Terraform Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Terraform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 83 59
Rank change year-on-year +17 -24 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 658 1,254 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.40% 3.71% 5.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.17% 31.81% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 521 1,033 1,624
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £51,506
25th Percentile £64,509 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -4.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £112,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £78,000 £73,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.85% -5.81% +3.33%

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 1,724 3,942 6,814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.53% 11.65% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 3,002 4,816
10th Percentile £41,225 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%

Terraform
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Terraform trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Terraform
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Terraform.

Terraform salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Terraform over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Terraform salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (13.07%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (12.46%) Apache
3 80 (12.16%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.13%) Confluence
5 13 (1.98%) nginx
6 12 (1.82%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.61%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.46%) IIS
10 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) Drupal
11 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 432 (65.65%) AWS
2 316 (48.02%) Azure
3 180 (27.36%) Serverless
4 159 (24.16%) GCP
5 158 (24.01%) AWS Lambda
6 134 (20.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 121 (18.39%) Amazon ECS
8 89 (13.53%) dbt
9 87 (13.22%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (12.16%) OpenShift
11 78 (11.85%) SaaS
12 63 (9.57%) GitHub
13 61 (9.27%) Amazon EC2
13 61 (9.27%) Amazon S3
14 53 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
15 37 (5.62%) PaaS
16 34 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
18 25 (3.80%) Datadog
19 24 (3.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.41%) Network Security
2 25 (3.80%) DNS
2 25 (3.80%) TCP/IP
3 23 (3.50%) Firewall
4 18 (2.74%) WAN
5 15 (2.28%) Internet
5 15 (2.28%) IPsec
5 15 (2.28%) VPN
6 14 (2.13%) LAN
7 12 (1.82%) HTTPS
8 9 (1.37%) DHCP
9 6 (0.91%) SAN
9 6 (0.91%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.91%) WLAN
10 5 (0.76%) BGP
10 5 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.76%) NAS
10 5 (0.76%) OSPF
10 5 (0.76%) VSAN
10 5 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.85%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (10.79%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (10.79%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (10.79%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (10.79%) Dremio
3 64 (9.73%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (7.90%) Amazon RDS
5 40 (6.08%) NoSQL
6 39 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (4.10%) MySQL
8 27 (4.10%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.95%) MongoDB
10 17 (2.58%) Redis
11 13 (1.98%) Big Data
12 12 (1.82%) Couchbase
13 11 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.67%) DynamoDB
14 8 (1.22%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 121 (18.39%) Jenkins
2 79 (12.01%) Git
3 77 (11.70%) Artifactory
4 56 (8.51%) GitLab
5 41 (6.23%) SonarQube
6 36 (5.47%) Maven
7 33 (5.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 28 (4.26%) JUnit
9 19 (2.89%) JIRA
10 17 (2.58%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.13%) IntelliJ
11 14 (2.13%) Mockito
12 8 (1.22%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.91%) Selenium
14 5 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
15 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
16 3 (0.46%) MLflow
17 2 (0.30%) Locust
17 2 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 240 (36.47%) Finance
2 114 (17.33%) Social Skills
3 98 (14.89%) Front Office
4 96 (14.59%) Banking
5 85 (12.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.34%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.04%) Law
8 20 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.06%) Advertising
9 7 (1.06%) Games
9 7 (1.06%) Marketing
9 7 (1.06%) Retail
10 5 (0.76%) Back Office
10 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Electronics
12 3 (0.46%) Local Government
12 3 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 199 (30.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (28.42%) Senior
3 138 (20.97%) AWS Engineer
4 136 (20.67%) AWS DevOps
5 133 (20.21%) Python Engineer
6 122 (18.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 98 (14.89%) Developer
8 93 (14.13%) Data Engineer
9 85 (12.92%) Lead
10 77 (11.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 58 (8.81%) Senior DevOps
