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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 522 891 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 4.53% 6.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.31% 36.65% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 338 604 1,182
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,250 £58,756
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £85,500 £89,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,875 £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 1,295 2,431 3,509
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.54% 12.35% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 971 1,407 3,024
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £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 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 17 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 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.49%) IIS
4 11 (2.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.96%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.57%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.38%) Confluence
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 25 (4.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 329 (63.03%) Azure
2 306 (58.62%) AWS
3 142 (27.20%) GitHub
4 140 (26.82%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (17.43%) GCP
6 88 (16.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 79 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
8 73 (13.98%) Serverless
9 65 (12.45%) SaaS
10 63 (12.07%) Entra ID
11 56 (10.73%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (9.00%) Azure Monitor
14 42 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
15 37 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (6.90%) OCI
17 33 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
18 32 (6.13%) Amazon S3
18 32 (6.13%) PaaS
19 29 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.79%) Firewall
2 43 (8.24%) VPN
3 39 (7.47%) WAN
4 25 (4.79%) DNS
5 24 (4.60%) LAN
5 24 (4.60%) TCP/IP
6 23 (4.41%) SD-WAN
7 22 (4.21%) Network Security
8 10 (1.92%) BGP
8 10 (1.92%) VLAN
9 9 (1.72%) SSL
10 8 (1.53%) DHCP
10 8 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (1.15%) OSPF
12 5 (0.96%) Wireless
13 4 (0.77%) Broadband
13 4 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.77%) IPsec
13 4 (0.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (4.98%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (3.83%) MySQL
5 20 (3.83%) Power BI
6 19 (3.64%) DynamoDB
7 17 (3.26%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.26%) Tableau
8 15 (2.87%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.49%) Redis
10 10 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.72%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.34%) Metadata
13 6 (1.15%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.96%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.77%) DataStage
15 4 (0.77%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 83 (15.90%) Jenkins
2 54 (10.34%) Git
3 38 (7.28%) GitLab
4 32 (6.13%) TeamCity
5 25 (4.79%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (3.64%) JIRA
7 8 (1.53%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.15%) NUnit
9 5 (0.96%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.96%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.77%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.77%) ERwin
10 4 (0.77%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 157 (30.08%) Finance
2 114 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.09%) Banking
4 36 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (6.70%) Law
6 32 (6.13%) Retail
7 26 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 25 (4.79%) Back Office
9 24 (4.60%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (3.07%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.92%) Games
13 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.34%) Marketing
14 4 (0.77%) Advertising
14 4 (0.77%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.57%) Electronics
15 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 158 (30.27%) Senior
2 118 (22.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 89 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (9.96%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (9.39%) Lead
6 48 (9.20%) Developer
7 43 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
9 35 (6.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 29 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 29 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 26 (4.98%) Applications Engineer
11 26 (4.98%) Architect
11 26 (4.98%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.02%) Senior Developer
12 21 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 17 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.73%) .NET
2 46 (8.81%) RESTful
3 32 (6.13%) React
4 30 (5.75%) OAuth
5 26 (4.98%) JSON
6 23 (4.41%) OAuth2
7 21 (4.02%) REST
8 20 (3.83%) Node.js
9 16 (3.07%) CSS
9 16 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (3.07%) HTML
10 15 (2.87%) Vue
11 14 (2.68%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.68%) SOAP
11 14 (2.68%) XML
12 13 (2.49%) ARM Templates
12 13 (2.49%) Django
12 13 (2.49%) SAML
13 11 (2.11%) Flask
14 10 (1.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 120 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.47%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (5.94%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.17%) Data Centre
6 25 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (4.60%) Management Information System
7 24 (4.60%) Onboarding
8 21 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.83%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.92%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.53%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.34%) PKI
13 6 (1.15%) CMDB
13 6 (1.15%) Online Games
14 5 (0.96%) Blog
14 5 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 94 (18.01%) Linux
2 58 (11.11%) Windows
3 20 (3.83%) Unix
4 19 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.87%) VMS
6 14 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.34%) CentOS
7 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.96%) 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
1 352 (67.43%) DevOps
2 334 (63.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 321 (61.49%) CI/CD
4 148 (28.35%) Agile
5 112 (21.46%) Observability
6 108 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (20.11%) Mentoring
8 100 (19.16%) Coaching
9 99 (18.97%) Containerisation
10 93 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (16.86%) Asset Management
12 85 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 81 (15.52%) Analytics
14 76 (14.56%) Test Automation
15 73 (13.98%) AI
16 64 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 63 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
17 63 (12.07%) Software Engineering
18 61 (11.69%) Cloud Security
18 61 (11.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 244 (46.74%) Python
2 121 (23.18%) PowerShell
3 107 (20.50%) SQL
4 95 (18.20%) Bash
5 63 (12.07%) Bicep
5 63 (12.07%) Java
6 48 (9.20%) JavaScript
7 33 (6.32%) C#
7 33 (6.32%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.79%) Go
8 25 (4.79%) PL/SQL
8 25 (4.79%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.57%) PHP
10 2 (0.38%) Groovy
10 2 (0.38%) XAML
11 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.19%) LookML
11 1 (0.19%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.39%) Azure Certification
4 43 (8.24%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.02%) Degree
6 17 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.49%) CCNP
9 12 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.15%) RHCE
11 5 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.77%) CISSP
12 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.77%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.57%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.02%) NIST
2 21 (4.02%) QA
3 19 (3.64%) GDPR
4 18 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 17 (3.26%) SOC 2
6 13 (2.49%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.53%) SLA
9 6 (1.15%) GRC
10 4 (0.77%) 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 (30.84%) Docker
2 43 (8.24%) Active Directory
3 27 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (3.07%) Hyper-V
5 16 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.30%) vSphere
7 9 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (1.34%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.15%) NFS
10 3 (0.57%) Firmware
11 2 (0.38%) Ceph
11 2 (0.38%) Lustre
11 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.19%) vCloud
12 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 206 (39.46%) Kubernetes
2 125 (23.95%) Ansible
3 81 (15.52%) Grafana
4 55 (10.54%) Prometheus
5 29 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (3.26%) Argo
8 8 (1.53%) SCOM
9 5 (0.96%) Cilium
10 4 (0.77%) 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%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.66%) VMware
3 34 (6.51%) Oracle
4 31 (5.94%) Cisco
5 27 (5.17%) Google
6 19 (3.64%) Databricks
6 19 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.07%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.87%) Okta
9 11 (2.11%) Splunk
10 9 (1.72%) SolarWinds
11 8 (1.53%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.53%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.34%) Aruba
12 7 (1.34%) Commvault
12 7 (1.34%) F5
12 7 (1.34%) New Relic
12 7 (1.34%) Pure Storage
13 6 (1.15%) Rollbar
13 6 (1.15%) SonicWALL