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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 673 653 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.91% 5.08% 3.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.70% 35.57% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 407 559 1,034
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £51,565
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,509 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,253 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% -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 1,540 1,836 3,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.94% 14.29% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,365 3,042
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,609
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.05% -8.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -11.11%

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 8 April 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 14 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.34%) Apache
3 8 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.19%) Confluence
3 8 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.45%) IIS
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 411 (61.07%) AWS
2 369 (54.83%) Azure
3 174 (25.85%) GCP
4 156 (23.18%) GitHub
5 129 (19.17%) Amazon EKS
6 123 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (15.30%) SaaS
8 96 (14.26%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.10%) Serverless
11 56 (8.32%) Amazon S3
12 45 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 43 (6.39%) dbt
15 42 (6.24%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (5.94%) PaaS
17 38 (5.65%) OCI
18 37 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
19 36 (5.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 90 (13.37%) Firewall
2 36 (5.35%) VPN
3 33 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.46%) DNS
5 21 (3.12%) Broadband
6 19 (2.82%) Network Security
7 18 (2.67%) NGFW
8 17 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (2.23%) VLAN
9 15 (2.23%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.23%) WAN
9 15 (2.23%) Wireshark
10 14 (2.08%) LAN
11 13 (1.93%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.49%) BGP
13 9 (1.34%) DHCP
14 7 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
15 5 (0.74%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.74%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (6.09%) NoSQL
3 36 (5.35%) Relational Database
4 32 (4.75%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.82%) RDBMS
6 19 (2.82%) Redis
7 18 (2.67%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (2.38%) Metadata
10 14 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.78%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.78%) Power BI
12 11 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.63%) MySQL
13 10 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (13.52%) Git
2 65 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.36%) TeamCity
4 60 (8.92%) GitLab
5 22 (3.27%) JIRA
6 19 (2.82%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.49%) JMeter
9 10 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.89%) Locust
10 6 (0.89%) Selenium
10 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.74%) Storybook
12 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 211 (31.35%) Finance
2 136 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 125 (18.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (16.49%) Banking
5 98 (14.56%) Retail
6 95 (14.12%) Law
7 64 (9.51%) Public Sector
8 58 (8.62%) Back Office
8 58 (8.62%) Financial Institution
9 51 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.67%) Billing
12 8 (1.19%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.19%) Marketing
12 8 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.19%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.04%) Legal
13 7 (1.04%) Military
14 5 (0.74%) Aviation
15 4 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 171 (25.41%) Senior
2 123 (18.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 116 (17.24%) Lead
4 85 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (12.04%) Azure Engineer
5 81 (12.04%) Software Engineer
6 70 (10.40%) Platform Engineer
7 68 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 50 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (6.98%) Developer
10 40 (5.94%) Data Engineer
11 33 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 31 (4.61%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 25 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
13 25 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
15 22 (3.27%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (2.97%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.06%) React
2 45 (6.69%) .NET
3 44 (6.54%) RESTful
4 39 (5.79%) Node.js
5 38 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
6 36 (5.35%) Kafka
7 35 (5.20%) OAuth
8 31 (4.61%) Spring
9 27 (4.01%) Django
9 27 (4.01%) REST
10 22 (3.27%) JSON
10 22 (3.27%) OAuth2
10 22 (3.27%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.97%) OpenTelemetry
12 19 (2.82%) ARM Templates
13 18 (2.67%) PySpark
13 18 (2.67%) React Native
14 17 (2.53%) FastAPI
14 17 (2.53%) Flask
14 17 (2.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 173 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.39%) Data Centre
4 42 (6.24%) Product Ownership
5 33 (4.90%) Blog
6 32 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (4.46%) Public Cloud
8 21 (3.12%) PKI
9 20 (2.97%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.82%) Private Cloud
11 17 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.38%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.38%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.34%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.04%) Replication
16 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (20.51%) Linux
2 65 (9.66%) Windows
3 47 (6.98%) Unix
4 37 (5.50%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.23%) Android
5 15 (2.23%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.19%) CentOS
6 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.04%) VMS
8 3 (0.45%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (64.93%) CI/CD
2 410 (60.92%) DevOps
3 403 (59.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 217 (32.24%) Agile
5 186 (27.64%) Mentoring
6 157 (23.33%) Observability
7 149 (22.14%) Containerisation
8 145 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 134 (19.91%) Test Automation
10 133 (19.76%) Software Engineering
11 130 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (19.17%) Platform Engineering
13 123 (18.28%) Coaching
14 110 (16.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 103 (15.30%) Deployment Automation
16 94 (13.97%) Microservices
17 93 (13.82%) Clean Code
18 85 (12.63%) Analytics
19 79 (11.74%) Roadmaps
20 73 (10.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 301 (44.73%) Python
2 159 (23.63%) Java
3 103 (15.30%) SQL
4 95 (14.12%) Bash
5 90 (13.37%) PowerShell
6 77 (11.44%) JavaScript
7 69 (10.25%) Go
8 67 (9.96%) Bicep
9 50 (7.43%) TypeScript
10 32 (4.75%) C#
11 19 (2.82%) Scala
12 17 (2.53%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.04%) Rust
14 6 (0.89%) Perl
15 4 (0.59%) PHP
16 3 (0.45%) Groovy
17 2 (0.30%) C++
17 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.02%) Degree
4 44 (6.54%) Azure Certification
5 43 (6.39%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.49%) CCNP
11 8 (1.19%) LPIC
12 6 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.74%) CCNA
13 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.74%) MCSE
13 5 (0.74%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.59%) VCAP
15 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.46%) PCI DSS
3 28 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.16%) QA
4 27 (4.01%) SOC 2
5 24 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 23 (3.42%) GDPR
7 16 (2.38%) NIST
8 8 (1.19%) SLA
9 7 (1.04%) GRC
10 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.74%) WCAG
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 218 (32.39%) Docker
2 29 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.38%) vSphere
5 10 (1.49%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
9 3 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.30%) Ceph
10 2 (0.30%) Lustre
10 2 (0.30%) vCloud
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 312 (46.36%) Kubernetes
2 169 (25.11%) Ansible
3 141 (20.95%) Grafana
4 90 (13.37%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.65%) Argo
6 20 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.82%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.53%) Puppet
9 11 (1.63%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.49%) Packer
11 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.19%) Istio
12 8 (1.19%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.59%) Cilium
14 4 (0.59%) logstash
14 4 (0.59%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.47%) Google
3 46 (6.84%) VMware
4 29 (4.31%) Cisco
5 23 (3.42%) Oracle
6 22 (3.27%) Databricks
7 21 (3.12%) Splunk
8 18 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.38%) Arista
10 15 (2.23%) Aruba
10 15 (2.23%) NetScout
11 13 (1.93%) Okta
12 12 (1.78%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.49%) Ab Initio
14 9 (1.34%) New Relic
15 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.19%) Confluent
15 8 (1.19%) F5
16 7 (1.04%) EMC
17 6 (0.89%) NetApp