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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 73 59
Rank change year-on-year -33 -14 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 193 328 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.93% 3.01% 5.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.74% 36.00% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 146 199 322
10th Percentile £50,938 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £79,697 £78,125 £82,548
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 608 911 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.07% 8.37% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 480 506 928
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,875 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,710 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £84,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -26 91 £65,000 -7.14% 126
Yorkshire -28 77 £68,000 +11.02% 108
North East +2 25 £70,079 +27.42% 27
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 9 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.15%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 143 (74.09%) AWS
2 102 (52.85%) Azure
3 46 (23.83%) Serverless
4 45 (23.32%) GitHub
5 44 (22.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (17.10%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (16.58%) GCP
8 30 (15.54%) Amazon S3
9 26 (13.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (13.47%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (13.47%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (12.44%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (10.36%) SaaS
12 16 (8.29%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (8.29%) PaaS
13 15 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (4.66%) Amazon EventBridge
16 8 (4.15%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.25%) Firewall
2 13 (6.74%) DNS
3 8 (4.15%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.59%) HTTP
5 4 (2.07%) WAN
6 3 (1.55%) DHCP
6 3 (1.55%) Network Security
6 3 (1.55%) SAN
7 2 (1.04%) AMQP
7 2 (1.04%) SSL
7 2 (1.04%) VLAN
7 2 (1.04%) VPN
8 1 (0.52%) Internet
8 1 (0.52%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.54%) DynamoDB
2 18 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.22%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.66%) Redis
7 6 (3.11%) Delta Lake
7 6 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.11%) Metadata
7 6 (3.11%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.07%) MySQL
10 3 (1.55%) Big Data
10 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (13.47%) Jenkins
2 25 (12.95%) Git
2 25 (12.95%) GitLab
3 8 (4.15%) CircleCI
3 8 (4.15%) TeamCity
4 6 (3.11%) MLflow
4 6 (3.11%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.07%) JIRA
6 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.04%) JMeter
7 2 (1.04%) Locust
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.52%) git-flow
General
1 57 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.77%) Finance
3 10 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.15%) Law
5 7 (3.63%) Games
6 6 (3.11%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.07%) Banking
7 4 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.07%) Retail
8 3 (1.55%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (24.87%) Senior
2 40 (20.73%) Developer
3 38 (19.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (15.54%) Lead
5 27 (13.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (8.81%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) Lead DevOps
9 12 (6.22%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.66%) AWS Developer
10 9 (4.66%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.15%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.15%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.15%) Operations Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.98%) React
2 32 (16.58%) .NET
3 26 (13.47%) Node.js
4 24 (12.44%) REST
5 19 (9.84%) Django
6 16 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (8.29%) Vue
7 15 (7.77%) .NET Core
8 14 (7.25%) FastAPI
8 14 (7.25%) Flask
8 14 (7.25%) RESTful
9 13 (6.74%) CSS
9 13 (6.74%) HTML
10 11 (5.70%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.66%) ASP.NET
11 9 (4.66%) YAML
12 8 (4.15%) ARM Templates
12 8 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (4.15%) Spring
12 8 (4.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.66%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.66%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.11%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.07%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.55%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.58%) Linux
2 14 (7.25%) Unix
3 12 (6.22%) Windows
4 7 (3.63%) Debian
4 7 (3.63%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.55%) CentOS
6 3 (1.55%) VMS
6 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (72.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 137 (70.98%) CI/CD
3 121 (62.69%) DevOps
4 99 (51.30%) Agile
5 61 (31.61%) Containerisation
6 50 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (25.39%) Mentoring
8 44 (22.80%) Observability
9 40 (20.73%) Microservices
10 38 (19.69%) Platform Engineering
11 37 (19.17%) Software Engineering
12 35 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (12.44%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (11.92%) Incident Response
16 22 (11.40%) Deployment Automation
17 19 (9.84%) AI
17 19 (9.84%) Cloud Security
18 18 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.79%) Python
2 44 (22.80%) SQL
3 40 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 29 (15.03%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.40%) C#
6 20 (10.36%) Bash
6 20 (10.36%) Java
6 20 (10.36%) PowerShell
7 13 (6.74%) Bicep
8 8 (4.15%) Go
9 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.77%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.70%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.07%) Degree
6 4 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.63%) QA
2 4 (2.07%) GDPR
2 4 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.55%) NIST
4 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.04%) GRC
4 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (51.30%) Docker
2 9 (4.66%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.15%) vSphere
4 4 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.55%) KVM
5 3 (1.55%) QEMU
5 3 (1.55%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (40.41%) Kubernetes
2 52 (26.94%) Ansible
3 36 (18.65%) Grafana
4 34 (17.62%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.11%) Kubeflow
5 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.07%) Argo
7 4 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.07%) Puppet
8 3 (1.55%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.55%) Control-M
8 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.04%) Nagios
10 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.52%) Kibana
10 1 (0.52%) Rancher
10 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.25%) Databricks
2 14 (7.25%) VMware
3 11 (5.70%) Splunk
4 10 (5.18%) Google
5 5 (2.59%) New Relic
5 5 (2.59%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.07%) Foundry
6 4 (2.07%) Pega
6 4 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.07%) WSO2
7 3 (1.55%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) F5
9 1 (0.52%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.52%) Verint