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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 429 458 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.93% 4.75% 2.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.74% 33.38% 37.91%
Number of salaries quoted 338 174 256
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,125 £87,500
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 1,053 1,372 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.73% 14.23% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 828 473 762
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +8.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -24 231 £72,500 +3.57% 134
Yorkshire +18 121 £71,000 +1.43% 55
North East -6 77 £56,500 -13.08% 35
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 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.50%) Apache
4 13 (3.03%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.70%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.70%) IIS
6 3 (0.70%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) Confluence
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 300 (69.93%) AWS
2 199 (46.39%) Azure
3 107 (24.94%) GitHub
4 90 (20.98%) Serverless
5 85 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (17.02%) GCP
7 69 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (13.52%) Amazon S3
10 54 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (10.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (10.02%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (5.83%) Azure AKS
14 25 (5.83%) SaaS
15 22 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (4.43%) Amazon ECR
17 18 (4.20%) dbt
18 17 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.53%) Firewall
2 21 (4.90%) TCP/IP
3 20 (4.66%) DNS
4 9 (2.10%) VPN
5 8 (1.86%) Network Security
6 6 (1.40%) DHCP
7 5 (1.17%) HTTP
7 5 (1.17%) SAN
8 4 (0.93%) BGP
8 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.70%) SSH
9 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 3 (0.70%) Wireless
10 2 (0.47%) AMQP
10 2 (0.47%) DMZ
10 2 (0.47%) IPsec
10 2 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.47%) OSPF
10 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.99%) DynamoDB
2 25 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (3.96%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.73%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.80%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.10%) Spark SQL
9 8 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.63%) MySQL
11 6 (1.40%) Big Data
11 6 (1.40%) Metadata
11 6 (1.40%) Power BI
12 5 (1.17%) Flink
13 4 (0.93%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 75 (17.48%) GitLab
1 75 (17.48%) Jenkins
2 59 (13.75%) Git
3 15 (3.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 11 (2.56%) JIRA
5 10 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.40%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.70%) Maven
9 3 (0.70%) Selenium
10 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.47%) Vite
11 1 (0.23%) Locust
11 1 (0.23%) MLflow
11 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
General
1 92 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.93%) Finance
4 27 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.59%) Law
6 19 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.63%) Banking
7 7 (1.63%) Retail
7 7 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.40%) Legal
8 6 (1.40%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.17%) Local Government
10 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Advertising
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (27.97%) Senior
2 112 (26.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 87 (20.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 54 (12.59%) Lead
5 51 (11.89%) Platform Engineer
6 45 (10.49%) Data Engineer
7 43 (10.02%) Developer
8 39 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
10 33 (7.69%) Software Engineer
11 28 (6.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.53%) Principal Engineer
12 26 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 25 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (4.90%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.20%) Senior Developer
16 16 (3.73%) Architect
16 16 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 16 (3.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.12%) Node.js
2 41 (9.56%) React
3 36 (8.39%) Spring Boot
4 35 (8.16%) Spring
5 31 (7.23%) PySpark
6 30 (6.99%) .NET
7 29 (6.76%) ARM Templates
8 28 (6.53%) REST
9 19 (4.43%) Kafka
9 19 (4.43%) Web Services
10 18 (4.20%) YAML
11 17 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (3.50%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.03%) FastAPI
14 10 (2.33%) Next.js
15 9 (2.10%) Flask
15 9 (2.10%) OAuth2
15 9 (2.10%) OpenID
15 9 (2.10%) RESTful
15 9 (2.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (22.14%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.86%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.40%) Life Science
12 5 (1.17%) Blog
12 5 (1.17%) Replication
13 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.93%) NHS
13 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (20.05%) Linux
2 35 (8.16%) Windows
3 17 (3.96%) CentOS
3 17 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (3.96%) Unix
4 15 (3.50%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.47%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (73.66%) Infrastructure as Code
2 304 (70.86%) CI/CD
3 256 (59.67%) DevOps
4 145 (33.80%) Agile
5 137 (31.93%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (27.04%) Mentoring
7 111 (25.87%) Containerisation
8 98 (22.84%) Observability
9 90 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (17.25%) AI
11 72 (16.78%) Microservices
12 69 (16.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 69 (16.08%) Software Engineering
13 67 (15.62%) Test Automation
14 66 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
15 63 (14.69%) Technical Leadership
16 57 (13.29%) Coaching
17 53 (12.35%) Scrum
18 48 (11.19%) Infrastructure Automation
18 48 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 238 (55.48%) Python
2 85 (19.81%) Java
3 81 (18.88%) Bash
4 75 (17.48%) SQL
5 64 (14.92%) PowerShell
6 42 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 41 (9.56%) JavaScript
8 40 (9.32%) Bicep
9 31 (7.23%) C#
10 26 (6.06%) Go
11 21 (4.90%) Groovy
12 10 (2.33%) Ruby
13 5 (1.17%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.70%) PHP
15 2 (0.47%) Perl
15 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Scala
15 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 117 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 92 (21.45%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.49%) DV Cleared
4 19 (4.43%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.43%) Degree
5 10 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.47%) CCIE
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.66%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.96%) QA
3 10 (2.33%) GDPR
4 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) DICOM
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 173 (40.33%) Docker
2 20 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.93%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) iptables
7 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 187 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 111 (25.87%) Ansible
3 30 (6.99%) Grafana
4 24 (5.59%) Progress Chef
5 23 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.66%) Argo
7 12 (2.80%) Puppet
8 6 (1.40%) Istio
9 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.93%) linkerd
11 3 (0.70%) Control-M
11 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.70%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.70%) Kibana
11 3 (0.70%) Packer
11 3 (0.70%) systemd
12 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.23%) Nessus
13 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.99%) Google
3 24 (5.59%) Databricks
4 22 (5.13%) VMware
5 9 (2.10%) Splunk
6 7 (1.63%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.40%) Cisco
8 5 (1.17%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.17%) IBM
9 4 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.93%) Oracle
10 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.70%) Confluent
10 3 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.47%) F5
11 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.47%) Pega
11 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.47%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.47%) Zscaler