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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 65 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 -28
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 648 822 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.98% 3.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.82% 40.31% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 443 433 878
10th Percentile £48,778 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 1,809 2,039 3,371
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 12.35% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 1,185 2,511
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £63,373 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.00% -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 16 July 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 22 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.62%) Apache
4 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.77%) Confluence
5 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.31%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 411 (63.43%) AWS
2 344 (53.09%) Azure
3 169 (26.08%) GCP
4 111 (17.13%) Amazon EKS
5 109 (16.82%) GitHub
6 101 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (14.81%) SaaS
8 90 (13.89%) Serverless
9 77 (11.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.49%) PaaS
11 66 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (9.10%) Amazon S3
13 53 (8.18%) Azure AKS
14 49 (7.56%) IaaS
15 46 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
17 42 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
18 41 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
19 39 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 29 (4.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (9.41%) Firewall
2 47 (7.25%) VPN
3 31 (4.78%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.63%) DNS
5 18 (2.78%) LAN
6 17 (2.62%) WAN
7 15 (2.31%) DHCP
8 10 (1.54%) Broadband
8 10 (1.54%) VLAN
8 10 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.39%) Network Security
9 9 (1.39%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.23%) NGFW
11 7 (1.08%) BGP
11 7 (1.08%) VXLAN
11 7 (1.08%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.93%) HTTP
12 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 28 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (3.24%) Metadata
7 20 (3.09%) MongoDB
8 18 (2.78%) NoSQL
9 17 (2.62%) DynamoDB
10 16 (2.47%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.16%) Data Lake
11 14 (2.16%) Delta Lake
12 13 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (2.01%) Redis
13 12 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.70%) Power BI
15 10 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (1.39%) Big Data
16 9 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 79 (12.19%) Git
2 61 (9.41%) TeamCity
3 56 (8.64%) GitLab
4 46 (7.10%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.54%) JIRA
7 9 (1.39%) JMeter
8 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.93%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.77%) Locust
10 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.46%) Maven
11 3 (0.46%) MLflow
11 3 (0.46%) Postman
11 3 (0.46%) Selenium
11 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.31%) MSI
12 2 (0.31%) NUnit
12 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (24.38%) Finance
2 141 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 123 (18.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (16.51%) Law
5 99 (15.28%) Banking
6 87 (13.43%) Retail
7 73 (11.27%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.87%) Back Office
8 51 (7.87%) Financial Institution
9 46 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.39%) Billing
12 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 7 (1.08%) Marketing
12 7 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.77%) Aviation
14 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.62%) Advertising
15 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (26.70%) Senior
2 102 (15.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 100 (15.43%) Lead
4 96 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (13.27%) Software Engineer
6 79 (12.19%) Platform Engineer
7 74 (11.42%) Azure Engineer
8 58 (8.95%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 46 (7.10%) Senior DevOps
10 45 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 39 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 37 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 35 (5.40%) Developer
14 33 (5.09%) Architect
15 28 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
17 21 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.24%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.64%) React
2 46 (7.10%) Node.js
3 39 (6.02%) Kafka
4 34 (5.25%) ARM Templates
5 32 (4.94%) REST
6 25 (3.86%) Spring
7 19 (2.93%) YAML
8 18 (2.78%) PySpark
8 18 (2.78%) Spring Boot
9 17 (2.62%) .NET
10 15 (2.31%) AWS CDK
10 15 (2.31%) OAuth
11 14 (2.16%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
11 14 (2.16%) RESTful
12 13 (2.01%) OpenID
13 12 (1.85%) Django
13 12 (1.85%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.85%) Flask
14 11 (1.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 184 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.33%) Public Cloud
5 39 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (5.56%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.32%) Blog
8 18 (2.78%) Podcast
8 18 (2.78%) Private Cloud
8 18 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.47%) PKI
10 15 (2.31%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.70%) Replication
13 10 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.23%) Life Science
14 8 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (19.14%) Linux
2 84 (12.96%) Windows
3 35 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.01%) Unix
5 14 (2.16%) VMS
6 5 (0.77%) Android
6 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (69.29%) CI/CD
2 425 (65.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 359 (55.40%) DevOps
4 189 (29.17%) Mentoring
5 167 (25.77%) Platform Engineering
6 159 (24.54%) Agile
7 156 (24.07%) Observability
8 155 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 139 (21.45%) Containerisation
10 134 (20.68%) Software Engineering
11 133 (20.52%) Test Automation
12 120 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.90%) AI
14 113 (17.44%) Microservices
15 102 (15.74%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (15.59%) Clean Code
17 92 (14.20%) Roadmaps
18 90 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
19 84 (12.96%) Analytics
20 80 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 273 (42.13%) Python
2 145 (22.38%) Java
3 114 (17.59%) PowerShell
4 94 (14.51%) SQL
5 93 (14.35%) Bicep
6 90 (13.89%) Bash
7 48 (7.41%) Go
8 44 (6.79%) TypeScript
9 42 (6.48%) JavaScript
10 28 (4.32%) C#
11 16 (2.47%) Scala
12 13 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.23%) Groovy
13 8 (1.23%) PHP
14 7 (1.08%) Rust
15 3 (0.46%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) Ruby
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) C++
16 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 81 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.65%) Azure Certification
4 47 (7.25%) Degree
5 28 (4.32%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.85%) CCNP
10 9 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.39%) SnowPro
11 7 (1.08%) CCNA
12 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.77%) CCIE
13 5 (0.77%) LPIC
14 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.62%) MCSE
14 4 (0.62%) VCAP
14 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.86%) QA
3 15 (2.31%) GDPR
3 15 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.85%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.54%) NIST
6 9 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.77%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) NCSC
8 3 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 175 (27.01%) Docker
2 55 (8.49%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.86%) vSphere
5 14 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 292 (45.06%) Kubernetes
2 138 (21.30%) Ansible
3 118 (18.21%) Grafana
4 48 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.56%) Argo
6 18 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 18 (2.78%) Puppet
7 16 (2.47%) Istio
8 13 (2.01%) Packer
9 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.70%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.93%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.46%) linkerd
14 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 142 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.33%) VMware
3 33 (5.09%) Google
4 27 (4.17%) Cisco
5 22 (3.40%) Databricks
6 16 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.01%) Okta
7 13 (2.01%) Oracle
8 12 (1.85%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.70%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.23%) Arista
10 8 (1.23%) Confluent
10 8 (1.23%) F5
10 8 (1.23%) Informatica
10 8 (1.23%) Ping Identity
11 7 (1.08%) Aruba
11 7 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.08%) EMC
11 7 (1.08%) NetScout
11 7 (1.08%) ServiceNow