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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 56 74
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 669 661 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.97% 5.15% 3.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.84% 34.72% 32.98%
Number of salaries quoted 409 567 1,038
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £51,425
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,509 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +8.97% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £124,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 1,526 1,904 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.06% 14.82% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 1,376 3,054
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -9.28%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,247 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.65% +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 2 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 13 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.35%) Apache
3 8 (1.20%) Confluence
3 8 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.45%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.39%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 413 (61.73%) AWS
2 366 (54.71%) Azure
3 175 (26.16%) GCP
4 158 (23.62%) GitHub
5 130 (19.43%) Amazon EKS
6 128 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (15.40%) SaaS
8 96 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (12.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.16%) Serverless
11 55 (8.22%) Amazon S3
12 45 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (6.43%) dbt
15 42 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
16 41 (6.13%) PaaS
17 40 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
18 38 (5.68%) OCI
19 37 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
20 35 (5.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 87 (13.00%) Firewall
2 35 (5.23%) VPN
3 31 (4.63%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.19%) DNS
5 21 (3.14%) Broadband
6 19 (2.84%) Network Security
7 18 (2.69%) NGFW
8 16 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (2.24%) VLAN
9 15 (2.24%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.24%) WAN
9 15 (2.24%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.94%) LAN
11 12 (1.79%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.35%) BGP
13 7 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (1.05%) DHCP
14 5 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.75%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.75%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (6.13%) NoSQL
3 36 (5.38%) Relational Database
4 31 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.29%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.84%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (2.84%) RDBMS
7 18 (2.69%) Metadata
7 18 (2.69%) Redis
8 16 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.09%) Delta Lake
9 14 (2.09%) Power BI
10 12 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.79%) Tableau
11 11 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.64%) MySQL
12 9 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 89 (13.30%) Git
2 64 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.42%) TeamCity
4 60 (8.97%) GitLab
5 22 (3.29%) JIRA
6 19 (2.84%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.39%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.49%) JMeter
10 9 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.90%) Locust
11 6 (0.90%) Selenium
11 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.75%) Storybook
13 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.60%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.60%) ERwin
13 4 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
General
1 211 (31.54%) Finance
2 136 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 125 (18.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (16.74%) Banking
5 100 (14.95%) Retail
6 95 (14.20%) Law
7 64 (9.57%) Public Sector
8 58 (8.67%) Back Office
8 58 (8.67%) Financial Institution
9 50 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.69%) Billing
12 8 (1.20%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.20%) Marketing
12 8 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.20%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.05%) Legal
13 7 (1.05%) Military
14 5 (0.75%) Aviation
15 4 (0.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 169 (25.26%) Senior
2 122 (18.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 114 (17.04%) Lead
4 83 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (12.11%) Software Engineer
6 78 (11.66%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (10.16%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (10.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 50 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
10 49 (7.32%) Developer
11 38 (5.68%) Data Engineer
12 32 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 31 (4.63%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.59%) Lead DevOps
15 24 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
16 22 (3.29%) Java Engineer
17 20 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (2.99%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
18 19 (2.84%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.27%) React
2 45 (6.73%) .NET
3 44 (6.58%) RESTful
4 39 (5.83%) Node.js
5 38 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
6 35 (5.23%) OAuth
7 34 (5.08%) Kafka
8 30 (4.48%) Spring
9 28 (4.19%) REST
10 27 (4.04%) Django
11 22 (3.29%) JSON
11 22 (3.29%) OAuth2
12 21 (3.14%) Spring Boot
13 20 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
14 18 (2.69%) PySpark
14 18 (2.69%) React Native
15 17 (2.54%) ARM Templates
15 17 (2.54%) Flask
15 17 (2.54%) OpenAPI
15 17 (2.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 173 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.28%) Data Centre
3 42 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.08%) Blog
5 32 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (4.48%) Public Cloud
7 21 (3.14%) PKI
8 20 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.69%) Private Cloud
10 17 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (2.39%) Mobile App
11 16 (2.39%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.64%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.64%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.05%) Replication
15 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 137 (20.48%) Linux
2 65 (9.72%) Windows
3 47 (7.03%) Unix
4 35 (5.23%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.24%) Android
5 15 (2.24%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.20%) CentOS
6 8 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (65.17%) CI/CD
2 408 (60.99%) DevOps
3 398 (59.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 217 (32.44%) Agile
5 187 (27.95%) Mentoring
6 157 (23.47%) Observability
7 148 (22.12%) Containerisation
8 144 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 134 (20.03%) Test Automation
10 133 (19.88%) Software Engineering
11 127 (18.98%) Platform Engineering
12 125 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
13 123 (18.39%) Coaching
14 110 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 103 (15.40%) Deployment Automation
16 95 (14.20%) Microservices
17 93 (13.90%) Clean Code
18 85 (12.71%) Analytics
19 78 (11.66%) Roadmaps
20 73 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 299 (44.69%) Python
2 160 (23.92%) Java
3 104 (15.55%) SQL
4 97 (14.50%) Bash
5 89 (13.30%) PowerShell
6 77 (11.51%) JavaScript
7 69 (10.31%) Go
8 67 (10.01%) Bicep
9 51 (7.62%) TypeScript
10 32 (4.78%) C#
11 19 (2.84%) Scala
12 17 (2.54%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.54%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.05%) Rust
14 6 (0.90%) Perl
15 4 (0.60%) PHP
16 3 (0.45%) Groovy
16 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.30%) C++
17 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 76 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.37%) Degree
4 46 (6.88%) Azure Certification
5 45 (6.73%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.49%) CCNP
11 8 (1.20%) LPIC
12 7 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.75%) CCNA
14 5 (0.75%) MCSE
14 5 (0.75%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.60%) VCAP
16 3 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.33%) PCI DSS
4 28 (4.19%) QA
5 27 (4.04%) SOC 2
6 24 (3.59%) Accessibility
7 23 (3.44%) GDPR
8 15 (2.24%) NIST
9 8 (1.20%) SLA
10 7 (1.05%) GRC
11 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.75%) WCAG
12 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.30%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 218 (32.59%) Docker
2 26 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.39%) vSphere
4 10 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.45%) Firmware
8 3 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.30%) Ceph
9 2 (0.30%) Lustre
9 2 (0.30%) vCloud
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 309 (46.19%) Kubernetes
2 167 (24.96%) Ansible
3 141 (21.08%) Grafana
4 90 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.68%) Argo
6 20 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.84%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.39%) Puppet
9 10 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.35%) Packer
11 8 (1.20%) Istio
11 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.20%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.60%) Cilium
13 4 (0.60%) logstash
13 4 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.45%) Control-M
14 3 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 106 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.82%) Google
3 46 (6.88%) VMware
4 28 (4.19%) Cisco
5 24 (3.59%) Databricks
6 23 (3.44%) Oracle
7 21 (3.14%) Splunk
8 18 (2.69%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.39%) Arista
10 15 (2.24%) Aruba
10 15 (2.24%) NetScout
11 12 (1.79%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.79%) Okta
12 10 (1.49%) Ab Initio
13 9 (1.35%) New Relic
14 8 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.20%) Confluent
14 8 (1.20%) F5
14 8 (1.20%) IBM
15 7 (1.05%) EMC