphere
6 3 (0.99%) iptables
6 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 100 (32.89%) Kubernetes
2 90 (29.61%) Ansible
3 41 (13.49%) Grafana
4 38 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.61%) Argo
6 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.64%) Packer
10 4 (1.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.99%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.99%) Kibana
11 3 (0.99%) Rancher
11 3 (0.99%) systemd
12 2 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.66%) Istio
12 2 (0.66%) Nagios
13 1 (0.33%) Control-M
13 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 34 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.26%) Google
3 12 (3.95%) Arista
3 12 (3.95%) Aruba
3 12 (3.95%) NetScout
4 11 (3.62%) VMware
5 10 (3.29%) Databricks
5 10 (3.29%) Splunk
6 9 (2.96%) New Relic
7 5 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.64%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.64%) IBM
7 5 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.32%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.99%) Oracle
10 2 (0.66%) BMC
10 2 (0.66%) Pega
10 2 (0.66%) WSO2