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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 68 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -24
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 654 816 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.04% 4.94% 3.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.80% 40.48% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 449 425 852
10th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £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 1,827 2,016 3,236
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.49% 12.20% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,352 1,162 2,394
10th Percentile £36,775 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,938 £48,165 £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 £77,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,335 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.02% +4.00% -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 20 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 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.45%) Apache
4 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.76%) Confluence
5 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.31%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 415 (63.46%) AWS
2 354 (54.13%) Azure
3 175 (26.76%) GCP
4 109 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 107 (16.36%) GitHub
6 102 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (14.83%) SaaS
8 90 (13.76%) Serverless
9 82 (12.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (10.70%) PaaS
11 64 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.87%) Amazon S3
13 52 (7.95%) Azure AKS
14 50 (7.65%) IaaS
15 45 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
17 41 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
18 37 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 30 (4.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (9.33%) Firewall
2 48 (7.34%) VPN
3 34 (5.20%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.59%) DNS
5 18 (2.75%) LAN
6 17 (2.60%) WAN
7 15 (2.29%) DHCP
8 10 (1.53%) VLAN
8 10 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.38%) Network Security
9 9 (1.38%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.22%) Broadband
10 8 (1.22%) NGFW
11 7 (1.07%) BGP
11 7 (1.07%) VXLAN
11 7 (1.07%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (4.28%) Relational Database
4 24 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (3.21%) Metadata
6 20 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.29%) BigQuery
8 15 (2.29%) NoSQL
9 14 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.14%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.99%) Redis
11 11 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.68%) Power BI
12 10 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.38%) MySQL
14 8 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 80 (12.23%) Git
2 61 (9.33%) TeamCity
3 57 (8.72%) GitLab
4 46 (7.03%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.53%) JIRA
7 9 (1.38%) JMeter
8 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.76%) Jaeger
8 5 (0.76%) Locust
8 5 (0.76%) Selenium
9 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.46%) Maven
10 3 (0.46%) MLflow
10 3 (0.46%) Postman
10 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.31%) MSI
11 2 (0.31%) NUnit
11 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 160 (24.46%) Finance
2 144 (22.02%) Social Skills
3 122 (18.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (16.51%) Law
5 99 (15.14%) Banking
6 86 (13.15%) Retail
7 73 (11.16%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.80%) Back Office
8 51 (7.80%) Financial Institution
9 46 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.38%) Billing
12 7 (1.07%) Legal
12 7 (1.07%) Marketing
12 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.92%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.76%) Aviation
14 5 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.61%) Advertising
15 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (26.76%) Senior
2 104 (15.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 101 (15.44%) Lead
4 97 (14.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 87 (13.30%) Software Engineer
6 83 (12.69%) Platform Engineer
7 76 (11.62%) Azure Engineer
8 57 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (7.19%) Senior DevOps
10 44 (6.73%) Data Engineer
11 41 (6.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 39 (5.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 36 (5.50%) Developer
14 33 (5.05%) Architect
15 28 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (3.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.21%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.21%) Python Engineer
17 21 (3.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.56%) React
2 46 (7.03%) Node.js
3 37 (5.66%) Kafka
4 35 (5.35%) ARM Templates
5 33 (5.05%) REST
6 24 (3.67%) Spring
7 19 (2.91%) YAML
8 18 (2.75%) .NET
8 18 (2.75%) PySpark
8 18 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 15 (2.29%) AWS CDK
9 15 (2.29%) OAuth
10 14 (2.14%) RESTful
11 13 (1.99%) AngularJS
11 13 (1.99%) OpenID
11 13 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.83%) Django
12 12 (1.83%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.83%) Flask
12 12 (1.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 185 (28.29%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.88%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (6.27%) Public Cloud
6 36 (5.50%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.28%) Blog
8 18 (2.75%) Podcast
9 17 (2.60%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.60%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.45%) PKI
11 14 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.99%) Replication
13 10 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.38%) Life Science
15 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.22%) Mobile App
16 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 127 (19.42%) Linux
2 84 (12.84%) Windows
3 35 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.13%) Unix
5 14 (2.14%) VMS
6 4 (0.61%) Android
6 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (68.96%) CI/CD
2 428 (65.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 365 (55.81%) DevOps
4 191 (29.20%) Mentoring
5 170 (25.99%) Platform Engineering
6 160 (24.46%) Agile
7 157 (24.01%) Observability
8 155 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (21.56%) Containerisation
10 137 (20.95%) Software Engineering
11 132 (20.18%) Test Automation
12 121 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (18.04%) AI
14 114 (17.43%) Microservices
15 105 (16.06%) Clean Code
16 101 (15.44%) Technical Leadership
17 91 (13.91%) Deployment Automation
18 89 (13.61%) Roadmaps
19 83 (12.69%) Analytics
20 81 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 274 (41.90%) Python
2 143 (21.87%) Java
3 114 (17.43%) PowerShell
4 93 (14.22%) Bicep
5 92 (14.07%) SQL
6 86 (13.15%) Bash
7 47 (7.19%) Go
8 44 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 41 (6.27%) JavaScript
10 30 (4.59%) C#
11 15 (2.29%) Scala
12 13 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.22%) Groovy
13 8 (1.22%) PHP
14 7 (1.07%) Rust
15 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 95 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.55%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.34%) Degree
5 26 (3.98%) AWS Certification
5 26 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.83%) CCNP
9 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.38%) SnowPro
10 7 (1.07%) CCNA
11 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.76%) CCIE
12 5 (0.76%) LPIC
13 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.61%) MCSE
13 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.67%) QA
3 16 (2.45%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.29%) GDPR
5 12 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.68%) NIST
7 7 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.76%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
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%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 176 (26.91%) Docker
2 55 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.82%) vSphere
5 14 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.92%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 297 (45.41%) Kubernetes
2 140 (21.41%) Ansible
3 116 (17.74%) Grafana
4 46 (7.03%) Prometheus
5 35 (5.35%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.75%) Puppet
8 16 (2.45%) Istio
9 13 (1.99%) Packer
10 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.53%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.76%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.76%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.46%) linkerd
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.10%) VMware
3 37 (5.66%) Google
4 27 (4.13%) Cisco
5 22 (3.36%) Databricks
6 16 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.29%) Oracle
8 14 (2.14%) Okta
9 12 (1.83%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.68%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.38%) Ping Identity
12 8 (1.22%) Arista
12 8 (1.22%) Confluent
12 8 (1.22%) F5
12 8 (1.22%) Informatica
13 7 (1.07%) Aruba
13 7 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.07%) EMC
13 7 (1.07%) NetScout
13 7 (1.07%) ServiceNow