Terraform Job Trends in the West Midlands

Terraform
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 77 105
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 +17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 104 114 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.22% 3.33% 2.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.88% 38.00% 31.97%
Number of salaries quoted 88 83 102
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £61,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £91,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 282 300 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.31% 8.77% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 220 212 282
10th Percentile £34,631 £36,325 £27,650
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,860 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,443 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Terraform job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Terraform
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in the West Midlands

Terraform
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham -30 53 £75,000 +3.45% 41
Worcestershire - 20 £110,000 - 3
Herefordshire -11 11 £88,000 -4.86% 1
Coventry -17 6 £87,500 +66.67% 1
Staffordshire +3 5 £80,000 +40.35%
Shropshire - 3 £55,000 - 1
Wolverhampton -14 2 £62,000 -34.74%
Warwickshire -21 1 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.96%) Apache
2 1 (0.96%) Documentum
2 1 (0.96%) nginx
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 69 (66.35%) Azure
2 48 (46.15%) AWS
3 23 (22.12%) PaaS
4 22 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (11.54%) Azure App Service
6 11 (10.58%) Azure AKS
6 11 (10.58%) GCP
7 10 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 8 (7.69%) IaaS
9 7 (6.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (6.73%) GitHub
9 7 (6.73%) SaaS
10 6 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.77%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.81%) dbt
11 5 (4.81%) OpenShift
11 5 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.62%) Network Security
2 9 (8.65%) VPN
3 6 (5.77%) Firewall
4 5 (4.81%) DNS
5 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.96%) DHCP
6 1 (0.96%) HTTP
6 1 (0.96%) NAS
6 1 (0.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.88%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.92%) MySQL
6 2 (1.92%) Power BI
6 2 (1.92%) Power Query
7 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.96%) GIS
7 1 (0.96%) Metadata
7 1 (0.96%) Redis
7 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.88%) GitLab
4 2 (1.92%) Ant
4 2 (1.92%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.92%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.92%) JMeter
4 2 (1.92%) Locust
4 2 (1.92%) Maven
General
1 16 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.42%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Finance
6 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Billing
8 1 (0.96%) Police
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 26 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 19 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.54%) Senior
6 8 (7.69%) Architect
6 8 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Azure Architect
7 7 (6.73%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Lead
9 5 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Administrator
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) Kafka
2 5 (4.81%) .NET
2 5 (4.81%) .NET Framework
2 5 (4.81%) ASP.NET
2 5 (4.81%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (4.81%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (4.81%) Entity Framework
3 3 (2.88%) REST
4 2 (1.92%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.92%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.92%) Node.js
4 2 (1.92%) RESTful
5 1 (0.96%) CSS
5 1 (0.96%) Flask
5 1 (0.96%) Java SE
5 1 (0.96%) NumPy
5 1 (0.96%) Pandas
5 1 (0.96%) pytest
5 1 (0.96%) React
5 1 (0.96%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.88%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.92%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.92%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.96%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.42%) Linux
2 6 (5.77%) Unix
3 4 (3.85%) Windows
4 3 (2.88%) Solaris
4 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.92%) CentOS
5 2 (1.92%) Debian
5 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 47 (45.19%) CI/CD
3 45 (43.27%) DevOps
4 26 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 26 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (21.15%) Agile
5 22 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (19.23%) Observability
7 16 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 15 (14.42%) Cloud Security
9 14 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (11.54%) API Management
11 12 (11.54%) DevSecOps
12 11 (10.58%) Microservices
13 10 (9.62%) GitOps
14 9 (8.65%) Analytics
15 8 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
15 8 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.19%) Python
2 18 (17.31%) SQL
3 17 (16.35%) Bicep
4 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.69%) Bash
6 6 (5.77%) Java
6 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.81%) C#
8 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.46%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.92%) Degree
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.92%) QA
1 2 (1.92%) SLA
1 2 (1.92%) WCAG
2 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) GxP
2 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (15.38%) Docker
2 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.27%) Ansible
3 5 (4.81%) Argo
4 4 (3.85%) Grafana
4 4 (3.85%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.85%) Puppet
5 2 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 33 (31.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.46%) VMware
3 6 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.85%) Databricks
4 4 (3.85%) Google
5 3 (2.88%) Workday
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle
6 2 (1.92%) Peregrine
6 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.96%) Citrix
7 1 (0.96%) Commvault
7 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.96%) OpenText
7 1 (0.96%) Veeam
7 1 (0.96%) Virgin Media