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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 57 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 661 668 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.93% 5.21% 3.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.54% 34.49% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 398 572 1,033
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £86,063 £108,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £122,375 £110,000
UK median annual salary £74,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.87% +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 1,518 1,937 3,677
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.02% 15.10% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 1,387 3,056
10th Percentile £36,375 £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% -9.28%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £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 27 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 9 (1.36%) Apache
2 9 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (1.21%) Confluence
4 7 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.45%) IIS
6 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.87%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 402 (60.82%) AWS
2 367 (55.52%) Azure
3 167 (25.26%) GCP
4 158 (23.90%) GitHub
5 134 (20.27%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (18.31%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (15.58%) SaaS
8 95 (14.37%) GitHub Actions
9 79 (11.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (9.98%) Serverless
11 55 (8.32%) Amazon S3
12 44 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
12 44 (6.66%) Azure Monitor
12 44 (6.66%) dbt
13 42 (6.35%) OCI
14 41 (6.20%) PaaS
15 40 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
17 34 (5.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 85 (12.86%) Firewall
2 34 (5.14%) VPN
3 30 (4.54%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.93%) DNS
5 21 (3.18%) Broadband
6 19 (2.87%) Network Security
7 18 (2.72%) NGFW
8 16 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (2.27%) VLAN
9 15 (2.27%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.27%) WAN
9 15 (2.27%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.97%) LAN
11 12 (1.82%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.36%) BGP
13 7 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.76%) DHCP
14 5 (0.76%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (6.05%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.30%) Relational Database
5 29 (4.39%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.87%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.72%) Metadata
8 18 (2.72%) Redis
9 17 (2.57%) BigQuery
10 16 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.42%) Power BI
11 14 (2.12%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.97%) MySQL
12 13 (1.97%) Tableau
13 12 (1.82%) DynamoDB
14 11 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 87 (13.16%) Git
2 66 (9.98%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.23%) TeamCity
4 57 (8.62%) GitLab
5 23 (3.48%) JIRA
6 19 (2.87%) Jaeger
6 19 (2.87%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (1.51%) JMeter
7 10 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.91%) Locust
9 6 (0.91%) Selenium
9 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.76%) Storybook
11 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.61%) ERwin
11 4 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
General
1 213 (32.22%) Finance
2 130 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 120 (18.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (16.34%) Banking
5 95 (14.37%) Retail
6 90 (13.62%) Law
7 60 (9.08%) Public Sector
8 56 (8.47%) Back Office
8 56 (8.47%) Financial Institution
9 51 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (2.87%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.72%) Billing
12 8 (1.21%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.21%) Marketing
12 8 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.21%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.06%) Military
14 6 (0.91%) Legal
15 5 (0.76%) Aviation
16 4 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 168 (25.42%) Senior
2 120 (18.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 110 (16.64%) Lead
4 81 (12.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (11.95%) Software Engineer
6 76 (11.50%) Azure Engineer
7 70 (10.59%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (9.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 48 (7.26%) Developer
10 47 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (5.60%) Data Engineer
12 31 (4.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 30 (4.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 25 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.63%) Lead DevOps
16 23 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
17 21 (3.18%) AWS DevOps
17 21 (3.18%) Java Engineer
18 20 (3.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
19 19 (2.87%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.93%) React
2 47 (7.11%) RESTful
3 45 (6.81%) .NET
4 39 (5.90%) Node.js
5 36 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
5 36 (5.45%) OAuth
6 33 (4.99%) Kafka
7 27 (4.08%) Spring
8 25 (3.78%) Django
8 25 (3.78%) JSON
8 25 (3.78%) REST
9 24 (3.63%) OAuth2
10 20 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
11 19 (2.87%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.72%) PySpark
12 18 (2.72%) React Native
13 17 (2.57%) ARM Templates
13 17 (2.57%) OpenAPI
13 17 (2.57%) Swagger
14 16 (2.42%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 172 (26.02%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.20%) Data Centre
3 41 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (4.84%) Blog
4 32 (4.84%) Public Cloud
5 28 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.87%) PKI
9 17 (2.57%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.42%) Security Posture
11 15 (2.27%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.97%) 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
15 8 (1.21%) Replication
16 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 137 (20.73%) Linux
2 64 (9.68%) Windows
3 47 (7.11%) Unix
4 34 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.12%) Android
5 14 (2.12%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.36%) VMS
7 8 (1.21%) CentOS
7 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (65.20%) CI/CD
2 406 (61.42%) DevOps
3 390 (59.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 216 (32.68%) Agile
5 186 (28.14%) Mentoring
6 158 (23.90%) Observability
7 145 (21.94%) Containerisation
8 140 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (20.42%) Test Automation
10 130 (19.67%) Coaching
11 127 (19.21%) Platform Engineering
11 127 (19.21%) Software Engineering
12 124 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (16.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 102 (15.43%) Deployment Automation
15 93 (14.07%) Microservices
16 89 (13.46%) Clean Code
17 88 (13.31%) Analytics
18 78 (11.80%) Roadmaps
19 73 (11.04%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 299 (45.23%) Python
2 159 (24.05%) Java
3 104 (15.73%) SQL
4 99 (14.98%) Bash
5 92 (13.92%) PowerShell
6 76 (11.50%) JavaScript
7 66 (9.98%) Bicep
7 66 (9.98%) Go
8 50 (7.56%) TypeScript
9 31 (4.69%) C#
10 19 (2.87%) PL/SQL
10 19 (2.87%) Scala
10 19 (2.87%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.06%) Rust
12 5 (0.76%) Perl
13 4 (0.61%) PHP
14 2 (0.30%) C++
14 2 (0.30%) Groovy
14 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.47%) Degree
4 44 (6.66%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.66%) Azure Certification
5 28 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.51%) CCNP
10 8 (1.21%) LPIC
11 7 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.76%) CCNA
13 5 (0.76%) MCSE
13 5 (0.76%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.61%) VCAP
15 3 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.54%) Data Quality
1 30 (4.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (4.39%) PCI DSS
3 28 (4.24%) QA
4 26 (3.93%) SOC 2
5 25 (3.78%) Accessibility
6 24 (3.63%) GDPR
7 16 (2.42%) NIST
8 9 (1.36%) SLA
9 7 (1.06%) GRC
10 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.76%) 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
1 217 (32.83%) Docker
2 25 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (2.57%) vSphere
5 11 (1.66%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
9 3 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.30%) Ceph
10 2 (0.30%) Lustre
10 2 (0.30%) vCloud
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 296 (44.78%) Kubernetes
2 161 (24.36%) Ansible
3 139 (21.03%) Grafana
4 90 (13.62%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.75%) Argo
6 22 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.87%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.42%) Puppet
9 10 (1.51%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.36%) Packer
11 8 (1.21%) Istio
11 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (1.06%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.61%) Cilium
14 4 (0.61%) logstash
14 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.45%) Control-M
15 3 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.93%) Google
3 44 (6.66%) VMware
4 28 (4.24%) Cisco
5 26 (3.93%) Oracle
6 24 (3.63%) Databricks
7 21 (3.18%) Splunk
8 18 (2.72%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.42%) Arista
10 15 (2.27%) Aruba
10 15 (2.27%) NetScout
11 12 (1.82%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.82%) Okta
12 11 (1.66%) Ab Initio
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%) EMC
15 7 (1.06%) IBM