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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 63 82
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 646 821 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 5.32% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.51% 40.46% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 428 431 966
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +3.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,375 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 1,635 2,029 3,702
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 13.15% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 1,169 2,816
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,520 £49,118 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.47% -8.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

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 19 June 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 21 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.79%) Apache
4 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.77%) Confluence
5 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 414 (64.09%) AWS
2 335 (51.86%) Azure
3 152 (23.53%) GCP
4 111 (17.18%) Amazon EKS
5 110 (17.03%) GitHub
6 105 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (14.71%) SaaS
8 80 (12.38%) Serverless
9 77 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (10.22%) GitHub Actions
11 59 (9.13%) PaaS
12 58 (8.98%) Amazon S3
13 55 (8.51%) Azure AKS
14 49 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (7.28%) Azure Monitor
16 46 (7.12%) IaaS
17 42 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
18 41 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
20 34 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.99%) Firewall
2 36 (5.57%) VPN
3 27 (4.18%) DNS
4 24 (3.72%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.41%) Broadband
6 18 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.63%) LAN
7 17 (2.63%) WAN
8 16 (2.48%) NGFW
9 15 (2.32%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.32%) Wireshark
10 13 (2.01%) DHCP
11 11 (1.70%) Network Security
12 10 (1.55%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.55%) VLAN
13 7 (1.08%) BGP
14 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.73%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.80%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.56%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.25%) RDBMS
8 20 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (2.94%) BigQuery
10 17 (2.63%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.48%) Metadata
12 15 (2.32%) DynamoDB
13 14 (2.17%) Delta Lake
14 13 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (2.01%) Redis
15 11 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (1.39%) Big Data
17 9 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 77 (11.92%) Git
2 63 (9.75%) GitLab
3 55 (8.51%) TeamCity
4 44 (6.81%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.79%) Jaeger
6 12 (1.86%) JIRA
7 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (1.24%) JMeter
9 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.77%) Locust
10 5 (0.77%) Selenium
10 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.46%) MLflow
11 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.31%) Maven
12 2 (0.31%) MSI
12 2 (0.31%) NUnit
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 147 (22.76%) Finance
2 129 (19.97%) Social Skills
3 124 (19.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (14.55%) Law
5 92 (14.24%) Banking
6 85 (13.16%) Retail
7 81 (12.54%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (7.12%) Back Office
9 46 (7.12%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.32%) Billing
11 13 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.39%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.24%) Aviation
14 7 (1.08%) Legal
14 7 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.93%) Marketing
15 6 (0.93%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 160 (24.77%) Senior
2 107 (16.56%) Lead
3 106 (16.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 100 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (12.85%) Platform Engineer
6 75 (11.61%) Azure Engineer
7 74 (11.46%) Software Engineer
8 62 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.28%) Data Engineer
10 45 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.81%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (6.35%) Developer
13 40 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 35 (5.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 27 (4.18%) Architect
16 25 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.41%) Java Engineer
17 22 (3.41%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.74%) React
2 48 (7.43%) Node.js
3 38 (5.88%) Kafka
4 32 (4.95%) Spring
5 29 (4.49%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.33%) REST
7 24 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
7 24 (3.72%) Spring Boot
8 23 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (3.25%) .NET
10 19 (2.94%) YAML
11 18 (2.79%) PySpark
12 17 (2.63%) RESTful
13 12 (1.86%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.86%) AWS CDK
13 12 (1.86%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.86%) Flask
14 11 (1.70%) Django
15 10 (1.55%) React Native
16 9 (1.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 173 (26.78%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.97%) Data Centre
2 45 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 29 (4.49%) Blog
7 22 (3.41%) PKI
8 18 (2.79%) Private Cloud
8 18 (2.79%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.01%) Podcast
11 11 (1.70%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.55%) Replication
13 9 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.08%) CMDB
16 6 (0.93%) CUDA
16 6 (0.93%) FlexPod
16 6 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 143 (22.14%) Linux
2 78 (12.07%) Windows
3 42 (6.50%) Unix
4 37 (5.73%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.86%) Android
5 12 (1.86%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.39%) VMS
7 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.77%) Debian
9 4 (0.62%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (66.25%) CI/CD
2 415 (64.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 370 (57.28%) DevOps
4 193 (29.88%) Mentoring
5 178 (27.55%) Agile
6 159 (24.61%) Platform Engineering
7 149 (23.07%) Containerisation
8 148 (22.91%) Observability
9 140 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 132 (20.43%) Test Automation
11 121 (18.73%) Software Engineering
12 114 (17.65%) Microservices
13 110 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
14 99 (15.33%) AI
15 93 (14.40%) Clean Code
15 93 (14.40%) Roadmaps
16 85 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
17 83 (12.85%) Technical Leadership
18 80 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 79 (12.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 273 (42.26%) Python
2 161 (24.92%) Java
3 96 (14.86%) Bash
4 95 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 81 (12.54%) SQL
6 76 (11.76%) Bicep
7 60 (9.29%) Go
8 57 (8.82%) JavaScript
9 50 (7.74%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.80%) C#
11 15 (2.32%) Scala
12 9 (1.39%) Rust
13 8 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.08%) Groovy
14 7 (1.08%) PHP
15 5 (0.77%) Perl
16 4 (0.62%) C++
16 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 101 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 61 (9.44%) Azure Certification
4 47 (7.28%) Degree
5 39 (6.04%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.70%) CCNP
10 10 (1.55%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.93%) CCNA
11 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.93%) LPIC
12 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.77%) CCIE
13 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.62%) MCSE
13 4 (0.62%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.62%) VCAP
13 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.41%) QA
3 16 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.48%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.32%) GDPR
5 13 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.01%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.55%) NIST
7 5 (0.77%) WCAG
8 4 (0.62%) NCSC
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%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 184 (28.48%) Docker
2 47 (7.28%) Active Directory
3 37 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.25%) vSphere
5 16 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.08%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.46%) Firmware
11 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.15%) KVM
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 299 (46.28%) Kubernetes
2 165 (25.54%) Ansible
3 119 (18.42%) Grafana
4 68 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.43%) Argo
6 20 (3.10%) Progress Chef
6 20 (3.10%) Puppet
7 18 (2.79%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.32%) Istio
8 15 (2.32%) Packer
9 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.70%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.08%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.46%) linkerd
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 129 (19.97%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.05%) VMware
3 47 (7.28%) Google
4 28 (4.33%) Cisco
5 21 (3.25%) Databricks
6 16 (2.48%) Arista
6 16 (2.48%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.32%) Aruba
7 15 (2.32%) NetScout
8 11 (1.70%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.70%) Oracle
9 8 (1.24%) Confluent
9 8 (1.24%) F5
9 8 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.24%) Splunk
10 7 (1.08%) EMC
10 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.08%) ScienceLogic
11 6 (0.93%) NetApp