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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 63 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 602 822 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.99% 4.95% 5.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.65% 35.62% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 372 578 1,028
10th Percentile £46,451 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +0.67% -
75th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,289
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.25% +0.67% -6.25%

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 1,379 2,308 3,232
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.13% 13.90% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 994 1,372 2,773
10th Percentile £37,150 £41,250 £40,355
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% +7.31% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +6.15% -3.70%

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 6 January 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 23 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 17 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.50%) IIS
4 8 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.83%) Confluence
6 4 (0.66%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.33%) Weka
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (6.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 399 (66.28%) Azure
2 317 (52.66%) AWS
3 183 (30.40%) Azure DevOps
3 183 (30.40%) GitHub
4 111 (18.44%) GCP
5 100 (16.61%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 73 (12.13%) Entra ID
8 69 (11.46%) Amazon EKS
9 68 (11.30%) SaaS
10 66 (10.96%) Serverless
11 61 (10.13%) Azure Monitor
12 47 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (7.64%) OCI
14 44 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
15 40 (6.64%) Amazon S3
16 36 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (5.81%) dbt
18 34 (5.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 76 (12.62%) Firewall
2 43 (7.14%) VPN
3 35 (5.81%) DNS
4 32 (5.32%) WAN
5 25 (4.15%) TCP/IP
6 24 (3.99%) Network Security
7 22 (3.65%) SD-WAN
8 17 (2.82%) LAN
9 11 (1.83%) VLAN
10 9 (1.50%) BGP
11 8 (1.33%) Broadband
11 8 (1.33%) DHCP
12 7 (1.16%) SSL
12 7 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (1.00%) OSPF
14 4 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.66%) MPLS
14 4 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.15%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.99%) Power BI
6 23 (3.82%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.49%) Tableau
8 16 (2.66%) MySQL
9 15 (2.49%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.33%) Redis
11 13 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (2.16%) Metadata
11 13 (2.16%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.83%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.66%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 96 (15.95%) Jenkins
2 77 (12.79%) Git
3 55 (9.14%) GitLab
4 37 (6.15%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (4.82%) TeamCity
6 25 (4.15%) JIRA
7 7 (1.16%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.83%) Storybook
9 4 (0.66%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.66%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.66%) ERwin
9 4 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.50%) JMeter
10 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.33%) git-flow
11 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 208 (34.55%) Finance
2 132 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 50 (8.31%) Banking
4 42 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (6.98%) Law
5 39 (6.48%) Retail
6 30 (4.98%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (4.65%) Back Office
8 27 (4.49%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.49%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.83%) Billing
11 7 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.83%) Games
12 5 (0.83%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.83%) Marketing
12 5 (0.83%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.66%) Front Office
13 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 165 (27.41%) Senior
2 145 (24.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 87 (14.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 78 (12.96%) Azure Engineer
5 69 (11.46%) Lead
6 60 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 47 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
8 44 (7.31%) Developer
9 42 (6.98%) Software Engineer
10 39 (6.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 37 (6.15%) Applications Engineer
12 32 (5.32%) Data Engineer
13 30 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (4.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (3.82%) Architect
15 23 (3.82%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.82%) Lead DevOps
16 22 (3.65%) Linux Engineer
17 21 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 19 (3.16%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (10.30%) RESTful
2 56 (9.30%) .NET
3 47 (7.81%) OAuth
4 43 (7.14%) React
5 38 (6.31%) JSON
6 35 (5.81%) OAuth2
7 32 (5.32%) Node.js
8 25 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (3.32%) SOAP
9 20 (3.32%) XML
10 19 (3.16%) SAML
11 17 (2.82%) REST
12 16 (2.66%) Django
12 16 (2.66%) OpenAPI
12 16 (2.66%) Swagger
13 15 (2.49%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.49%) Next.js
13 15 (2.49%) PySpark
14 14 (2.33%) ADO
14 14 (2.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 141 (23.42%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (4.82%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.65%) Data Centre
7 26 (4.32%) Onboarding
8 22 (3.65%) Security Posture
9 21 (3.49%) Management Information System
10 15 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.66%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.50%) Blog
14 8 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.16%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.00%) CMDB
17 5 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
17 5 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 117 (19.44%) Linux
2 71 (11.79%) Windows
3 30 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.82%) Unix
5 18 (2.99%) VMS
6 14 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.33%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.16%) Android
8 7 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.16%) CentOS
9 6 (1.00%) Debian
10 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (67.94%) DevOps
2 378 (62.79%) CI/CD
3 367 (60.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 207 (34.39%) Agile
5 152 (25.25%) Coaching
6 149 (24.75%) Observability
7 147 (24.42%) Mentoring
8 124 (20.60%) Asset Management
9 123 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (18.11%) Containerisation
12 106 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 105 (17.44%) Analytics
13 105 (17.44%) Test Automation
14 90 (14.95%) Platform Engineering
15 87 (14.45%) AI
16 77 (12.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 76 (12.62%) Software Engineering
18 74 (12.29%) Microservices
18 74 (12.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 277 (46.01%) Python
2 135 (22.43%) SQL
3 129 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 103 (17.11%) Bash
5 96 (15.95%) Java
6 75 (12.46%) Bicep
7 62 (10.30%) JavaScript
8 39 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.15%) Go
9 37 (6.15%) PL/SQL
9 37 (6.15%) Shell Script
10 33 (5.48%) C#
11 13 (2.16%) Scala
12 3 (0.50%) PHP
13 2 (0.33%) Perl
13 2 (0.33%) XAML
14 1 (0.17%) C++
14 1 (0.17%) Korn
14 1 (0.17%) Ruby
14 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 61 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.31%) AWS Certification
3 44 (7.31%) Azure Certification
4 28 (4.65%) Degree
5 18 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.83%) CCNP
9 10 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.00%) RHCE
11 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.50%) CISSP
12 3 (0.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.15%) GDPR
2 25 (4.15%) QA
3 23 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 22 (3.65%) Accessibility
5 19 (3.16%) PCI DSS
6 18 (2.99%) NIST
7 17 (2.82%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.33%) SLA
9 6 (1.00%) GRC
10 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 189 (31.40%) Docker
2 45 (7.48%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.82%) Hyper-V
7 13 (2.16%) vSphere
8 9 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.33%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.00%) NFS
11 3 (0.50%) Firmware
12 2 (0.33%) Ceph
12 2 (0.33%) Lustre
12 2 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.33%) vCloud
13 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 238 (39.53%) Kubernetes
2 126 (20.93%) Ansible
3 102 (16.94%) Grafana
4 77 (12.79%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.31%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 28 (4.65%) Argo
8 8 (1.33%) SCOM
9 7 (1.16%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.83%) Cilium
11 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.66%) logstash
11 4 (0.66%) Puppet
12 3 (0.50%) Control-M
12 3 (0.50%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.33%) SCCM
14 1 (0.17%) Icinga
14 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 110 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.31%) Oracle
3 41 (6.81%) Google
3 41 (6.81%) VMware
4 24 (3.99%) Cisco
5 21 (3.49%) Okta
6 20 (3.32%) Databricks
7 19 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.33%) Ab Initio
8 14 (2.33%) Splunk
9 10 (1.66%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.50%) New Relic
10 9 (1.50%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.16%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.16%) Commvault
11 7 (1.16%) F5
11 7 (1.16%) IBM
11 7 (1.16%) Pure Storage
12 6 (1.00%) Mercator
12 6 (1.00%) SonicWALL