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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 60 82
Rank change year-on-year -18 +22 -28
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 641 821 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 5.31% 3.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.99% 40.46% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 426 431 950
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,065 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £118,750 £111,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%

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 1,644 2,029 3,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.16% 13.11% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 1,170 2,789
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £49,636 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +4.04% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £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 20 June 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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.65%) Apache
4 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.78%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Magento
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 413 (64.43%) AWS
2 328 (51.17%) Azure
3 152 (23.71%) GCP
4 112 (17.47%) Amazon EKS
5 107 (16.69%) GitHub
6 99 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (14.82%) SaaS
8 81 (12.64%) Serverless
9 77 (12.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
11 59 (9.20%) PaaS
12 58 (9.05%) Amazon S3
13 55 (8.58%) Azure AKS
14 49 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
16 46 (7.18%) IaaS
17 42 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
18 41 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
20 34 (5.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.08%) Firewall
2 37 (5.77%) VPN
3 27 (4.21%) DNS
4 25 (3.90%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.43%) Broadband
6 18 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.65%) LAN
7 17 (2.65%) WAN
8 16 (2.50%) NGFW
9 15 (2.34%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.34%) Wireshark
10 13 (2.03%) DHCP
11 11 (1.72%) Network Security
12 10 (1.56%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.56%) VLAN
13 7 (1.09%) BGP
14 6 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.94%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.94%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.77%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.99%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.59%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (3.28%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.96%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.50%) Metadata
11 15 (2.34%) DynamoDB
12 14 (2.18%) Delta Lake
13 13 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (2.03%) Redis
14 11 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.56%) Big Data
15 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (1.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 77 (12.01%) Git
2 63 (9.83%) GitLab
3 56 (8.74%) TeamCity
4 42 (6.55%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.81%) Jaeger
6 11 (1.72%) JIRA
6 11 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.25%) JMeter
8 6 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.94%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.78%) Locust
9 5 (0.78%) Selenium
9 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.47%) MLflow
10 3 (0.47%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.31%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) MSI
11 2 (0.31%) NUnit
11 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
General
1 142 (22.15%) Finance
2 129 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 126 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 97 (15.13%) Law
5 93 (14.51%) Banking
6 86 (13.42%) Retail
7 81 (12.64%) Public Sector
8 48 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (7.33%) Back Office
9 47 (7.33%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.34%) Billing
11 13 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.40%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.25%) Aviation
14 7 (1.09%) Legal
14 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.94%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.94%) Marketing
15 6 (0.94%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 155 (24.18%) Senior
2 108 (16.85%) Lead
3 103 (16.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 99 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (12.95%) Platform Engineer
6 75 (11.70%) Software Engineer
7 73 (11.39%) Azure Engineer
8 62 (9.67%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (7.49%) Data Engineer
10 45 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.86%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (6.40%) Developer
13 40 (6.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 35 (5.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (4.06%) Architect
16 25 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (3.59%) Team Leader
18 22 (3.43%) Java Engineer
19 21 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
19 21 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.80%) React
2 48 (7.49%) Node.js
3 39 (6.08%) Kafka
4 32 (4.99%) Spring
5 29 (4.52%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.37%) REST
7 24 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 24 (3.74%) Spring Boot
8 23 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.96%) .NET
10 18 (2.81%) PySpark
10 18 (2.81%) YAML
11 14 (2.18%) RESTful
12 12 (1.87%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.87%) AWS CDK
12 12 (1.87%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.87%) Flask
13 11 (1.72%) Django
14 10 (1.56%) React Native
15 8 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 170 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.02%) Data Centre
2 45 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.46%) Public Cloud
5 34 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (4.52%) Blog
7 22 (3.43%) PKI
8 19 (2.96%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.81%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.18%) Podcast
11 11 (1.72%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.56%) Replication
13 8 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.09%) CMDB
15 6 (0.94%) CUDA
15 6 (0.94%) FlexPod
15 6 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 143 (22.31%) Linux
2 78 (12.17%) Windows
3 42 (6.55%) Unix
4 36 (5.62%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.87%) Android
5 12 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.56%) VMS
7 7 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.78%) Debian
9 4 (0.62%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.16%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (65.99%) CI/CD
2 410 (63.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 363 (56.63%) DevOps
4 192 (29.95%) Mentoring
5 176 (27.46%) Agile
6 157 (24.49%) Platform Engineering
7 147 (22.93%) Containerisation
8 145 (22.62%) Observability
9 139 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 130 (20.28%) Test Automation
11 120 (18.72%) Software Engineering
12 114 (17.78%) Microservices
13 106 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (15.29%) AI
15 93 (14.51%) Roadmaps
16 92 (14.35%) Clean Code
17 85 (13.26%) Deployment Automation
18 83 (12.95%) Technical Leadership
19 80 (12.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 78 (12.17%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 270 (42.12%) Python
2 160 (24.96%) Java
3 97 (15.13%) Bash
4 95 (14.82%) PowerShell
5 79 (12.32%) SQL
6 76 (11.86%) Bicep
7 58 (9.05%) Go
8 56 (8.74%) JavaScript
9 50 (7.80%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.68%) C#
11 16 (2.50%) Scala
12 9 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.25%) Rust
14 7 (1.09%) Groovy
14 7 (1.09%) PHP
15 5 (0.78%) Perl
16 3 (0.47%) C++
16 3 (0.47%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 90 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 62 (9.67%) Azure Certification
4 46 (7.18%) Degree
5 39 (6.08%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.72%) CCNP
10 10 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.94%) CCNA
11 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.94%) LPIC
12 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.78%) CCIE
13 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.62%) MCSE
13 4 (0.62%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.62%) VCAP
13 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.28%) QA
3 16 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.18%) GDPR
6 13 (2.03%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.56%) NIST
9 5 (0.78%) WCAG
10 4 (0.62%) NCSC
11 3 (0.47%) SLA
12 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.31%) IFRS
12 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.16%) GRC
13 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 183 (28.55%) Docker
2 47 (7.33%) Active Directory
3 37 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.43%) vSphere
5 16 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.78%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.47%) Firmware
11 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.16%) KVM
12 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 299 (46.65%) Kubernetes
2 167 (26.05%) Ansible
3 118 (18.41%) Grafana
4 66 (10.30%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.49%) Argo
6 20 (3.12%) Progress Chef
6 20 (3.12%) Puppet
7 18 (2.81%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.34%) Istio
8 15 (2.34%) Packer
9 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.72%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.09%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.47%) linkerd
15 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 126 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.11%) VMware
3 47 (7.33%) Google
4 28 (4.37%) Cisco
5 22 (3.43%) Databricks
6 16 (2.50%) Arista
6 16 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.34%) Aruba
7 15 (2.34%) NetScout
8 11 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.40%) Oracle
10 8 (1.25%) Confluent
10 8 (1.25%) F5
10 8 (1.25%) ScienceLogic
10 8 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.25%) Splunk
11 7 (1.09%) EMC
11 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.94%) NetApp