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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 75
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 663 673 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 5.16% 3.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.73% 34.13% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 392 565 1,029
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £64,509 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +8.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,500 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,901 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.64% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,516 1,972 3,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.92% 15.11% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 1,386 3,046
10th Percentile £36,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 24 March 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 11 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (1.36%) Apache
4 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.75%) Confluence
6 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.60%) IIS
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 6 (0.90%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.32%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 404 (60.94%) AWS
2 374 (56.41%) Azure
3 168 (25.34%) GCP
4 161 (24.28%) GitHub
5 142 (21.42%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (18.55%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (15.54%) SaaS
8 96 (14.48%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (9.80%) Serverless
11 54 (8.14%) Amazon S3
12 48 (7.24%) Azure Monitor
13 45 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 45 (6.79%) OCI
14 44 (6.64%) dbt
15 43 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (6.33%) PaaS
17 41 (6.18%) Entra ID
18 39 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (12.82%) Firewall
2 35 (5.28%) VPN
3 31 (4.68%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.92%) DNS
5 21 (3.17%) Broadband
6 19 (2.87%) Network Security
7 18 (2.71%) NGFW
8 17 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (2.41%) WAN
10 15 (2.26%) VLAN
10 15 (2.26%) VXLAN
10 15 (2.26%) Wireshark
11 14 (2.11%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.96%) LAN
13 9 (1.36%) BGP
14 6 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.90%) DHCP
15 4 (0.60%) MQTT
15 4 (0.60%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (6.03%) NoSQL
4 33 (4.98%) Relational Database
5 28 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.32%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (2.87%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.71%) Metadata
8 18 (2.71%) Redis
9 17 (2.56%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.56%) Power BI
10 16 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (2.11%) Delta Lake
11 14 (2.11%) Tableau
12 13 (1.96%) MySQL
13 11 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.66%) DynamoDB
14 9 (1.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 81 (12.22%) Git
2 70 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.20%) TeamCity
4 57 (8.60%) GitLab
5 22 (3.32%) JIRA
5 22 (3.32%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (2.87%) Jaeger
7 10 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.36%) JMeter
9 8 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.90%) Selenium
10 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.75%) Locust
11 5 (0.75%) Storybook
12 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.60%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.60%) ERwin
12 4 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
General
1 216 (32.58%) Finance
2 128 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 119 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (16.14%) Banking
5 95 (14.33%) Retail
6 90 (13.57%) Law
7 59 (8.90%) Public Sector
8 56 (8.45%) Back Office
8 56 (8.45%) Financial Institution
9 49 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (2.71%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.41%) Billing
12 8 (1.21%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.21%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.06%) Marketing
13 7 (1.06%) Military
13 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.90%) Legal
15 4 (0.60%) Electronics
15 4 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 173 (26.09%) Senior
2 125 (18.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 107 (16.14%) Lead
4 81 (12.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (11.92%) Software Engineer
6 74 (11.16%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
8 65 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (7.09%) Developer
10 46 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (5.58%) Data Engineer
12 31 (4.68%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 28 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 25 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.62%) Lead DevOps
16 23 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
17 22 (3.32%) Applications Engineer
18 21 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.17%) Java Engineer
19 20 (3.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.75%) React
2 51 (7.69%) RESTful
3 46 (6.94%) .NET
4 39 (5.88%) Node.js
5 38 (5.73%) OAuth
6 36 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
7 33 (4.98%) Kafka
8 29 (4.37%) JSON
9 26 (3.92%) OAuth2
9 26 (3.92%) Spring
10 23 (3.47%) Django
10 23 (3.47%) REST
11 20 (3.02%) OpenTelemetry
12 19 (2.87%) Spring Boot
13 18 (2.71%) ARM Templates
13 18 (2.71%) PySpark
13 18 (2.71%) React Native
14 17 (2.56%) OpenAPI
14 17 (2.56%) Swagger
15 16 (2.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 175 (26.40%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.64%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.83%) Blog
5 32 (4.83%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.87%) PKI
9 17 (2.56%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.41%) Private Cloud
11 15 (2.26%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.96%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.66%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.06%) Replication
16 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (20.21%) Linux
2 64 (9.65%) Windows
3 47 (7.09%) Unix
4 33 (4.98%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.11%) Android
5 14 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.51%) VMS
7 8 (1.21%) CentOS
7 8 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.45%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (65.16%) CI/CD
2 414 (62.44%) DevOps
3 389 (58.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 218 (32.88%) Agile
5 189 (28.51%) Mentoring
6 157 (23.68%) Observability
7 144 (21.72%) Containerisation
8 138 (20.81%) Coaching
8 138 (20.81%) Test Automation
9 137 (20.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 125 (18.85%) Software Engineering
11 124 (18.70%) Platform Engineering
11 124 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
12 109 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 103 (15.54%) Deployment Automation
14 94 (14.18%) Microservices
15 90 (13.57%) Analytics
16 88 (13.27%) Clean Code
17 81 (12.22%) Roadmaps
18 80 (12.07%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 302 (45.55%) Python
2 160 (24.13%) Java
3 109 (16.44%) SQL
4 101 (15.23%) Bash
5 98 (14.78%) PowerShell
6 76 (11.46%) JavaScript
7 69 (10.41%) Bicep
8 66 (9.95%) Go
9 50 (7.54%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.68%) C#
11 22 (3.32%) PL/SQL
11 22 (3.32%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.87%) Scala
13 7 (1.06%) Rust
14 5 (0.75%) Perl
15 4 (0.60%) PHP
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.99%) Degree
4 46 (6.94%) AWS Certification
5 45 (6.79%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.66%) CCNP
9 11 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.21%) LPIC
11 7 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.75%) CCNA
13 5 (0.75%) MCSE
13 5 (0.75%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.60%) VCAP
15 3 (0.45%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.52%) PCI DSS
3 27 (4.07%) QA
4 26 (3.92%) SOC 2
5 25 (3.77%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.77%) GDPR
6 17 (2.56%) NIST
7 8 (1.21%) SLA
8 7 (1.06%) GRC
9 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.60%) WCAG
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 216 (32.58%) Docker
2 27 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.56%) vSphere
6 12 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.45%) Firmware
11 3 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.30%) Ceph
12 2 (0.30%) Lustre
12 2 (0.30%) vCloud
13 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 294 (44.34%) Kubernetes
2 162 (24.43%) Ansible
3 137 (20.66%) Grafana
4 90 (13.57%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.73%) Argo
6 25 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.87%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.41%) Puppet
9 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.36%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.21%) Istio
11 8 (1.21%) Packer
12 7 (1.06%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.60%) Cilium
14 4 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.60%) logstash
14 4 (0.60%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.45%) Control-M
15 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 110 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.20%) Google
3 44 (6.64%) VMware
4 29 (4.37%) Oracle
5 27 (4.07%) Cisco
6 24 (3.62%) Databricks
7 20 (3.02%) Splunk
8 16 (2.41%) Arista
8 16 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.26%) Aruba
9 15 (2.26%) NetScout
10 14 (2.11%) Okta
11 12 (1.81%) Ab Initio
12 11 (1.66%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.36%) New Relic
14 8 (1.21%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.21%) Confluent
14 8 (1.21%) F5
15 7 (1.06%) IBM
16 6 (0.90%) EMC