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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 65 72
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -22
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 643 813 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.96% 4.94% 3.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.10% 40.49% 33.58%
Number of salaries quoted 453 420 812
10th Percentile £50,625 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £93,750
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 1,832 2,008 3,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.44% 12.19% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 1,153 2,253
10th Percentile £36,875 £35,150 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £77,625 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,550 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 24 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 22 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.49%) Apache
4 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.78%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.16%) 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
2 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Magento
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 401 (62.36%) AWS
2 360 (55.99%) Azure
3 174 (27.06%) GCP
4 106 (16.49%) GitHub
5 100 (15.55%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (14.62%) Amazon EKS
7 92 (14.31%) SaaS
8 91 (14.15%) Serverless
9 80 (12.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (10.73%) PaaS
11 62 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (8.71%) Amazon S3
13 50 (7.78%) Azure AKS
14 47 (7.31%) IaaS
15 46 (7.15%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
17 41 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
19 38 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (4.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (8.09%) Firewall
2 45 (7.00%) VPN
3 36 (5.60%) TCP/IP
4 33 (5.13%) DNS
5 18 (2.80%) DHCP
6 17 (2.64%) LAN
7 16 (2.49%) WAN
8 10 (1.56%) Network Security
9 8 (1.24%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.24%) VLAN
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.93%) HTTP
10 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.93%) WebEx
10 6 (0.93%) Wireless
11 5 (0.78%) BGP
11 5 (0.78%) MQTT
11 5 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.58%) Metadata
5 20 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.64%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.33%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.18%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (2.02%) Redis
10 12 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.71%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.71%) Power BI
12 10 (1.56%) Big Data
12 10 (1.56%) Data Vault
12 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (12.60%) Git
2 57 (8.86%) GitLab
3 52 (8.09%) TeamCity
4 45 (7.00%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.56%) JIRA
7 9 (1.40%) JMeter
8 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.78%) Locust
8 5 (0.78%) Selenium
9 3 (0.47%) MLflow
9 3 (0.47%) Postman
9 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.47%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.31%) Maven
10 2 (0.31%) NUnit
10 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 156 (24.26%) Finance
2 147 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 106 (16.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (14.77%) Law
5 87 (13.53%) Banking
6 74 (11.51%) Retail
7 68 (10.58%) Public Sector
8 44 (6.84%) Back Office
8 44 (6.84%) Financial Institution
9 43 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.40%) Marketing
12 8 (1.24%) Legal
13 7 (1.09%) Billing
13 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.78%) Aviation
15 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 180 (27.99%) Senior
2 104 (16.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 97 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 96 (14.93%) Lead
5 84 (13.06%) Software Engineer
6 80 (12.44%) Platform Engineer
7 75 (11.66%) Azure Engineer
8 52 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (7.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 46 (7.15%) Senior DevOps
10 45 (7.00%) Data Engineer
11 41 (6.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 39 (6.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 35 (5.44%) Developer
14 34 (5.29%) Architect
15 27 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (3.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.58%) Python Engineer
18 21 (3.27%) Engineering Manager
19 20 (3.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.55%) React
2 47 (7.31%) Node.js
3 36 (5.60%) Kafka
4 35 (5.44%) REST
5 34 (5.29%) ARM Templates
6 24 (3.73%) Spring
7 20 (3.11%) PySpark
8 19 (2.95%) .NET
9 18 (2.80%) OAuth
9 18 (2.80%) Spring Boot
9 18 (2.80%) YAML
10 16 (2.49%) OpenID
11 15 (2.33%) OAuth2
12 14 (2.18%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.87%) AWS CDK
13 12 (1.87%) Django
13 12 (1.87%) Flask
13 12 (1.87%) NestJS
13 12 (1.87%) RESTful
14 11 (1.71%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 171 (26.59%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 43 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (6.22%) Public Cloud
6 29 (4.51%) Data Centre
7 20 (3.11%) Blog
8 18 (2.80%) Podcast
9 17 (2.64%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.49%) Private Cloud
11 14 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.02%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.02%) Replication
13 12 (1.87%) PKI
14 9 (1.40%) Life Science
15 8 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.24%) Mobile App
16 7 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 123 (19.13%) Linux
2 87 (13.53%) Windows
3 38 (5.91%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.73%) Unix
5 14 (2.18%) VMS
6 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.47%) Android
7 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.47%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.16%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (69.83%) CI/CD
2 426 (66.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 357 (55.52%) DevOps
4 183 (28.46%) Mentoring
5 163 (25.35%) Platform Engineering
6 159 (24.73%) Agile
6 159 (24.73%) Observability
7 158 (24.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 137 (21.31%) Containerisation
9 136 (21.15%) Software Engineering
10 127 (19.75%) AI
11 123 (19.13%) Test Automation
12 115 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (17.11%) Microservices
14 107 (16.64%) Technical Leadership
15 101 (15.71%) Clean Code
16 89 (13.84%) Roadmaps
17 85 (13.22%) Analytics
18 83 (12.91%) Deployment Automation
19 82 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 267 (41.52%) Python
2 127 (19.75%) Java
3 117 (18.20%) PowerShell
4 97 (15.09%) Bicep
5 95 (14.77%) SQL
6 83 (12.91%) Bash
7 42 (6.53%) TypeScript
8 40 (6.22%) Go
9 36 (5.60%) JavaScript
10 30 (4.67%) C#
11 16 (2.49%) Scala
12 13 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.24%) PHP
14 7 (1.09%) Groovy
14 7 (1.09%) Rust
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.47%) Perl
16 3 (0.47%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 100 (15.55%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.51%) Azure Certification
4 51 (7.93%) Degree
5 28 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.87%) CCNP
10 11 (1.71%) SnowPro
11 10 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.09%) CCNA
13 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.78%) CCIE
14 5 (0.78%) LPIC
15 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.62%) MCSE
15 4 (0.62%) VCAP
15 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.89%) QA
3 14 (2.18%) GDPR
4 12 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.40%) NIST
6 9 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.78%) WCAG
9 4 (0.62%) NCSC
10 3 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) PSD2
12 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 179 (27.84%) Docker
2 60 (9.33%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.89%) vSphere
5 14 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.47%) Firmware
9 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.16%) KVM
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 283 (44.01%) Kubernetes
2 131 (20.37%) Ansible
3 107 (16.64%) Grafana
4 40 (6.22%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.67%) Argo
6 18 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.64%) Istio
7 17 (2.64%) Puppet
8 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (2.02%) Packer
9 9 (1.40%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.62%) linkerd
13 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
Vendors
1 147 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.93%) VMware
3 35 (5.44%) Google
4 26 (4.04%) Cisco
5 25 (3.89%) Databricks
6 16 (2.49%) Okta
6 16 (2.49%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.33%) Oracle
8 12 (1.87%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.71%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.71%) Ping Identity
10 9 (1.40%) Informatica
11 8 (1.24%) Confluent
11 8 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.09%) EMC
12 7 (1.09%) F5
12 7 (1.09%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.93%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.93%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.93%) Splunk