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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 66 78
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 -28
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 672 827 1,154
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.17% 5.04% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.76% 40.13% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 453 436 921
10th Percentile £47,092 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £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 1,828 2,061 3,482
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.62% 12.56% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,339 1,199 2,614
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,528 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.47% -8.57%
75th Percentile £78,000 £86,250 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £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 9 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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.53%) Apache
4 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.89%) Confluence
6 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
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 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 432 (64.29%) AWS
2 355 (52.83%) Azure
3 169 (25.15%) GCP
4 116 (17.26%) Amazon EKS
5 112 (16.67%) GitHub
6 103 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (14.43%) SaaS
8 89 (13.24%) Serverless
9 82 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (10.42%) PaaS
11 65 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (9.08%) Amazon S3
13 54 (8.04%) Azure AKS
14 51 (7.59%) IaaS
15 47 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
16 44 (6.55%) Azure Monitor
17 39 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 39 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
18 29 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.42%) Firewall
2 47 (6.99%) VPN
3 29 (4.32%) DNS
3 29 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.68%) LAN
4 18 (2.68%) WAN
4 18 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (2.38%) Broadband
5 16 (2.38%) NGFW
6 15 (2.23%) VXLAN
6 15 (2.23%) Wireshark
7 14 (2.08%) DHCP
8 10 (1.49%) Network Security
8 10 (1.49%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.49%) VLAN
9 7 (1.04%) BGP
10 6 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.89%) HTTP
10 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.06%) Relational Database
3 28 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.83%) BigQuery
7 19 (2.83%) Metadata
8 17 (2.53%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.23%) RDBMS
10 14 (2.08%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.93%) Redis
12 11 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.49%) Big Data
13 10 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (11.90%) Git
2 62 (9.23%) TeamCity
3 56 (8.33%) GitLab
4 46 (6.85%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.79%) Jaeger
6 11 (1.64%) JIRA
6 11 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (1.49%) JMeter
8 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.74%) Locust
9 5 (0.74%) Selenium
10 3 (0.45%) Maven
10 3 (0.45%) MLflow
10 3 (0.45%) Postman
10 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.30%) MSI
11 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 162 (24.11%) Finance
2 142 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 131 (19.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (16.37%) Law
5 100 (14.88%) Banking
6 91 (13.54%) Retail
7 83 (12.35%) Public Sector
8 53 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
9 51 (7.59%) Back Office
9 51 (7.59%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.34%) Billing
12 7 (1.04%) Aviation
12 7 (1.04%) Legal
12 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.89%) Legal Technology
13 6 (0.89%) Marketing
14 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.60%) Advertising
15 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (26.04%) Senior
2 108 (16.07%) Lead
3 105 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 100 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (12.80%) Software Engineer
6 84 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
7 74 (11.01%) Azure Engineer
8 60 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (6.85%) Data Engineer
10 46 (6.85%) Senior DevOps
11 40 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 37 (5.51%) Developer
12 37 (5.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.76%) Architect
14 28 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (3.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 22 (3.27%) Java Engineer
15 22 (3.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 21 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.78%) React
2 52 (7.74%) Node.js
3 39 (5.80%) Kafka
4 34 (5.06%) ARM Templates
5 32 (4.76%) REST
6 27 (4.02%) Spring
7 19 (2.83%) Spring Boot
7 19 (2.83%) YAML
8 18 (2.68%) .NET
8 18 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (2.68%) PySpark
9 17 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (2.23%) AngularJS
10 15 (2.23%) AWS CDK
11 13 (1.93%) RESTful
12 12 (1.79%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.79%) Flask
13 11 (1.64%) Django
13 11 (1.64%) OAuth
14 9 (1.34%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 190 (28.27%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.70%) Data Centre
4 42 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 41 (6.10%) Public Cloud
6 38 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (4.61%) Blog
8 22 (3.27%) PKI
9 20 (2.98%) Security Posture
10 18 (2.68%) Podcast
10 18 (2.68%) Private Cloud
11 15 (2.23%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.64%) Replication
14 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.04%) CMDB
16 7 (1.04%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 139 (20.68%) Linux
2 85 (12.65%) Windows
3 36 (5.36%) Unix
4 34 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.08%) VMS
6 8 (1.19%) Android
6 8 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.74%) Debian
9 4 (0.60%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (67.26%) CI/CD
2 434 (64.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 374 (55.65%) DevOps
4 205 (30.51%) Mentoring
5 172 (25.60%) Agile
6 170 (25.30%) Platform Engineering
7 159 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 154 (22.92%) Observability
9 147 (21.88%) Containerisation
10 139 (20.68%) Test Automation
11 134 (19.94%) Software Engineering
12 126 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.26%) AI
14 115 (17.11%) Microservices
15 101 (15.03%) Clean Code
16 99 (14.73%) Technical Leadership
17 96 (14.29%) Roadmaps
18 92 (13.69%) Deployment Automation
19 85 (12.65%) Analytics
20 81 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 286 (42.56%) Python
2 157 (23.36%) Java
3 112 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 96 (14.29%) Bash
5 91 (13.54%) Bicep
5 91 (13.54%) SQL
6 54 (8.04%) Go
7 53 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 51 (7.59%) TypeScript
9 30 (4.46%) C#
10 16 (2.38%) Scala
11 13 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.19%) Groovy
12 8 (1.19%) PHP
12 8 (1.19%) Rust
13 4 (0.60%) Perl
14 3 (0.45%) C++
14 3 (0.45%) Ruby
15 2 (0.30%) C
15 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 86 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 67 (9.97%) Azure Certification
4 49 (7.29%) Degree
5 34 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.79%) CCNP
10 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.19%) SnowPro
12 7 (1.04%) CCNA
13 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.74%) CCIE
14 5 (0.74%) LPIC
15 4 (0.60%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.60%) MCSE
15 4 (0.60%) VCAP
15 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.57%) QA
3 18 (2.68%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.38%) GDPR
5 15 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.93%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.79%) NIST
8 9 (1.34%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.74%) 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
13 1 (0.15%) PSD2
13 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 184 (27.38%) Docker
2 53 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.87%) vSphere
5 16 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.04%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.74%) 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
1 307 (45.68%) Kubernetes
2 160 (23.81%) Ansible
3 120 (17.86%) Grafana
4 56 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.40%) Argo
6 21 (3.13%) Progress Chef
6 21 (3.13%) Puppet
7 16 (2.38%) Istio
8 15 (2.23%) Packer
9 12 (1.79%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.64%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.04%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.45%) linkerd
15 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 140 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.33%) VMware
3 40 (5.95%) Google
4 28 (4.17%) Cisco
5 22 (3.27%) Databricks
6 16 (2.38%) Arista
6 16 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.23%) Aruba
7 15 (2.23%) NetScout
8 14 (2.08%) Oracle
9 12 (1.79%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.64%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.49%) Okta
12 8 (1.19%) Confluent
12 8 (1.19%) F5
12 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.19%) Splunk
13 7 (1.04%) EMC
13 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.89%) Citrix