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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 59 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 +7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 588 858 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 4.97% 6.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.86% 36.26% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 367 605 1,067
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,150 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £86,251 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 1,372 2,366 3,218
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.99% 13.71% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 1,423 2,779
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,938 £51,251 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +4.22% -4.24%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,710 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,550 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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 22 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 23 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 17 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.53%) IIS
4 8 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.85%) Confluence
6 4 (0.68%) Apache
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (6.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (67.18%) Azure
2 309 (52.55%) AWS
3 184 (31.29%) Azure DevOps
4 183 (31.12%) GitHub
5 108 (18.37%) GCP
6 101 (17.18%) GitHub Actions
7 86 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (11.90%) Entra ID
9 69 (11.73%) SaaS
9 69 (11.73%) Serverless
10 68 (11.56%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (9.35%) Azure Monitor
12 47 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (7.99%) OCI
13 45 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 45 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (6.80%) Amazon S3
15 35 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (5.95%) dbt
16 34 (5.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 73 (12.41%) Firewall
2 45 (7.65%) VPN
3 35 (5.95%) DNS
4 34 (5.78%) WAN
5 25 (4.25%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.08%) Network Security
6 24 (4.08%) SD-WAN
7 19 (3.23%) LAN
8 11 (1.87%) VLAN
9 9 (1.53%) BGP
10 8 (1.36%) DHCP
10 8 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.19%) SSL
12 6 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (1.02%) OSPF
13 4 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.68%) MPLS
13 4 (0.68%) SAN
13 4 (0.68%) Wireless
13 4 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.08%) Power BI
5 22 (3.74%) Data Lake
6 21 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 21 (3.57%) Tableau
7 18 (3.06%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.72%) MySQL
9 14 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.38%) Metadata
9 14 (2.38%) Redis
10 11 (1.87%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.36%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.36%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (15.99%) Jenkins
2 75 (12.76%) Git
3 50 (8.50%) GitLab
4 37 (6.29%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (4.93%) TeamCity
6 26 (4.42%) JIRA
7 7 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.68%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.68%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.68%) ERwin
8 4 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.68%) Storybook
9 3 (0.51%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) JMeter
9 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.34%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.34%) git-flow
10 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 204 (34.69%) Finance
2 126 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 49 (8.33%) Banking
4 42 (7.14%) Law
5 38 (6.46%) Retail
6 37 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 28 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (4.76%) Back Office
9 27 (4.59%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.85%) Billing
12 5 (0.85%) Games
12 5 (0.85%) Marketing
13 4 (0.68%) Front Office
13 4 (0.68%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Electronics
14 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (28.74%) Senior
2 138 (23.47%) Cloud Engineer
3 90 (15.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 75 (12.76%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 58 (9.86%) Lead
7 42 (7.14%) Developer
7 42 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 40 (6.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 39 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 37 (6.29%) Applications Engineer
11 32 (5.44%) Data Engineer
12 28 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
14 25 (4.25%) Architect
15 20 (3.40%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.40%) Lead DevOps
15 20 (3.40%) Linux Engineer
16 19 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.20%) RESTful
2 58 (9.86%) .NET
3 48 (8.16%) OAuth
4 41 (6.97%) React
5 38 (6.46%) JSON
6 35 (5.95%) OAuth2
7 29 (4.93%) Node.js
8 20 (3.40%) SAML
8 20 (3.40%) SOAP
8 20 (3.40%) XML
9 19 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (2.89%) REST
11 16 (2.72%) Django
12 15 (2.55%) GraphQL
12 15 (2.55%) Kafka
12 15 (2.55%) OpenAPI
12 15 (2.55%) Swagger
13 14 (2.38%) ADO
13 14 (2.38%) Next.js
14 13 (2.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 145 (24.66%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 32 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (4.93%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.93%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.76%) Data Centre
7 21 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.53%) Blog
11 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.19%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.02%) CMDB
13 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 109 (18.54%) Linux
2 69 (11.73%) Windows
3 28 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 23 (3.91%) Unix
5 18 (3.06%) VMS
6 15 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.36%) CentOS
7 8 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.02%) Debian
9 4 (0.68%) Android
9 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (67.86%) DevOps
2 368 (62.59%) CI/CD
3 354 (60.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (33.67%) Agile
5 152 (25.85%) Coaching
6 148 (25.17%) Observability
7 137 (23.30%) Mentoring
8 126 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (21.09%) Asset Management
10 108 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (18.03%) Containerisation
11 106 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 104 (17.69%) Test Automation
13 102 (17.35%) Analytics
14 87 (14.80%) AI
15 85 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
16 74 (12.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 73 (12.41%) Software Engineering
18 72 (12.24%) Cloud Security
19 71 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 274 (46.60%) Python
2 136 (23.13%) SQL
3 134 (22.79%) PowerShell
4 98 (16.67%) Bash
5 85 (14.46%) Java
6 76 (12.93%) Bicep
7 56 (9.52%) JavaScript
8 38 (6.46%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.29%) PL/SQL
9 37 (6.29%) Shell Script
10 33 (5.61%) C#
11 32 (5.44%) Go
12 12 (2.04%) Scala
13 3 (0.51%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) Perl
14 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.34%) XAML
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Korn
15 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 71 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.82%) Azure Certification
4 40 (6.80%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.59%) Degree
6 17 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.21%) CCNP
10 11 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.70%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.02%) RHCE
13 4 (0.68%) CISSP
13 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.68%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.51%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.25%) GDPR
3 23 (3.91%) QA
4 22 (3.74%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 18 (3.06%) NIST
6 18 (3.06%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.89%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.36%) SLA
9 6 (1.02%) GRC
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 179 (30.44%) Docker
2 45 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.89%) Hyper-V
7 13 (2.21%) vSphere
8 9 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.02%) NFS
11 3 (0.51%) Firmware
12 2 (0.34%) Ceph
12 2 (0.34%) Lustre
12 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.34%) vCloud
13 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 231 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 117 (19.90%) Ansible
3 97 (16.50%) Grafana
4 68 (11.56%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.46%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (3.91%) Argo
8 8 (1.36%) SCOM
9 5 (0.85%) Cilium
10 4 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.68%) logstash
10 4 (0.68%) Puppet
11 3 (0.51%) Control-M
11 3 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.34%) SCCM
13 1 (0.17%) Icinga
13 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 113 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.65%) Oracle
3 41 (6.97%) VMware
4 34 (5.78%) Google
5 25 (4.25%) Cisco
6 21 (3.57%) Okta
7 20 (3.40%) Red Hat
8 19 (3.23%) Databricks
9 14 (2.38%) Ab Initio
9 14 (2.38%) Splunk
10 11 (1.87%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.70%) SolarWinds
12 9 (1.53%) New Relic
13 7 (1.19%) Commvault
13 7 (1.19%) F5
13 7 (1.19%) IBM
13 7 (1.19%) Pure Storage
14 6 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.02%) Mercator
14 6 (1.02%) SonicWALL