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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 53 80
Rank change year-on-year -15 +27 -22
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 653 878 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.48% 5.86% 3.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.71% 40.59% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 410 479 1,022
10th Percentile £47,092 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%
75th Percentile £86,253 £103,875 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

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 1,529 2,163 3,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 14.43% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,270 2,931
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,225 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,165 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,563 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +5.57% -8.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 May 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 16 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.14%) Apache
2 14 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.07%) Confluence
4 6 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.84%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 390 (59.72%) AWS
2 355 (54.36%) Azure
3 156 (23.89%) GCP
4 134 (20.52%) GitHub
5 120 (18.38%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (18.07%) Amazon EKS
7 91 (13.94%) SaaS
8 82 (12.56%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (9.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (9.80%) Serverless
11 54 (8.27%) Amazon S3
12 46 (7.04%) Azure AKS
13 44 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
14 41 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (6.28%) PaaS
15 38 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (4.75%) Entra ID
17 30 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (4.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 73 (11.18%) Firewall
2 37 (5.67%) DNS
3 28 (4.29%) VPN
4 24 (3.68%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.91%) Broadband
6 18 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.60%) LAN
8 16 (2.45%) NGFW
8 16 (2.45%) WAN
9 15 (2.30%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.30%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.99%) DHCP
11 12 (1.84%) Network Security
12 10 (1.53%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.53%) VLAN
13 6 (0.92%) BGP
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.05%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (4.75%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.91%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.76%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.76%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.60%) Metadata
10 15 (2.30%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.30%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.68%) Redis
13 10 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.07%) Flink
Development Applications
1 84 (12.86%) Git
2 67 (10.26%) GitLab
3 58 (8.88%) TeamCity
4 46 (7.04%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.76%) Jaeger
5 18 (2.76%) JIRA
6 12 (1.84%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (1.23%) JMeter
9 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.92%) Locust
9 6 (0.92%) Selenium
9 6 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.77%) Storybook
11 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.61%) MLflow
12 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
General
1 179 (27.41%) Finance
2 120 (18.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 114 (17.46%) Social Skills
4 102 (15.62%) Banking
5 91 (13.94%) Law
5 91 (13.94%) Retail
6 79 (12.10%) Public Sector
7 48 (7.35%) Back Office
7 48 (7.35%) Financial Institution
8 47 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (2.76%) Billing
10 13 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.38%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.23%) Legal
14 6 (0.92%) Aviation
14 6 (0.92%) Marketing
14 6 (0.92%) Military
14 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 170 (26.03%) Senior
2 119 (18.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 116 (17.76%) Lead
4 97 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (12.71%) Azure Engineer
6 80 (12.25%) Software Engineer
7 76 (11.64%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (8.12%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (7.35%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.58%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.43%) Developer
13 35 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 34 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 24 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (3.52%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.22%) Java Engineer
19 20 (3.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
20 19 (2.91%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.27%) React
2 50 (7.66%) Node.js
3 43 (6.58%) Kafka
4 34 (5.21%) RESTful
5 33 (5.05%) Spring
6 29 (4.44%) .NET
7 26 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (3.83%) REST
8 25 (3.83%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.52%) OAuth
9 23 (3.52%) OpenTelemetry
10 21 (3.22%) ARM Templates
11 19 (2.91%) YAML
12 18 (2.76%) PySpark
13 17 (2.60%) JSON
14 16 (2.45%) React Native
15 14 (2.14%) Django
15 14 (2.14%) OAuth2
16 12 (1.84%) ADO
16 12 (1.84%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 154 (23.58%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.43%) Data Centre
3 40 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.05%) Blog
7 23 (3.52%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.37%) PKI
9 18 (2.76%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.45%) Mobile App
10 16 (2.45%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.84%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.53%) Replication
15 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.07%) CMDB
16 6 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.92%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.29%) Linux
2 76 (11.64%) Windows
3 44 (6.74%) Unix
4 43 (6.58%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.14%) Android
5 14 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.92%) Debian
9 5 (0.77%) CentOS
10 4 (0.61%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (64.78%) CI/CD
2 384 (58.81%) DevOps
3 380 (58.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (31.39%) Mentoring
5 204 (31.24%) Agile
6 152 (23.28%) Platform Engineering
7 148 (22.66%) Test Automation
8 141 (21.59%) Containerisation
8 141 (21.59%) Observability
9 135 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 125 (19.14%) Software Engineering
11 118 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
12 116 (17.76%) Coaching
13 113 (17.30%) Microservices
14 99 (15.16%) Deployment Automation
15 98 (15.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 95 (14.55%) Clean Code
17 87 (13.32%) Roadmaps
18 79 (12.10%) Analytics
19 73 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 281 (43.03%) Python
2 171 (26.19%) Java
3 84 (12.86%) PowerShell
4 80 (12.25%) Bash
4 80 (12.25%) SQL
5 66 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 60 (9.19%) Go
7 55 (8.42%) Bicep
8 50 (7.66%) TypeScript
9 30 (4.59%) C#
10 22 (3.37%) Scala
11 13 (1.99%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.38%) Rust
13 7 (1.07%) Perl
13 7 (1.07%) PHP
14 5 (0.77%) Groovy
15 4 (0.61%) C++
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 79 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.81%) Degree
4 49 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 37 (5.67%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.68%) CCNP
8 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.07%) LPIC
11 6 (0.92%) CCNA
11 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.77%) CCIE
13 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.61%) MCSE
13 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.61%) VCAP
13 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.68%) QA
3 22 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.22%) GDPR
5 18 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.76%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.30%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.53%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 191 (29.25%) Docker
2 39 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 28 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.30%) vSphere
5 8 (1.23%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.46%) Firmware
9 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 303 (46.40%) Kubernetes
2 161 (24.66%) Ansible
3 123 (18.84%) Grafana
4 71 (10.87%) Prometheus
5 49 (7.50%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Puppet
7 18 (2.76%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (2.14%) Packer
10 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.53%) Istio
12 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.61%) logstash
15 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.50%) Google
3 44 (6.74%) VMware
4 28 (4.29%) Cisco
5 19 (2.91%) Databricks
6 16 (2.45%) Arista
6 16 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.30%) Aruba
7 15 (2.30%) NetScout
7 15 (2.30%) Oracle
8 11 (1.68%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.68%) Okta
9 10 (1.53%) Splunk
10 8 (1.23%) Confluent
10 8 (1.23%) F5
10 8 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.07%) EMC
11 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.07%) Salesforce