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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 74 98
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 307 253 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 3.65% 2.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.51% 24.49% 30.75%
Number of salaries quoted 228 221 321
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £87,694 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% -3.23%

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 777 1,033 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.45% 14.89% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 574 493 1,079
10th Percentile £30,575 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +22.73% -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,780 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 April 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 April 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 -11 158 £70,000 -3.45% 78
Yorkshire -22 111 £72,500 +11.54% 41
North East -22 38 £49,222 -23.09% 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 8 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.63%) Apache
4 5 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.30%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.98%) JBoss
7 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 231 (75.24%) AWS
2 179 (58.31%) Azure
3 85 (27.69%) GitHub
4 82 (26.71%) Serverless
5 64 (20.85%) GCP
6 58 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (18.57%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (17.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (14.66%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (13.36%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (13.36%) Amazon S3
11 25 (8.14%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (7.49%) SaaS
13 22 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (7.17%) Entra ID
14 19 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (5.86%) Amazon EventBridge
15 18 (5.86%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (5.21%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (5.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.01%) Firewall
2 34 (11.07%) DNS
3 30 (9.77%) TCP/IP
4 19 (6.19%) HTTP
5 13 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.91%) NGFW
6 12 (3.91%) VXLAN
6 12 (3.91%) Wireshark
7 7 (2.28%) Internet
8 6 (1.95%) VPN
9 5 (1.63%) AMQP
10 4 (1.30%) Network Security
11 2 (0.65%) SAN
11 2 (0.65%) SSH
12 1 (0.33%) BGP
12 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.33%) DHCP
12 1 (0.33%) LAN
12 1 (0.33%) OSPF
12 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.73%) DynamoDB
1 36 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.86%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.89%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.28%) MySQL
9 6 (1.95%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.95%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.63%) Big Data
10 5 (1.63%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.63%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.63%) Redis
10 5 (1.63%) Spark SQL
11 4 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.30%) GIS
11 4 (1.30%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 49 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 48 (15.64%) Git
3 40 (13.03%) GitLab
4 9 (2.93%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.28%) JIRA
5 7 (2.28%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.30%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.98%) JMeter
7 3 (0.98%) Locust
7 3 (0.98%) Maven
7 3 (0.98%) Selenium
8 2 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.65%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.65%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.33%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.40%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.17%) Law
4 22 (7.17%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.21%) Finance
6 11 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.28%) Banking
8 6 (1.95%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.95%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.63%) Retail
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (21.50%) Senior
2 57 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (17.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (16.61%) Developer
5 48 (15.64%) Lead
6 38 (12.38%) Software Engineer
7 27 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (5.86%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.56%) Python Developer
13 13 (4.23%) AWS Developer
14 12 (3.91%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.91%) Network Manager
14 12 (3.91%) Network Operations Manager
14 12 (3.91%) Operations Manager
15 10 (3.26%) Senior Developer
15 10 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.89%) React
2 50 (16.29%) Node.js
3 32 (10.42%) REST
4 29 (9.45%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (9.45%) RESTful
5 27 (8.79%) .NET
6 20 (6.51%) Spring Boot
7 19 (6.19%) Django
7 19 (6.19%) Spring
8 18 (5.86%) .NET Core
9 17 (5.54%) Flask
10 16 (5.21%) ARM Templates
10 16 (5.21%) AWS CDK
11 15 (4.89%) CSS
11 15 (4.89%) HTML
11 15 (4.89%) Vue
12 14 (4.56%) FastAPI
13 13 (4.23%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.23%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.89%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.89%) PKI
4 14 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.58%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.95%) PACS
9 6 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
13 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.98%) Linux
2 24 (7.82%) Windows
3 14 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.58%) Unix
5 9 (2.93%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.28%) Debian
7 6 (1.95%) CentOS
7 6 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (68.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 195 (63.52%) CI/CD
3 163 (53.09%) DevOps
4 132 (43.00%) Agile
5 90 (29.32%) Containerisation
6 87 (28.34%) Mentoring
7 80 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (23.45%) Observability
9 68 (22.15%) Platform Engineering
10 67 (21.82%) Microservices
11 53 (17.26%) Software Engineering
12 48 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (14.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 43 (14.01%) Coaching
15 42 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 39 (12.70%) Scrum
17 36 (11.73%) Continuous Integration
18 34 (11.07%) Deployment Automation
19 33 (10.75%) Test Automation
20 30 (9.77%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 143 (46.58%) Python
2 57 (18.57%) SQL
3 48 (15.64%) JavaScript
4 46 (14.98%) Java
4 46 (14.98%) TypeScript
5 41 (13.36%) Bash
6 31 (10.10%) Go
7 29 (9.45%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.23%) Bicep
9 9 (2.93%) C#
10 7 (2.28%) C
11 6 (1.95%) Groovy
12 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.65%) Perl
13 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.84%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.91%) Degree
7 9 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.93%) QA
2 7 (2.28%) GDPR
2 7 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.95%) DICOM
4 5 (1.63%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.98%) NIST
6 3 (0.98%) WCAG
7 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.65%) GRC
System Software
1 105 (34.20%) Docker
2 16 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.63%) vSphere
5 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.65%) iptables
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 100 (32.57%) Kubernetes
2 93 (30.29%) Ansible
3 43 (14.01%) Grafana
4 38 (12.38%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.61%) Argo
8 5 (1.63%) Packer
8 5 (1.63%) Puppet
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.98%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.98%) Kibana
9 3 (0.98%) Rancher
10 2 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.65%) Istio
10 2 (0.65%) Nagios
10 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.65%) systemd
11 1 (0.33%) Control-M
11 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 34 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.19%) Google
3 12 (3.91%) Arista
3 12 (3.91%) Aruba
3 12 (3.91%) NetScout
3 12 (3.91%) VMware
4 10 (3.26%) Splunk
5 9 (2.93%) New Relic
6 8 (2.61%) Databricks
7 6 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.63%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.63%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.63%) IBM
8 5 (1.63%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle
10 2 (0.65%) BMC
10 2 (0.65%) Pega
10 2 (0.65%) WSO2