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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 49 95
Rank change year-on-year -37 +46 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 367 487 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.86% 6.07% 2.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.78% 34.37% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 294 201 333
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
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 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 900 1,417 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.56% 17.65% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 696 491 1,061
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £40,310 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -23 214 £71,500 -0.68% 61
Yorkshire -12 103 £69,310 -0.99% 26
North East -12 50 £55,000 -15.38% 18
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 19 (5.18%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.72%) Apache
2 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.91%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.09%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.82%) JBoss
5 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 272 (74.11%) AWS
2 202 (55.04%) Azure
3 93 (25.34%) GitHub
4 75 (20.44%) GCP
5 70 (19.07%) Serverless
6 69 (18.80%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (15.80%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (15.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (11.72%) Amazon S3
10 38 (10.35%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (7.08%) Azure AKS
14 24 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (5.45%) SaaS
16 19 (5.18%) Entra ID
17 18 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
18 14 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.26%) Firewall
2 29 (7.90%) DNS
3 25 (6.81%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.36%) HTTP
5 13 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.27%) NGFW
6 12 (3.27%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.27%) Wireshark
7 9 (2.45%) VPN
8 7 (1.91%) Internet
9 6 (1.63%) Network Security
10 4 (1.09%) SAN
11 3 (0.82%) AMQP
11 3 (0.82%) SSH
12 1 (0.27%) BGP
12 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.27%) DHCP
12 1 (0.27%) LAN
12 1 (0.27%) OSPF
12 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.63%) DynamoDB
2 28 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.27%) BigQuery
6 11 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.45%) Spark SQL
9 8 (2.18%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.18%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.63%) Big Data
10 6 (1.63%) MySQL
11 5 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.09%) Flink
12 4 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.09%) Power BI
12 4 (1.09%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 65 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 60 (16.35%) GitLab
3 41 (11.17%) Git
4 9 (2.45%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.18%) JIRA
6 7 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.63%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.82%) Maven
10 3 (0.82%) Selenium
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.54%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.54%) Vite
12 1 (0.27%) Locust
12 1 (0.27%) MLflow
12 1 (0.27%) PyCharm
General
1 61 (16.62%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.44%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.18%) Finance
4 19 (5.18%) Law
4 19 (5.18%) Telecoms
5 13 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.91%) Banking
7 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.36%) Retail
9 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
12 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (27.52%) Senior
2 80 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (17.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 47 (12.81%) Lead
5 42 (11.44%) Platform Engineer
6 40 (10.90%) Developer
7 35 (9.54%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (9.54%) Software Engineer
8 34 (9.26%) Data Engineer
9 23 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.72%) Senior DevOps
10 21 (5.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.90%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.36%) Architect
14 15 (4.09%) GCP Engineer
14 15 (4.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 14 (3.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.81%) Senior Developer
16 13 (3.54%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.53%) Node.js
2 42 (11.44%) React
3 32 (8.72%) REST
4 28 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (6.81%) ARM Templates
5 25 (6.81%) PySpark
6 24 (6.54%) Spring Boot
7 23 (6.27%) .NET
7 23 (6.27%) Spring
8 16 (4.36%) Kafka
9 14 (3.81%) Web Services
10 13 (3.54%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.54%) RESTful
10 13 (3.54%) YAML
11 10 (2.72%) OAuth
12 9 (2.45%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.45%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.45%) OpenID
12 9 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (2.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.90%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.90%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (4.09%) PKI
5 12 (3.27%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.63%) PACS
9 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.09%) Replication
12 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.82%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.62%) Linux
2 32 (8.72%) Windows
3 15 (4.09%) Unix
4 12 (3.27%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.36%) CentOS
6 5 (1.36%) Debian
6 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (67.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 241 (65.67%) CI/CD
3 195 (53.13%) DevOps
4 130 (35.42%) Agile
5 108 (29.43%) Mentoring
6 102 (27.79%) Platform Engineering
7 94 (25.61%) Containerisation
8 77 (20.98%) Observability
9 67 (18.26%) Microservices
10 61 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (16.08%) AI
12 57 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (15.53%) Software Engineering
13 56 (15.26%) Test Automation
14 54 (14.71%) Coaching
14 54 (14.71%) Scrum
15 44 (11.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 42 (11.44%) Continuous Integration
17 33 (8.99%) Analytics
17 33 (8.99%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 190 (51.77%) Python
2 66 (17.98%) Java
3 62 (16.89%) SQL
4 57 (15.53%) Bash
5 49 (13.35%) TypeScript
6 47 (12.81%) PowerShell
7 45 (12.26%) JavaScript
8 35 (9.54%) Go
9 22 (5.99%) Bicep
10 21 (5.72%) C#
11 16 (4.36%) Groovy
12 7 (1.91%) C
13 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.82%) Ruby
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.99%) Degree
4 19 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.54%) QA
2 12 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.72%) GDPR
4 6 (1.63%) DICOM
5 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (31.06%) Docker
2 12 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.36%) vSphere
5 3 (0.82%) iptables
6 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 135 (36.78%) Kubernetes
2 91 (24.80%) Ansible
3 37 (10.08%) Grafana
4 31 (8.45%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.90%) Argo
6 13 (3.54%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.36%) Packer
9 4 (1.09%) Puppet
10 3 (0.82%) Control-M
10 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.82%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.82%) Istio
10 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.82%) systemd
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.54%) Kibana
11 2 (0.54%) Rancher
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 41 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.99%) Google
3 21 (5.72%) Databricks
4 17 (4.63%) VMware
5 12 (3.27%) Arista
5 12 (3.27%) Aruba
5 12 (3.27%) NetScout
6 7 (1.91%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.63%) Splunk
8 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.36%) IBM
9 4 (1.09%) Oracle
10 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.82%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.82%) New Relic
10 3 (0.82%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.82%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.54%) Pega
11 2 (0.54%) WSO2