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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 59 44
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 556 895 1,263
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.62% 4.72% 6.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.68% 36.16% 37.88%
Number of salaries quoted 346 615 1,107
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £58,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% - -
75th Percentile £86,252 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,000 £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 1,334 2,475 3,334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.70% 13.05% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,466 2,869
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,245
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +0.74% -2.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £102,500 £98,000
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 6 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 21 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.44%) IIS
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.90%) Confluence
6 3 (0.54%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) nginx
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.36%) Weka
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (5.94%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 378 (67.99%) Azure
2 302 (54.32%) AWS
3 171 (30.76%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (30.40%) GitHub
5 97 (17.45%) GCP
6 94 (16.91%) GitHub Actions
7 86 (15.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (12.59%) Serverless
9 67 (12.05%) SaaS
10 66 (11.87%) Entra ID
11 62 (11.15%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (9.71%) Azure Monitor
13 46 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (8.09%) OCI
15 43 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 42 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (5.94%) PaaS
18 32 (5.76%) Amazon S3
18 32 (5.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (12.77%) Firewall
2 43 (7.73%) VPN
3 34 (6.12%) WAN
4 29 (5.22%) DNS
5 24 (4.32%) Network Security
5 24 (4.32%) SD-WAN
5 24 (4.32%) TCP/IP
6 20 (3.60%) LAN
7 11 (1.98%) VLAN
8 10 (1.80%) BGP
9 8 (1.44%) DHCP
9 8 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.26%) OSPF
10 7 (1.26%) SSL
11 6 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (0.90%) Wireless
13 4 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.72%) SAN
13 4 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.96%) Power BI
6 19 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.42%) Tableau
7 17 (3.06%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.70%) MySQL
9 14 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.52%) Redis
10 10 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.26%) Metadata
12 7 (1.26%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.90%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.72%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 91 (16.37%) Jenkins
2 65 (11.69%) Git
3 45 (8.09%) GitLab
4 33 (5.94%) Oracle Forms
5 27 (4.86%) TeamCity
6 26 (4.68%) JIRA
7 7 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.72%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.72%) ERwin
8 4 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.54%) JMeter
9 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.36%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.36%) git-flow
10 2 (0.36%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 187 (33.63%) Finance
2 120 (21.58%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.19%) Banking
4 37 (6.65%) Law
5 34 (6.12%) Retail
6 32 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.68%) Back Office
8 25 (4.50%) Financial Institution
8 25 (4.50%) Public Sector
9 22 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.88%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.26%) Marketing
13 5 (0.90%) Advertising
13 5 (0.90%) Games
14 4 (0.72%) Billing
14 4 (0.72%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.54%) Electronics
15 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (28.60%) Senior
2 131 (23.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 88 (15.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 67 (12.05%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (9.71%) Lead
6 52 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
8 41 (7.37%) Developer
9 38 (6.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 34 (6.12%) Applications Engineer
11 31 (5.58%) Software Engineer
12 27 (4.86%) Architect
13 26 (4.68%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (3.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (3.42%) Linux Engineer
16 19 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
17 18 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 17 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
18 17 (3.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (9.89%) .NET
2 52 (9.35%) RESTful
3 42 (7.55%) OAuth
4 34 (6.12%) JSON
5 31 (5.58%) OAuth2
6 30 (5.40%) React
7 22 (3.96%) Node.js
8 18 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (3.24%) SAML
8 18 (3.24%) SOAP
8 18 (3.24%) XML
9 17 (3.06%) REST
10 13 (2.34%) Django
10 13 (2.34%) GraphQL
11 12 (2.16%) ADO
11 12 (2.16%) ARM Templates
11 12 (2.16%) Kafka
12 11 (1.98%) AWS CDK
12 11 (1.98%) CSS
12 11 (1.98%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 133 (23.92%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.09%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (7.91%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.40%) Public Cloud
5 28 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 26 (4.68%) Data Centre
6 26 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.96%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.96%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.08%) CMDB
12 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.90%) Blog
13 5 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.90%) PKI
13 5 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 104 (18.71%) Linux
2 65 (11.69%) Windows
3 23 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.78%) Unix
5 18 (3.24%) VMS
6 14 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.26%) CentOS
7 7 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.90%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) Android
9 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (68.88%) DevOps
2 355 (63.85%) CI/CD
3 353 (63.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 173 (31.12%) Agile
5 139 (25.00%) Observability
6 133 (23.92%) Coaching
7 122 (21.94%) Mentoring
8 119 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
9 112 (20.14%) Asset Management
10 103 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (17.99%) Containerisation
12 99 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 94 (16.91%) Analytics
14 91 (16.37%) Test Automation
15 80 (14.39%) AI
16 78 (14.03%) Platform Engineering
17 72 (12.95%) Cloud Security
17 72 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 65 (11.69%) Incident Response
19 64 (11.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 258 (46.40%) Python
2 133 (23.92%) PowerShell
3 126 (22.66%) SQL
4 101 (18.17%) Bash
5 75 (13.49%) Bicep
6 74 (13.31%) Java
7 48 (8.63%) JavaScript
8 33 (5.94%) PL/SQL
8 33 (5.94%) Shell Script
9 32 (5.76%) C#
10 29 (5.22%) TypeScript
11 26 (4.68%) Go
12 3 (0.54%) PHP
12 3 (0.54%) Scala
13 2 (0.36%) Groovy
13 2 (0.36%) XAML
14 1 (0.18%) Korn
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
14 1 (0.18%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.35%) Azure Certification
4 43 (7.73%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.86%) Degree
6 16 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.34%) CCNP
9 13 (2.34%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.08%) RHCE
12 4 (0.72%) CISSP
12 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.72%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.32%) GDPR
3 21 (3.78%) QA
4 19 (3.42%) NIST
5 17 (3.06%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.06%) SOC 2
6 14 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.52%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.44%) SLA
8 6 (1.08%) GRC
9 4 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 171 (30.76%) Docker
2 45 (8.09%) Active Directory
3 26 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 17 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.34%) vSphere
7 9 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.08%) NFS
10 3 (0.54%) Firmware
11 2 (0.36%) Ceph
11 2 (0.36%) Lustre
11 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.36%) vCloud
12 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 222 (39.93%) Kubernetes
2 118 (21.22%) Ansible
3 90 (16.19%) Grafana
4 64 (11.51%) Prometheus
5 34 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (3.42%) Argo
8 8 (1.44%) SCOM
9 5 (0.90%) Cilium
10 4 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.72%) Puppet
11 3 (0.54%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.54%) logstash
11 3 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.36%) SCCM
13 1 (0.18%) Icinga
13 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.18%) Kibana
13 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 115 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.37%) Oracle
3 40 (7.19%) VMware
4 28 (5.04%) Google
5 26 (4.68%) Cisco
6 20 (3.60%) Databricks
6 20 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.42%) Okta
8 13 (2.34%) Splunk
9 12 (2.16%) Ab Initio
9 12 (2.16%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.62%) New Relic
10 9 (1.62%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.26%) Commvault
11 7 (1.26%) F5
11 7 (1.26%) Pure Storage
12 6 (1.08%) Mercator
12 6 (1.08%) SonicWALL
13 4 (0.72%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.72%) Foundry