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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 60 68
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 673 780 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.09% 5.19% 4.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.84% 34.88% 34.06%
Number of salaries quoted 396 580 1,042
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,549 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £85,125 £109,063 £93,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £110,000
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 1,535 2,236 3,508
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.34% 14.89% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 1,371 2,993
10th Percentile £36,500 £42,500 £38,017
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -4.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 25 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 17 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.04%) Apache
6 7 (1.04%) IIS
7 4 (0.59%) Confluence
7 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Weka
2 5 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (4.90%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 396 (58.84%) AWS
2 395 (58.69%) Azure
3 178 (26.45%) GitHub
4 166 (24.67%) Azure DevOps
5 154 (22.88%) GCP
6 112 (16.64%) Amazon EKS
7 100 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
8 96 (14.26%) SaaS
9 88 (13.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.10%) Entra ID
11 65 (9.66%) Serverless
12 60 (8.92%) Azure Monitor
13 54 (8.02%) OCI
14 51 (7.58%) Amazon S3
15 50 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (6.84%) PaaS
17 45 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
18 42 (6.24%) dbt
19 40 (5.94%) IaaS
20 39 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.67%) Firewall
2 45 (6.69%) VPN
3 32 (4.75%) DNS
4 27 (4.01%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.27%) WAN
6 21 (3.12%) Broadband
7 19 (2.82%) Network Security
7 19 (2.82%) SD-WAN
8 18 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (2.53%) NGFW
9 17 (2.53%) Wireshark
10 15 (2.23%) VLAN
10 15 (2.23%) VXLAN
11 11 (1.63%) BGP
12 10 (1.49%) LAN
13 8 (1.19%) DHCP
14 6 (0.89%) SSL
15 5 (0.74%) OSPF
16 4 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
16 4 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.65%) NoSQL
4 29 (4.31%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 22 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.12%) Power BI
7 21 (3.12%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.82%) Redis
8 19 (2.82%) Tableau
9 17 (2.53%) Metadata
10 16 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 15 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.93%) Delta Lake
13 11 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.63%) MySQL
14 10 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 84 (12.48%) Jenkins
2 74 (11.00%) Git
3 57 (8.47%) TeamCity
4 56 (8.32%) GitLab
5 33 (4.90%) Oracle Forms
6 25 (3.71%) JIRA
7 19 (2.82%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.74%) Storybook
11 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.59%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.59%) ERwin
11 4 (0.59%) JMeter
11 4 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.59%) Selenium
11 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 231 (34.32%) Finance
2 137 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 104 (15.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (13.67%) Banking
5 89 (13.22%) Retail
6 85 (12.63%) Law
7 57 (8.47%) Public Sector
8 53 (7.88%) Back Office
8 53 (7.88%) Financial Institution
9 47 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.38%) Billing
11 15 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.19%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.04%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.04%) Military
14 6 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.74%) Marketing
16 4 (0.59%) Front Office
16 4 (0.59%) Games
16 4 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (26.89%) Senior
2 144 (21.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 100 (14.86%) Lead
4 77 (11.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (10.85%) Azure Engineer
5 73 (10.85%) Software Engineer
6 69 (10.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 66 (9.81%) Platform Engineer
8 44 (6.54%) Developer
9 39 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (5.50%) Data Engineer
11 33 (4.90%) Applications Engineer
12 31 (4.61%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 30 (4.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (4.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 26 (3.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.42%) Lead DevOps
16 22 (3.27%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.12%) Architect
17 21 (3.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.06%) RESTful
2 59 (8.77%) React
3 48 (7.13%) .NET
4 45 (6.69%) OAuth
5 39 (5.79%) Node.js
6 38 (5.65%) JSON
7 36 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
8 33 (4.90%) OAuth2
9 22 (3.27%) Kafka
9 22 (3.27%) Spring
10 21 (3.12%) Django
10 21 (3.12%) OpenTelemetry
11 19 (2.82%) PySpark
12 18 (2.67%) React Native
12 18 (2.67%) REST
12 18 (2.67%) SOAP
12 18 (2.67%) XML
13 17 (2.53%) GraphQL
13 17 (2.53%) SAML
13 17 (2.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 177 (26.30%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.39%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.09%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (4.75%) Blog
7 28 (4.16%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (3.71%) Onboarding
10 22 (3.27%) Security Posture
11 20 (2.97%) PKI
12 15 (2.23%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.23%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.49%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
17 6 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 134 (19.91%) Linux
2 61 (9.06%) Windows
3 48 (7.13%) Unix
4 27 (4.01%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.23%) VMS
6 14 (2.08%) Android
6 14 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.34%) CentOS
8 9 (1.34%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.89%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 422 (62.70%) DevOps
3 393 (58.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (32.99%) Agile
5 198 (29.42%) Mentoring
6 171 (25.41%) Coaching
7 162 (24.07%) Observability
8 137 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
8 137 (20.36%) Test Automation
9 132 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 129 (19.17%) Containerisation
11 115 (17.09%) Platform Engineering
12 111 (16.49%) Asset Management
13 107 (15.90%) Software Engineering
14 106 (15.75%) Analytics
14 106 (15.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 104 (15.45%) Deployment Automation
16 96 (14.26%) Microservices
17 85 (12.63%) AI
17 85 (12.63%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 308 (45.77%) Python
2 162 (24.07%) Java
3 132 (19.61%) SQL
4 118 (17.53%) PowerShell
5 113 (16.79%) Bash
6 83 (12.33%) JavaScript
7 73 (10.85%) Bicep
8 59 (8.77%) Go
9 52 (7.73%) TypeScript
10 33 (4.90%) PL/SQL
10 33 (4.90%) Shell Script
11 31 (4.61%) C#
12 18 (2.67%) Scala
13 6 (0.89%) Rust
14 5 (0.74%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) PHP
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.15%) Ruby
17 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.73%) AWS Certification
4 41 (6.09%) Azure Certification
4 41 (6.09%) Degree
5 23 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.19%) CCNP
8 8 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.74%) LPIC
12 4 (0.59%) RHCE
12 4 (0.59%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.45%) CCNA
13 3 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 30 (4.46%) PCI DSS
2 29 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.01%) GDPR
4 25 (3.71%) QA
4 25 (3.71%) SOC 2
5 22 (3.27%) Accessibility
6 20 (2.97%) NIST
7 9 (1.34%) SLA
8 6 (0.89%) GRC
9 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 211 (31.35%) Docker
2 38 (5.65%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 16 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (2.08%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.78%) vSphere
8 10 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.30%) Ceph
9 2 (0.30%) Firmware
9 2 (0.30%) Lustre
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.30%) vCloud
9 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 279 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 159 (23.63%) Ansible
3 138 (20.51%) Grafana
4 94 (13.97%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.79%) Argo
6 36 (5.35%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.82%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.78%) Puppet
10 8 (1.19%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.89%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.89%) SCOM
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.74%) Cilium
13 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.59%) logstash
13 4 (0.59%) Packer
13 4 (0.59%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.45%) Control-M
15 2 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 111 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.92%) Google
3 44 (6.54%) VMware
4 39 (5.79%) Oracle
5 23 (3.42%) Databricks
6 19 (2.82%) Okta
7 18 (2.67%) Cisco
7 18 (2.67%) Splunk
8 15 (2.23%) Arista
8 15 (2.23%) Aruba
8 15 (2.23%) NetScout
9 14 (2.08%) Ab Initio
10 11 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.34%) New Relic
12 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.04%) F5
13 7 (1.04%) IBM
14 6 (0.89%) Mercator
15 5 (0.74%) BMC