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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 58 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 779 879 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.94% 4.47% 6.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.69% 36.84% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 340 593 1,205
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £85,313 £88,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,875 £110,000 £106,289
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 1,600 2,386 3,603
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.14% 12.12% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,364 3,098
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -2.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 10 November 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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.80%) IIS
4 10 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.64%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.39%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.26%) Confluence
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.26%) Weka
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (2.95%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 318 (40.82%) Azure
2 306 (39.28%) AWS
3 136 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (17.07%) GitHub
5 90 (11.55%) GCP
6 88 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 75 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (9.50%) Serverless
9 62 (7.96%) Entra ID
10 61 (7.83%) SaaS
11 57 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
15 40 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (4.49%) Amazon S3
17 34 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
18 33 (4.24%) PaaS
19 32 (4.11%) OCI
20 30 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 305 (39.15%) VPN
2 263 (33.76%) Cisco IOS
3 70 (8.99%) Firewall
4 38 (4.88%) WAN
5 26 (3.34%) DNS
6 23 (2.95%) LAN
6 23 (2.95%) TCP/IP
7 22 (2.82%) SD-WAN
8 20 (2.57%) Network Security
9 9 (1.16%) BGP
9 9 (1.16%) SSL
9 9 (1.16%) VLAN
10 8 (1.03%) DHCP
10 8 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.77%) Broadband
11 6 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (0.64%) OSPF
12 5 (0.64%) Wireless
13 4 (0.51%) IPsec
13 4 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (2.70%) MySQL
5 20 (2.57%) Power BI
6 18 (2.31%) DynamoDB
6 18 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.05%) Tableau
8 15 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.67%) Redis
10 11 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.03%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.90%) Metadata
13 4 (0.51%) Big Data
13 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.51%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 79 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 56 (7.19%) Git
3 37 (4.75%) GitLab
4 32 (4.11%) TeamCity
5 23 (2.95%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (2.31%) JIRA
7 9 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.90%) NUnit
9 6 (0.77%) Jasmine
9 6 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.64%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.51%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.51%) ERwin
11 4 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.39%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 299 (38.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 281 (36.07%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (19.26%) Finance
4 113 (14.51%) Social Skills
5 36 (4.62%) Banking
6 31 (3.98%) Law
6 31 (3.98%) Retail
7 25 (3.21%) Public Sector
8 24 (3.08%) Back Office
9 23 (2.95%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.28%) Games
12 7 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.64%) Marketing
14 4 (0.51%) Advertising
14 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.26%) Automotive
16 2 (0.26%) Health Technology
17 1 (0.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 304 (39.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 160 (20.54%) Senior
3 113 (14.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 93 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 53 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
6 50 (6.42%) Developer
7 49 (6.29%) Lead
8 38 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
9 35 (4.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 31 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (3.59%) Data Engineer
12 26 (3.34%) Software Engineer
13 25 (3.21%) Architect
14 24 (3.08%) Applications Engineer
14 24 (3.08%) Senior Developer
15 23 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
16 21 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 20 (2.57%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (2.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 18 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (35.94%) Elastic Stack
2 57 (7.32%) .NET
3 44 (5.65%) RESTful
4 29 (3.72%) React
5 27 (3.47%) OAuth
6 24 (3.08%) JSON
7 22 (2.82%) REST
8 21 (2.70%) OAuth2
9 19 (2.44%) Node.js
10 15 (1.93%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.93%) CSS
10 15 (1.93%) HTML
10 15 (1.93%) Vue
11 13 (1.67%) ARM Templates
11 13 (1.67%) SOAP
11 13 (1.67%) XML
12 12 (1.54%) Django
12 12 (1.54%) SAML
13 10 (1.28%) ASP.NET
13 10 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 264 (33.89%) Cyberattack
2 117 (15.02%) Cloud Native
3 38 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (4.24%) Public Cloud
6 27 (3.47%) Data Centre
7 26 (3.34%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
9 23 (2.95%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.44%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.90%) PKI
14 6 (0.77%) CMDB
14 6 (0.77%) Online Games
14 6 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.64%) Blog
15 5 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
16 4 (0.51%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 362 (46.47%) Linux
2 320 (41.08%) Windows
3 262 (33.63%) Android
4 23 (2.95%) Unix
5 20 (2.57%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.80%) VMS
7 7 (0.90%) CentOS
7 7 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.64%) Debian
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (78.56%) DevOps
2 371 (47.63%) Problem-Solving
3 346 (44.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 334 (42.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (41.85%) Platform Engineering
6 313 (40.18%) CI/CD
7 283 (36.33%) Task Automation
8 274 (35.17%) Storage Management
9 273 (35.04%) Line Management
10 272 (34.92%) Risk Management
11 264 (33.89%) Mathematics
12 143 (18.36%) Agile
13 104 (13.35%) Observability
14 102 (13.09%) Containerisation
14 102 (13.09%) Mentoring
15 95 (12.20%) Coaching
16 90 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 82 (10.53%) Asset Management
18 79 (10.14%) Analytics
19 71 (9.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 511 (65.60%) Python
2 385 (49.42%) PowerShell
3 360 (46.21%) Bash
4 104 (13.35%) SQL
5 64 (8.22%) Java
6 59 (7.57%) Bicep
7 46 (5.91%) JavaScript
8 32 (4.11%) C#
9 31 (3.98%) TypeScript
10 27 (3.47%) Go
11 23 (2.95%) PL/SQL
11 23 (2.95%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.39%) PHP
13 2 (0.26%) Groovy
13 2 (0.26%) Scala
13 2 (0.26%) XAML
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.13%) LookML
14 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (8.60%) Security Cleared
2 56 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.55%) Azure Certification
4 48 (6.16%) AWS Certification
5 21 (2.70%) Degree
6 17 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.54%) CCNP
8 12 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.77%) RHCE
10 5 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.51%) CISSP
11 4 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.51%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.39%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.26%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.57%) NIST
2 20 (2.57%) QA
3 19 (2.44%) GDPR
4 18 (2.31%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.05%) SOC 2
6 12 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.03%) SLA
8 7 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.64%) GRC
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 422 (54.17%) Docker
2 278 (35.69%) Hyper-V
3 274 (35.17%) vSphere
4 269 (34.53%) VMware NSX
5 43 (5.52%) Active Directory
6 28 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 25 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.77%) 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
1 392 (50.32%) Ansible
2 207 (26.57%) Kubernetes
3 77 (9.88%) Grafana
4 55 (7.06%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.44%) Argo
8 8 (1.03%) SCOM
9 5 (0.64%) Cilium
10 4 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.39%) Puppet
12 2 (0.26%) SCCM
13 1 (0.13%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.13%) Icinga
13 1 (0.13%) Kibana
13 1 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 292 (37.48%) Cisco
2 272 (34.92%) Splunk
3 263 (33.76%) Juniper
4 262 (33.63%) 3PAR
5 105 (13.48%) Microsoft
6 41 (5.26%) VMware
7 33 (4.24%) Oracle
8 30 (3.85%) Google
9 20 (2.57%) Databricks
10 19 (2.44%) Red Hat
11 15 (1.93%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.80%) Okta
13 9 (1.16%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.90%) Ab Initio
14 7 (0.90%) Aruba
14 7 (0.90%) Commvault
14 7 (0.90%) F5
14 7 (0.90%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.90%) Pure Storage
14 7 (0.90%) Rollbar