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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 55 76
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 686 654 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.96% 5.03% 3.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.20% 35.99% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 417 559 1,039
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,511 £52,343
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,490 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,253 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.54% +3.67% -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 1,552 1,817 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.96% 13.97% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,371 3,067
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,474
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 11 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 15 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.46%) Apache
3 9 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.17%) Confluence
4 8 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
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%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 418 (60.93%) AWS
2 374 (54.52%) Azure
3 176 (25.66%) GCP
4 154 (22.45%) GitHub
5 132 (19.24%) Amazon EKS
6 126 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (15.16%) SaaS
8 96 (13.99%) GitHub Actions
9 86 (12.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (10.06%) Serverless
11 56 (8.16%) Amazon S3
12 47 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 43 (6.27%) dbt
15 42 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
16 41 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
17 40 (5.83%) PaaS
18 38 (5.54%) OCI
19 37 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
20 36 (5.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.41%) Firewall
2 37 (5.39%) VPN
3 34 (4.96%) TCP/IP
4 31 (4.52%) DNS
5 21 (3.06%) Broadband
6 19 (2.77%) Network Security
7 18 (2.62%) NGFW
8 17 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (2.33%) WAN
10 15 (2.19%) LAN
10 15 (2.19%) VLAN
10 15 (2.19%) VXLAN
10 15 (2.19%) Wireshark
11 13 (1.90%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.46%) BGP
12 10 (1.46%) DHCP
13 7 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.73%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.73%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (5.98%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.77%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.77%) RDBMS
7 18 (2.62%) Redis
8 17 (2.48%) BigQuery
8 17 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.19%) Metadata
10 14 (2.04%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.90%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.75%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.60%) MySQL
13 11 (1.60%) Power BI
14 10 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 90 (13.12%) Git
2 67 (9.77%) GitLab
3 63 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.18%) TeamCity
4 22 (3.21%) JIRA
5 19 (2.77%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.46%) JMeter
8 10 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.87%) Locust
9 6 (0.87%) Selenium
9 6 (0.87%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.73%) Storybook
11 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 212 (30.90%) Finance
2 139 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 128 (18.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (16.33%) Banking
5 99 (14.43%) Retail
6 97 (14.14%) Law
7 70 (10.20%) Public Sector
8 60 (8.75%) Back Office
8 60 (8.75%) Financial Institution
9 51 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (2.77%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.62%) Billing
12 9 (1.31%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.17%) Marketing
13 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.17%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.02%) Legal
14 7 (1.02%) Military
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
16 4 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 178 (25.95%) Senior
2 122 (17.78%) Cloud Engineer
3 117 (17.06%) Lead
4 89 (12.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 82 (11.95%) Azure Engineer
5 82 (11.95%) Software Engineer
6 72 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 72 (10.50%) Platform Engineer
7 50 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (6.71%) Developer
9 41 (5.98%) Data Engineer
10 34 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 31 (4.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
13 25 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (3.35%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (2.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (2.92%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.75%) React
2 44 (6.41%) .NET
2 44 (6.41%) RESTful
3 42 (6.12%) Node.js
4 37 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (5.39%) Kafka
5 35 (5.10%) OAuth
6 30 (4.37%) Spring
7 27 (3.94%) Django
8 25 (3.64%) REST
9 22 (3.21%) JSON
9 22 (3.21%) OAuth2
10 21 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
10 21 (3.06%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.92%) ARM Templates
12 18 (2.62%) PySpark
12 18 (2.62%) React Native
13 17 (2.48%) FastAPI
13 17 (2.48%) Flask
13 17 (2.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 177 (25.80%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.27%) Data Centre
4 42 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 36 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (4.81%) Blog
7 30 (4.37%) Public Cloud
8 21 (3.06%) PKI
9 20 (2.92%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.77%) Private Cloud
11 18 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (2.48%) Mobile App
12 17 (2.48%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.60%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (1.17%) Management Information System
16 7 (1.02%) Replication
16 7 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (20.41%) Linux
2 69 (10.06%) Windows
3 50 (7.29%) Unix
4 39 (5.69%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.33%) Android
5 16 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.17%) CentOS
6 8 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.02%) VMS
8 3 (0.44%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (65.01%) CI/CD
2 415 (60.50%) DevOps
3 412 (60.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 221 (32.22%) Agile
5 195 (28.43%) Mentoring
6 161 (23.47%) Observability
7 150 (21.87%) Containerisation
8 145 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 138 (20.12%) Test Automation
10 135 (19.68%) Software Engineering
11 134 (19.53%) Platform Engineering
12 133 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
13 129 (18.80%) Coaching
14 115 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 104 (15.16%) Deployment Automation
16 98 (14.29%) Microservices
17 94 (13.70%) Clean Code
18 86 (12.54%) Analytics
19 80 (11.66%) Roadmaps
20 78 (11.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 305 (44.46%) Python
2 163 (23.76%) Java
3 102 (14.87%) SQL
4 95 (13.85%) Bash
5 91 (13.27%) PowerShell
6 76 (11.08%) JavaScript
7 70 (10.20%) Go
8 66 (9.62%) Bicep
9 50 (7.29%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.52%) C#
11 19 (2.77%) Scala
12 17 (2.48%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.48%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.02%) Rust
14 6 (0.87%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) PHP
16 3 (0.44%) Groovy
17 2 (0.29%) C++
17 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.73%) Degree
4 42 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 42 (6.12%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.60%) CCNP
9 8 (1.17%) LPIC
10 6 (0.87%) CCNA
10 6 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.73%) MCSE
11 5 (0.73%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.58%) VCAP
13 3 (0.44%) CCIE
13 3 (0.44%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.37%) PCI DSS
3 28 (4.08%) QA
4 27 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.94%) SOC 2
5 24 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 24 (3.50%) GDPR
6 16 (2.33%) NIST
7 8 (1.17%) SLA
8 7 (1.02%) GRC
9 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.73%) WCAG
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 218 (31.78%) Docker
2 30 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.33%) vSphere
5 10 (1.46%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.44%) Firmware
9 3 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.29%) Ceph
10 2 (0.29%) Lustre
10 2 (0.29%) vCloud
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 316 (46.06%) Kubernetes
2 170 (24.78%) Ansible
3 142 (20.70%) Grafana
4 91 (13.27%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.98%) Argo
6 20 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.77%) Kustomize
8 18 (2.62%) Puppet
9 11 (1.60%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.46%) Packer
11 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.17%) Istio
12 8 (1.17%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.58%) Cilium
14 4 (0.58%) logstash
14 4 (0.58%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.16%) Google
3 46 (6.71%) VMware
4 29 (4.23%) Cisco
5 23 (3.35%) Oracle
6 21 (3.06%) Databricks
6 21 (3.06%) Splunk
7 18 (2.62%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.33%) Arista
9 15 (2.19%) Aruba
9 15 (2.19%) NetScout
10 13 (1.90%) Okta
11 12 (1.75%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.46%) Ab Initio
13 9 (1.31%) New Relic
14 8 (1.17%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.17%) Confluent
14 8 (1.17%) F5
15 7 (1.02%) EMC
16 6 (0.87%) NetApp