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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 59 44
Rank change year-on-year -8 -15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 573 876 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.76% 4.91% 6.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.19% 36.41% 37.68%
Number of salaries quoted 362 615 1,083
10th Percentile £46,600 £51,900 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £86,253 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,289
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -6.25%

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 1,358 2,406 3,275
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.91% 13.49% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 1,449 2,815
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,227
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +0.74% -2.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 14 December 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 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 16 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.40%) IIS
4 5 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.87%) Confluence
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 35 (6.11%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (67.71%) Azure
2 307 (53.58%) AWS
3 179 (31.24%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (30.89%) GitHub
5 100 (17.45%) GCP
6 99 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
7 87 (15.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (12.39%) Serverless
9 68 (11.87%) Entra ID
10 67 (11.69%) SaaS
11 66 (11.52%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (9.95%) Azure Monitor
13 47 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (7.85%) OCI
15 44 (7.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 43 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
17 35 (6.11%) Amazon S3
18 33 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
18 33 (5.76%) dbt
18 33 (5.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (12.39%) Firewall
2 44 (7.68%) VPN
3 35 (6.11%) DNS
4 33 (5.76%) WAN
5 24 (4.19%) Network Security
5 24 (4.19%) TCP/IP
6 23 (4.01%) SD-WAN
7 19 (3.32%) LAN
8 11 (1.92%) VLAN
9 9 (1.57%) BGP
10 8 (1.40%) DHCP
10 8 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.22%) SSL
12 6 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (1.05%) OSPF
13 4 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.70%) SAN
13 4 (0.70%) Wireless
13 4 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (4.36%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (4.01%) Power BI
6 21 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 20 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.49%) Tableau
8 18 (3.14%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.79%) MySQL
10 14 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.44%) Redis
11 11 (1.92%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.75%) Metadata
13 8 (1.40%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 93 (16.23%) Jenkins
2 74 (12.91%) Git
3 50 (8.73%) GitLab
4 35 (6.11%) Oracle Forms
5 28 (4.89%) TeamCity
6 27 (4.71%) JIRA
7 7 (1.22%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.70%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.70%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.70%) ERwin
8 4 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.52%) JMeter
9 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.35%) git-flow
10 2 (0.35%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.35%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 194 (33.86%) Finance
2 120 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.85%) Banking
4 41 (7.16%) Law
5 36 (6.28%) Retail
6 35 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.71%) Back Office
7 27 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 26 (4.54%) Financial Institution
9 23 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.22%) Marketing
12 5 (0.87%) Billing
12 5 (0.87%) Games
13 4 (0.70%) Front Office
13 4 (0.70%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.52%) Advertising
14 3 (0.52%) Electronics
14 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 163 (28.45%) Senior
2 136 (23.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 90 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 75 (13.09%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 59 (10.30%) Lead
6 43 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 42 (7.33%) Developer
8 39 (6.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 36 (6.28%) Applications Engineer
10 35 (6.11%) Software Engineer
11 28 (4.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (4.89%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (4.19%) Architect
14 20 (3.49%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (3.32%) Lead DevOps
15 19 (3.32%) Linux Engineer
16 18 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (10.12%) .NET
2 56 (9.77%) RESTful
3 45 (7.85%) OAuth
4 37 (6.46%) React
5 36 (6.28%) JSON
6 33 (5.76%) OAuth2
7 25 (4.36%) Node.js
8 19 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (3.32%) SAML
8 19 (3.32%) SOAP
8 19 (3.32%) XML
9 17 (2.97%) REST
10 15 (2.62%) ARM Templates
11 14 (2.44%) Django
11 14 (2.44%) GraphQL
11 14 (2.44%) Kafka
12 13 (2.27%) ADO
13 12 (2.09%) CSS
13 12 (2.09%) HTML
13 12 (2.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (7.85%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.24%) Public Cloud
5 29 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (4.71%) Data Centre
8 22 (3.84%) Management Information System
9 21 (3.66%) Security Posture
10 15 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.92%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.22%) Blog
12 7 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.05%) CMDB
14 5 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.87%) PKI
14 5 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 107 (18.67%) Linux
2 68 (11.87%) Windows
3 26 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.84%) Unix
5 18 (3.14%) VMS
6 14 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.22%) CentOS
7 7 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.87%) Debian
9 4 (0.70%) Android
9 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (68.06%) DevOps
2 364 (63.53%) CI/CD
3 352 (61.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 191 (33.33%) Agile
5 146 (25.48%) Coaching
6 144 (25.13%) Observability
7 133 (23.21%) Mentoring
8 120 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (20.59%) Asset Management
10 104 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 103 (17.98%) Containerisation
11 103 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 99 (17.28%) Analytics
12 99 (17.28%) Test Automation
13 83 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
14 81 (14.14%) AI
15 74 (12.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 72 (12.57%) Cloud Security
17 69 (12.04%) Software Engineering
18 68 (11.87%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 267 (46.60%) Python
2 136 (23.73%) PowerShell
3 131 (22.86%) SQL
4 102 (17.80%) Bash
5 80 (13.96%) Java
6 79 (13.79%) Bicep
7 53 (9.25%) JavaScript
8 35 (6.11%) PL/SQL
8 35 (6.11%) Shell Script
9 34 (5.93%) C#
9 34 (5.93%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.89%) Go
11 7 (1.22%) Scala
12 3 (0.52%) PHP
13 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.35%) XAML
14 1 (0.17%) Korn
14 1 (0.17%) LookML
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 57 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.55%) Azure Certification
4 40 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.54%) Degree
6 17 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.27%) CCNP
10 11 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.05%) RHCE
13 4 (0.70%) CISSP
13 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.70%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.19%) GDPR
3 23 (4.01%) QA
4 19 (3.32%) PCI DSS
5 18 (3.14%) NIST
5 18 (3.14%) SOC 2
6 17 (2.97%) Data Quality
7 16 (2.79%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.40%) SLA
9 6 (1.05%) GRC
10 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 177 (30.89%) Docker
2 44 (7.68%) Active Directory
3 26 (4.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (2.97%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.27%) vSphere
7 9 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.40%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.05%) NFS
10 3 (0.52%) Firmware
11 2 (0.35%) Ceph
11 2 (0.35%) Lustre
11 2 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.35%) vCloud
12 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 228 (39.79%) Kubernetes
2 117 (20.42%) Ansible
3 93 (16.23%) Grafana
4 66 (11.52%) Prometheus
5 36 (6.28%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (4.01%) Argo
8 8 (1.40%) SCOM
9 5 (0.87%) Cilium
10 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.70%) logstash
10 4 (0.70%) Puppet
11 3 (0.52%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.35%) SCCM
13 1 (0.17%) Icinga
13 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.17%) Kibana
13 1 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 111 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.50%) Oracle
3 40 (6.98%) VMware
4 29 (5.06%) Google
5 25 (4.36%) Cisco
6 20 (3.49%) Databricks
6 20 (3.49%) Okta
6 20 (3.49%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.44%) Splunk
8 13 (2.27%) Ab Initio
9 11 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.75%) SolarWinds
11 9 (1.57%) New Relic
12 7 (1.22%) Commvault
12 7 (1.22%) F5
12 7 (1.22%) Pure Storage
13 6 (1.05%) Mercator
13 6 (1.05%) SonicWALL
14 5 (0.87%) IBM
14 5 (0.87%) LogicMonitor