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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 67 75
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 667 797 991
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.84% 3.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.67% 40.25% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 474 405 778
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,986 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -1.67%

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 1,870 1,980 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.49% 12.03% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,385 1,130 2,111
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,675 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £48,165 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £102,410 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.72%

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 30 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 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.40%) Apache
4 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.90%) Confluence
6 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.45%) Camunda
8 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.30%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
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
1 421 (63.12%) AWS
2 380 (56.97%) Azure
3 186 (27.89%) GCP
4 109 (16.34%) GitHub
5 106 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (14.39%) SaaS
7 93 (13.94%) Amazon EKS
8 92 (13.79%) Serverless
9 90 (13.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (10.64%) PaaS
11 62 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (8.25%) Amazon S3
13 51 (7.65%) Azure AKS
14 47 (7.05%) IaaS
15 46 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
17 39 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
18 36 (5.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (4.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.65%) Firewall
2 45 (6.75%) VPN
3 39 (5.85%) TCP/IP
4 32 (4.80%) DNS
5 18 (2.70%) LAN
6 17 (2.55%) DHCP
6 17 (2.55%) WAN
7 9 (1.35%) Network Security
8 8 (1.20%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.20%) VLAN
9 7 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (1.05%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.05%) WebEx
10 6 (0.90%) HTTP
10 6 (0.90%) Wireless
11 5 (0.75%) MQTT
12 4 (0.60%) BGP
13 3 (0.45%) OSPF
13 3 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.60%) Metadata
5 20 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.70%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.40%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.10%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.95%) Redis
10 11 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.65%) Data Vault
10 11 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.65%) Power BI
11 10 (1.50%) Big Data
11 10 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 83 (12.44%) Git
2 58 (8.70%) GitLab
3 53 (7.95%) TeamCity
4 47 (7.05%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.50%) JIRA
7 9 (1.35%) JMeter
8 8 (1.20%) Selenium
9 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.75%) Locust
10 4 (0.60%) Postman
10 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.45%) Maven
11 3 (0.45%) MLflow
11 3 (0.45%) NUnit
11 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.30%) JUnit
12 2 (0.30%) MSI
12 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 156 (23.39%) Finance
3 104 (15.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (14.09%) Law
5 88 (13.19%) Banking
6 73 (10.94%) Retail
7 71 (10.64%) Public Sector
8 43 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (6.45%) Back Office
9 42 (6.30%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.50%) Marketing
12 9 (1.35%) Legal
13 7 (1.05%) Billing
13 7 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.90%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.75%) Aviation
16 4 (0.60%) Advertising
16 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (28.64%) Senior
2 106 (15.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 100 (14.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 99 (14.84%) Lead
5 87 (13.04%) Software Engineer
6 82 (12.29%) Platform Engineer
7 78 (11.69%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.05%) Senior DevOps
10 45 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.60%) Data Engineer
12 43 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 40 (6.00%) Developer
13 40 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (5.25%) Architect
15 29 (4.35%) Python Engineer
16 28 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (3.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 23 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 23 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.15%) React
2 50 (7.50%) Node.js
3 41 (6.15%) REST
4 36 (5.40%) Kafka
5 34 (5.10%) ARM Templates
6 27 (4.05%) Spring
7 23 (3.45%) .NET
8 21 (3.15%) OAuth
8 21 (3.15%) PySpark
9 20 (3.00%) Spring Boot
10 19 (2.85%) OpenID
11 18 (2.70%) OAuth2
11 18 (2.70%) YAML
12 15 (2.25%) AngularJS
13 14 (2.10%) AWS CDK
13 14 (2.10%) NestJS
14 13 (1.95%) SAML
15 12 (1.80%) Django
15 12 (1.80%) Flask
16 11 (1.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 44 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (6.00%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.90%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.70%) Blog
7 18 (2.70%) Podcast
7 18 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.40%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.25%) Replication
10 14 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.10%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.50%) PKI
13 9 (1.35%) Life Science
14 8 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (19.64%) Linux
2 87 (13.04%) Windows
3 38 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.35%) Unix
5 14 (2.10%) VMS
6 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.45%) Android
7 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (69.87%) CI/CD
2 445 (66.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 376 (56.37%) DevOps
4 194 (29.09%) Mentoring
5 169 (25.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 168 (25.19%) Observability
7 167 (25.04%) Agile
8 164 (24.59%) Platform Engineering
9 148 (22.19%) Software Engineering
10 139 (20.84%) Containerisation
11 133 (19.94%) AI
12 124 (18.59%) Test Automation
13 115 (17.24%) Microservices
14 114 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (16.64%) Clean Code
16 110 (16.49%) Technical Leadership
17 91 (13.64%) Roadmaps
18 87 (13.04%) Analytics
19 83 (12.44%) Deployment Automation
20 81 (12.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 276 (41.38%) Python
2 130 (19.49%) Java
3 120 (17.99%) PowerShell
4 99 (14.84%) Bicep
4 99 (14.84%) SQL
5 83 (12.44%) Bash
6 43 (6.45%) Go
6 43 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 38 (5.70%) JavaScript
8 34 (5.10%) C#
9 17 (2.55%) Scala
10 13 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (1.20%) PHP
12 7 (1.05%) Groovy
12 7 (1.05%) Rust
13 4 (0.60%) Ruby
13 4 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.30%) C
15 2 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 108 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 97 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.24%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.50%) Degree
5 29 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.15%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.80%) CCNP
9 12 (1.80%) SnowPro
10 11 (1.65%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.05%) CCNA
12 6 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.75%) CCIE
13 5 (0.75%) LPIC
14 4 (0.60%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.60%) MCSE
14 4 (0.60%) VCAP
14 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.40%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.90%) QA
3 14 (2.10%) GDPR
4 11 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.65%) NIST
4 11 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 5 (0.75%) WCAG
7 4 (0.60%) NCSC
7 4 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) IFRS
8 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
9 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 188 (28.19%) Docker
2 59 (8.85%) Active Directory
3 43 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.75%) vSphere
5 15 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.90%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 291 (43.63%) Kubernetes
2 135 (20.24%) Ansible
3 111 (16.64%) Grafana
4 41 (6.15%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.50%) Argo
6 19 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.70%) Istio
8 17 (2.55%) Puppet
9 14 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (1.95%) Packer
11 9 (1.35%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.60%) linkerd
15 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 152 (22.79%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.65%) VMware
3 40 (6.00%) Google
4 27 (4.05%) Cisco
5 26 (3.90%) Databricks
6 18 (2.70%) Okta
7 17 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.40%) Oracle
9 13 (1.95%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.80%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.80%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.50%) Informatica
12 8 (1.20%) Confluent
13 7 (1.05%) EMC
13 7 (1.05%) F5
13 7 (1.05%) NetApp
13 7 (1.05%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.05%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.05%) Splunk