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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 59 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 595 841 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.93% 4.94% 5.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.24% 35.79% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 366 591 1,035
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,110 £57,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,289
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -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 1,376 2,350 3,220
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.10% 13.80% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 991 1,406 2,766
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,125 £40,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,550 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +6.63% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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 1 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 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 17 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.51%) IIS
4 8 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.84%) Confluence
6 4 (0.67%) Apache
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) 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 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (6.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 397 (66.72%) Azure
2 314 (52.77%) AWS
3 183 (30.76%) GitHub
4 182 (30.59%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (18.66%) GCP
6 99 (16.64%) GitHub Actions
7 85 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (11.93%) Entra ID
9 68 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
10 67 (11.26%) Serverless
11 66 (11.09%) SaaS
12 58 (9.75%) Azure Monitor
13 46 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (7.73%) OCI
14 45 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 45 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
15 39 (6.55%) Amazon S3
16 37 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (5.88%) dbt
18 34 (5.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 74 (12.44%) Firewall
2 43 (7.23%) VPN
3 35 (5.88%) DNS
4 32 (5.38%) WAN
5 25 (4.20%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.03%) Network Security
7 22 (3.70%) SD-WAN
8 17 (2.86%) LAN
9 11 (1.85%) VLAN
10 9 (1.51%) BGP
11 8 (1.34%) Broadband
11 8 (1.34%) DHCP
12 7 (1.18%) SSL
12 7 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (1.01%) OSPF
14 4 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.67%) MPLS
14 4 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (4.54%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.03%) Data Lake
5 24 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.03%) Power BI
6 21 (3.53%) Tableau
7 16 (2.69%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.69%) MySQL
8 14 (2.35%) Metadata
8 14 (2.35%) Redis
8 14 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.85%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.68%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 95 (15.97%) Jenkins
2 77 (12.94%) Git
3 55 (9.24%) GitLab
4 37 (6.22%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (4.87%) TeamCity
6 25 (4.20%) JIRA
7 7 (1.18%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.18%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.84%) Storybook
9 4 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.67%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.67%) ERwin
9 4 (0.67%) 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 (0.34%) git-flow
11 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
General
1 207 (34.79%) Finance
2 130 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 50 (8.40%) Banking
4 42 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (7.06%) Law
5 39 (6.55%) Retail
6 30 (5.04%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (4.71%) Back Office
8 27 (4.54%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.34%) Billing
11 7 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.84%) Games
12 5 (0.84%) Marketing
13 4 (0.67%) Front Office
13 4 (0.67%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.67%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (27.73%) Senior
2 141 (23.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 87 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 76 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
5 68 (11.43%) Lead
6 60 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 45 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
8 43 (7.23%) Developer
9 42 (7.06%) Software Engineer
10 39 (6.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 37 (6.22%) Applications Engineer
12 33 (5.55%) Data Engineer
13 28 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
13 28 (4.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (3.87%) Architect
14 23 (3.87%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.87%) Lead DevOps
15 21 (3.53%) Linux Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (10.42%) RESTful
2 56 (9.41%) .NET
3 47 (7.90%) OAuth
4 42 (7.06%) React
5 38 (6.39%) JSON
6 35 (5.88%) OAuth2
7 30 (5.04%) Node.js
8 25 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (3.36%) SOAP
9 20 (3.36%) XML
10 19 (3.19%) SAML
11 16 (2.69%) Django
11 16 (2.69%) OpenAPI
11 16 (2.69%) REST
11 16 (2.69%) Swagger
12 15 (2.52%) GraphQL
12 15 (2.52%) Next.js
12 15 (2.52%) PySpark
13 14 (2.35%) ADO
13 14 (2.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 143 (24.03%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.24%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (7.56%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (4.87%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.71%) Data Centre
7 26 (4.37%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.53%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.53%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.51%) Blog
11 9 (1.51%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.18%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) CMDB
15 5 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 116 (19.50%) Linux
2 70 (11.76%) Windows
3 29 (4.87%) Unix
3 29 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.03%) VMS
5 14 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.18%) CentOS
8 6 (1.01%) Android
8 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.01%) Debian
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (68.24%) DevOps
2 371 (62.35%) CI/CD
3 361 (60.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (34.45%) Agile
5 152 (25.55%) Coaching
6 149 (25.04%) Observability
7 145 (24.37%) Mentoring
8 124 (20.84%) Asset Management
9 123 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
10 112 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (18.32%) Containerisation
12 107 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 105 (17.65%) Analytics
13 105 (17.65%) Test Automation
14 88 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
15 87 (14.62%) AI
16 76 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 74 (12.44%) Software Engineering
18 73 (12.27%) Root Cause Analysis
19 72 (12.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 277 (46.55%) Python
2 136 (22.86%) SQL
3 128 (21.51%) PowerShell
4 101 (16.97%) Bash
5 95 (15.97%) Java
6 75 (12.61%) Bicep
7 60 (10.08%) JavaScript
8 40 (6.72%) TypeScript
9 38 (6.39%) Go
10 37 (6.22%) PL/SQL
10 37 (6.22%) Shell Script
11 33 (5.55%) C#
12 14 (2.35%) Scala
13 3 (0.50%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) Perl
14 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.34%) XAML
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Korn
15 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.08%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.39%) AWS Certification
3 44 (7.39%) Azure Certification
4 27 (4.54%) Degree
5 17 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.85%) CCNP
8 10 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.01%) RHCE
10 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.67%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.50%) CISSP
11 3 (0.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.37%) GDPR
3 25 (4.20%) QA
4 24 (4.03%) Data Quality
5 22 (3.70%) Accessibility
6 19 (3.19%) PCI DSS
7 18 (3.03%) NIST
8 17 (2.86%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.34%) SLA
10 6 (1.01%) GRC
11 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 188 (31.60%) Docker
2 45 (7.56%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.86%) Hyper-V
7 13 (2.18%) vSphere
8 9 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.01%) NFS
11 3 (0.50%) Firmware
12 2 (0.34%) Ceph
12 2 (0.34%) Lustre
12 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.34%) vCloud
13 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 236 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 125 (21.01%) Ansible
3 101 (16.97%) Grafana
4 76 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.39%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 28 (4.71%) Argo
8 8 (1.34%) SCOM
9 7 (1.18%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.84%) Cilium
11 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.67%) logstash
11 4 (0.67%) Puppet
12 3 (0.50%) Control-M
12 3 (0.50%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.34%) SCCM
14 1 (0.17%) Icinga
14 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 110 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.39%) Oracle
3 41 (6.89%) Google
3 41 (6.89%) VMware
4 24 (4.03%) Cisco
5 21 (3.53%) Databricks
5 21 (3.53%) Okta
6 19 (3.19%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.35%) Ab Initio
7 14 (2.35%) Splunk
8 10 (1.68%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.51%) New Relic
9 9 (1.51%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.18%) Commvault
10 7 (1.18%) F5
10 7 (1.18%) IBM
10 7 (1.18%) Pure Storage
11 6 (1.01%) Mercator
11 6 (1.01%) SonicWALL