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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 65 77
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 -24
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 650 817 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 5.25% 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.53% 40.25% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 433 427 951
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £117,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%

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 1,687 2,030 3,651
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 13.04% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 1,171 2,767
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,996 £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 £78,000 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £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 24 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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.62%) Apache
4 13 (2.00%) 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
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 (0.62%) 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
1 414 (63.69%) AWS
2 333 (51.23%) Azure
3 154 (23.69%) GCP
4 116 (17.85%) Amazon EKS
5 113 (17.38%) GitHub
6 105 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (15.38%) SaaS
8 88 (13.54%) Serverless
9 77 (11.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
10 63 (9.69%) PaaS
11 61 (9.38%) Amazon S3
12 56 (8.62%) Azure AKS
13 50 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
13 50 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
13 50 (7.69%) IaaS
14 44 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.77%) Firewall
2 41 (6.31%) VPN
3 27 (4.15%) DNS
4 25 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (2.62%) LAN
6 17 (2.62%) WAN
7 16 (2.46%) Broadband
7 16 (2.46%) NGFW
8 15 (2.31%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.31%) Wireshark
9 13 (2.00%) DHCP
10 11 (1.69%) Network Security
11 10 (1.54%) SD-WAN
11 10 (1.54%) VLAN
12 7 (1.08%) BGP
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.92%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.77%) Metadata
9 17 (2.62%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.46%) Delta Lake
10 16 (2.46%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.31%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (2.00%) Redis
13 11 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.54%) Big Data
14 10 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 81 (12.46%) Git
2 61 (9.38%) GitLab
3 60 (9.23%) TeamCity
4 42 (6.46%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.85%) Jaeger
6 11 (1.69%) JIRA
6 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.23%) JMeter
8 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.77%) Locust
9 5 (0.77%) Selenium
9 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.46%) MLflow
10 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.31%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) MSI
11 2 (0.31%) NUnit
11 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
General
1 149 (22.92%) Finance
2 136 (20.92%) Social Skills
3 128 (19.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 105 (16.15%) Law
5 97 (14.92%) Banking
6 90 (13.85%) Retail
7 81 (12.46%) Public Sector
8 50 (7.69%) Back Office
8 50 (7.69%) Financial Institution
9 48 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (2.15%) Billing
11 13 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.38%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.23%) Aviation
14 7 (1.08%) Legal
14 7 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.92%) Marketing
15 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 160 (24.62%) Senior
2 104 (16.00%) Lead
3 100 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 99 (15.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 82 (12.62%) Platform Engineer
6 80 (12.31%) Software Engineer
7 71 (10.92%) Azure Engineer
8 63 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (7.38%) Data Engineer
10 46 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.77%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.46%) Developer
13 39 (6.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 35 (5.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 29 (4.46%) Architect
16 27 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.38%) Java Engineer
17 22 (3.38%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.00%) React
2 49 (7.54%) Node.js
3 39 (6.00%) Kafka
4 32 (4.92%) Spring
5 30 (4.62%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.31%) REST
7 24 (3.69%) Spring Boot
8 21 (3.23%) .NET
9 20 (3.08%) PySpark
10 19 (2.92%) YAML
11 18 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (2.15%) AWS CDK
13 14 (2.15%) RESTful
14 12 (1.85%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.85%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.85%) Flask
15 11 (1.69%) Django
16 10 (1.54%) React Native
17 9 (1.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 177 (27.23%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.92%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.31%) Product Ownership
5 39 (6.00%) Public Cloud
6 35 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (4.62%) Blog
8 23 (3.54%) Security Posture
9 22 (3.38%) PKI
10 18 (2.77%) Podcast
10 18 (2.77%) Private Cloud
11 14 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.69%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.69%) Replication
13 10 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.08%) CMDB
16 6 (0.92%) FlexPod
16 6 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 137 (21.08%) Linux
2 81 (12.46%) Windows
3 36 (5.54%) Unix
4 35 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.15%) VMS
6 12 (1.85%) Android
6 12 (1.85%) Apple iOS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (67.23%) CI/CD
2 417 (64.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 366 (56.31%) DevOps
4 196 (30.15%) Mentoring
5 173 (26.62%) Agile
6 160 (24.62%) Platform Engineering
7 150 (23.08%) Observability
8 146 (22.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 142 (21.85%) Containerisation
10 135 (20.77%) Test Automation
11 127 (19.54%) Software Engineering
12 119 (18.31%) Microservices
13 109 (16.77%) AI
13 109 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (14.92%) Clean Code
15 92 (14.15%) Roadmaps
16 90 (13.85%) Deployment Automation
17 88 (13.54%) Technical Leadership
18 86 (13.23%) Analytics
19 78 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 270 (41.54%) Python
2 159 (24.46%) Java
3 100 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 97 (14.92%) Bash
5 86 (13.23%) SQL
6 85 (13.08%) Bicep
7 53 (8.15%) Go
8 52 (8.00%) TypeScript
9 50 (7.69%) JavaScript
10 33 (5.08%) C#
11 18 (2.77%) Scala
12 13 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.23%) Rust
14 7 (1.08%) Groovy
14 7 (1.08%) PHP
15 5 (0.77%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) C++
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 88 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.46%) Azure Certification
4 46 (7.08%) Degree
5 33 (5.08%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.69%) CCNP
10 10 (1.54%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.92%) CCNA
11 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.92%) LPIC
11 6 (0.92%) SnowPro
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%) VCAP
13 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.77%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.23%) QA
3 16 (2.46%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.31%) GDPR
4 15 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.00%) SOC 2
6 12 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.54%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) WCAG
9 4 (0.62%) NCSC
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 175 (26.92%) Docker
2 52 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (4.00%) vSphere
5 16 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.08%) 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
1 296 (45.54%) Kubernetes
2 160 (24.62%) Ansible
3 121 (18.62%) Grafana
4 59 (9.08%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.46%) Argo
6 20 (3.08%) Progress Chef
6 20 (3.08%) Puppet
7 15 (2.31%) Istio
7 15 (2.31%) Packer
8 12 (1.85%) Kustomize
8 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.69%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.08%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.46%) linkerd
14 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 133 (20.46%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.62%) VMware
3 41 (6.31%) Google
4 28 (4.31%) Cisco
5 24 (3.69%) Databricks
6 16 (2.46%) Arista
6 16 (2.46%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.31%) Aruba
7 15 (2.31%) NetScout
8 12 (1.85%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.54%) Oracle
11 8 (1.23%) Confluent
11 8 (1.23%) F5
11 8 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.23%) Splunk
12 7 (1.08%) EMC
12 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.92%) NetApp