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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 69 73
Rank change year-on-year -23 +4 -24
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 642 809 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.94% 4.91% 3.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.93% 40.51% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 454 415 791
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,539 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,986 £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 1,838 1,997 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.42% 12.12% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,142 2,179
10th Percentile £37,025 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,165 £48,500
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 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,125 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.35% +4.00% -6.72%

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 26 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 22 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.49%) Apache
4 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.78%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.47%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.16%) 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
2 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Magento
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 400 (62.31%) AWS
2 362 (56.39%) Azure
3 175 (27.26%) GCP
4 106 (16.51%) GitHub
5 101 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (14.49%) Amazon EKS
7 91 (14.17%) SaaS
8 90 (14.02%) Serverless
9 81 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.59%) PaaS
11 62 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (8.57%) Amazon S3
13 50 (7.79%) Azure AKS
14 46 (7.17%) IaaS
15 45 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
17 41 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
19 37 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (4.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.94%) Firewall
2 45 (7.01%) VPN
3 36 (5.61%) TCP/IP
4 33 (5.14%) DNS
5 18 (2.80%) DHCP
6 17 (2.65%) LAN
7 16 (2.49%) WAN
8 9 (1.40%) Network Security
9 8 (1.25%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.25%) VLAN
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.93%) HTTP
10 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.93%) WebEx
10 6 (0.93%) Wireless
11 5 (0.78%) BGP
11 5 (0.78%) MQTT
12 4 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.58%) Metadata
5 20 (3.12%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.12%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.65%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.34%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.18%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.18%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.02%) Redis
10 11 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.71%) Power BI
11 10 (1.56%) Big Data
11 10 (1.56%) Data Vault
11 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (12.46%) Git
2 57 (8.88%) GitLab
3 51 (7.94%) TeamCity
4 45 (7.01%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.40%) JIRA
6 9 (1.40%) JMeter
7 6 (0.93%) Selenium
8 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.78%) Locust
9 4 (0.62%) Postman
9 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.47%) MLflow
10 3 (0.47%) NUnit
10 3 (0.47%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.31%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) MSI
11 2 (0.31%) Snyk
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (23.83%) Finance
2 148 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 103 (16.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 93 (14.49%) Law
5 84 (13.08%) Banking
6 71 (11.06%) Retail
7 68 (10.59%) Public Sector
8 43 (6.70%) Back Office
8 43 (6.70%) Financial Institution
9 42 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.40%) Marketing
12 8 (1.25%) Legal
13 7 (1.09%) Billing
13 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.78%) Aviation
15 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.78%) Military
16 4 (0.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 180 (28.04%) Senior
2 104 (16.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 96 (14.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 96 (14.95%) Lead
4 84 (13.08%) Software Engineer
5 81 (12.62%) Platform Engineer
6 75 (11.68%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (7.01%) Senior DevOps
9 44 (6.85%) Data Engineer
10 43 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (6.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 38 (5.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 36 (5.61%) Developer
14 34 (5.30%) Architect
15 27 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (3.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.58%) Python Engineer
18 21 (3.27%) Engineering Manager
18 21 (3.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.88%) React
2 48 (7.48%) Node.js
3 37 (5.76%) REST
4 36 (5.61%) Kafka
5 34 (5.30%) ARM Templates
6 25 (3.89%) Spring
7 20 (3.12%) .NET
7 20 (3.12%) PySpark
8 19 (2.96%) OAuth
9 18 (2.80%) Spring Boot
9 18 (2.80%) YAML
10 17 (2.65%) OpenID
11 16 (2.49%) OAuth2
12 15 (2.34%) AngularJS
13 13 (2.02%) NestJS
14 12 (1.87%) AWS CDK
14 12 (1.87%) Django
14 12 (1.87%) Flask
14 12 (1.87%) RESTful
14 12 (1.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 169 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 40 (6.23%) Public Cloud
5 27 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.80%) Podcast
7 17 (2.65%) Blog
7 17 (2.65%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.49%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.02%) Replication
11 11 (1.71%) PKI
12 9 (1.40%) Life Science
13 8 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.25%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 123 (19.16%) Linux
2 87 (13.55%) Windows
3 38 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.74%) Unix
5 14 (2.18%) VMS
6 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.47%) Android
7 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.47%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.16%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (69.94%) CI/CD
2 426 (66.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 358 (55.76%) DevOps
4 183 (28.50%) Mentoring
5 163 (25.39%) Platform Engineering
6 160 (24.92%) Agile
6 160 (24.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 159 (24.77%) Observability
8 137 (21.34%) Containerisation
8 137 (21.34%) Software Engineering
9 128 (19.94%) AI
10 123 (19.16%) Test Automation
11 114 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (17.13%) Microservices
13 107 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
14 101 (15.73%) Clean Code
15 89 (13.86%) Roadmaps
16 85 (13.24%) Analytics
17 81 (12.62%) Deployment Automation
18 80 (12.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 265 (41.28%) Python
2 126 (19.63%) Java
3 117 (18.22%) PowerShell
4 97 (15.11%) Bicep
5 95 (14.80%) SQL
6 82 (12.77%) Bash
7 42 (6.54%) TypeScript
8 41 (6.39%) Go
9 37 (5.76%) JavaScript
10 30 (4.67%) C#
11 16 (2.49%) Scala
12 13 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.25%) PHP
14 7 (1.09%) Groovy
14 7 (1.09%) Rust
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.47%) Perl
16 3 (0.47%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 102 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 91 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.53%) Azure Certification
4 51 (7.94%) Degree
5 28 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.87%) CCNP
10 11 (1.71%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.71%) SnowPro
11 7 (1.09%) CCNA
12 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.78%) CCIE
13 5 (0.78%) LPIC
14 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.62%) MCSE
14 4 (0.62%) VCAP
14 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.89%) QA
3 14 (2.18%) GDPR
4 11 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.71%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.56%) NIST
6 8 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.25%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.78%) WCAG
8 4 (0.62%) NCSC
9 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.16%) PSD2
11 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 181 (28.19%) Docker
2 60 (9.35%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.89%) vSphere
5 14 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.47%) Firmware
9 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.16%) KVM
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 284 (44.24%) Kubernetes
2 130 (20.25%) Ansible
3 107 (16.67%) Grafana
4 41 (6.39%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.67%) Argo
6 18 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.65%) Istio
7 17 (2.65%) Puppet
8 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (2.02%) Packer
9 9 (1.40%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.62%) linkerd
13 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
Vendors
1 148 (23.05%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.94%) VMware
3 35 (5.45%) Google
4 26 (4.05%) Cisco
5 25 (3.89%) Databricks
6 17 (2.65%) Okta
7 16 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.34%) Oracle
9 12 (1.87%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.87%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.56%) Informatica
12 8 (1.25%) Confluent
12 8 (1.25%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.09%) EMC
13 7 (1.09%) F5
13 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.93%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.93%) Splunk