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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 55 79
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 683 663 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.92% 5.05% 3.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.89% 36.43% 32.09%
Number of salaries quoted 415 559 1,026
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,554 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,471 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,253 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,556 1,820 3,752
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.92% 13.85% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,369 3,040
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,850 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 14 April 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 15 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.46%) Apache
3 9 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.17%) Confluence
4 8 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.34%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 414 (60.61%) AWS
2 373 (54.61%) Azure
3 176 (25.77%) GCP
4 153 (22.40%) GitHub
5 132 (19.33%) Amazon EKS
6 124 (18.16%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (15.23%) SaaS
8 96 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
9 84 (12.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (9.96%) Serverless
11 56 (8.20%) Amazon S3
12 47 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 42 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
14 42 (6.15%) dbt
15 41 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (5.86%) PaaS
17 38 (5.56%) OCI
18 36 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
19 35 (5.12%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 91 (13.32%) Firewall
2 36 (5.27%) VPN
3 33 (4.83%) TCP/IP
4 31 (4.54%) DNS
5 21 (3.07%) Broadband
6 19 (2.78%) Network Security
7 18 (2.64%) NGFW
8 17 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (2.34%) WAN
10 15 (2.20%) LAN
10 15 (2.20%) VXLAN
10 15 (2.20%) Wireshark
11 14 (2.05%) VLAN
12 13 (1.90%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.46%) BGP
13 10 (1.46%) DHCP
14 7 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
15 5 (0.73%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.73%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.12%) Relational Database
4 32 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 17 (2.49%) BigQuery
6 17 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (2.49%) Redis
7 16 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (2.20%) Metadata
9 14 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.76%) MongoDB
12 11 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.61%) MySQL
12 11 (1.61%) Power BI
13 10 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 90 (13.18%) Git
2 66 (9.66%) GitLab
3 63 (9.22%) TeamCity
4 61 (8.93%) Jenkins
5 22 (3.22%) JIRA
6 19 (2.78%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.46%) JMeter
9 10 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.88%) Locust
10 6 (0.88%) Selenium
10 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.73%) Storybook
12 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 211 (30.89%) Finance
2 139 (20.35%) Social Skills
3 128 (18.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (16.25%) Banking
5 99 (14.49%) Retail
6 97 (14.20%) Law
7 69 (10.10%) Public Sector
8 60 (8.78%) Back Office
8 60 (8.78%) Financial Institution
9 51 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.64%) Billing
12 9 (1.32%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.17%) Marketing
13 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.17%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.02%) Legal
14 7 (1.02%) Military
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
16 4 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 178 (26.06%) Senior
2 122 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 116 (16.98%) Lead
4 88 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (12.15%) Software Engineer
6 82 (12.01%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (10.54%) Platform Engineer
8 71 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 50 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
10 45 (6.59%) Developer
11 41 (6.00%) Data Engineer
12 34 (4.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 31 (4.54%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 28 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (3.51%) Lead DevOps
17 23 (3.37%) Java Engineer
18 20 (2.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
18 20 (2.93%) Java Software Engineer
18 20 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.64%) React
2 44 (6.44%) .NET
2 44 (6.44%) RESTful
3 42 (6.15%) Node.js
4 37 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (5.42%) Kafka
5 35 (5.12%) OAuth
6 30 (4.39%) Spring
7 25 (3.66%) Django
7 25 (3.66%) REST
8 22 (3.22%) OAuth2
9 21 (3.07%) JSON
9 21 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (3.07%) Spring Boot
10 19 (2.78%) ARM Templates
11 18 (2.64%) PySpark
11 18 (2.64%) React Native
12 17 (2.49%) OpenAPI
12 17 (2.49%) Swagger
13 16 (2.34%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 177 (25.92%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.30%) Data Centre
2 43 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
2 43 (6.30%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (4.83%) Blog
5 30 (4.39%) Public Cloud
6 22 (3.22%) PKI
7 20 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.78%) Private Cloud
9 18 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.49%) Mobile App
10 17 (2.49%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.02%) Replication
14 7 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (20.20%) Linux
2 68 (9.96%) Windows
3 49 (7.17%) Unix
4 38 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.34%) Android
5 16 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.02%) CentOS
6 7 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.02%) VMS
7 3 (0.44%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (65.01%) CI/CD
2 411 (60.18%) DevOps
3 409 (59.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 220 (32.21%) Agile
5 195 (28.55%) Mentoring
6 159 (23.28%) Observability
7 150 (21.96%) Containerisation
8 145 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 139 (20.35%) Test Automation
10 136 (19.91%) Software Engineering
11 133 (19.47%) Platform Engineering
11 133 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (18.89%) Coaching
13 114 (16.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 104 (15.23%) Deployment Automation
15 98 (14.35%) Microservices
16 94 (13.76%) Clean Code
17 86 (12.59%) Analytics
18 80 (11.71%) Roadmaps
19 77 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 300 (43.92%) Python
2 163 (23.87%) Java
3 102 (14.93%) SQL
4 94 (13.76%) Bash
5 89 (13.03%) PowerShell
6 75 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 70 (10.25%) Go
8 65 (9.52%) Bicep
9 50 (7.32%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.54%) C#
11 19 (2.78%) Scala
12 17 (2.49%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.49%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.17%) Rust
14 6 (0.88%) Perl
15 4 (0.59%) PHP
16 3 (0.44%) C++
16 3 (0.44%) Groovy
17 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 76 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.76%) Degree
4 42 (6.15%) AWS Certification
4 42 (6.15%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.61%) CCNP
8 11 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.17%) LPIC
10 6 (0.88%) CCNA
11 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.73%) MCSE
11 5 (0.73%) RHCSA
11 5 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.59%) VCAP
13 3 (0.44%) CCIE
13 3 (0.44%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.39%) PCI DSS
3 28 (4.10%) QA
4 27 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.95%) SOC 2
5 24 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 24 (3.51%) GDPR
6 16 (2.34%) NIST
7 7 (1.02%) GRC
7 7 (1.02%) SLA
8 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.73%) WCAG
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 216 (31.63%) Docker
2 29 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.20%) vSphere
6 9 (1.32%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.44%) Firmware
10 3 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.29%) Ceph
11 2 (0.29%) Lustre
11 2 (0.29%) vCloud
11 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 316 (46.27%) Kubernetes
2 168 (24.60%) Ansible
3 142 (20.79%) Grafana
4 91 (13.32%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.00%) Argo
6 20 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.78%) Kustomize
8 18 (2.64%) Puppet
9 11 (1.61%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.46%) Packer
11 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.17%) Istio
12 8 (1.17%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.59%) Cilium
14 4 (0.59%) logstash
14 4 (0.59%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 114 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.05%) Google
3 45 (6.59%) VMware
4 28 (4.10%) Cisco
5 23 (3.37%) Oracle
6 21 (3.07%) Databricks
7 20 (2.93%) Splunk
8 17 (2.49%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.34%) Arista
10 15 (2.20%) Aruba
10 15 (2.20%) NetScout
11 13 (1.90%) Okta
12 11 (1.61%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.46%) Ab Initio
14 9 (1.32%) New Relic
15 8 (1.17%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.17%) Confluent
15 8 (1.17%) F5
16 7 (1.02%) EMC
17 6 (0.88%) NetApp