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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 65 78
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 652 825 1,173
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 5.28% 3.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.42% 40.34% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 437 434 945
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,597
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 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,000 £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 1,697 2,045 3,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.30% 13.09% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 1,185 2,705
10th Percentile £36,350 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,750 £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 £78,467 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 27 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 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.61%) Apache
4 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.77%) Confluence
5 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 418 (64.11%) AWS
2 338 (51.84%) Azure
3 154 (23.62%) GCP
4 116 (17.79%) Amazon EKS
5 115 (17.64%) GitHub
6 106 (16.26%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (14.88%) SaaS
8 87 (13.34%) Serverless
9 80 (12.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (9.97%) PaaS
12 61 (9.36%) Amazon S3
13 57 (8.74%) Azure AKS
14 52 (7.98%) IaaS
15 49 (7.52%) Amazon EC2
15 49 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
16 43 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
17 40 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 38 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
19 31 (4.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.89%) Firewall
2 44 (6.75%) VPN
3 29 (4.45%) DNS
4 26 (3.99%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.76%) LAN
5 18 (2.76%) WAN
5 18 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (2.45%) Broadband
6 16 (2.45%) NGFW
7 15 (2.30%) VXLAN
7 15 (2.30%) Wireshark
8 14 (2.15%) DHCP
9 10 (1.53%) Network Security
9 10 (1.53%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.53%) VLAN
10 7 (1.07%) BGP
11 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.91%) Relational Database
3 29 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (3.99%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.76%) Metadata
9 17 (2.61%) DynamoDB
10 16 (2.45%) Data Lake
11 15 (2.30%) Delta Lake
11 15 (2.30%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.99%) Redis
13 11 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.53%) Big Data
14 10 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 82 (12.58%) Git
2 60 (9.20%) GitLab
2 60 (9.20%) TeamCity
3 45 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.84%) Jaeger
5 11 (1.69%) JIRA
5 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.23%) JMeter
7 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.77%) Locust
8 5 (0.77%) Selenium
8 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
9 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.31%) Maven
10 2 (0.31%) MSI
10 2 (0.31%) NUnit
10 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 151 (23.16%) Finance
2 134 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 128 (19.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (16.26%) Law
5 96 (14.72%) Banking
6 89 (13.65%) Retail
7 81 (12.42%) Public Sector
8 50 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (7.67%) Back Office
8 50 (7.67%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.99%) Billing
9 13 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.07%) Aviation
10 7 (1.07%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.07%) Legal
10 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.92%) Legal Technology
11 6 (0.92%) Marketing
12 4 (0.61%) Advertising
12 4 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 164 (25.15%) Senior
2 103 (15.80%) Cloud Engineer
3 102 (15.64%) Lead
4 101 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
6 78 (11.96%) Software Engineer
7 71 (10.89%) Azure Engineer
8 62 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (7.36%) Data Engineer
10 47 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
12 40 (6.13%) Developer
13 38 (5.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 36 (5.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 30 (4.60%) Architect
16 27 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.37%) Java Engineer
17 22 (3.37%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.22%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.22%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.98%) React
2 49 (7.52%) Node.js
3 39 (5.98%) Kafka
4 32 (4.91%) ARM Templates
5 30 (4.60%) Spring
6 28 (4.29%) REST
7 22 (3.37%) Spring Boot
8 19 (2.91%) .NET
8 19 (2.91%) PySpark
8 19 (2.91%) YAML
9 18 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 17 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (2.15%) AWS CDK
12 13 (1.99%) RESTful
13 12 (1.84%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.84%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.84%) Flask
14 11 (1.69%) Django
15 8 (1.23%) CSS
15 8 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 182 (27.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (7.06%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.29%) Public Cloud
5 36 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.60%) Blog
7 22 (3.37%) PKI
8 21 (3.22%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.76%) Podcast
9 18 (2.76%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.30%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.69%) Replication
12 10 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.07%) CMDB
16 6 (0.92%) FlexPod
16 6 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 138 (21.17%) Linux
2 82 (12.58%) Windows
3 36 (5.52%) Unix
4 35 (5.37%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.15%) VMS
6 10 (1.53%) Android
6 10 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.77%) Debian
9 4 (0.61%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (67.18%) CI/CD
2 423 (64.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 365 (55.98%) DevOps
4 195 (29.91%) Mentoring
5 172 (26.38%) Agile
6 163 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 151 (23.16%) Observability
8 147 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 142 (21.78%) Containerisation
10 134 (20.55%) Test Automation
11 124 (19.02%) Software Engineering
12 116 (17.79%) Microservices
13 114 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (17.18%) AI
15 97 (14.88%) Clean Code
16 94 (14.42%) Roadmaps
17 89 (13.65%) Deployment Automation
17 89 (13.65%) Technical Leadership
18 86 (13.19%) Analytics
19 79 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 274 (42.02%) Python
2 156 (23.93%) Java
3 103 (15.80%) PowerShell
4 95 (14.57%) Bash
5 88 (13.50%) Bicep
6 87 (13.34%) SQL
7 54 (8.28%) Go
8 53 (8.13%) JavaScript
9 51 (7.82%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.75%) C#
11 17 (2.61%) Scala
12 13 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.23%) Groovy
13 8 (1.23%) PHP
13 8 (1.23%) Rust
14 5 (0.77%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) C++
15 3 (0.46%) Ruby
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 87 (13.34%) SC Cleared
3 67 (10.28%) Azure Certification
4 46 (7.06%) Degree
5 34 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.84%) CCNP
10 10 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.07%) CCNA
11 7 (1.07%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.92%) LPIC
13 5 (0.77%) CCIE
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 30 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.22%) QA
3 16 (2.45%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.30%) GDPR
4 15 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.99%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.53%) NIST
7 5 (0.77%) WCAG
8 4 (0.61%) 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
1 173 (26.53%) Docker
2 53 (8.13%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.99%) vSphere
5 16 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.07%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.92%) 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
1 298 (45.71%) Kubernetes
2 158 (24.23%) Ansible
3 120 (18.40%) Grafana
4 58 (8.90%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.44%) Argo
6 21 (3.22%) Progress Chef
7 20 (3.07%) Puppet
8 16 (2.45%) Istio
9 15 (2.30%) Packer
10 12 (1.84%) Kustomize
10 12 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (1.69%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.07%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.46%) linkerd
16 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 134 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.59%) VMware
3 39 (5.98%) Google
4 28 (4.29%) Cisco
5 23 (3.53%) Databricks
6 16 (2.45%) Arista
6 16 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.30%) Aruba
7 15 (2.30%) NetScout
8 12 (1.84%) Oracle
8 12 (1.84%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.23%) Confluent
10 8 (1.23%) F5
10 8 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.23%) Splunk
11 7 (1.07%) EMC
11 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.92%) Citrix
12 6 (0.92%) NetApp