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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 58 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 581 870 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.81% 4.98% 6.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.50% 36.46% 37.47%
Number of salaries quoted 367 611 1,071
10th Percentile £46,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,075 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £86,253 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,289
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 1,367 2,386 3,243
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.97% 13.66% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 1,438 2,794
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,227
25th Percentile £49,698 £51,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,154 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% +3.60% -3.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,764
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 18 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 22 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 16 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.38%) IIS
4 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.86%) Confluence
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 35 (6.02%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (66.78%) Azure
2 310 (53.36%) AWS
3 179 (30.81%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (30.64%) GitHub
5 104 (17.90%) GCP
6 98 (16.87%) GitHub Actions
7 87 (14.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (12.05%) Serverless
9 69 (11.88%) Entra ID
10 68 (11.70%) Amazon EKS
10 68 (11.70%) SaaS
11 56 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
12 47 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 45 (7.75%) OCI
14 44 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
15 40 (6.88%) Amazon S3
16 33 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (5.68%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.39%) Firewall
2 45 (7.75%) VPN
3 35 (6.02%) DNS
4 34 (5.85%) WAN
5 25 (4.30%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.13%) Network Security
6 24 (4.13%) SD-WAN
7 19 (3.27%) LAN
8 11 (1.89%) VLAN
9 9 (1.55%) BGP
10 8 (1.38%) DHCP
10 8 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.20%) SSL
12 6 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (1.03%) OSPF
13 4 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.69%) SAN
13 4 (0.69%) Wireless
13 4 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.96%) Power BI
5 22 (3.79%) Data Lake
6 21 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.44%) Tableau
8 18 (3.10%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.75%) MySQL
10 14 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.41%) Metadata
10 14 (2.41%) Redis
11 11 (1.89%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.38%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.38%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 91 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 75 (12.91%) Git
3 51 (8.78%) GitLab
4 35 (6.02%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (4.99%) TeamCity
6 25 (4.30%) JIRA
7 7 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.69%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.69%) ERwin
8 4 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.52%) JMeter
9 3 (0.52%) Storybook
9 3 (0.52%) 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
1 196 (33.73%) Finance
2 124 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 48 (8.26%) Banking
4 42 (7.23%) Law
5 39 (6.71%) Retail
6 37 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 28 (4.82%) Back Office
9 27 (4.65%) Financial Institution
10 25 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (2.58%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.20%) Marketing
13 5 (0.86%) Billing
13 5 (0.86%) Games
14 4 (0.69%) Front Office
14 4 (0.69%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.52%) Electronics
15 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (28.40%) Senior
2 134 (23.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 90 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 73 (12.56%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 59 (10.15%) Lead
7 43 (7.40%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (7.23%) Developer
9 39 (6.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 38 (6.54%) Software Engineer
11 35 (6.02%) Applications Engineer
12 33 (5.68%) Data Engineer
13 28 (4.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (4.13%) Architect
16 20 (3.44%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 20 (3.44%) Lead DevOps
17 19 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
17 19 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
17 19 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.81%) .NET
1 57 (9.81%) RESTful
2 45 (7.75%) OAuth
3 40 (6.88%) React
4 36 (6.20%) JSON
5 33 (5.68%) OAuth2
6 28 (4.82%) Node.js
7 19 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (3.27%) SAML
7 19 (3.27%) SOAP
7 19 (3.27%) XML
8 17 (2.93%) REST
9 16 (2.75%) Django
10 15 (2.58%) Kafka
11 14 (2.41%) ARM Templates
11 14 (2.41%) GraphQL
12 13 (2.24%) AWS CDK
12 13 (2.24%) OpenAPI
12 13 (2.24%) PySpark
12 13 (2.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 142 (24.44%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.09%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (7.75%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (4.99%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.82%) Data Centre
6 28 (4.82%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.61%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.55%) Blog
10 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.03%) CMDB
13 5 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 107 (18.42%) Linux
2 67 (11.53%) Windows
3 26 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.79%) Unix
5 18 (3.10%) VMS
6 14 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.20%) CentOS
7 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.86%) Debian
9 4 (0.69%) Android
9 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (67.99%) DevOps
2 366 (62.99%) CI/CD
3 353 (60.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (33.56%) Agile
5 146 (25.13%) Coaching
5 146 (25.13%) Observability
6 134 (23.06%) Mentoring
7 122 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (20.31%) Asset Management
9 106 (18.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 104 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 103 (17.73%) Analytics
11 103 (17.73%) Containerisation
12 100 (17.21%) Test Automation
13 84 (14.46%) AI
13 84 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
14 75 (12.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 71 (12.22%) Cloud Security
16 70 (12.05%) Software Engineering
17 69 (11.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 271 (46.64%) Python
2 134 (23.06%) PowerShell
3 133 (22.89%) SQL
4 100 (17.21%) Bash
5 83 (14.29%) Java
6 77 (13.25%) Bicep
7 54 (9.29%) JavaScript
8 37 (6.37%) TypeScript
9 35 (6.02%) PL/SQL
9 35 (6.02%) Shell Script
10 33 (5.68%) C#
11 29 (4.99%) Go
12 12 (2.07%) Scala
13 3 (0.52%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.34%) XAML
15 1 (0.17%) Korn
15 1 (0.17%) LookML
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 57 (9.81%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.26%) Azure Certification
4 40 (6.88%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.30%) Degree
6 16 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.24%) CCNP
9 11 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.72%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.03%) RHCE
12 4 (0.69%) CISSP
12 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.69%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.13%) GDPR
3 23 (3.96%) QA
4 22 (3.79%) Data Quality
5 20 (3.44%) PCI DSS
6 19 (3.27%) SOC 2
7 18 (3.10%) NIST
8 17 (2.93%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.38%) SLA
10 6 (1.03%) GRC
11 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 179 (30.81%) Docker
2 44 (7.57%) Active Directory
3 26 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (2.93%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.24%) vSphere
7 9 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.38%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.03%) NFS
10 3 (0.52%) Firmware
11 2 (0.34%) Ceph
11 2 (0.34%) Lustre
11 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.34%) vCloud
12 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 231 (39.76%) Kubernetes
2 117 (20.14%) Ansible
3 95 (16.35%) Grafana
4 67 (11.53%) Prometheus
5 36 (6.20%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (3.96%) Argo
8 8 (1.38%) SCOM
9 5 (0.86%) Cilium
10 4 (0.69%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.69%) logstash
10 4 (0.69%) Puppet
11 3 (0.52%) Control-M
11 3 (0.52%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.52%) 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
1 110 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.40%) Oracle
3 40 (6.88%) VMware
4 32 (5.51%) Google
5 25 (4.30%) Cisco
6 21 (3.61%) Databricks
7 20 (3.44%) Okta
7 20 (3.44%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.41%) Splunk
9 13 (2.24%) Ab Initio
10 11 (1.89%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.72%) SolarWinds
12 9 (1.55%) New Relic
13 7 (1.20%) Commvault
13 7 (1.20%) F5
13 7 (1.20%) IBM
13 7 (1.20%) Pure Storage
14 6 (1.03%) Mercator
14 6 (1.03%) SonicWALL
15 5 (0.86%) Atlassian