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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 690 645 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.89% 4.88% 3.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.98% 36.42% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 415 544 1,041
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,253 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 1,569 1,771 3,868
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.85% 13.40% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,353 3,063
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.73% -8.97%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 18 April 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 15 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.59%) Apache
3 10 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.16%) Confluence
4 8 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.43%) IIS
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.32%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 419 (60.72%) AWS
2 380 (55.07%) Azure
3 175 (25.36%) GCP
4 150 (21.74%) GitHub
5 134 (19.42%) Amazon EKS
6 126 (18.26%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (15.36%) SaaS
8 94 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
9 83 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (10.00%) Serverless
11 56 (8.12%) Amazon S3
12 48 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (6.23%) Azure Monitor
14 41 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (5.94%) dbt
15 40 (5.80%) PaaS
16 37 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (5.22%) OCI
18 34 (4.93%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 90 (13.04%) Firewall
2 37 (5.36%) VPN
3 34 (4.93%) TCP/IP
4 33 (4.78%) DNS
5 21 (3.04%) Broadband
6 19 (2.75%) Network Security
7 18 (2.61%) NGFW
7 18 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (2.32%) LAN
8 16 (2.32%) WAN
9 15 (2.17%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.17%) Wireshark
10 14 (2.03%) VLAN
11 13 (1.88%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.74%) DHCP
13 11 (1.59%) BGP
14 7 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.72%) OSPF
15 5 (0.72%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.72%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (5.65%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.07%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.93%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.75%) RDBMS
7 17 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (2.32%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.32%) Metadata
8 16 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.17%) Delta Lake
9 15 (2.17%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.17%) Redis
10 11 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.59%) MySQL
11 10 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 91 (13.19%) Git
2 66 (9.57%) GitLab
3 64 (9.28%) TeamCity
4 60 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 23 (3.33%) JIRA
6 19 (2.75%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.32%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.45%) JMeter
10 6 (0.87%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.87%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.87%) Locust
10 6 (0.87%) Selenium
10 6 (0.87%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.72%) Storybook
12 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.43%) MLflow
13 3 (0.43%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 215 (31.16%) Finance
2 138 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 131 (18.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 113 (16.38%) Banking
5 100 (14.49%) Retail
6 99 (14.35%) Law
7 72 (10.43%) Public Sector
8 62 (8.99%) Back Office
8 62 (8.99%) Financial Institution
9 49 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (2.61%) Billing
11 17 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.30%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.16%) Marketing
13 8 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.01%) Legal
14 7 (1.01%) Military
14 7 (1.01%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.72%) Aviation
16 4 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 179 (25.94%) Senior
2 123 (17.83%) Cloud Engineer
3 120 (17.39%) Lead
4 91 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (12.32%) Software Engineer
6 84 (12.17%) Azure Engineer
7 73 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 70 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
9 50 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (6.67%) Developer
11 41 (5.94%) Data Engineer
12 35 (5.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 31 (4.49%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.48%) Java Engineer
15 24 (3.48%) Lead DevOps
16 23 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (3.04%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.70%) React
2 48 (6.96%) Node.js
3 44 (6.38%) RESTful
4 42 (6.09%) .NET
5 40 (5.80%) Kafka
6 35 (5.07%) OAuth
7 34 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
8 30 (4.35%) Spring
9 24 (3.48%) Django
9 24 (3.48%) REST
10 23 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (3.19%) OAuth2
12 21 (3.04%) JSON
12 21 (3.04%) Spring Boot
13 20 (2.90%) ARM Templates
14 18 (2.61%) PySpark
14 18 (2.61%) React Native
15 17 (2.46%) OpenAPI
15 17 (2.46%) Swagger
16 16 (2.32%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 178 (25.80%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 44 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
2 44 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (4.78%) Blog
5 30 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 22 (3.19%) PKI
7 20 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.75%) Private Cloud
9 18 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.46%) Mobile App
10 17 (2.46%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.59%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.01%) Replication
15 6 (0.87%) CMDB
15 6 (0.87%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 140 (20.29%) Linux
2 71 (10.29%) Windows
3 47 (6.81%) Unix
4 40 (5.80%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.32%) Android
5 16 (2.32%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.01%) CentOS
7 7 (1.01%) VMS
8 4 (0.58%) Debian
9 1 (0.14%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.14%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (64.93%) CI/CD
2 416 (60.29%) DevOps
3 409 (59.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 223 (32.32%) Agile
5 200 (28.99%) Mentoring
6 159 (23.04%) Observability
7 152 (22.03%) Containerisation
8 146 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (20.87%) Test Automation
10 138 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 135 (19.57%) Platform Engineering
12 134 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
13 133 (19.28%) Coaching
14 116 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 106 (15.36%) Deployment Automation
15 106 (15.36%) Microservices
16 95 (13.77%) Clean Code
17 86 (12.46%) Analytics
18 82 (11.88%) Roadmaps
19 74 (10.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 303 (43.91%) Python
2 169 (24.49%) Java
3 99 (14.35%) SQL
4 93 (13.48%) Bash
5 89 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 77 (11.16%) JavaScript
7 69 (10.00%) Go
8 66 (9.57%) Bicep
9 52 (7.54%) TypeScript
10 33 (4.78%) C#
11 21 (3.04%) Scala
12 17 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.46%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.16%) Rust
14 6 (0.87%) Perl
14 6 (0.87%) PHP
15 3 (0.43%) C++
15 3 (0.43%) Groovy
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 75 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.39%) Degree
4 42 (6.09%) AWS Certification
4 42 (6.09%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.59%) CCNP
9 8 (1.16%) LPIC
10 6 (0.87%) CCNA
11 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.72%) MCSE
11 5 (0.72%) RHCSA
11 5 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.58%) VCAP
13 3 (0.43%) CISSP
13 3 (0.43%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 28 (4.06%) QA
4 27 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.91%) SOC 2
5 25 (3.62%) Accessibility
6 23 (3.33%) GDPR
7 17 (2.46%) NIST
8 7 (1.01%) GRC
8 7 (1.01%) SLA
9 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.72%) WCAG
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) IFRS
12 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 214 (31.01%) Docker
2 32 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.17%) vSphere
5 9 (1.30%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.43%) Firmware
9 3 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.29%) Ceph
10 2 (0.29%) Lustre
10 2 (0.29%) vCloud
10 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 319 (46.23%) Kubernetes
2 171 (24.78%) Ansible
3 141 (20.43%) Grafana
4 89 (12.90%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.23%) Argo
6 20 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.75%) Kustomize
7 19 (2.75%) Puppet
8 12 (1.74%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.45%) Packer
10 8 (1.16%) Istio
10 8 (1.16%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.58%) Cilium
12 4 (0.58%) logstash
12 4 (0.58%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
Vendors
1 119 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.83%) Google
3 45 (6.52%) VMware
4 28 (4.06%) Cisco
5 21 (3.04%) Databricks
5 21 (3.04%) Oracle
6 18 (2.61%) Splunk
7 16 (2.32%) Arista
7 16 (2.32%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.17%) Aruba
8 15 (2.17%) NetScout
9 14 (2.03%) Okta
10 11 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.45%) Ab Initio
12 8 (1.16%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.16%) Confluent
12 8 (1.16%) New Relic
13 7 (1.01%) F5
14 6 (0.87%) EMC
14 6 (0.87%) NetApp