12 50 (7.60%) Software Developer
13 47 (7.14%) Software Engineer
14 45 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (6.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 37 (5.62%) Architect
17 32 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
18 30 (4.56%) DevOps Manager
19 29 (4.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 28 (4.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.11%) Kafka
2 93 (14.13%) Node.js
3 82 (12.46%) .NET
4 78 (11.85%) PySpark
5 71 (10.79%) J2EE
6 52 (7.90%) Pandas
7 42 (6.38%) REST
8 35 (5.32%) Spring Boot
9 32 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
10 31 (4.71%) Spring
11 23 (3.50%) RESTful
12 21 (3.19%) ARM Templates
12 21 (3.19%) React
13 18 (2.74%) FastAPI
14 17 (2.58%) Flask
14 17 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (2.43%) .NET Core
16 15 (2.28%) Django
17 14 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
17 14 (2.13%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.88%) Management Information System
2 56 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 49 (7.45%) Cyberattack
4 31 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 24 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.58%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.13%) Credit Derivative
10 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.37%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.22%) Online Banking
15 7 (1.06%) SCADA
16 6 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 192 (29.18%) Linux
2 74 (11.25%) Windows
3 57 (8.66%) Android
4 33 (5.02%) Unix
5 10 (1.52%) VMS
6 8 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.06%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.30%) CentOS
9 2 (0.30%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.30%) zOS
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (65.20%) CI/CD
2 425 (64.59%) DevOps
3 264 (40.12%) Software Engineering
4 256 (38.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 253 (38.45%) Agile
6 169 (25.68%) Containerisation
7 149 (22.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 105 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (14.89%) Asset Management
10 94 (14.29%) Microservices
11 93 (14.13%) Open Source
12 92 (13.98%) Data Engineering
13 88 (13.37%) Mentoring
14 71 (10.79%) Cloud Security
15 67 (10.18%) Collaborative Working
16 65 (9.88%) Design Patterns
16 65 (9.88%) Line Management
17 63 (9.57%) OO
18 62 (9.42%) Analytics
18 62 (9.42%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 405 (61.55%) Python
2 210 (31.91%) Java
3 172 (26.14%) Go
4 121 (18.39%) JavaScript
5 79 (12.01%) SQL
6 74 (11.25%) C++
7 63 (9.57%) Bash
8 60 (9.12%) PowerShell
9 58 (8.81%) Rust
10 34 (5.17%) TypeScript
11 31 (4.71%) C#
12 22 (3.34%) Bicep
13 20 (3.04%) PHP
14 14 (2.13%) Ruby
15 10 (1.52%) C
15 10 (1.52%) Perl
16 9 (1.37%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.37%) Scala
17 7 (1.06%) Groovy
18 5 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 108 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 60 (9.12%) Degree
3 55 (8.36%) DV Cleared
4 39 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 33 (5.02%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (3.95%) Azure Certification
8 22 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.52%) CCNP
12 10 (1.52%) Master's Degree
13 8 (1.22%) CISSP
14 7 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.76%) CCIE
15 5 (0.76%) CCSP
15 5 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.61%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.80%) GDPR
2 17 (2.58%) HIPAA
3 15 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.13%) QA
5 12 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.37%) NCSC
7 8 (1.22%) NIST
8 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.91%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) Basel III
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 355 (53.95%) Docker
2 25 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.06%) vSphere
6 5 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 398 (60.49%) Kubernetes
2 221 (33.59%) Ansible
3 44 (6.69%) Prometheus
4 41 (6.23%) Grafana
5 29 (4.41%) Istio
6 21 (3.19%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.74%) Puppet
8 11 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.06%) Argo
11 6 (0.91%) Packer
12 5 (0.76%) CASB
12 5 (0.76%) linkerd
13 4 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.46%) SCCM
14 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.30%) CA Endevor
15 2 (0.30%) Nagios
15 2 (0.30%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 76 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.12%) Google
3 36 (5.47%) VMware
4 24 (3.65%) IBM
5 17 (2.58%) Cisco
6 16 (2.43%) Oracle
7 11 (1.67%) Databricks
7 11 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.06%) Confluent
11 6 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.91%) Mellanox
11 6 (0.91%) NVIDIA
12 5 (0.76%) Aruba
12 5 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.76%) F5
13 4 (0.61%) IBM Sterling
13 4 (0.61%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) AppDynamics