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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 74 74
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -25
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 668 798 986
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.02% 4.84% 3.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.63% 40.18% 34.08%
Number of salaries quoted 476 405 773
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,662 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%

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 1,875 1,986 2,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.46% 12.05% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,389 1,137 2,100
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £48,165 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,410 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,870 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.28% +4.00% -6.72%

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 31 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 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.40%) Apache
4 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.90%) Confluence
6 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.45%) Camunda
8 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.30%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
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
1 420 (62.87%) AWS
2 381 (57.04%) Azure
3 185 (27.69%) GCP
4 108 (16.17%) GitHub
5 106 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (14.52%) SaaS
7 91 (13.62%) Amazon EKS
7 91 (13.62%) Serverless
8 89 (13.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 71 (10.63%) PaaS
10 60 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (8.23%) Amazon S3
12 51 (7.63%) Azure AKS
13 47 (7.04%) IaaS
14 46 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
17 35 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (4.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.49%) Firewall
2 44 (6.59%) VPN
3 39 (5.84%) TCP/IP
4 32 (4.79%) DNS
5 18 (2.69%) LAN
6 17 (2.54%) DHCP
6 17 (2.54%) WAN
7 10 (1.50%) Network Security
8 8 (1.20%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.20%) VLAN
9 7 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (1.05%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.05%) WebEx
10 6 (0.90%) HTTP
10 6 (0.90%) Wireless
11 4 (0.60%) BGP
11 4 (0.60%) MQTT
12 3 (0.45%) OSPF
12 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.59%) Metadata
5 20 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 20 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.84%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.40%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.10%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.95%) Redis
10 11 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.65%) Data Vault
10 11 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.65%) Power BI
11 10 (1.50%) Big Data
11 10 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (12.28%) Git
2 57 (8.53%) GitLab
3 53 (7.93%) TeamCity
4 46 (6.89%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.50%) JIRA
7 9 (1.35%) JMeter
8 8 (1.20%) Selenium
9 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.75%) Locust
10 4 (0.60%) Postman
10 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.45%) Maven
11 3 (0.45%) MLflow
11 3 (0.45%) NUnit
11 3 (0.45%) Snyk
12 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.30%) JUnit
12 2 (0.30%) MSI
12 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 160 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 156 (23.35%) Finance
3 104 (15.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (14.07%) Law
5 88 (13.17%) Banking
6 72 (10.78%) Public Sector
6 72 (10.78%) Retail
7 43 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (6.44%) Back Office
8 42 (6.29%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.50%) Marketing
11 9 (1.35%) Legal
12 7 (1.05%) Billing
12 7 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.90%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.90%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.75%) Aviation
15 4 (0.60%) Advertising
15 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (28.59%) Senior
2 107 (16.02%) Cloud Engineer
3 100 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 100 (14.97%) Lead
4 86 (12.87%) Software Engineer
5 81 (12.13%) Platform Engineer
6 79 (11.83%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (6.89%) Senior DevOps
9 45 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.59%) Data Engineer
11 42 (6.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 41 (6.14%) Developer
13 40 (5.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (5.24%) Architect
15 28 (4.19%) Python Engineer
15 28 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (3.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 24 (3.59%) Technical Leader
18 23 (3.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.13%) React
2 50 (7.49%) Node.js
3 41 (6.14%) REST
4 35 (5.24%) Kafka
5 34 (5.09%) ARM Templates
6 26 (3.89%) Spring
7 24 (3.59%) .NET
8 21 (3.14%) OAuth
8 21 (3.14%) PySpark
9 19 (2.84%) OpenID
9 19 (2.84%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.69%) OAuth2
10 18 (2.69%) YAML
11 15 (2.25%) AngularJS
11 15 (2.25%) AWS CDK
12 14 (2.10%) NestJS
13 13 (1.95%) SAML
14 12 (1.80%) Django
14 12 (1.80%) Flask
15 11 (1.65%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 173 (25.90%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 43 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (5.99%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.89%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.69%) Blog
7 18 (2.69%) Podcast
7 18 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.25%) Private Cloud
8 15 (2.25%) Replication
9 14 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.10%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.50%) PKI
12 9 (1.35%) Life Science
13 8 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (19.46%) Linux
2 88 (13.17%) Windows
3 39 (5.84%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.34%) Unix
5 14 (2.10%) VMS
6 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.45%) Android
7 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (69.61%) CI/CD
2 446 (66.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 375 (56.14%) DevOps
4 194 (29.04%) Mentoring
5 167 (25.00%) Agile
5 167 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 167 (25.00%) Observability
6 163 (24.40%) Platform Engineering
7 147 (22.01%) Software Engineering
8 139 (20.81%) Containerisation
9 135 (20.21%) AI
10 124 (18.56%) Test Automation
11 114 (17.07%) Microservices
11 114 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
12 112 (16.77%) Clean Code
13 110 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
14 91 (13.62%) Roadmaps
15 88 (13.17%) Analytics
16 82 (12.28%) Deployment Automation
16 82 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 273 (40.87%) Python
2 129 (19.31%) Java
3 121 (18.11%) PowerShell
4 100 (14.97%) Bicep
5 99 (14.82%) SQL
6 82 (12.28%) Bash
7 43 (6.44%) TypeScript
8 42 (6.29%) Go
9 38 (5.69%) JavaScript
10 35 (5.24%) C#
11 17 (2.54%) Scala
12 13 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.20%) PHP
14 7 (1.05%) Groovy
15 6 (0.90%) Rust
16 4 (0.60%) Ruby
16 4 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.45%) Perl
18 2 (0.30%) C
18 2 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 108 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 97 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.23%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.49%) Degree
5 29 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.80%) CCNP
9 12 (1.80%) SnowPro
10 11 (1.65%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.05%) CCNA
12 6 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.75%) CCIE
13 5 (0.75%) LPIC
13 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.60%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.60%) MCSE
14 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.74%) QA
3 14 (2.10%) GDPR
4 11 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.65%) NIST
4 11 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 5 (0.75%) WCAG
7 4 (0.60%) NCSC
7 4 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) IFRS
8 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
9 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 187 (27.99%) Docker
2 60 (8.98%) Active Directory
3 43 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.74%) vSphere
5 15 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.90%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 287 (42.96%) Kubernetes
2 133 (19.91%) Ansible
3 109 (16.32%) Grafana
4 39 (5.84%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.49%) Argo
6 18 (2.69%) Istio
6 18 (2.69%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.54%) Puppet
8 14 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.80%) Packer
10 8 (1.20%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.60%) linkerd
14 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 153 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.49%) VMware
3 41 (6.14%) Google
4 27 (4.04%) Cisco
5 26 (3.89%) Databricks
6 18 (2.69%) Okta
7 17 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.40%) Oracle
9 13 (1.95%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.80%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.80%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.50%) Informatica
12 8 (1.20%) Confluent
13 7 (1.05%) EMC
13 7 (1.05%) F5
13 7 (1.05%) NetApp
13 7 (1.05%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.05%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.05%) Splunk