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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 71 94
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 249 269 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.92% 3.48% 2.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.17% 33.46% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 194 199 303
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,400 £46,261
25th Percentile £52,125 £50,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 708 804 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.46% 10.39% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 530 476 991
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,875 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -19 118 £67,500 -3.57% 64
Yorkshire -18 95 £62,500 +8.70% 36
North East -12 36 £48,445 -23.10% 21
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 (3.21%) OpenStack
1 8 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.61%) Apache
2 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 191 (76.71%) AWS
2 141 (56.63%) Azure
3 72 (28.92%) GitHub
4 60 (24.10%) Serverless
5 55 (22.09%) GCP
6 49 (19.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 49 (19.68%) GitHub Actions
7 48 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (14.06%) Amazon S3
9 33 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (8.03%) SaaS
14 19 (7.63%) Entra ID
15 18 (7.23%) PaaS
16 17 (6.83%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (5.22%) Amazon EventBridge
19 12 (4.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (16.47%) Firewall
2 31 (12.45%) DNS
3 24 (9.64%) TCP/IP
4 18 (7.23%) HTTP
5 12 (4.82%) NGFW
5 12 (4.82%) VXLAN
5 12 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (4.82%) Wireshark
6 7 (2.81%) Internet
7 5 (2.01%) VPN
8 4 (1.61%) AMQP
8 4 (1.61%) Network Security
8 4 (1.61%) WAN
9 3 (1.20%) DHCP
9 3 (1.20%) SAN
10 2 (0.80%) SSL
11 1 (0.40%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.40%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (13.25%) DynamoDB
3 17 (6.83%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.83%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.42%) Redis
6 10 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.41%) MySQL
9 4 (1.61%) Big Data
9 4 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.61%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.40%) QGIS
12 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.87%) Git
1 42 (16.87%) Jenkins
2 31 (12.45%) GitLab
3 7 (2.81%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.41%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.01%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.61%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.20%) JIRA
7 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.80%) JMeter
8 2 (0.80%) Locust
8 2 (0.80%) Maven
8 2 (0.80%) Selenium
8 2 (0.80%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.40%) git-flow
General
1 56 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.03%) Law
4 20 (8.03%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.42%) Finance
6 10 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.61%) Games
8 3 (1.20%) Banking
8 3 (1.20%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (20.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (18.47%) Senior
3 42 (16.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (16.47%) Developer
5 31 (12.45%) Lead
6 27 (10.84%) Software Engineer
7 24 (9.64%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (6.43%) Python Developer
9 15 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.82%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Network Manager
11 12 (4.82%) Network Operations Manager
11 12 (4.82%) Operations Manager
12 10 (4.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.02%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.61%) Lead DevOps
14 8 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (26.10%) React
2 42 (16.87%) Node.js
3 31 (12.45%) REST
4 28 (11.24%) .NET
5 26 (10.44%) Elastic Stack
6 25 (10.04%) RESTful
7 24 (9.64%) Django
8 18 (7.23%) FastAPI
8 18 (7.23%) Vue
9 17 (6.83%) .NET Core
9 17 (6.83%) Flask
10 16 (6.43%) AWS CDK
11 15 (6.02%) CSS
11 15 (6.02%) HTML
12 14 (5.62%) AngularJS
13 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET
13 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (5.22%) Blazor
13 13 (5.22%) Spring Boot
14 11 (4.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.48%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.43%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.82%) PKI
4 11 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.01%) PACS
6 5 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.61%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.06%) Linux
2 16 (6.43%) Windows
3 9 (3.61%) Unix
4 8 (3.21%) Debian
4 8 (3.21%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.01%) CentOS
5 5 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (67.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 158 (63.45%) CI/CD
3 132 (53.01%) DevOps
4 114 (45.78%) Agile
5 79 (31.73%) Containerisation
6 74 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (28.92%) Mentoring
8 55 (22.09%) Microservices
9 54 (21.69%) Observability
10 50 (20.08%) Platform Engineering
11 42 (16.87%) Software Engineering
12 37 (14.86%) Coaching
13 35 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 35 (14.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (11.65%) Incident Response
16 23 (9.24%) DevSecOps
16 23 (9.24%) Scrum
17 22 (8.84%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 108 (43.37%) Python
2 51 (20.48%) JavaScript
3 44 (17.67%) TypeScript
4 41 (16.47%) SQL
5 31 (12.45%) Go
6 29 (11.65%) Bash
7 26 (10.44%) Java
8 17 (6.83%) PowerShell
9 13 (5.22%) Bicep
10 12 (4.82%) C#
11 7 (2.81%) C
12 2 (0.80%) Groovy
12 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.03%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.22%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.81%) Degree
7 6 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.41%) QA
2 5 (2.01%) DICOM
2 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) NIST
3 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.80%) GRC
4 2 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (38.55%) Docker
2 13 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.81%) vSphere
4 6 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.20%) KVM
6 3 (1.20%) QEMU
6 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (33.73%) Ansible
2 76 (30.52%) Kubernetes
3 43 (17.27%) Grafana
4 39 (15.66%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.01%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.01%) Puppet
8 3 (1.20%) Argo
8 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.20%) Rancher
9 2 (0.80%) Control-M
9 2 (0.80%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.80%) Nagios
9 2 (0.80%) Packer
10 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.83%) Google
3 13 (5.22%) Splunk
4 12 (4.82%) Arista
4 12 (4.82%) Aruba
4 12 (4.82%) NetScout
5 10 (4.02%) VMware
6 9 (3.61%) New Relic
7 7 (2.81%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.61%) Pega
9 4 (1.61%) WSO2
10 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.80%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.80%) BMC
11 2 (0.80%) Databricks
11 2 (0.80%) F5
12 1 (0.40%) Avaya
12 1 (0.40%) HP