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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 61 63
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 438 429 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.84% 4.56% 2.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.70% 27.71% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 344 144 239
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +0.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,375 £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 2,223 1,548 2,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.36% 16.44% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,777 780 1,726
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £79,750 £75,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £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 18 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 18 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 -31 236 £72,500 +11.54% 180
Yorkshire +6 119 £69,310 -0.99% 95
North East -5 86 £57,500 -11.54% 54
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 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.34%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.88%) Apache
4 14 (3.20%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.91%) 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%) nginx
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
1 305 (69.63%) AWS
2 196 (44.75%) Azure
3 115 (26.26%) GitHub
4 94 (21.46%) Serverless
5 90 (20.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (16.67%) GCP
7 69 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (15.75%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (14.61%) Amazon S3
9 61 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (13.93%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (12.79%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (12.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (6.39%) Azure AKS
14 26 (5.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (5.25%) SaaS
16 21 (4.79%) Amazon ECR
17 19 (4.34%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.71%) Firewall
2 19 (4.34%) DNS
3 17 (3.88%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.05%) DHCP
5 8 (1.83%) VPN
6 7 (1.60%) Network Security
7 5 (1.14%) SAN
8 4 (0.91%) BGP
8 4 (0.91%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.68%) AMQP
9 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.68%) SSH
9 3 (0.68%) WAN
9 3 (0.68%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) CTI
10 2 (0.46%) DMZ
10 2 (0.46%) IPsec
10 2 (0.46%) LAN
10 2 (0.46%) NX-OS
10 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.08%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.39%) DynamoDB
3 27 (6.16%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.65%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.42%) BigQuery
8 14 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.51%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.05%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.83%) Big Data
12 8 (1.83%) Spark SQL
13 7 (1.60%) MySQL
14 6 (1.37%) Metadata
14 6 (1.37%) Power BI
15 5 (1.14%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.91%) Data Vault
16 4 (0.91%) Flink
16 4 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 92 (21.00%) GitLab
2 77 (17.58%) Jenkins
3 64 (14.61%) Git
4 18 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (3.20%) JIRA
6 10 (2.28%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.37%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.68%) 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%) Selenium
General
1 105 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.81%) Public Sector
3 32 (7.31%) Finance
4 30 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.71%) Law
6 23 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.60%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.60%) Retail
8 6 (1.37%) Legal
9 5 (1.14%) Local Government
10 4 (0.91%) Banking
10 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (27.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 115 (26.26%) Senior
3 86 (19.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (12.79%) Lead
4 56 (12.79%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (10.27%) Data Engineer
6 44 (10.05%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (9.82%) Developer
8 33 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (7.08%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (6.62%) Software Engineer
11 28 (6.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.94%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (5.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.71%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 23 (5.25%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
16 18 (4.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 17 (3.88%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.87%) Node.js
2 43 (9.82%) React
3 36 (8.22%) Spring
4 35 (7.99%) Spring Boot
5 31 (7.08%) PySpark
6 29 (6.62%) ARM Templates
7 26 (5.94%) REST
8 25 (5.71%) .NET
9 21 (4.79%) Kafka
10 20 (4.57%) Web Services
11 17 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 16 (3.65%) YAML
13 13 (2.97%) FastAPI
13 13 (2.97%) Pulumi
14 11 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (2.28%) AWS CDK
15 10 (2.28%) RESTful
15 10 (2.28%) Vue
16 9 (2.05%) Next.js
16 9 (2.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (25.57%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (7.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (4.79%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.60%) Life Science
9 6 (1.37%) Blog
9 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.14%) PKI
10 5 (1.14%) Replication
10 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.91%) NHS
11 4 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.00%) Linux
2 36 (8.22%) Windows
3 23 (5.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (4.79%) CentOS
5 18 (4.11%) Unix
6 15 (3.42%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (75.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 316 (72.15%) CI/CD
3 271 (61.87%) DevOps
4 152 (34.70%) Agile
5 145 (33.11%) Platform Engineering
6 117 (26.71%) Containerisation
7 113 (25.80%) Mentoring
8 104 (23.74%) Observability
9 101 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (18.49%) AI
11 80 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (16.21%) Microservices
13 70 (15.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 70 (15.98%) Test Automation
14 69 (15.75%) Technical Leadership
15 65 (14.84%) Software Engineering
16 64 (14.61%) Coaching
17 54 (12.33%) Infrastructure Automation
17 54 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (11.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 255 (58.22%) Python
2 86 (19.63%) Bash
3 85 (19.41%) Java
4 75 (17.12%) SQL
5 71 (16.21%) PowerShell
6 45 (10.27%) Bicep
6 45 (10.27%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.45%) JavaScript
8 29 (6.62%) C#
9 23 (5.25%) Go
10 21 (4.79%) Groovy
11 10 (2.28%) Ruby
12 5 (1.14%) Rust
13 4 (0.91%) Scala
14 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.68%) PHP
14 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 107 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 58 (13.24%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.79%) Degree
5 20 (4.57%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.68%) 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 21 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.11%) QA
3 9 (2.05%) GDPR
4 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.91%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) DICOM
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 190 (43.38%) Docker
2 21 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.37%) vSphere
6 3 (0.68%) iptables
7 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 202 (46.12%) Kubernetes
2 118 (26.94%) Ansible
3 31 (7.08%) Grafana
4 30 (6.85%) Progress Chef
5 23 (5.25%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.57%) Argo
7 15 (3.42%) Puppet
8 6 (1.37%) Istio
9 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.14%) Packer
10 4 (0.91%) linkerd
11 3 (0.68%) Control-M
11 3 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.68%) Kibana
11 3 (0.68%) systemd
12 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.23%) logstash
13 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.08%) Google
3 25 (5.71%) Databricks
4 24 (5.48%) VMware
5 11 (2.51%) Splunk
6 8 (1.83%) Cisco
7 7 (1.60%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.14%) Confluent
9 5 (1.14%) IBM
10 4 (0.91%) Oracle
10 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.68%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.46%) F5
12 2 (0.46%) Mistral
12 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.46%) Zscaler