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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 66 75
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 -24
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 654 809 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.91% 3.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.66% 40.39% 33.46%
Number of salaries quoted 455 418 837
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,125 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 1,834 2,003 3,156
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.49% 12.16% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 1,149 2,327
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,600 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,165 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,618 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.59% +4.00% -7.41%

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 21 July 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 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.45%) Apache
4 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.76%) Confluence
5 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.31%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 412 (63.00%) AWS
2 359 (54.89%) Azure
3 177 (27.06%) GCP
4 109 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 107 (16.36%) GitHub
6 102 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (14.83%) SaaS
8 90 (13.76%) Serverless
9 81 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (10.86%) PaaS
11 64 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.87%) Amazon S3
13 52 (7.95%) Azure AKS
14 49 (7.49%) IaaS
15 45 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
17 41 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
18 37 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (4.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (9.33%) Firewall
2 48 (7.34%) VPN
3 35 (5.35%) TCP/IP
4 31 (4.74%) DNS
5 18 (2.75%) LAN
6 17 (2.60%) WAN
7 16 (2.45%) DHCP
8 10 (1.53%) VLAN
8 10 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.38%) Network Security
9 9 (1.38%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.22%) NGFW
11 7 (1.07%) BGP
11 7 (1.07%) VXLAN
11 7 (1.07%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.92%) HTTP
12 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.06%) Metadata
6 20 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.14%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.99%) Redis
11 11 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.68%) Power BI
12 10 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.53%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.38%) MySQL
14 8 (1.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 80 (12.23%) Git
2 61 (9.33%) TeamCity
3 57 (8.72%) GitLab
4 45 (6.88%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.53%) JIRA
7 9 (1.38%) JMeter
8 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.76%) Locust
8 5 (0.76%) Selenium
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
9 3 (0.46%) Postman
9 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.31%) Maven
10 2 (0.31%) MSI
10 2 (0.31%) NUnit
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 162 (24.77%) Finance
2 144 (22.02%) Social Skills
3 117 (17.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (16.51%) Law
5 99 (15.14%) Banking
6 86 (13.15%) Retail
7 73 (11.16%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.80%) Back Office
8 51 (7.80%) Financial Institution
9 46 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.38%) Billing
12 7 (1.07%) Legal
12 7 (1.07%) Marketing
12 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.92%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.76%) Aviation
14 5 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.61%) Advertising
15 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (27.06%) Senior
2 102 (15.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 99 (15.14%) Lead
4 96 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 88 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 85 (13.00%) Platform Engineer
7 77 (11.77%) Azure Engineer
8 57 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
9 49 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (7.19%) Senior DevOps
11 44 (6.73%) Data Engineer
12 43 (6.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (5.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (5.50%) Developer
15 33 (5.05%) Architect
16 28 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (3.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 21 (3.21%) Java Engineer
18 21 (3.21%) Python Engineer
18 21 (3.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.72%) React
2 46 (7.03%) Node.js
3 37 (5.66%) Kafka
4 34 (5.20%) ARM Templates
4 34 (5.20%) REST
5 24 (3.67%) Spring
6 18 (2.75%) .NET
6 18 (2.75%) PySpark
6 18 (2.75%) Spring Boot
6 18 (2.75%) YAML
7 16 (2.45%) OAuth
8 15 (2.29%) AWS CDK
9 14 (2.14%) AngularJS
9 14 (2.14%) OpenID
9 14 (2.14%) RESTful
10 13 (1.99%) OAuth2
11 12 (1.83%) Django
11 12 (1.83%) FastAPI
11 12 (1.83%) Flask
12 10 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.88%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (6.27%) Public Cloud
6 36 (5.50%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.28%) Blog
8 18 (2.75%) Podcast
9 17 (2.60%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.60%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.45%) PKI
11 14 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.99%) Replication
13 12 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.38%) Life Science
14 9 (1.38%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 123 (18.81%) Linux
2 86 (13.15%) Windows
3 37 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.36%) Unix
5 14 (2.14%) VMS
6 4 (0.61%) Android
6 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (69.42%) CI/CD
2 426 (65.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 360 (55.05%) DevOps
4 188 (28.75%) Mentoring
5 172 (26.30%) Platform Engineering
6 158 (24.16%) Observability
7 156 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (23.70%) Agile
9 138 (21.10%) Software Engineering
10 137 (20.95%) Containerisation
11 132 (20.18%) Test Automation
12 120 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (18.04%) AI
14 114 (17.43%) Microservices
15 105 (16.06%) Clean Code
16 104 (15.90%) Technical Leadership
17 91 (13.91%) Deployment Automation
18 84 (12.84%) Roadmaps
19 83 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 82 (12.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 268 (40.98%) Python
2 138 (21.10%) Java
3 115 (17.58%) PowerShell
4 94 (14.37%) Bicep
5 93 (14.22%) SQL
6 82 (12.54%) Bash
7 44 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 42 (6.42%) Go
9 36 (5.50%) JavaScript
10 30 (4.59%) C#
11 15 (2.29%) Scala
12 13 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.22%) PHP
14 7 (1.07%) Groovy
14 7 (1.07%) Rust
15 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 96 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 70 (10.70%) Azure Certification
4 47 (7.19%) Degree
5 26 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.83%) CCNP
10 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.38%) SnowPro
11 7 (1.07%) CCNA
12 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.76%) CCIE
13 5 (0.76%) LPIC
14 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.61%) MCSE
14 4 (0.61%) VCAP
14 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.67%) QA
3 15 (2.29%) GDPR
3 15 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.53%) NIST
6 7 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.76%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) NCSC
8 3 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 173 (26.45%) Docker
2 57 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.82%) vSphere
5 14 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.92%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 293 (44.80%) Kubernetes
2 136 (20.80%) Ansible
3 116 (17.74%) Grafana
4 41 (6.27%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.59%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.75%) Puppet
8 16 (2.45%) Istio
9 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.99%) Packer
10 10 (1.53%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.76%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.46%) linkerd
14 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 144 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.10%) VMware
3 32 (4.89%) Google
4 27 (4.13%) Cisco
5 22 (3.36%) Databricks
6 16 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.29%) Okta
7 15 (2.29%) Oracle
8 12 (1.83%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.53%) Ping Identity
11 9 (1.38%) Informatica
12 8 (1.22%) Arista
12 8 (1.22%) Confluent
12 8 (1.22%) F5
13 7 (1.07%) Aruba
13 7 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.07%) EMC
13 7 (1.07%) NetScout
13 7 (1.07%) ServiceNow