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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 73 103
Rank change year-on-year -26 +30 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 257 249 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.78% 3.73% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.25% 35.67% 29.38%
Number of salaries quoted 199 213 312
10th Percentile £44,750 £43,950 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +6.63% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 709 698 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.90% 10.45% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 522 491 1,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -19 123 £67,500 -6.24% 64
Yorkshire -15 100 £65,000 +4.84% 47
North East -16 34 £48,445 -23.71% 25
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 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.72%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.56%) Apache
3 4 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.17%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 201 (78.21%) AWS
2 146 (56.81%) Azure
3 74 (28.79%) GitHub
4 68 (26.46%) Serverless
5 59 (22.96%) GCP
6 49 (19.07%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (17.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (17.51%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (14.40%) Amazon S3
10 35 (13.62%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (8.56%) SaaS
14 19 (7.39%) Entra ID
15 17 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (5.84%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (5.84%) PaaS
17 14 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (5.06%) Amazon EventBridge
18 13 (5.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 42 (16.34%) Firewall
2 29 (11.28%) DNS
3 27 (10.51%) TCP/IP
4 18 (7.00%) HTTP
5 12 (4.67%) NGFW
5 12 (4.67%) VXLAN
5 12 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (4.67%) Wireshark
6 7 (2.72%) Internet
7 5 (1.95%) Network Security
7 5 (1.95%) VPN
8 4 (1.56%) AMQP
9 2 (0.78%) SAN
10 1 (0.39%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (12.84%) DynamoDB
3 17 (6.61%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.61%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.50%) Redis
6 9 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (2.33%) MySQL
8 4 (1.56%) Big Data
8 4 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.17%) GIS
9 3 (1.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 43 (16.73%) Git
2 41 (15.95%) Jenkins
3 28 (10.89%) GitLab
4 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.56%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.78%) JIRA
6 2 (0.78%) JMeter
6 2 (0.78%) Locust
6 2 (0.78%) Maven
6 2 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.78%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
General
1 54 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.17%) Telecoms
5 20 (7.78%) Law
6 11 (4.28%) Finance
7 10 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.56%) Banking
9 3 (1.17%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.78%) Games
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (21.40%) Senior
2 47 (18.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (17.51%) Developer
4 41 (15.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (12.84%) Software Engineer
6 31 (12.06%) Lead
7 24 (9.34%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (6.61%) Python Developer
9 15 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.06%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.67%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.67%) Network Manager
11 12 (4.67%) Network Operations Manager
11 12 (4.67%) Operations Manager
12 10 (3.89%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.50%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.50%) Java Developer
14 8 (3.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (24.51%) React
2 44 (17.12%) Node.js
3 31 (12.06%) REST
4 28 (10.89%) .NET
5 27 (10.51%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (10.12%) RESTful
7 25 (9.73%) Django
8 19 (7.39%) Spring Boot
9 18 (7.00%) .NET Core
9 18 (7.00%) FastAPI
9 18 (7.00%) Flask
10 17 (6.61%) Spring
10 17 (6.61%) Vue
11 16 (6.23%) AWS CDK
11 16 (6.23%) CSS
11 16 (6.23%) HTML
12 13 (5.06%) AngularJS
12 13 (5.06%) ASP.NET
12 13 (5.06%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (5.06%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 48 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.84%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.67%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.67%) PKI
4 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.95%) PACS
6 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.79%) Linux
2 16 (6.23%) Windows
3 9 (3.50%) Unix
3 9 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.33%) Debian
4 6 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.95%) CentOS
5 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (67.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 162 (63.04%) CI/CD
3 135 (52.53%) DevOps
4 116 (45.14%) Agile
5 77 (29.96%) Containerisation
5 77 (29.96%) Mentoring
6 70 (27.24%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (21.79%) Microservices
8 54 (21.01%) Observability
8 54 (21.01%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (19.46%) Software Engineering
10 38 (14.79%) Coaching
10 38 (14.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 36 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (13.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (12.06%) Scrum
14 29 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (11.28%) Incident Response
15 24 (9.34%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (9.34%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 114 (44.36%) Python
2 52 (20.23%) JavaScript
3 43 (16.73%) TypeScript
4 42 (16.34%) SQL
5 32 (12.45%) Java
6 31 (12.06%) Go
7 29 (11.28%) Bash
8 15 (5.84%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.89%) C#
10 9 (3.50%) Bicep
11 7 (2.72%) C
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.39%) Perl
13 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.78%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.72%) Degree
6 7 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (2.33%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) DICOM
3 4 (1.56%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.17%) GDPR
4 3 (1.17%) NIST
5 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.78%) GRC
5 2 (0.78%) WCAG
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 94 (36.58%) Docker
2 10 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.72%) vSphere
4 6 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.95%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.39%) KVM
7 1 (0.39%) QEMU
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 81 (31.52%) Ansible
2 75 (29.18%) Kubernetes
3 38 (14.79%) Grafana
4 35 (13.62%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.95%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.56%) Puppet
9 3 (1.17%) Argo
9 3 (1.17%) Rancher
10 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.78%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.78%) Nagios
10 2 (0.78%) Packer
10 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.39%) Control-M
11 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.00%) Google
3 12 (4.67%) Arista
3 12 (4.67%) Aruba
3 12 (4.67%) NetScout
4 11 (4.28%) Splunk
5 10 (3.89%) VMware
6 9 (3.50%) New Relic
7 5 (1.95%) Pega
7 5 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.95%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.95%) WSO2
8 3 (1.17%) Databricks
8 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.78%) BMC
9 2 (0.78%) F5
10 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.39%) Foundry
10 1 (0.39%) HP
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle