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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -10
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 659 750 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.97% 5.18% 4.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.50% 34.63% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 389 576 1,033
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £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 £85,000 £108,750 £93,750
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% -6.03%

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 1,515 2,166 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.12% 14.97% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 1,365 3,009
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% +7.69% -5.13%
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 4 March 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 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.21%) Apache
5 8 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.91%) IIS
7 4 (0.61%) Confluence
7 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Weka
2 4 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 31 (4.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 387 (58.73%) AWS
2 383 (58.12%) Azure
3 171 (25.95%) GitHub
4 162 (24.58%) Azure DevOps
5 151 (22.91%) GCP
6 110 (16.69%) Amazon EKS
7 99 (15.02%) SaaS
8 96 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
9 83 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (9.86%) Serverless
11 64 (9.71%) Entra ID
12 59 (8.95%) Azure Monitor
13 52 (7.89%) OCI
14 49 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 49 (7.44%) Amazon S3
14 49 (7.44%) PaaS
15 44 (6.68%) dbt
16 43 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
17 40 (6.07%) IaaS
18 37 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 91 (13.81%) Firewall
2 44 (6.68%) VPN
3 32 (4.86%) DNS
4 27 (4.10%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.19%) Broadband
6 20 (3.03%) WAN
7 19 (2.88%) Network Security
8 18 (2.73%) NGFW
8 18 (2.73%) SD-WAN
8 18 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (2.58%) Wireshark
10 15 (2.28%) VLAN
10 15 (2.28%) VXLAN
11 11 (1.67%) BGP
12 10 (1.52%) LAN
13 9 (1.37%) DHCP
14 5 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (0.76%) OSPF
14 5 (0.76%) SSL
15 4 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (3.34%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.19%) Power BI
7 21 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.88%) Redis
9 18 (2.73%) Tableau
10 17 (2.58%) Metadata
11 15 (2.28%) BigQuery
12 14 (2.12%) Delta Lake
12 14 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.52%) DynamoDB
14 10 (1.52%) MySQL
15 9 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 79 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 74 (11.23%) Git
3 57 (8.65%) TeamCity
4 56 (8.50%) GitLab
5 31 (4.70%) Oracle Forms
6 24 (3.64%) JIRA
7 19 (2.88%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.06%) JMeter
10 6 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.76%) Storybook
12 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.61%) ERwin
12 4 (0.61%) Locust
12 4 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.61%) Selenium
12 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.46%) Eclipse
General
1 225 (34.14%) Finance
2 134 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 107 (16.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (13.96%) Banking
5 89 (13.51%) Retail
6 85 (12.90%) Law
7 57 (8.65%) Public Sector
8 53 (8.04%) Back Office
8 53 (8.04%) Financial Institution
9 48 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.43%) Billing
11 15 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.21%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.06%) Military
14 6 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.76%) Marketing
16 4 (0.61%) Front Office
16 4 (0.61%) Games
16 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (26.25%) Senior
2 139 (21.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 104 (15.78%) Lead
4 74 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 74 (11.23%) Software Engineer
5 73 (11.08%) Azure Engineer
6 66 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 65 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
8 44 (6.68%) Developer
9 38 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
9 38 (5.77%) Data Engineer
10 31 (4.70%) Applications Engineer
10 31 (4.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (4.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 26 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.49%) Lead DevOps
15 22 (3.34%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.19%) Architect
16 21 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.95%) React
1 59 (8.95%) RESTful
2 46 (6.98%) .NET
3 44 (6.68%) OAuth
4 39 (5.92%) Node.js
5 37 (5.61%) JSON
6 36 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
7 32 (4.86%) OAuth2
8 24 (3.64%) Spring
9 23 (3.49%) Kafka
10 21 (3.19%) Django
10 21 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (3.03%) PySpark
12 19 (2.88%) Spring Boot
13 18 (2.73%) React Native
13 18 (2.73%) REST
14 17 (2.58%) GraphQL
14 17 (2.58%) SOAP
14 17 (2.58%) Swagger
14 17 (2.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 175 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.68%) Data Centre
4 40 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (4.86%) Blog
7 28 (4.25%) Public Cloud
8 27 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (3.49%) Onboarding
10 21 (3.19%) Security Posture
11 20 (3.03%) PKI
12 15 (2.28%) Mobile App
13 14 (2.12%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.67%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.52%) Private Cloud
16 8 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
17 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
18 6 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (19.27%) Linux
2 61 (9.26%) Windows
3 48 (7.28%) Unix
4 27 (4.10%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.12%) Android
5 14 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 14 (2.12%) VMS
6 8 (1.21%) CentOS
6 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.61%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (64.64%) CI/CD
2 415 (62.97%) DevOps
3 388 (58.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (33.69%) Agile
5 196 (29.74%) Mentoring
6 165 (25.04%) Coaching
7 163 (24.73%) Observability
8 138 (20.94%) Test Automation
9 133 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
10 130 (19.73%) Containerisation
11 116 (17.60%) Platform Engineering
12 108 (16.39%) Software Engineering
13 105 (15.93%) Deployment Automation
13 105 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 104 (15.78%) Asset Management
15 103 (15.63%) Analytics
16 94 (14.26%) Microservices
17 85 (12.90%) Clean Code
18 81 (12.29%) AI
Programming Languages
1 298 (45.22%) Python
2 165 (25.04%) Java
3 126 (19.12%) SQL
4 113 (17.15%) PowerShell
5 108 (16.39%) Bash
6 82 (12.44%) JavaScript
7 72 (10.93%) Bicep
8 59 (8.95%) Go
9 52 (7.89%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.70%) PL/SQL
10 31 (4.70%) Shell Script
11 30 (4.55%) C#
12 19 (2.88%) Scala
13 7 (1.06%) Rust
14 5 (0.76%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) PHP
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.15%) Ruby
17 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.99%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.13%) AWS Certification
4 42 (6.37%) Azure Certification
4 42 (6.37%) Degree
5 23 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.37%) CCNP
9 7 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.76%) LPIC
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.46%) CCNA
13 3 (0.46%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.30%) MCSE
14 2 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 30 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 30 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 27 (4.10%) GDPR
2 27 (4.10%) QA
3 26 (3.95%) SOC 2
4 25 (3.79%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.88%) NIST
6 9 (1.37%) SLA
7 7 (1.06%) GRC
8 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.46%) WCAG
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 210 (31.87%) Docker
2 38 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.28%) Hyper-V
6 14 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (2.12%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.82%) vSphere
8 9 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.30%) Ceph
10 2 (0.30%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) Lustre
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.30%) vCloud
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 274 (41.58%) Kubernetes
2 154 (23.37%) Ansible
3 139 (21.09%) Grafana
4 93 (14.11%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.92%) Argo
6 34 (5.16%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.88%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.67%) Puppet
10 7 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.91%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.91%) SCOM
12 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.76%) Cilium
13 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.61%) logstash
13 4 (0.61%) Packer
13 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.46%) Control-M
14 3 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.95%) Google
3 44 (6.68%) VMware
4 37 (5.61%) Oracle
5 23 (3.49%) Databricks
6 18 (2.73%) Cisco
6 18 (2.73%) Okta
6 18 (2.73%) Splunk
7 16 (2.43%) Arista
8 15 (2.28%) Aruba
8 15 (2.28%) NetScout
9 14 (2.12%) Ab Initio
10 12 (1.82%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.37%) New Relic
12 8 (1.21%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.06%) F5
13 7 (1.06%) IBM
14 6 (0.91%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.91%) Mercator
15 5 (0.76%) BMC