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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 55 77
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 659 848 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 5.79% 3.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.03% 40.87% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 432 451 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 £78,810 £71,746
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +9.85% -4.34%
75th Percentile £86,251 £99,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.66% +4.14% -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 1,568 2,075 3,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.18% 14.17% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 1,194 2,907
10th Percentile £36,950 £36,500 £36,900
25th Percentile £47,092 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £67,626 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% +5.67% -8.57%
75th Percentile £79,557 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,626 £61,000
% change year-on-year -3.88% +10.86% -9.63%

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 29 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 18 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.43%) Apache
2 16 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.06%) Confluence
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Camunda
5 2 (0.30%) IIS
5 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.30%) WordPress
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 409 (62.06%) AWS
2 341 (51.75%) Azure
3 163 (24.73%) GCP
4 121 (18.36%) Amazon EKS
5 117 (17.75%) GitHub
6 111 (16.84%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (14.57%) SaaS
8 72 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
9 71 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 67 (10.17%) Serverless
11 59 (8.95%) Amazon S3
12 52 (7.89%) Azure AKS
13 48 (7.28%) PaaS
14 47 (7.13%) Amazon EC2
15 44 (6.68%) Azure Monitor
16 42 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
18 36 (5.46%) IaaS
19 34 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
20 33 (5.01%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.23%) Firewall
2 33 (5.01%) DNS
3 28 (4.25%) VPN
4 25 (3.79%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.03%) Broadband
6 18 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.58%) LAN
8 16 (2.43%) NGFW
8 16 (2.43%) WAN
9 15 (2.28%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.28%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.97%) DHCP
11 12 (1.82%) Network Security
12 10 (1.52%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.52%) VLAN
13 6 (0.91%) BGP
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.91%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.46%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (4.86%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.73%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.58%) Metadata
10 15 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.28%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.97%) Redis
12 11 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 80 (12.14%) Git
2 67 (10.17%) GitLab
3 59 (8.95%) TeamCity
4 43 (6.53%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.73%) Jaeger
6 15 (2.28%) JIRA
7 11 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.06%) JMeter
9 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.76%) Locust
10 5 (0.76%) Selenium
10 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.76%) Storybook
11 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.61%) MLflow
12 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 166 (25.19%) Finance
2 120 (18.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 116 (17.60%) Social Skills
4 103 (15.63%) Banking
5 94 (14.26%) Law
6 91 (13.81%) Retail
7 83 (12.59%) Public Sector
8 49 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (7.44%) Back Office
8 49 (7.44%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.73%) Billing
10 13 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.37%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.21%) Aviation
13 8 (1.21%) Legal
14 6 (0.91%) Marketing
14 6 (0.91%) Military
14 6 (0.91%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 163 (24.73%) Senior
2 118 (17.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 112 (17.00%) Lead
4 105 (15.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (12.75%) Software Engineer
6 82 (12.44%) Azure Engineer
7 80 (12.14%) Platform Engineer
8 63 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
9 55 (8.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 50 (7.59%) Data Engineer
11 45 (6.83%) Senior DevOps
12 43 (6.53%) Developer
13 39 (5.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 36 (5.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 23 (3.49%) Team Leader
17 22 (3.34%) Java Engineer
18 20 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
18 20 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 19 (2.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.65%) React
2 53 (8.04%) Node.js
3 42 (6.37%) Kafka
4 34 (5.16%) Spring
5 28 (4.25%) REST
6 26 (3.95%) .NET
6 26 (3.95%) ARM Templates
7 25 (3.79%) Spring Boot
8 24 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (3.64%) RESTful
9 23 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
10 20 (3.03%) PySpark
11 19 (2.88%) YAML
12 16 (2.43%) React Native
13 15 (2.28%) OAuth
14 14 (2.12%) Django
15 13 (1.97%) FastAPI
16 12 (1.82%) Flask
16 12 (1.82%) JSON
16 12 (1.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 162 (24.58%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.53%) Data Centre
3 40 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 38 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 37 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.01%) Blog
7 24 (3.64%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.34%) PKI
9 18 (2.73%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.43%) Mobile App
11 15 (2.28%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.67%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.52%) Replication
14 9 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.06%) CMDB
15 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.91%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 142 (21.55%) Linux
2 74 (11.23%) Windows
3 43 (6.53%) Unix
4 41 (6.22%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.12%) Android
5 14 (2.12%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.91%) Debian
8 5 (0.76%) CentOS
9 4 (0.61%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (64.64%) CI/CD
2 398 (60.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 386 (58.57%) DevOps
4 200 (30.35%) Mentoring
5 192 (29.14%) Agile
6 158 (23.98%) Platform Engineering
7 149 (22.61%) Containerisation
8 143 (21.70%) Observability
9 142 (21.55%) Test Automation
10 133 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (19.27%) Software Engineering
12 118 (17.91%) Microservices
13 113 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (14.42%) Clean Code
15 94 (14.26%) Coaching
15 94 (14.26%) Deployment Automation
16 91 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 84 (12.75%) Roadmaps
18 79 (11.99%) Analytics
19 77 (11.68%) AI
Programming Languages
1 280 (42.49%) Python
2 168 (25.49%) Java
3 92 (13.96%) Bash
4 90 (13.66%) PowerShell
5 73 (11.08%) SQL
6 65 (9.86%) JavaScript
7 64 (9.71%) Go
8 59 (8.95%) Bicep
9 54 (8.19%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.55%) C#
11 22 (3.34%) Scala
12 9 (1.37%) Rust
13 7 (1.06%) PHP
13 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.91%) Perl
15 5 (0.76%) Groovy
16 4 (0.61%) C++
17 2 (0.30%) C
17 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.59%) Degree
4 49 (7.44%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.67%) CCNP
8 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.91%) CCNA
10 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.91%) LPIC
11 5 (0.76%) CCIE
12 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.61%) MCSE
12 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.61%) VCAP
12 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.34%) QA
3 19 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 17 (2.58%) GDPR
5 17 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.28%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.52%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 193 (29.29%) Docker
2 39 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 30 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.28%) vSphere
6 8 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 313 (47.50%) Kubernetes
2 163 (24.73%) Ansible
3 125 (18.97%) Grafana
4 72 (10.93%) Prometheus
5 52 (7.89%) Argo
6 19 (2.88%) Puppet
7 18 (2.73%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.58%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.12%) Packer
10 12 (1.82%) Istio
10 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.37%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.76%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.46%) Control-M
16 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 121 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.04%) Google
3 46 (6.98%) VMware
4 28 (4.25%) Cisco
5 19 (2.88%) Databricks
6 16 (2.43%) Arista
6 16 (2.43%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.28%) Aruba
7 15 (2.28%) NetScout
8 11 (1.67%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.67%) Oracle
9 9 (1.37%) Splunk
10 8 (1.21%) Confluent
10 8 (1.21%) F5
10 8 (1.21%) Okta
10 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.06%) EMC
11 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.91%) NetApp