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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 58 47
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 539 898 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.55% 4.61% 6.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.05% 36.21% 38.25%
Number of salaries quoted 339 615 1,134
10th Percentile £47,300 £51,350 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £58,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,500 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £112,500 £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 1,313 2,480 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.65% 12.74% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 975 1,464 2,910
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,813 £51,250 £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 £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 30 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 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.67%) IIS
5 5 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.37%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 31 (5.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 363 (67.35%) Azure
2 298 (55.29%) AWS
3 162 (30.06%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (29.68%) GitHub
5 91 (16.88%) GCP
6 89 (16.51%) GitHub Actions
7 86 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (12.99%) Serverless
9 66 (12.24%) SaaS
10 65 (12.06%) Entra ID
11 56 (10.39%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (9.46%) Azure Monitor
13 46 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (7.98%) OCI
15 42 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
16 41 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (6.12%) PaaS
18 32 (5.94%) Snowflake
19 31 (5.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 73 (13.54%) Firewall
2 43 (7.98%) VPN
3 36 (6.68%) WAN
4 28 (5.19%) DNS
5 24 (4.45%) SD-WAN
5 24 (4.45%) TCP/IP
6 23 (4.27%) Network Security
7 22 (4.08%) LAN
8 11 (2.04%) VLAN
9 10 (1.86%) BGP
10 8 (1.48%) DHCP
10 8 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.30%) OSPF
11 7 (1.30%) SSL
12 6 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.93%) Wireless
14 4 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.74%) SAN
14 4 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.45%) SQL Server
5 22 (4.08%) Power BI
6 19 (3.53%) Tableau
7 18 (3.34%) NoSQL
8 17 (3.15%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.15%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.78%) MySQL
10 14 (2.60%) Redis
11 10 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.67%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.30%) Metadata
13 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.93%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.74%) DataStage
15 4 (0.74%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 89 (16.51%) Jenkins
2 59 (10.95%) Git
3 44 (8.16%) GitLab
4 31 (5.75%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (4.82%) TeamCity
6 23 (4.27%) JIRA
7 8 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.74%) ERwin
8 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.56%) JMeter
9 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.37%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.37%) git-flow
10 2 (0.37%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
General
1 173 (32.10%) Finance
2 115 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 36 (6.68%) Banking
3 36 (6.68%) Law
4 33 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (6.12%) Retail
5 25 (4.64%) Back Office
5 25 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.45%) Financial Institution
7 22 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.30%) Marketing
11 6 (1.11%) Games
12 5 (0.93%) Advertising
13 4 (0.74%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.56%) Electronics
14 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 158 (29.31%) Senior
2 125 (23.19%) Cloud Engineer
3 87 (16.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (11.69%) Azure Engineer
5 53 (9.83%) Lead
6 51 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (7.79%) Developer
8 37 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (6.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 32 (5.94%) Applications Engineer
10 28 (5.19%) Software Engineer
11 27 (5.01%) Architect
12 25 (4.64%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (3.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 17 (3.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 16 (2.97%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.39%) .NET
2 49 (9.09%) RESTful
3 39 (7.24%) OAuth
4 32 (5.94%) JSON
5 29 (5.38%) OAuth2
6 28 (5.19%) React
7 22 (4.08%) Node.js
8 19 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (3.34%) REST
10 17 (3.15%) SAML
10 17 (3.15%) SOAP
10 17 (3.15%) XML
11 13 (2.41%) Django
12 12 (2.23%) ARM Templates
12 12 (2.23%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.04%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.04%) ADO
13 11 (2.04%) AWS CDK
13 11 (2.04%) CSS
13 11 (2.04%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (24.12%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
2 42 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 27 (5.01%) Onboarding
5 26 (4.82%) Data Centre
6 25 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 22 (4.08%) Security Posture
8 17 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.11%) CMDB
12 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.93%) Blog
13 5 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.93%) PKI
14 4 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (18.74%) Linux
2 64 (11.87%) Windows
3 22 (4.08%) Unix
3 22 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.15%) VMS
5 14 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.30%) CentOS
6 7 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.93%) Debian
8 2 (0.37%) Android
8 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (68.09%) DevOps
2 344 (63.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 340 (63.08%) CI/CD
4 162 (30.06%) Agile
5 130 (24.12%) Observability
6 125 (23.19%) Coaching
7 117 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (21.52%) Mentoring
9 106 (19.67%) Asset Management
10 99 (18.37%) Containerisation
10 99 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 88 (16.33%) Analytics
13 86 (15.96%) Test Automation
14 76 (14.10%) AI
15 69 (12.80%) Platform Engineering
16 67 (12.43%) Cloud Security
17 66 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 62 (11.50%) Roadmaps
18 62 (11.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 250 (46.38%) Python
2 131 (24.30%) PowerShell
3 119 (22.08%) SQL
4 98 (18.18%) Bash
5 73 (13.54%) Bicep
6 68 (12.62%) Java
7 48 (8.91%) JavaScript
8 31 (5.75%) C#
8 31 (5.75%) PL/SQL
8 31 (5.75%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.38%) TypeScript
10 24 (4.45%) Go
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Groovy
12 2 (0.37%) XAML
13 1 (0.19%) LookML
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
13 1 (0.19%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Scala
13 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.39%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.46%) Azure Certification
4 43 (7.98%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.45%) Degree
6 16 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.41%) CCNP
9 13 (2.41%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.11%) RHCE
12 4 (0.74%) CISSP
12 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.74%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.27%) GDPR
3 20 (3.71%) QA
4 19 (3.53%) NIST
5 17 (3.15%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.15%) SOC 2
6 12 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.23%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.48%) SLA
8 6 (1.11%) GRC
9 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.19%) MiFID
11 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 168 (31.17%) Docker
2 44 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 27 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (3.15%) Hyper-V
6 16 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (2.23%) vSphere
8 9 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.30%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.11%) NFS
11 3 (0.56%) Firmware
12 2 (0.37%) Ceph
12 2 (0.37%) Lustre
12 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.37%) vCloud
13 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 214 (39.70%) Kubernetes
2 121 (22.45%) Ansible
3 85 (15.77%) Grafana
4 59 (10.95%) Prometheus
5 32 (5.94%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (3.15%) Argo
8 8 (1.48%) SCOM
9 5 (0.93%) Cilium
10 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.74%) Puppet
11 3 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.37%) logstash
12 2 (0.37%) SCCM
13 1 (0.19%) Icinga
13 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.19%) Kibana
13 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.42%) VMware
3 39 (7.24%) Oracle
4 28 (5.19%) Cisco
5 26 (4.82%) Google
6 20 (3.71%) Red Hat
7 18 (3.34%) Databricks
7 18 (3.34%) Okta
8 14 (2.60%) Palo Alto
9 13 (2.41%) Splunk
10 11 (2.04%) Ab Initio
11 9 (1.67%) New Relic
11 9 (1.67%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.30%) Commvault
12 7 (1.30%) F5
12 7 (1.30%) Pure Storage
13 6 (1.11%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.11%) Mercator
13 6 (1.11%) SonicWALL
14 4 (0.74%) Foundry