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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 79
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 642 705 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.48% 4.85% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.32% 34.87% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 410 497 1,020
10th Percentile £47,083 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,509 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%
75th Percentile £86,188 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -4.33%

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 1,517 2,022 3,735
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 13.90% 11.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 1,311 2,951
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +6.74% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 12 May 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 16 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.02%) Apache
4 8 (1.25%) Confluence
5 7 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Camunda
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (2.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 377 (58.72%) AWS
2 364 (56.70%) Azure
3 147 (22.90%) GCP
4 138 (21.50%) GitHub
5 122 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 85 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
8 81 (12.62%) SaaS
9 63 (9.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (9.50%) Serverless
11 49 (7.63%) Amazon S3
12 42 (6.54%) Azure AKS
13 40 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (6.23%) PaaS
14 39 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 37 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (5.45%) OCI
17 30 (4.67%) dbt
18 29 (4.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 78 (12.15%) Firewall
2 35 (5.45%) DNS
3 31 (4.83%) VPN
4 26 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.96%) Broadband
5 19 (2.96%) LAN
6 18 (2.80%) NGFW
6 18 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.65%) WAN
8 15 (2.34%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.34%) Wireshark
9 14 (2.18%) Network Security
10 13 (2.02%) DHCP
11 12 (1.87%) VLAN
12 11 (1.71%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.25%) BGP
13 8 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.06%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.30%) NoSQL
2 34 (5.30%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (4.36%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.58%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.12%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.80%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.80%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.65%) Metadata
9 15 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.34%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.87%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.71%) Redis
12 10 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.40%) Power BI
14 7 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (14.02%) Git
2 69 (10.75%) GitLab
3 52 (8.10%) Jenkins
4 47 (7.32%) TeamCity
5 21 (3.27%) JIRA
6 18 (2.80%) Jaeger
7 14 (2.18%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (1.25%) JMeter
10 6 (0.93%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.93%) Locust
10 6 (0.93%) Selenium
10 6 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.78%) Storybook
12 4 (0.62%) MLflow
13 3 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.47%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
General
1 174 (27.10%) Finance
2 120 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 105 (16.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (13.86%) Banking
5 78 (12.15%) Public Sector
6 77 (11.99%) Law
6 77 (11.99%) Retail
7 46 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (6.07%) Back Office
8 39 (6.07%) Financial Institution
9 19 (2.96%) Billing
10 17 (2.65%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.40%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.25%) Marketing
14 7 (1.09%) Legal
14 7 (1.09%) Military
14 7 (1.09%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.78%) Advertising
15 5 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 171 (26.64%) Senior
2 118 (18.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 110 (17.13%) Lead
4 94 (14.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (13.24%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (11.37%) Platform Engineer
7 71 (11.06%) Software Engineer
8 63 (9.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 49 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
10 45 (7.01%) Data Engineer
11 42 (6.54%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (6.39%) Developer
13 34 (5.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 33 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 27 (4.21%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 20 (3.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (3.12%) Team Leader
17 19 (2.96%) Java Engineer
17 19 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
18 18 (2.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.88%) React
2 52 (8.10%) Node.js
3 43 (6.70%) Kafka
4 37 (5.76%) RESTful
5 33 (5.14%) .NET
5 33 (5.14%) Spring
6 28 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
7 26 (4.05%) OAuth
8 25 (3.89%) REST
8 25 (3.89%) Spring Boot
9 22 (3.43%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (2.80%) ARM Templates
10 18 (2.80%) React Native
11 17 (2.65%) JSON
11 17 (2.65%) PySpark
12 16 (2.49%) OAuth2
13 15 (2.34%) YAML
14 14 (2.18%) Django
15 13 (2.02%) GraphQL
15 13 (2.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 144 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.54%) Data Centre
3 36 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (4.52%) Blog
7 23 (3.58%) Public Cloud
8 21 (3.27%) PKI
9 18 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.80%) Private Cloud
10 17 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.65%) Mobile App
11 14 (2.18%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.25%) Replication
15 7 (1.09%) CMDB
16 6 (0.93%) FlexPod
16 6 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.93%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.65%) Linux
2 80 (12.46%) Windows
3 46 (7.17%) Unix
4 42 (6.54%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.49%) Android
5 16 (2.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.93%) Debian
8 6 (0.93%) VMS
9 5 (0.78%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.16%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (64.80%) CI/CD
2 384 (59.81%) DevOps
3 375 (58.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 208 (32.40%) Agile
5 199 (31.00%) Mentoring
6 142 (22.12%) Observability
7 140 (21.81%) Containerisation
8 137 (21.34%) Platform Engineering
9 136 (21.18%) Test Automation
10 130 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
12 117 (18.22%) Coaching
13 115 (17.91%) Software Engineering
14 102 (15.89%) Microservices
15 101 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 89 (13.86%) Deployment Automation
17 86 (13.40%) Roadmaps
18 82 (12.77%) Clean Code
19 79 (12.31%) Analytics
20 72 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 279 (43.46%) Python
2 160 (24.92%) Java
3 84 (13.08%) PowerShell
4 83 (12.93%) SQL
5 81 (12.62%) Bash
6 69 (10.75%) JavaScript
7 61 (9.50%) Bicep
8 60 (9.35%) Go
9 53 (8.26%) TypeScript
10 32 (4.98%) C#
11 22 (3.43%) Scala
12 15 (2.34%) PL/SQL
12 15 (2.34%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.40%) Rust
14 7 (1.09%) Perl
14 7 (1.09%) PHP
15 4 (0.62%) C++
15 4 (0.62%) Groovy
16 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 75 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.79%) Degree
4 45 (7.01%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.45%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.87%) CCNP
9 11 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.09%) LPIC
11 6 (0.93%) CCNA
11 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.62%) CCIE
12 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.62%) MCSE
12 4 (0.62%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.62%) VCAP
12 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.58%) QA
4 21 (3.27%) GDPR
5 19 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.80%) PCI DSS
7 16 (2.49%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.71%) NIST
9 5 (0.78%) WCAG
10 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) GRC
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 196 (30.53%) Docker
2 37 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.34%) vSphere
5 14 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.25%) VMware NSX
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%) vCloud
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 296 (46.11%) Kubernetes
2 165 (25.70%) Ansible
3 116 (18.07%) Grafana
4 75 (11.68%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.48%) Argo
6 20 (3.12%) Puppet
7 19 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (2.80%) Kustomize
9 15 (2.34%) Progress Chef
10 14 (2.18%) Packer
11 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (1.40%) Istio
13 8 (1.25%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
15 5 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
16 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.62%) logstash
16 4 (0.62%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 120 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.63%) Google
3 44 (6.85%) VMware
4 29 (4.52%) Cisco
5 19 (2.96%) Databricks
6 18 (2.80%) Palo Alto
7 17 (2.65%) Oracle
8 16 (2.49%) Arista
9 15 (2.34%) Aruba
9 15 (2.34%) NetScout
10 13 (2.02%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.87%) Okta
11 12 (1.87%) Splunk
12 8 (1.25%) Confluent
12 8 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.25%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.09%) Ab Initio
13 7 (1.09%) F5
13 7 (1.09%) NetApp
14 6 (0.93%) Salesforce