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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 62 66
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 690 802 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.24% 5.16% 4.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.63% 34.84% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 402 583 1,077
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +7.59% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £107,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £106,750
UK median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.77% +3.33% -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 1,546 2,302 3,563
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.49% 14.81% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,378 3,048
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% +7.69% -4.83%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 17 February 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 19 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 15 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.16%) IIS
6 6 (0.87%) Apache
7 5 (0.72%) Confluence
8 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
1 6 (0.87%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 35 (5.07%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 407 (58.99%) Azure
2 401 (58.12%) AWS
3 184 (26.67%) GitHub
4 176 (25.51%) Azure DevOps
5 155 (22.46%) GCP
6 113 (16.38%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
8 97 (14.06%) SaaS
9 93 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 73 (10.58%) Entra ID
11 67 (9.71%) Serverless
12 63 (9.13%) Azure Monitor
13 56 (8.12%) OCI
14 53 (7.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 51 (7.39%) Amazon S3
16 47 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
17 45 (6.52%) PaaS
18 42 (6.09%) dbt
18 42 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
19 40 (5.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (14.06%) Firewall
2 48 (6.96%) VPN
3 34 (4.93%) DNS
4 28 (4.06%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.48%) WAN
6 22 (3.19%) Network Security
7 21 (3.04%) Broadband
7 21 (3.04%) SD-WAN
8 19 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (2.61%) Wireshark
10 17 (2.46%) NGFW
11 15 (2.17%) VLAN
11 15 (2.17%) VXLAN
12 12 (1.74%) BGP
13 10 (1.45%) LAN
14 9 (1.30%) DHCP
15 7 (1.01%) SSL
16 6 (0.87%) OSPF
17 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
17 4 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 29 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 23 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.19%) Power BI
7 20 (2.90%) Tableau
8 19 (2.75%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.75%) Redis
9 17 (2.46%) BigQuery
10 16 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.32%) Metadata
11 13 (1.88%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.88%) MySQL
12 11 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 88 (12.75%) Jenkins
2 76 (11.01%) Git
3 58 (8.41%) TeamCity
4 56 (8.12%) GitLab
5 35 (5.07%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (3.91%) JIRA
7 19 (2.75%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.87%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.72%) Storybook
11 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.58%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.58%) ERwin
11 4 (0.58%) JMeter
11 4 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.58%) Selenium
11 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.43%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 240 (34.78%) Finance
2 138 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 103 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (13.19%) Banking
5 88 (12.75%) Retail
6 83 (12.03%) Law
7 54 (7.83%) Public Sector
8 53 (7.68%) Back Office
8 53 (7.68%) Financial Institution
9 46 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.32%) Billing
11 14 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.01%) Military
14 6 (0.87%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.58%) Front Office
15 4 (0.58%) Games
15 4 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (26.81%) Senior
2 150 (21.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 98 (14.20%) Lead
4 77 (11.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (10.58%) Software Engineer
7 70 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 67 (9.71%) Platform Engineer
9 48 (6.96%) Developer
10 38 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (5.07%) Applications Engineer
11 35 (5.07%) Data Engineer
12 33 (4.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 32 (4.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 27 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 22 (3.19%) Architect
16 22 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
17 21 (3.04%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.13%) RESTful
2 59 (8.55%) React
3 53 (7.68%) .NET
4 46 (6.67%) OAuth
5 39 (5.65%) JSON
5 39 (5.65%) Node.js
6 36 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
7 34 (4.93%) OAuth2
8 22 (3.19%) Kafka
9 21 (3.04%) Django
9 21 (3.04%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (3.04%) Spring
10 20 (2.90%) REST
11 19 (2.75%) SOAP
11 19 (2.75%) XML
12 18 (2.61%) GraphQL
12 18 (2.61%) PySpark
12 18 (2.61%) React Native
12 18 (2.61%) SAML
13 17 (2.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 180 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.81%) Data Centre
4 45 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (4.64%) Blog
7 27 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (3.91%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.91%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.48%) Security Posture
9 19 (2.75%) PKI
10 18 (2.61%) Management Information System
11 15 (2.17%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 137 (19.86%) Linux
2 62 (8.99%) Windows
3 48 (6.96%) Unix
4 28 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.32%) VMS
6 14 (2.03%) Android
6 14 (2.03%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.30%) CentOS
10 7 (1.01%) Debian
11 1 (0.14%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.14%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (63.19%) DevOps
2 435 (63.04%) CI/CD
3 402 (58.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 228 (33.04%) Agile
5 199 (28.84%) Mentoring
6 179 (25.94%) Coaching
7 162 (23.48%) Observability
8 140 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (20.29%) Test Automation
9 135 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 132 (19.13%) Containerisation
11 118 (17.10%) Asset Management
11 118 (17.10%) Platform Engineering
12 110 (15.94%) Software Engineering
13 109 (15.80%) Analytics
14 108 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 106 (15.36%) Deployment Automation
16 99 (14.35%) Microservices
17 91 (13.19%) AI
18 89 (12.90%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 318 (46.09%) Python
2 164 (23.77%) Java
3 135 (19.57%) SQL
4 122 (17.68%) PowerShell
5 115 (16.67%) Bash
6 85 (12.32%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.87%) Bicep
8 61 (8.84%) Go
9 52 (7.54%) TypeScript
10 35 (5.07%) PL/SQL
10 35 (5.07%) Shell Script
11 34 (4.93%) C#
12 18 (2.61%) Scala
13 6 (0.87%) Rust
14 5 (0.72%) Perl
15 3 (0.43%) PHP
16 2 (0.29%) C++
17 1 (0.14%) Ruby
17 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.14%) XAML
Qualifications
1 92 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.12%) AWS Certification
4 42 (6.09%) Azure Certification
5 39 (5.65%) Degree
6 22 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.16%) CCNP
9 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.58%) LPIC
13 4 (0.58%) RHCE
14 3 (0.43%) CISSP
14 3 (0.43%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (4.20%) PCI DSS
3 28 (4.06%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.91%) GDPR
4 27 (3.91%) QA
5 24 (3.48%) SOC 2
6 23 (3.33%) Accessibility
7 21 (3.04%) NIST
8 9 (1.30%) SLA
9 6 (0.87%) GRC
10 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 217 (31.45%) Docker
2 41 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (2.46%) Hyper-V
7 14 (2.03%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.59%) vSphere
9 10 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.43%) Firmware
11 2 (0.29%) Ceph
11 2 (0.29%) Lustre
11 2 (0.29%) NFS
11 2 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.29%) vCloud
11 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.14%) KVM
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 290 (42.03%) Kubernetes
2 162 (23.48%) Ansible
3 140 (20.29%) Grafana
4 96 (13.91%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.65%) Argo
6 37 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.75%) Kustomize
9 13 (1.88%) Puppet
10 9 (1.30%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.87%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.87%) SCOM
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.72%) Cilium
13 4 (0.58%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.58%) logstash
13 4 (0.58%) Packer
13 4 (0.58%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 111 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.84%) Google
3 43 (6.23%) VMware
4 41 (5.94%) Oracle
5 21 (3.04%) Databricks
6 20 (2.90%) Okta
7 18 (2.61%) Cisco
8 17 (2.46%) Splunk
9 15 (2.17%) Arista
9 15 (2.17%) Aruba
9 15 (2.17%) NetScout
10 14 (2.03%) Ab Initio
11 11 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.45%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.30%) New Relic
14 8 (1.16%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.01%) F5
15 7 (1.01%) IBM
16 6 (0.87%) Mercator
16 6 (0.87%) SonicWALL