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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 52 79
Rank change year-on-year -15 +27 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 652 884 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 5.97% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.56% 40.53% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 412 484 1,020
10th Percentile £47,092 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,319 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,063 £108,188 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -4.19%

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 1,532 2,181 3,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.23% 14.72% 11.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,283 2,935
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +4.04% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £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 16 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 15 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.15%) Apache
2 14 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.23%) Confluence
4 6 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.61%) 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%) CMS
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 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.84%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 389 (59.66%) AWS
2 356 (54.60%) Azure
3 154 (23.62%) GCP
4 135 (20.71%) GitHub
5 119 (18.25%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (17.94%) Amazon EKS
7 89 (13.65%) SaaS
8 84 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
9 64 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (9.66%) Serverless
11 52 (7.98%) Amazon S3
12 42 (6.44%) Azure AKS
12 42 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (6.29%) PaaS
14 39 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (4.75%) OCI
16 29 (4.45%) Datadog
16 29 (4.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.81%) Firewall
2 36 (5.52%) DNS
3 30 (4.60%) VPN
4 25 (3.83%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.91%) Broadband
6 18 (2.76%) LAN
6 18 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.61%) NGFW
7 17 (2.61%) WAN
8 15 (2.30%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.30%) Wireshark
9 13 (1.99%) DHCP
9 13 (1.99%) Network Security
10 11 (1.69%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.69%) 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 71 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 31 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.07%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.76%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.61%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.61%) Metadata
10 15 (2.30%) Delta Lake
11 14 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (2.15%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.84%) Redis
13 11 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 88 (13.50%) Git
2 67 (10.28%) GitLab
3 57 (8.74%) TeamCity
4 46 (7.06%) Jenkins
5 20 (3.07%) JIRA
6 18 (2.76%) Jaeger
7 12 (1.84%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
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 (0.61%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.61%) MLflow
13 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
General
1 178 (27.30%) Finance
2 119 (18.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 118 (18.10%) Social Skills
4 101 (15.49%) Banking
5 90 (13.80%) Retail
6 89 (13.65%) Law
7 79 (12.12%) Public Sector
8 48 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (7.21%) Back Office
9 47 (7.21%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.91%) Billing
11 14 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.23%) 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 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 175 (26.84%) Senior
2 116 (17.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 112 (17.18%) Lead
4 96 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (12.73%) Azure Engineer
6 81 (12.42%) Software Engineer
7 75 (11.50%) Platform Engineer
8 62 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 52 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
10 47 (7.21%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.60%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.44%) Developer
13 34 (5.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 34 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 24 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.37%) Team Leader
17 21 (3.22%) Java Engineer
18 20 (3.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
19 18 (2.76%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.59%) React
2 52 (7.98%) Node.js
3 42 (6.44%) Kafka
4 34 (5.21%) RESTful
5 33 (5.06%) Spring
6 31 (4.75%) .NET
7 28 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (3.99%) REST
9 25 (3.83%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.53%) OAuth
11 22 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
12 19 (2.91%) ARM Templates
13 18 (2.76%) PySpark
14 17 (2.61%) YAML
15 16 (2.45%) JSON
15 16 (2.45%) React Native
16 14 (2.15%) Django
16 14 (2.15%) OAuth2
17 12 (1.84%) AngularJS
17 12 (1.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 152 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.44%) Data Centre
3 39 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (5.06%) Blog
6 32 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (3.53%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.37%) PKI
9 18 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.76%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.45%) Mobile App
11 15 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.99%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.38%) Replication
15 8 (1.23%) 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
1 141 (21.63%) Linux
2 78 (11.96%) Windows
3 46 (7.06%) Unix
4 42 (6.44%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.15%) Android
5 14 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.92%) Debian
9 5 (0.77%) CentOS
9 5 (0.77%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (64.72%) CI/CD
2 385 (59.05%) DevOps
3 378 (57.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 207 (31.75%) Agile
5 204 (31.29%) Mentoring
6 146 (22.39%) Test Automation
7 144 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
8 141 (21.63%) Observability
9 140 (21.47%) Containerisation
10 133 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (19.17%) Software Engineering
12 122 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.79%) Coaching
14 109 (16.72%) Microservices
15 100 (15.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 99 (15.18%) Deployment Automation
17 94 (14.42%) Clean Code
18 86 (13.19%) Roadmaps
19 79 (12.12%) Analytics
20 70 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 281 (43.10%) Python
2 170 (26.07%) Java
3 84 (12.88%) PowerShell
4 82 (12.58%) Bash
4 82 (12.58%) SQL
5 67 (10.28%) JavaScript
6 61 (9.36%) Go
7 57 (8.74%) Bicep
8 52 (7.98%) TypeScript
9 30 (4.60%) C#
10 22 (3.37%) Scala
11 13 (1.99%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.38%) Rust
13 8 (1.23%) 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 88 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.82%) Degree
4 47 (7.21%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.84%) CCNP
9 11 (1.69%) 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 (0.77%) 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%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.45%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.53%) QA
3 22 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.07%) GDPR
5 18 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.76%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.30%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.53%) 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 (29.14%) Docker
2 37 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.30%) vSphere
5 14 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.23%) 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
1 305 (46.78%) Kubernetes
2 164 (25.15%) Ansible
3 123 (18.87%) Grafana
4 71 (10.89%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.21%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Puppet
7 18 (2.76%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 14 (2.15%) Packer
11 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (1.38%) Istio
13 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
15 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
16 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.61%) logstash
16 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 121 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.36%) Google
3 44 (6.75%) VMware
4 29 (4.45%) Cisco
5 20 (3.07%) Databricks
6 17 (2.61%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.45%) Arista
8 15 (2.30%) Aruba
8 15 (2.30%) NetScout
8 15 (2.30%) Oracle
9 12 (1.84%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.69%) Okta
10 11 (1.69%) Splunk
11 8 (1.23%) Confluent
11 8 (1.23%) F5
11 8 (1.23%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.23%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.07%) NetApp
13 6 (0.92%) EMC
13 6 (0.92%) Salesforce