Hybrid/Remote Terraform Job Trends

Terraform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 +2
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 761 892 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.72% 4.46% 6.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.42% 37.09% 38.40%
Number of salaries quoted 344 602 1,240
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £86,563 £90,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £98,375 £112,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.23%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,794 2,405 3,680
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.13% 12.04% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 975 1,402 3,171
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terraform and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Terraform job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Terraform
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Terraform over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Terraform salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 21 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.10%) IIS
2 16 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.66%) Apache
6 4 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.39%) Confluence
7 3 (0.39%) nginx
8 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.26%) Weka
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (2.76%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 298 (39.16%) Azure
2 295 (38.76%) AWS
3 130 (17.08%) Azure DevOps
4 123 (16.16%) GitHub
5 85 (11.17%) GCP
6 80 (10.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 70 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (8.80%) Serverless
9 57 (7.49%) SaaS
10 55 (7.23%) Entra ID
11 47 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
12 43 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
13 38 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (4.47%) Amazon S3
15 31 (4.07%) PaaS
16 30 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (3.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 305 (40.08%) VPN
2 263 (34.56%) Cisco IOS
3 68 (8.94%) Firewall
4 42 (5.52%) WAN
5 28 (3.68%) LAN
6 27 (3.55%) DNS
7 23 (3.02%) TCP/IP
8 21 (2.76%) SD-WAN
9 19 (2.50%) Network Security
10 9 (1.18%) DHCP
10 9 (1.18%) SSL
11 8 (1.05%) BGP
11 8 (1.05%) VLAN
11 8 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.66%) OSPF
13 5 (0.66%) SAN
13 5 (0.66%) Wireless
14 4 (0.53%) Broadband
14 4 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.76%) MySQL
5 21 (2.76%) Power BI
6 15 (1.97%) Data Lake
6 15 (1.97%) DynamoDB
6 15 (1.97%) Tableau
7 13 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.71%) Redis
8 11 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (0.92%) Metadata
10 7 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.53%) Big Data
11 4 (0.53%) DataStage
11 4 (0.53%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 78 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 55 (7.23%) Git
3 35 (4.60%) GitLab
4 29 (3.81%) TeamCity
5 21 (2.76%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (2.37%) JIRA
7 8 (1.05%) NUnit
8 7 (0.92%) Jasmine
8 7 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.53%) ERwin
10 4 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.39%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 295 (38.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 278 (36.53%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (17.87%) Finance
4 103 (13.53%) Social Skills
5 30 (3.94%) Banking
6 26 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 25 (3.29%) Law
7 25 (3.29%) Retail
8 19 (2.50%) Back Office
9 18 (2.37%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.45%) Games
10 11 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.66%) Marketing
13 4 (0.53%) Advertising
13 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.26%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 301 (39.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 159 (20.89%) Senior
3 109 (14.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 94 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 55 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
6 50 (6.57%) Developer
7 48 (6.31%) Lead
8 39 (5.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 34 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
10 30 (3.94%) Data Engineer
11 27 (3.55%) Senior Developer
12 26 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
13 24 (3.15%) Architect
14 23 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (2.89%) Applications Engineer
15 22 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.89%) Software Engineer
16 21 (2.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (2.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (36.40%) Elastic Stack
2 53 (6.96%) .NET
3 39 (5.12%) RESTful
4 27 (3.55%) React
5 25 (3.29%) REST
6 21 (2.76%) JSON
6 21 (2.76%) OAuth
7 17 (2.23%) OAuth2
8 16 (2.10%) AngularJS
8 16 (2.10%) ARM Templates
9 15 (1.97%) Vue
10 14 (1.84%) CSS
10 14 (1.84%) HTML
11 13 (1.71%) Node.js
11 13 (1.71%) SOAP
12 12 (1.58%) XML
13 11 (1.45%) Django
13 11 (1.45%) SAML
14 10 (1.31%) Flask
14 10 (1.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 264 (34.69%) Cyberattack
2 105 (13.80%) Cloud Native
3 34 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 25 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 7 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 6 (0.79%) CMDB
10 6 (0.79%) Online Games
10 6 (0.79%) PKI
10 6 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 363 (47.70%) Linux
2 322 (42.31%) Windows
3 262 (34.43%) Android
4 22 (2.89%) Unix
4 22 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.84%) VMS
6 13 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.79%) CentOS
8 5 (0.66%) Debian
8 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (77.53%) DevOps
2 359 (47.17%) Problem-Solving
3 342 (44.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 318 (41.79%) Platform Engineering
5 313 (41.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 296 (38.90%) CI/CD
7 281 (36.93%) Task Automation
8 273 (35.87%) Storage Management
9 272 (35.74%) Risk Management
10 271 (35.61%) Line Management
11 264 (34.69%) Mathematics
12 127 (16.69%) Agile
13 98 (12.88%) Containerisation
14 94 (12.35%) Observability
15 87 (11.43%) Mentoring
16 80 (10.51%) Coaching
17 76 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 75 (9.86%) Analytics
19 70 (9.20%) Asset Management
20 66 (8.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 513 (67.41%) Python
2 379 (49.80%) PowerShell
3 355 (46.65%) Bash
4 98 (12.88%) SQL
5 56 (7.36%) Java
6 54 (7.10%) Bicep
7 43 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 31 (4.07%) C#
8 31 (4.07%) TypeScript
9 24 (3.15%) Go
10 21 (2.76%) PL/SQL
10 21 (2.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.39%) Groovy
11 3 (0.39%) PHP
12 2 (0.26%) C++
12 2 (0.26%) Scala
12 2 (0.26%) XAML
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) LookML
13 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 59 (7.75%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.96%) Azure Certification
4 46 (6.04%) AWS Certification
5 21 (2.76%) Degree
6 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.71%) CCNP
9 12 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.79%) CISSP
11 6 (0.79%) RHCE
12 5 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.39%) CCNA
15 2 (0.26%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (2.50%) NIST
3 18 (2.37%) QA
4 16 (2.10%) GDPR
4 16 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.71%) SOC 2
6 7 (0.92%) SLA
7 6 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.39%) GRC
8 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 418 (54.93%) Docker
2 277 (36.40%) Hyper-V
3 275 (36.14%) vSphere
4 269 (35.35%) VMware NSX
5 43 (5.65%) Active Directory
6 27 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 24 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.79%) NFS
11 3 (0.39%) Firmware
12 2 (0.26%) Ceph
12 2 (0.26%) Lustre
12 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.13%) KVM
13 1 (0.13%) vCloud
13 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 398 (52.30%) Ansible
2 201 (26.41%) Kubernetes
3 70 (9.20%) Grafana
4 49 (6.44%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.84%) Argo
8 8 (1.05%) SCOM
9 4 (0.53%) Cilium
9 4 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.39%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) SCCM
11 2 (0.26%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 297 (39.03%) Cisco
2 269 (35.35%) Splunk
3 263 (34.56%) Juniper
4 262 (34.43%) 3PAR
5 101 (13.27%) Microsoft
6 41 (5.39%) VMware
7 30 (3.94%) Google
7 30 (3.94%) Oracle
8 19 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 19 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 17 (2.23%) Databricks
10 14 (1.84%) Fortinet
11 13 (1.71%) Okta
12 12 (1.58%) Aruba
13 10 (1.31%) Mellanox
13 10 (1.31%) NVIDIA
14 9 (1.18%) SolarWinds
15 8 (1.05%) Rollbar
16 7 (0.92%) Commvault
16 7 (0.92%) Pure Storage