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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 56 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 685 684 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.83% 5.13% 3.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.71% 38.04% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 415 543 1,023
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £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 £110,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £96,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.16% -5.81%

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 1,567 1,798 3,803
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.77% 13.47% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 1,360 3,014
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 21 April 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 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.61%) Apache
3 10 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.17%) Confluence
4 8 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (2.34%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 413 (60.29%) AWS
2 383 (55.91%) Azure
3 173 (25.26%) GCP
4 151 (22.04%) GitHub
5 130 (18.98%) Amazon EKS
6 126 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (14.60%) SaaS
8 93 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (11.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (10.22%) Serverless
11 55 (8.03%) Amazon S3
12 48 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
14 42 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (5.99%) dbt
16 40 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (5.55%) PaaS
18 36 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
18 36 (5.26%) OCI
19 34 (4.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 89 (12.99%) Firewall
2 35 (5.11%) VPN
3 34 (4.96%) DNS
3 34 (4.96%) TCP/IP
4 21 (3.07%) Broadband
5 18 (2.63%) Network Security
5 18 (2.63%) NGFW
5 18 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (2.48%) LAN
7 16 (2.34%) WAN
8 15 (2.19%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.19%) Wireshark
9 13 (1.90%) DHCP
9 13 (1.90%) VLAN
10 12 (1.75%) SD-WAN
11 10 (1.46%) BGP
12 7 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.73%) OSPF
13 5 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (5.69%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 35 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.77%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.77%) RDBMS
6 18 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (2.48%) Metadata
8 16 (2.34%) BigQuery
9 15 (2.19%) Delta Lake
9 15 (2.19%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.19%) Redis
10 11 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.61%) MySQL
11 10 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 90 (13.14%) Git
2 66 (9.64%) GitLab
3 61 (8.91%) TeamCity
4 58 (8.47%) Jenkins
5 23 (3.36%) JIRA
6 19 (2.77%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.46%) JMeter
9 10 (1.46%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.88%) Locust
10 6 (0.88%) Selenium
10 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.73%) Storybook
12 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.44%) MLflow
13 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 206 (30.07%) Finance
2 136 (19.85%) Social Skills
3 128 (18.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (15.62%) Banking
5 95 (13.87%) Law
5 95 (13.87%) Retail
6 71 (10.36%) Public Sector
7 57 (8.32%) Back Office
7 57 (8.32%) Financial Institution
8 49 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (2.63%) Billing
10 17 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.31%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.17%) Marketing
12 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.02%) Legal
13 7 (1.02%) Military
13 7 (1.02%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.73%) Aviation
15 4 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 180 (26.28%) Senior
2 125 (18.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 117 (17.08%) Lead
4 90 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (12.26%) Software Engineer
6 82 (11.97%) Azure Engineer
7 70 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 70 (10.22%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (7.15%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (6.57%) Developer
10 42 (6.13%) Data Engineer
11 34 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (4.38%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
14 24 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.36%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.07%) Integration Engineer
17 20 (2.92%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.91%) React
2 50 (7.30%) Node.js
3 43 (6.28%) RESTful
4 42 (6.13%) .NET
5 40 (5.84%) Kafka
6 35 (5.11%) OAuth
7 34 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
8 30 (4.38%) Spring
9 24 (3.50%) Django
9 24 (3.50%) REST
10 23 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (3.21%) OAuth2
12 21 (3.07%) JSON
12 21 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 18 (2.63%) ARM Templates
13 18 (2.63%) PySpark
13 18 (2.63%) React Native
14 17 (2.48%) OpenAPI
14 17 (2.48%) Swagger
15 16 (2.34%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 173 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (5.84%) Data Centre
5 35 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (4.67%) Blog
7 29 (4.23%) Public Cloud
8 23 (3.36%) PKI
9 20 (2.92%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (2.77%) Private Cloud
11 17 (2.48%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.34%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.75%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.02%) Replication
17 6 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 137 (20.00%) Linux
2 71 (10.36%) Windows
3 48 (7.01%) Unix
4 39 (5.69%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.34%) Android
5 16 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.02%) VMS
7 6 (0.88%) CentOS
8 4 (0.58%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (65.40%) CI/CD
2 416 (60.73%) DevOps
3 409 (59.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (32.41%) Agile
5 199 (29.05%) Mentoring
6 159 (23.21%) Observability
7 149 (21.75%) Containerisation
8 145 (21.17%) Test Automation
9 144 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 136 (19.85%) Software Engineering
11 134 (19.56%) Platform Engineering
11 134 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
12 133 (19.42%) Coaching
13 112 (16.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 105 (15.33%) Deployment Automation
14 105 (15.33%) Microservices
15 94 (13.72%) Clean Code
16 86 (12.55%) Analytics
16 86 (12.55%) Roadmaps
17 74 (10.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 299 (43.65%) Python
2 167 (24.38%) Java
3 98 (14.31%) SQL
4 90 (13.14%) Bash
5 89 (12.99%) PowerShell
6 78 (11.39%) JavaScript
7 67 (9.78%) Go
8 65 (9.49%) Bicep
9 53 (7.74%) TypeScript
10 34 (4.96%) C#
11 22 (3.21%) Scala
12 17 (2.48%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.48%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.31%) Rust
14 7 (1.02%) PHP
15 6 (0.88%) Perl
16 4 (0.58%) C++
17 3 (0.44%) Groovy
18 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 75 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.30%) Degree
4 41 (5.99%) Azure Certification
5 40 (5.84%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.75%) CCNP
9 12 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.17%) LPIC
11 7 (1.02%) CCNA
12 6 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.73%) MCSE
13 5 (0.73%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.58%) VCAP
15 3 (0.44%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.44%) JNCIP
15 3 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.09%) QA
3 27 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 26 (3.80%) PCI DSS
5 25 (3.65%) Accessibility
6 24 (3.50%) GDPR
6 24 (3.50%) SOC 2
7 15 (2.19%) NIST
8 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.88%) GRC
9 5 (0.73%) SLA
9 5 (0.73%) WCAG
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 209 (30.51%) Docker
2 33 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.19%) vSphere
5 9 (1.31%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.44%) Firmware
8 3 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 314 (45.84%) Kubernetes
2 169 (24.67%) Ansible
3 137 (20.00%) Grafana
4 87 (12.70%) Prometheus
5 44 (6.42%) Argo
6 20 (2.92%) Puppet
6 20 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.77%) Kustomize
8 12 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.46%) Packer
10 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.17%) Istio
11 8 (1.17%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.58%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.58%) logstash
13 4 (0.58%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.44%) Cilium
Vendors
1 122 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.88%) Google
3 45 (6.57%) VMware
4 28 (4.09%) Cisco
5 21 (3.07%) Databricks
5 21 (3.07%) Oracle
6 17 (2.48%) Splunk
7 16 (2.34%) Arista
7 16 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.19%) Aruba
8 15 (2.19%) NetScout
9 14 (2.04%) Okta
10 11 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.46%) Ab Initio
12 8 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.17%) Confluent
12 8 (1.17%) New Relic
13 7 (1.02%) F5
14 6 (0.88%) EMC
14 6 (0.88%) SolarWinds