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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 63 79
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 -27
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 663 826 1,164
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 5.20% 3.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.52% 40.43% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 446 435 938
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +3.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 1,721 2,043 3,556
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.31% 12.86% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 1,182 2,689
10th Percentile £37,025 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,745 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £86,438 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 1 July 2026.

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 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.56%) Apache
4 13 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.90%) Confluence
6 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 422 (63.65%) AWS
2 346 (52.19%) Azure
3 157 (23.68%) GCP
4 116 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
5 115 (17.35%) GitHub
6 105 (15.84%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (14.78%) SaaS
8 88 (13.27%) Serverless
9 82 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.26%) PaaS
11 66 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (9.35%) Amazon S3
13 56 (8.45%) Azure AKS
14 52 (7.84%) IaaS
15 49 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
16 48 (7.24%) Azure Monitor
17 44 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
18 41 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 38 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
20 31 (4.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.71%) Firewall
2 45 (6.79%) VPN
3 29 (4.37%) DNS
4 28 (4.22%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.71%) LAN
5 18 (2.71%) WAN
5 18 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (2.41%) Broadband
6 16 (2.41%) NGFW
7 15 (2.26%) VXLAN
7 15 (2.26%) Wireshark
8 14 (2.11%) DHCP
9 10 (1.51%) Network Security
9 10 (1.51%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.51%) VLAN
10 7 (1.06%) BGP
11 6 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.90%) HTTP
11 6 (0.90%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.98%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 26 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 25 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (3.47%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.87%) BigQuery
9 18 (2.71%) Metadata
10 17 (2.56%) DynamoDB
11 16 (2.41%) Data Lake
12 15 (2.26%) Delta Lake
12 15 (2.26%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.96%) Redis
14 11 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.51%) Big Data
15 10 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 83 (12.52%) Git
2 60 (9.05%) TeamCity
3 59 (8.90%) GitLab
4 46 (6.94%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.81%) Jaeger
5 12 (1.81%) JIRA
6 11 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.21%) JMeter
8 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.75%) Locust
9 5 (0.75%) Selenium
9 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.75%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.45%) MLflow
10 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.30%) Maven
11 2 (0.30%) MSI
11 2 (0.30%) NUnit
11 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 157 (23.68%) Finance
2 137 (20.66%) Social Skills
3 128 (19.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (16.14%) Law
5 96 (14.48%) Banking
6 89 (13.42%) Retail
7 82 (12.37%) Public Sector
8 50 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (7.54%) Back Office
8 50 (7.54%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.81%) Billing
11 7 (1.06%) Aviation
11 7 (1.06%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.06%) Legal
11 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.90%) Legal Technology
12 6 (0.90%) Marketing
13 4 (0.60%) Advertising
13 4 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 168 (25.34%) Senior
2 108 (16.29%) Lead
3 104 (15.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 100 (15.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (12.97%) Platform Engineer
6 80 (12.07%) Software Engineer
7 74 (11.16%) Azure Engineer
8 62 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (7.24%) Data Engineer
9 48 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (6.79%) Senior DevOps
11 41 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 40 (6.03%) Developer
13 36 (5.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 30 (4.52%) Architect
15 27 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.32%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.32%) Team Leader
17 21 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
17 21 (3.17%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.30%) React
2 51 (7.69%) Node.js
3 39 (5.88%) Kafka
4 33 (4.98%) ARM Templates
5 30 (4.52%) Spring
6 29 (4.37%) REST
7 22 (3.32%) Spring Boot
8 19 (2.87%) .NET
8 19 (2.87%) PySpark
8 19 (2.87%) YAML
9 18 (2.71%) OpenTelemetry
10 17 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (2.26%) AWS CDK
12 14 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.11%) RESTful
13 12 (1.81%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.81%) Flask
14 11 (1.66%) Django
15 9 (1.36%) CSS
15 9 (1.36%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 184 (27.75%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (6.94%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.18%) Public Cloud
5 38 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.52%) Blog
7 22 (3.32%) PKI
8 21 (3.17%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.71%) Podcast
9 18 (2.71%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.26%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.66%) Replication
12 9 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.36%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.06%) CMDB
14 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (21.12%) Linux
2 82 (12.37%) Windows
3 36 (5.43%) Unix
4 35 (5.28%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.11%) VMS
6 10 (1.51%) Android
6 10 (1.51%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.75%) Debian
9 4 (0.60%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (67.42%) CI/CD
2 431 (65.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 372 (56.11%) DevOps
4 202 (30.47%) Mentoring
5 173 (26.09%) Agile
6 168 (25.34%) Platform Engineering
7 154 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (23.08%) Observability
9 146 (22.02%) Containerisation
10 135 (20.36%) Test Automation
11 129 (19.46%) Software Engineering
12 119 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (17.65%) Microservices
14 113 (17.04%) AI
15 97 (14.63%) Clean Code
16 95 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (14.18%) Roadmaps
18 90 (13.57%) Deployment Automation
19 87 (13.12%) Analytics
20 79 (11.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 278 (41.93%) Python
2 156 (23.53%) Java
3 104 (15.69%) PowerShell
4 96 (14.48%) Bash
5 89 (13.42%) Bicep
6 88 (13.27%) SQL
7 54 (8.14%) Go
8 53 (7.99%) JavaScript
9 52 (7.84%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.68%) C#
11 17 (2.56%) Scala
12 13 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.21%) Groovy
13 8 (1.21%) PHP
13 8 (1.21%) Rust
14 5 (0.75%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) Ruby
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 87 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 67 (10.11%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.24%) Degree
5 34 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.81%) CCNP
10 10 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.06%) CCNA
11 7 (1.06%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.90%) LPIC
13 5 (0.75%) CCIE
14 4 (0.60%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.60%) MCSE
14 4 (0.60%) VCAP
14 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.17%) QA
3 17 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.41%) GDPR
5 15 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.96%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.66%) NIST
8 10 (1.51%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.75%) WCAG
10 4 (0.60%) NCSC
11 3 (0.45%) SLA
12 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.30%) IFRS
12 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 178 (26.85%) Docker
2 53 (7.99%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.92%) vSphere
5 16 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.06%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.75%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.45%) Firmware
11 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.15%) KVM
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 302 (45.55%) Kubernetes
2 159 (23.98%) Ansible
3 119 (17.95%) Grafana
4 57 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.33%) Argo
6 21 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 20 (3.02%) Puppet
8 16 (2.41%) Istio
9 15 (2.26%) Packer
10 12 (1.81%) Kustomize
10 12 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (1.66%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.06%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.45%) linkerd
16 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 136 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.45%) VMware
3 39 (5.88%) Google
4 28 (4.22%) Cisco
5 23 (3.47%) Databricks
6 16 (2.41%) Arista
6 16 (2.41%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.26%) Aruba
7 15 (2.26%) NetScout
8 12 (1.81%) Oracle
8 12 (1.81%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.66%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.21%) Confluent
10 8 (1.21%) F5
10 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.21%) Splunk
11 7 (1.06%) EMC
11 7 (1.06%) Okta
11 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.90%) NetApp