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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 52 80
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 672 857 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 5.90% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.80% 41.24% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 436 457 1,029
10th Percentile £47,296 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +10.22% -4.67%
75th Percentile £86,253 £101,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £121,750 £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 1,570 2,078 3,715
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.24% 14.32% 11.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 1,195 2,921
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £61,353
% change year-on-year -5.80% +12.46% -9.11%

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 27 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 18 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.38%) Apache
2 16 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.04%) Confluence
4 5 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.30%) Camunda
6 2 (0.30%) IIS
6 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 406 (60.42%) AWS
2 358 (53.27%) Azure
3 162 (24.11%) GCP
4 128 (19.05%) GitHub
5 120 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
5 120 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (14.14%) SaaS
7 78 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 65 (9.67%) Serverless
10 59 (8.78%) Amazon S3
11 50 (7.44%) Azure AKS
12 47 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
12 47 (6.99%) PaaS
13 46 (6.85%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
16 35 (5.21%) IaaS
17 34 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
18 32 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.01%) Firewall
2 38 (5.65%) DNS
3 28 (4.17%) VPN
4 25 (3.72%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.83%) Broadband
6 18 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.53%) LAN
8 16 (2.38%) NGFW
8 16 (2.38%) WAN
9 15 (2.23%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.23%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.93%) DHCP
11 12 (1.79%) Network Security
12 10 (1.49%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.49%) VLAN
13 6 (0.89%) BGP
13 6 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.89%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.87%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 20 (2.98%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.68%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.68%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.53%) Metadata
9 15 (2.23%) Delta Lake
9 15 (2.23%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.93%) Redis
11 11 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.19%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 86 (12.80%) Git
2 73 (10.86%) GitLab
3 59 (8.78%) TeamCity
4 48 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.68%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.53%) JIRA
7 11 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.19%) JMeter
10 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.89%) Locust
10 6 (0.89%) Selenium
10 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.74%) Storybook
12 4 (0.60%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.60%) MLflow
13 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 176 (26.19%) Finance
2 120 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 117 (17.41%) Social Skills
4 103 (15.33%) Banking
5 94 (13.99%) Law
6 91 (13.54%) Retail
7 83 (12.35%) Public Sector
8 49 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (7.29%) Back Office
8 49 (7.29%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.68%) Billing
10 13 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.34%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.19%) Aviation
13 8 (1.19%) Legal
14 6 (0.89%) Marketing
14 6 (0.89%) Military
14 6 (0.89%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.74%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 168 (25.00%) Senior
2 127 (18.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 118 (17.56%) Lead
4 104 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (12.80%) Azure Engineer
6 83 (12.35%) Software Engineer
7 79 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (9.08%) AWS Engineer
8 61 (9.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 50 (7.44%) Data Engineer
10 45 (6.70%) Senior DevOps
11 42 (6.25%) Developer
12 38 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 36 (5.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.72%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 24 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
16 23 (3.42%) Team Leader
17 22 (3.27%) Java Engineer
18 20 (2.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
19 19 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.18%) React
2 53 (7.89%) Node.js
3 42 (6.25%) Kafka
4 34 (5.06%) Spring
5 30 (4.46%) RESTful
6 28 (4.17%) .NET
6 28 (4.17%) REST
7 26 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (3.72%) ARM Templates
8 25 (3.72%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 21 (3.13%) OAuth
10 21 (3.13%) YAML
11 20 (2.98%) PySpark
12 16 (2.38%) JSON
12 16 (2.38%) React Native
13 14 (2.08%) Django
14 12 (1.79%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.79%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 162 (24.11%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 40 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (4.91%) Blog
7 25 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.27%) PKI
9 18 (2.68%) Private Cloud
10 17 (2.53%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.38%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.64%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.49%) Replication
15 9 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.04%) CMDB
16 7 (1.04%) Data Structures
17 6 (0.89%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 144 (21.43%) Linux
2 76 (11.31%) Windows
3 44 (6.55%) Unix
4 43 (6.40%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.08%) Android
5 14 (2.08%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.89%) Debian
8 5 (0.74%) CentOS
9 4 (0.60%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (64.58%) CI/CD
2 400 (59.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 394 (58.63%) DevOps
4 209 (31.10%) Mentoring
5 207 (30.80%) Agile
6 161 (23.96%) Platform Engineering
7 151 (22.47%) Containerisation
8 149 (22.17%) Observability
8 149 (22.17%) Test Automation
9 137 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 128 (19.05%) Software Engineering
11 122 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
12 118 (17.56%) Microservices
13 112 (16.67%) Coaching
14 97 (14.43%) Clean Code
14 97 (14.43%) Deployment Automation
15 96 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 89 (13.24%) Roadmaps
17 83 (12.35%) Analytics
18 78 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 289 (43.01%) Python
2 173 (25.74%) Java
3 93 (13.84%) PowerShell
4 92 (13.69%) Bash
5 81 (12.05%) SQL
6 67 (9.97%) JavaScript
7 63 (9.38%) Go
8 60 (8.93%) Bicep
9 52 (7.74%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.61%) C#
11 22 (3.27%) Scala
12 11 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.64%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.34%) Rust
14 7 (1.04%) PHP
15 6 (0.89%) Perl
16 5 (0.74%) Groovy
17 4 (0.60%) C++
18 2 (0.30%) C
18 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.44%) Degree
4 49 (7.29%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.64%) CCNP
8 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.89%) CCNA
10 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.89%) LPIC
11 5 (0.74%) CCIE
12 4 (0.60%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.60%) MCSE
12 4 (0.60%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.60%) VCAP
12 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.72%) QA
3 21 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.83%) GDPR
5 18 (2.68%) PCI DSS
6 17 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.23%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.49%) NIST
9 5 (0.74%) WCAG
10 3 (0.45%) SLA
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 197 (29.32%) Docker
2 40 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 30 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.23%) vSphere
6 8 (1.19%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.74%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) 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
1 314 (46.73%) Kubernetes
2 163 (24.26%) Ansible
3 129 (19.20%) Grafana
4 76 (11.31%) Prometheus
5 53 (7.89%) Argo
6 19 (2.83%) Puppet
7 18 (2.68%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.53%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.08%) Packer
9 14 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.79%) Istio
10 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.19%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.60%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.45%) logstash
15 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 126 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.89%) Google
3 46 (6.85%) VMware
4 28 (4.17%) Cisco
5 19 (2.83%) Databricks
6 16 (2.38%) Arista
6 16 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.23%) Aruba
7 15 (2.23%) NetScout
7 15 (2.23%) Oracle
8 11 (1.64%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.49%) Okta
9 10 (1.49%) Splunk
10 8 (1.19%) Confluent
10 8 (1.19%) F5
10 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.04%) EMC
11 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.04%) Salesforce