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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 52 79
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 650 865 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.46% 5.92% 3.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.57% 41.13% 32.39%
Number of salaries quoted 413 465 1,026
10th Percentile £47,174 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%
75th Percentile £86,253 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,900
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.31% -2.80%

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 1,527 2,103 3,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 14.39% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,215 2,928
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £36,925
25th Percentile £48,165 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +8.41% -8.57%
75th Percentile £80,938 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -5.80% +12.73% -9.32%

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 22 May 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 16 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.15%) Apache
2 14 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.08%) Confluence
4 5 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 391 (60.15%) AWS
2 348 (53.54%) Azure
3 158 (24.31%) GCP
4 127 (19.54%) GitHub
5 119 (18.31%) Amazon EKS
6 112 (17.23%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (14.00%) SaaS
8 78 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
9 64 (9.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (9.69%) Serverless
11 53 (8.15%) Amazon S3
12 45 (6.92%) Azure AKS
13 43 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
14 42 (6.46%) PaaS
15 41 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
17 36 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
19 30 (4.62%) Entra ID
19 30 (4.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (11.23%) Firewall
2 37 (5.69%) DNS
3 28 (4.31%) VPN
4 24 (3.69%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.92%) Broadband
6 18 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.62%) LAN
8 16 (2.46%) NGFW
8 16 (2.46%) WAN
9 15 (2.31%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.31%) Wireshark
10 13 (2.00%) DHCP
11 12 (1.85%) Network Security
12 10 (1.54%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.54%) VLAN
13 6 (0.92%) BGP
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.23%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.38%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.77%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.77%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.62%) Metadata
10 15 (2.31%) Delta Lake
11 14 (2.15%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.69%) Redis
14 10 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 82 (12.62%) Git
2 67 (10.31%) GitLab
3 59 (9.08%) TeamCity
4 43 (6.62%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.77%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.62%) JIRA
7 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.23%) JMeter
10 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.92%) Locust
10 6 (0.92%) Selenium
10 6 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.77%) Storybook
12 4 (0.62%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.62%) MLflow
13 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
General
1 174 (26.77%) Finance
2 121 (18.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 113 (17.38%) Social Skills
4 103 (15.85%) Banking
5 92 (14.15%) Law
5 92 (14.15%) Retail
6 80 (12.31%) Public Sector
7 49 (7.54%) Back Office
7 49 (7.54%) Financial Institution
8 47 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (2.62%) Billing
10 13 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.38%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.23%) Legal
14 6 (0.92%) Aviation
14 6 (0.92%) Marketing
14 6 (0.92%) Military
14 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 167 (25.69%) Senior
2 119 (18.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 116 (17.85%) Lead
4 97 (14.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
6 81 (12.46%) Software Engineer
7 75 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 54 (8.31%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (7.38%) Data Engineer
11 44 (6.77%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.46%) Developer
13 35 (5.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 35 (5.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 24 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
16 23 (3.54%) Team Leader
17 21 (3.23%) Java Engineer
18 20 (3.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
19 19 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.15%) React
2 51 (7.85%) Node.js
3 43 (6.62%) Kafka
4 33 (5.08%) Spring
5 30 (4.62%) RESTful
6 27 (4.15%) .NET
7 26 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (3.85%) REST
8 25 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.54%) OpenTelemetry
10 22 (3.38%) ARM Templates
11 20 (3.08%) OAuth
12 18 (2.77%) PySpark
12 18 (2.77%) YAML
13 16 (2.46%) React Native
14 15 (2.31%) JSON
15 14 (2.15%) Django
16 12 (1.85%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.85%) FastAPI
16 12 (1.85%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 153 (23.54%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.46%) Data Centre
3 40 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.08%) Blog
7 23 (3.54%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.38%) PKI
9 18 (2.77%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.46%) Mobile App
11 15 (2.31%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.54%) Replication
15 7 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.08%) CMDB
15 7 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.92%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.38%) Linux
2 76 (11.69%) Windows
3 44 (6.77%) Unix
4 43 (6.62%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.15%) Android
5 14 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.92%) Debian
9 5 (0.77%) CentOS
10 4 (0.62%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (64.31%) CI/CD
2 380 (58.46%) DevOps
3 379 (58.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 204 (31.38%) Mentoring
5 199 (30.62%) Agile
6 150 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 146 (22.46%) Test Automation
8 141 (21.69%) Containerisation
9 138 (21.23%) Observability
10 133 (20.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (19.23%) Software Engineering
12 116 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (17.38%) Microservices
14 111 (17.08%) Coaching
15 98 (15.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 97 (14.92%) Deployment Automation
17 95 (14.62%) Clean Code
18 87 (13.38%) Roadmaps
19 78 (12.00%) Analytics
20 73 (11.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 275 (42.31%) Python
2 170 (26.15%) Java
3 81 (12.46%) PowerShell
4 80 (12.31%) Bash
5 75 (11.54%) SQL
6 65 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 60 (9.23%) Go
8 55 (8.46%) Bicep
9 50 (7.69%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.62%) C#
11 22 (3.38%) Scala
12 11 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.38%) Rust
14 7 (1.08%) Perl
14 7 (1.08%) PHP
15 5 (0.77%) Groovy
16 4 (0.62%) C++
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.85%) Degree
4 49 (7.54%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.54%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.69%) CCNP
8 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.08%) LPIC
11 6 (0.92%) CCNA
11 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.77%) CCIE
13 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.62%) MCSE
13 4 (0.62%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.62%) VCAP
13 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.54%) QA
3 21 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.08%) GDPR
5 18 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.77%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.31%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.54%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 190 (29.23%) Docker
2 38 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.31%) vSphere
6 8 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
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
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 304 (46.77%) Kubernetes
2 162 (24.92%) Ansible
3 123 (18.92%) Grafana
4 70 (10.77%) Prometheus
5 49 (7.54%) Argo
6 19 (2.92%) Puppet
7 18 (2.77%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.46%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.15%) Packer
9 14 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.54%) Istio
12 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.62%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.46%) Control-M
16 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 119 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.69%) Google
3 45 (6.92%) VMware
4 28 (4.31%) Cisco
5 19 (2.92%) Databricks
6 16 (2.46%) Arista
6 16 (2.46%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.31%) Aruba
7 15 (2.31%) NetScout
8 13 (2.00%) Oracle
9 11 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.54%) Okta
10 10 (1.54%) Splunk
11 8 (1.23%) Confluent
11 8 (1.23%) F5
11 8 (1.23%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.08%) EMC
12 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.08%) Salesforce