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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 58 46
Rank change year-on-year -19 -12 +4
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 525 894 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.47% 4.46% 6.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.63% 35.93% 38.31%
Number of salaries quoted 337 609 1,138
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £58,944
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £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 1,292 2,488 3,414
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.54% 12.41% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 964 1,461 2,933
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +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 24 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.29%) IIS
3 12 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.57%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 27 (5.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 339 (64.57%) Azure
2 300 (57.14%) AWS
3 152 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
4 149 (28.38%) GitHub
5 90 (17.14%) GCP
6 86 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (15.81%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (13.14%) Serverless
9 66 (12.57%) SaaS
10 63 (12.00%) Entra ID
11 55 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (9.33%) Azure Monitor
13 45 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
15 40 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (7.43%) OCI
17 33 (6.29%) PaaS
18 32 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
19 30 (5.71%) Amazon S3
19 30 (5.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (13.90%) Firewall
2 44 (8.38%) VPN
3 40 (7.62%) WAN
4 25 (4.76%) DNS
4 25 (4.76%) LAN
4 25 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 24 (4.57%) SD-WAN
6 23 (4.38%) Network Security
7 11 (2.10%) BGP
7 11 (2.10%) VLAN
8 8 (1.52%) DHCP
8 8 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.33%) OSPF
9 7 (1.33%) SSL
10 6 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (0.95%) Wireless
12 4 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.76%) IPsec
12 4 (0.76%) SAN
12 4 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (5.14%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.00%) Power BI
6 20 (3.81%) MySQL
7 19 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (3.62%) NoSQL
8 17 (3.24%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.24%) DynamoDB
8 17 (3.24%) Tableau
9 14 (2.67%) Redis
10 10 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.71%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.33%) Metadata
12 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.95%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.76%) DataStage
14 4 (0.76%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 86 (16.38%) Jenkins
2 57 (10.86%) Git
3 38 (7.24%) GitLab
4 30 (5.71%) TeamCity
5 27 (5.14%) Oracle Forms
6 22 (4.19%) JIRA
7 8 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.95%) NUnit
8 5 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.76%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.76%) ERwin
9 4 (0.76%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.38%) git-flow
11 2 (0.38%) JMeter
11 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 161 (30.67%) Finance
2 115 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.05%) Banking
4 36 (6.86%) Law
5 35 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (6.10%) Retail
7 25 (4.76%) Back Office
7 25 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.57%) Financial Institution
9 22 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.71%) Games
12 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.33%) Marketing
14 5 (0.95%) Advertising
15 4 (0.76%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.57%) Electronics
16 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 157 (29.90%) Senior
2 114 (21.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 86 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (9.33%) Lead
6 47 (8.95%) Developer
7 44 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 38 (7.24%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (6.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 28 (5.33%) Applications Engineer
10 28 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 26 (4.95%) Architect
11 26 (4.95%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (3.62%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 16 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.86%) .NET
2 46 (8.76%) RESTful
3 33 (6.29%) OAuth
4 32 (6.10%) React
5 28 (5.33%) JSON
6 25 (4.76%) OAuth2
7 22 (4.19%) Node.js
8 19 (3.62%) REST
9 17 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (2.86%) CSS
10 15 (2.86%) HTML
10 15 (2.86%) SAML
10 15 (2.86%) SOAP
10 15 (2.86%) XML
11 14 (2.67%) Vue
12 13 (2.48%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.48%) ARM Templates
12 13 (2.48%) Django
13 11 (2.10%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.10%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 125 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 40 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 38 (7.24%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.14%) Data Centre
6 25 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 22 (4.19%) Management Information System
7 22 (4.19%) Security Posture
8 21 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.52%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.14%) CMDB
11 6 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.95%) Blog
12 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.95%) PKI
12 5 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (18.29%) Linux
2 60 (11.43%) Windows
3 21 (4.00%) Unix
4 19 (3.62%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.05%) VMS
6 14 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.33%) CentOS
7 7 (1.33%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.95%) Debian
9 2 (0.38%) Android
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (67.43%) DevOps
2 337 (64.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 325 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 149 (28.38%) Agile
5 120 (22.86%) Observability
6 108 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (20.38%) Coaching
7 107 (20.38%) Mentoring
8 95 (18.10%) Containerisation
9 94 (17.90%) Asset Management
10 93 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 87 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 84 (16.00%) Analytics
13 78 (14.86%) Test Automation
14 74 (14.10%) AI
15 66 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
16 65 (12.38%) Cloud Security
17 64 (12.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 61 (11.62%) Software Engineering
19 58 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 245 (46.67%) Python
2 127 (24.19%) PowerShell
3 113 (21.52%) SQL
4 97 (18.48%) Bash
5 69 (13.14%) Bicep
6 63 (12.00%) Java
7 49 (9.33%) JavaScript
8 33 (6.29%) C#
8 33 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 27 (5.14%) PL/SQL
9 27 (5.14%) Shell Script
10 25 (4.76%) Go
11 4 (0.76%) PHP
12 2 (0.38%) Groovy
12 2 (0.38%) XAML
13 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) LookML
13 1 (0.19%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Scala
13 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.71%) Azure Certification
4 43 (8.19%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.38%) Degree
6 16 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.67%) CCNP
8 14 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.48%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.14%) RHCE
12 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.76%) CISSP
13 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.76%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.81%) GDPR
3 19 (3.62%) NIST
4 18 (3.43%) QA
5 17 (3.24%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.24%) SOC 2
6 12 (2.29%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.90%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.52%) SLA
9 6 (1.14%) GRC
10 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.19%) MiFID
12 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 161 (30.67%) Docker
2 42 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 27 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (3.24%) Hyper-V
6 16 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (2.29%) vSphere
8 9 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.33%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.14%) NFS
11 3 (0.57%) Firmware
12 2 (0.38%) Ceph
12 2 (0.38%) Lustre
12 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.38%) vCloud
13 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 209 (39.81%) Kubernetes
2 125 (23.81%) Ansible
3 81 (15.43%) Grafana
4 55 (10.48%) Prometheus
5 29 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (3.05%) Argo
8 8 (1.52%) SCOM
9 5 (0.95%) Cilium
10 4 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.57%) Puppet
12 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.38%) SCCM
13 1 (0.19%) Icinga
13 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.19%) Kibana
13 1 (0.19%) logstash
13 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.62%) VMware
3 35 (6.67%) Oracle
4 32 (6.10%) Cisco
5 26 (4.95%) Google
6 20 (3.81%) Red Hat
7 18 (3.43%) Databricks
8 17 (3.24%) Palo Alto
9 16 (3.05%) Okta
10 12 (2.29%) Splunk
11 9 (1.71%) Ab Initio
11 9 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.71%) SolarWinds
12 8 (1.52%) New Relic
13 7 (1.33%) Aruba
13 7 (1.33%) Commvault
13 7 (1.33%) F5
13 7 (1.33%) Pure Storage
14 6 (1.14%) SonicWALL
15 5 (0.95%) Mercator