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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 525 893 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.42% 4.52% 6.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.17% 36.49% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 342 605 1,151
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £58,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,401 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% - -
75th Percentile £85,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 1,307 2,447 3,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.51% 12.39% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 982 1,421 2,962
10th Percentile £36,525 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £50,500 £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 £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +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 21 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
4 11 (2.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 3 (0.57%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 25 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 336 (64.00%) Azure
2 304 (57.90%) AWS
3 143 (27.24%) Azure DevOps
4 142 (27.05%) GitHub
5 91 (17.33%) GCP
6 88 (16.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (13.33%) Serverless
9 66 (12.57%) SaaS
10 63 (12.00%) Entra ID
11 56 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (9.14%) Azure Monitor
13 46 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
15 38 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 37 (7.05%) OCI
17 33 (6.29%) PaaS
18 32 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
19 30 (5.71%) IaaS
20 29 (5.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 75 (14.29%) Firewall
2 45 (8.57%) VPN
3 40 (7.62%) WAN
4 26 (4.95%) DNS
5 25 (4.76%) LAN
5 25 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.57%) SD-WAN
7 23 (4.38%) Network Security
8 11 (2.10%) BGP
8 11 (2.10%) VLAN
9 8 (1.52%) DHCP
9 8 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.33%) OSPF
10 7 (1.33%) SSL
11 6 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (0.95%) Wireless
13 4 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.76%) IPsec
13 4 (0.76%) SAN
13 4 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (4.95%) SQL Server
4 23 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (3.81%) MySQL
5 20 (3.81%) Power BI
6 19 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (3.43%) NoSQL
8 17 (3.24%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.24%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.05%) Tableau
10 14 (2.67%) Redis
11 10 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.33%) Metadata
13 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.95%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.76%) DataStage
15 4 (0.76%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 83 (15.81%) Jenkins
2 56 (10.67%) Git
3 39 (7.43%) GitLab
4 30 (5.71%) TeamCity
5 25 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
6 21 (4.00%) 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%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.38%) git-flow
11 2 (0.38%) JMeter
11 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 155 (29.52%) Finance
2 118 (22.48%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.05%) Banking
4 36 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.86%) Law
5 32 (6.10%) Retail
6 25 (4.76%) Back Office
6 25 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.57%) Financial Institution
8 22 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.24%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.71%) Games
11 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Marketing
13 4 (0.76%) Advertising
13 4 (0.76%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.57%) Electronics
14 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 157 (29.90%) Senior
2 117 (22.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 86 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (9.33%) Lead
6 47 (8.95%) Developer
7 44 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 39 (7.43%) Platform Engineer
9 35 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 29 (5.52%) Software Engineer
11 27 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (4.95%) Applications Engineer
12 26 (4.95%) Architect
12 26 (4.95%) Data Engineer
13 21 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (3.81%) Senior Developer
15 19 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 17 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
18 16 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.67%) .NET
2 43 (8.19%) RESTful
3 31 (5.90%) React
4 30 (5.71%) OAuth
5 26 (4.95%) JSON
6 23 (4.38%) Node.js
6 23 (4.38%) OAuth2
7 19 (3.62%) REST
8 17 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (2.86%) CSS
9 15 (2.86%) HTML
10 14 (2.67%) SAML
10 14 (2.67%) SOAP
10 14 (2.67%) Vue
10 14 (2.67%) XML
11 13 (2.48%) AngularJS
11 13 (2.48%) ARM Templates
11 13 (2.48%) Django
12 10 (1.90%) AWS CDK
12 10 (1.90%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 121 (23.05%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (5.90%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.14%) Data Centre
6 25 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (4.57%) Onboarding
8 22 (4.19%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (4.00%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.52%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.14%) CMDB
12 6 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.95%) Blog
13 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 96 (18.29%) Linux
2 61 (11.62%) 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
1 352 (67.05%) DevOps
2 338 (64.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 324 (61.71%) CI/CD
4 148 (28.19%) Agile
5 116 (22.10%) Observability
6 111 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (20.19%) Mentoring
8 101 (19.24%) Coaching
9 96 (18.29%) Containerisation
10 91 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (16.76%) Asset Management
12 87 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 83 (15.81%) Analytics
14 76 (14.48%) Test Automation
15 74 (14.10%) AI
16 66 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
17 65 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 64 (12.19%) Cloud Security
19 62 (11.81%) Software Engineering
20 60 (11.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 243 (46.29%) Python
2 125 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 109 (20.76%) SQL
4 97 (18.48%) Bash
5 67 (12.76%) Bicep
6 61 (11.62%) Java
7 48 (9.14%) JavaScript
8 33 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 32 (6.10%) C#
10 25 (4.76%) Go
10 25 (4.76%) PL/SQL
10 25 (4.76%) Shell Script
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 70 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.33%) Azure Certification
4 43 (8.19%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.38%) Degree
6 17 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.67%) CCNP
8 14 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 12 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.14%) RHCE
11 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.76%) CISSP
12 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.76%) 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 28 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.62%) GDPR
2 19 (3.62%) NIST
3 18 (3.43%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.43%) QA
4 17 (3.24%) SOC 2
5 13 (2.48%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.52%) SLA
8 6 (1.14%) GRC
9 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.19%) MiFID
11 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 162 (30.86%) Docker
2 41 (7.81%) 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
2 127 (24.19%) Ansible
3 81 (15.43%) Grafana
4 55 (10.48%) Prometheus
5 29 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (4.95%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (3.24%) 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%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.62%) VMware
3 34 (6.48%) Oracle
4 32 (6.10%) Cisco
5 26 (4.95%) Google
6 20 (3.81%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.62%) Databricks
8 17 (3.24%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.86%) Okta
10 12 (2.29%) Splunk
11 9 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.71%) SolarWinds
12 8 (1.52%) Ab Initio
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%) PagerDuty