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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 49 79
Rank change year-on-year -13 +30 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 654 886 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 6.10% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.83% 40.62% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 412 487 1,020
10th Percentile £47,258 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,509 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,063 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £128,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,900
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.31% -3.66%

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 2,181 3,730
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.25% 15.01% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,283 2,946
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +6.74% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 14 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 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.29%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.14%) Apache
4 8 (1.22%) Confluence
5 7 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 385 (58.87%) AWS
2 364 (55.66%) Azure
3 153 (23.39%) GCP
4 138 (21.10%) GitHub
5 124 (18.96%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (17.28%) Amazon EKS
7 87 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
8 86 (13.15%) SaaS
9 62 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (9.33%) Serverless
11 51 (7.80%) Amazon S3
12 43 (6.57%) Azure AKS
12 43 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (6.27%) PaaS
14 40 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (5.05%) OCI
17 31 (4.74%) Datadog
17 31 (4.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.62%) Firewall
2 36 (5.50%) DNS
3 30 (4.59%) VPN
4 25 (3.82%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.91%) Broadband
6 18 (2.75%) LAN
6 18 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.60%) NGFW
7 17 (2.60%) WAN
8 15 (2.29%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.29%) Wireshark
9 13 (1.99%) DHCP
9 13 (1.99%) Network Security
10 11 (1.68%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.68%) VLAN
11 7 (1.07%) BGP
11 7 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.20%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (4.13%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.91%) BigQuery
9 18 (2.75%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.60%) Metadata
11 15 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.29%) Delta Lake
12 14 (2.14%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.83%) Redis
14 11 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.38%) Power BI
17 8 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 88 (13.46%) Git
2 70 (10.70%) GitLab
3 53 (8.10%) TeamCity
4 50 (7.65%) Jenkins
5 21 (3.21%) JIRA
6 18 (2.75%) Jaeger
7 14 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (1.22%) JMeter
10 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
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 (0.76%) Storybook
12 4 (0.61%) MLflow
13 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
General
1 179 (27.37%) Finance
2 117 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 115 (17.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 97 (14.83%) Banking
5 87 (13.30%) Law
6 85 (13.00%) Retail
7 78 (11.93%) Public Sector
8 47 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (6.57%) Back Office
9 43 (6.57%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.91%) Billing
11 16 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.22%) Legal
15 7 (1.07%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.92%) Aviation
16 6 (0.92%) Marketing
16 6 (0.92%) Military
17 5 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 176 (26.91%) Senior
2 116 (17.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 113 (17.28%) Lead
4 97 (14.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (12.84%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (12.08%) Software Engineer
7 75 (11.47%) Platform Engineer
8 62 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 51 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
10 47 (7.19%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.57%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (6.27%) Developer
13 34 (5.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 34 (5.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.98%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.21%) Team Leader
17 20 (3.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (3.06%) Java Engineer
18 19 (2.91%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.72%) React
2 53 (8.10%) Node.js
3 43 (6.57%) Kafka
4 37 (5.66%) RESTful
5 32 (4.89%) .NET
5 32 (4.89%) Spring
6 28 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
7 26 (3.98%) OAuth
7 26 (3.98%) REST
8 24 (3.67%) Spring Boot
9 22 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
10 19 (2.91%) ARM Templates
11 18 (2.75%) JSON
11 18 (2.75%) PySpark
11 18 (2.75%) React Native
11 18 (2.75%) YAML
12 16 (2.45%) OAuth2
13 14 (2.14%) Django
14 13 (1.99%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 150 (22.94%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 38 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (5.05%) Blog
6 32 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (3.52%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.36%) PKI
9 19 (2.91%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.75%) Private Cloud
11 17 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (2.60%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.99%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.38%) Replication
15 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.07%) CMDB
17 6 (0.92%) FlexPod
17 6 (0.92%) Podcast
17 6 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 140 (21.41%) Linux
2 78 (11.93%) Windows
3 46 (7.03%) Unix
4 42 (6.42%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.45%) Android
5 16 (2.45%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.92%) Debian
9 5 (0.76%) CentOS
9 5 (0.76%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (64.98%) CI/CD
2 388 (59.33%) DevOps
3 379 (57.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 209 (31.96%) Agile
5 204 (31.19%) Mentoring
6 147 (22.48%) Observability
7 146 (22.32%) Test Automation
8 143 (21.87%) Platform Engineering
9 140 (21.41%) Containerisation
10 130 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (18.96%) Software Engineering
12 122 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (18.35%) Coaching
14 108 (16.51%) Microservices
15 100 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 96 (14.68%) Deployment Automation
17 90 (13.76%) Clean Code
18 86 (13.15%) Roadmaps
19 83 (12.69%) Analytics
20 71 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 285 (43.58%) Python
2 167 (25.54%) Java
3 86 (13.15%) PowerShell
3 86 (13.15%) SQL
4 82 (12.54%) Bash
5 69 (10.55%) JavaScript
6 61 (9.33%) Go
7 58 (8.87%) Bicep
8 53 (8.10%) TypeScript
9 31 (4.74%) C#
10 22 (3.36%) Scala
11 15 (2.29%) PL/SQL
11 15 (2.29%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.38%) Rust
13 8 (1.22%) PHP
14 7 (1.07%) Perl
15 4 (0.61%) C++
15 4 (0.61%) Groovy
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 76 (11.62%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.80%) Degree
4 46 (7.03%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.35%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.83%) CCNP
9 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.07%) LPIC
12 6 (0.92%) CCNA
12 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.76%) CCIE
14 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.61%) MCSE
14 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.61%) VCAP
14 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.46%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.67%) QA
3 23 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.21%) GDPR
5 18 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.75%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.29%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.53%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) WCAG
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 2 (0.31%) SLA
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 193 (29.51%) Docker
2 37 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.29%) vSphere
5 14 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.92%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.46%) Firmware
9 2 (0.31%) 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
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 302 (46.18%) Kubernetes
2 163 (24.92%) Ansible
3 123 (18.81%) Grafana
4 76 (11.62%) Prometheus
5 49 (7.49%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Puppet
6 19 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (2.75%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.14%) Packer
10 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.38%) Istio
12 8 (1.22%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.61%) logstash
15 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.34%) Google
3 44 (6.73%) VMware
4 29 (4.43%) Cisco
5 20 (3.06%) Databricks
6 17 (2.60%) Oracle
6 17 (2.60%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.45%) Arista
8 15 (2.29%) Aruba
8 15 (2.29%) NetScout
9 12 (1.83%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.83%) Okta
9 12 (1.83%) Splunk
10 8 (1.22%) Confluent
10 8 (1.22%) F5
10 8 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.07%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.07%) NetApp
12 6 (0.92%) Dynatrace