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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 60 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 395 472 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.88% 5.00% 2.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.86% 33.38% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 324 180 300
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,175 £48,175
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,375 £85,000
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 991 1,414 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.71% 14.99% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 799 490 930
10th Percentile £31,850 £28,450 £29,483
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,250 £82,563
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 July 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 July 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 -24 222 £71,750 +2.50% 93
Yorkshire -6 111 £69,655 -0.49% 48
North East -13 62 £55,750 -14.23% 26
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 23 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.04%) Apache
2 12 (3.04%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.53%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.01%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.76%) JBoss
6 2 (0.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 281 (71.14%) AWS
2 199 (50.38%) Azure
3 102 (25.82%) GitHub
4 75 (18.99%) Serverless
5 74 (18.73%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (18.73%) GCP
6 62 (15.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 61 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
8 46 (11.65%) Amazon S3
9 41 (10.38%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (9.37%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (6.84%) Azure AKS
15 22 (5.57%) SaaS
16 18 (4.56%) Entra ID
17 17 (4.30%) dbt
18 16 (4.05%) Amazon ECR
18 16 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.14%) Firewall
2 28 (7.09%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.33%) DNS
4 13 (3.29%) HTTP
5 9 (2.28%) VPN
6 7 (1.77%) Network Security
6 7 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.52%) NGFW
7 6 (1.52%) SAN
7 6 (1.52%) VXLAN
7 6 (1.52%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.76%) BGP
8 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.76%) SSH
9 2 (0.51%) AMQP
9 2 (0.51%) DHCP
9 2 (0.51%) DMZ
9 2 (0.51%) IPsec
9 2 (0.51%) WAN
10 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.58%) DynamoDB
2 25 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (4.81%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (3.29%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.04%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.28%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.28%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.77%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.52%) MySQL
11 5 (1.27%) Big Data
11 5 (1.27%) Metadata
11 5 (1.27%) Power BI
12 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.01%) Flink
12 4 (1.01%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 75 (18.99%) Jenkins
2 66 (16.71%) GitLab
3 45 (11.39%) Git
4 11 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 11 (2.78%) JIRA
5 10 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.77%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 3 (0.76%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.51%) Vite
12 1 (0.25%) Locust
12 1 (0.25%) MLflow
12 1 (0.25%) PyCharm
General
1 79 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.43%) Public Sector
3 26 (6.58%) Finance
4 25 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.82%) Law
6 16 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.77%) Banking
9 6 (1.52%) Retail
9 6 (1.52%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Local Government
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 112 (28.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 107 (27.09%) Senior
3 69 (17.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 47 (11.90%) Lead
5 45 (11.39%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.87%) Data Engineer
6 39 (9.87%) Developer
7 36 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
8 30 (7.59%) Software Engineer
9 28 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 25 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
11 25 (6.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 23 (5.82%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (5.32%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (4.56%) Architect
15 16 (4.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 16 (4.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 16 (4.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 15 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (12.91%) Node.js
2 39 (9.87%) React
3 32 (8.10%) Spring Boot
4 31 (7.85%) Spring
5 29 (7.34%) ARM Templates
6 28 (7.09%) PySpark
7 26 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (6.33%) .NET
8 25 (6.33%) REST
9 18 (4.56%) YAML
10 16 (4.05%) Kafka
10 16 (4.05%) Web Services
11 12 (3.04%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.04%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.28%) Next.js
12 9 (2.28%) OAuth
12 9 (2.28%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.28%) OpenID
12 9 (2.28%) Vue
13 8 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.01%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.04%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.04%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.28%) PKI
7 9 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.52%) Life Science
9 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.27%) PACS
10 5 (1.27%) Replication
11 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (19.24%) Linux
2 30 (7.59%) Windows
3 16 (4.05%) Unix
4 13 (3.29%) CentOS
4 13 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.01%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (70.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 268 (67.85%) CI/CD
3 229 (57.97%) DevOps
4 131 (33.16%) Agile
5 128 (32.41%) Platform Engineering
6 112 (28.35%) Mentoring
7 109 (27.59%) Containerisation
8 82 (20.76%) Observability
9 74 (18.73%) AI
9 74 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (16.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 64 (16.20%) Microservices
12 63 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (14.94%) Test Automation
14 54 (13.67%) Software Engineering
15 53 (13.42%) Scrum
16 52 (13.16%) Coaching
16 52 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
17 41 (10.38%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (8.86%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 221 (55.95%) Python
2 76 (19.24%) Java
3 73 (18.48%) Bash
4 65 (16.46%) SQL
5 60 (15.19%) PowerShell
6 41 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 40 (10.13%) JavaScript
8 35 (8.86%) Bicep
9 33 (8.35%) Go
10 26 (6.58%) C#
11 18 (4.56%) Groovy
12 6 (1.52%) Ruby
13 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.76%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
15 1 (0.25%) Scala
15 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 72 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.86%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.57%) Degree
5 20 (5.06%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.51%) CCIE
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.54%) QA
3 10 (2.53%) GDPR
4 6 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.52%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.27%) DICOM
6 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 143 (36.20%) Docker
2 14 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.29%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.01%) vSphere
6 3 (0.76%) iptables
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 166 (42.03%) Kubernetes
2 106 (26.84%) Ansible
3 38 (9.62%) Grafana
4 32 (8.10%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.06%) Argo
6 19 (4.81%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.77%) Puppet
8 6 (1.52%) Istio
8 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.27%) Packer
10 4 (1.01%) linkerd
11 3 (0.76%) Control-M
11 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.76%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.76%) systemd
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.51%) Kibana
12 2 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 46 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.84%) Google
3 22 (5.57%) Databricks
4 20 (5.06%) VMware
5 8 (2.03%) Splunk
6 7 (1.77%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.52%) Arista
7 6 (1.52%) Aruba
7 6 (1.52%) NetScout
8 5 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.27%) IBM
8 5 (1.27%) Oracle
9 4 (1.01%) Cisco
10 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.76%) F5
10 3 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.51%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.51%) WSO2
11 2 (0.51%) Zscaler