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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 67 77
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 -28
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 648 819 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.97% 3.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.76% 40.34% 33.22%
Number of salaries quoted 441 429 864
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
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 1,812 2,030 3,293
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.46% 12.31% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 1,175 2,440
10th Percentile £36,800 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,528 £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 £77,500 £85,000 £84,930
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,559 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.68% +4.00% -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 17 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 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.62%) Apache
4 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.77%) Confluence
5 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
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
1 2 (0.31%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 413 (63.73%) AWS
2 346 (53.40%) Azure
3 172 (26.54%) GCP
4 109 (16.82%) Amazon EKS
5 108 (16.67%) GitHub
6 100 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (14.66%) SaaS
8 90 (13.89%) Serverless
9 79 (12.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.49%) PaaS
11 65 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (9.10%) Amazon S3
13 52 (8.02%) Azure AKS
14 49 (7.56%) IaaS
15 46 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
17 42 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
18 41 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
19 37 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 29 (4.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.26%) Firewall
2 46 (7.10%) VPN
3 31 (4.78%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.63%) DNS
5 18 (2.78%) LAN
6 17 (2.62%) WAN
7 15 (2.31%) DHCP
8 10 (1.54%) Broadband
8 10 (1.54%) VLAN
8 10 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.39%) Network Security
9 9 (1.39%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.23%) NGFW
11 7 (1.08%) BGP
11 7 (1.08%) VXLAN
11 7 (1.08%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.93%) HTTP
12 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 28 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (3.24%) Metadata
7 20 (3.09%) MongoDB
8 17 (2.62%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.62%) NoSQL
9 16 (2.47%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.16%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (2.01%) Redis
12 12 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.70%) Power BI
14 10 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.39%) Big Data
15 9 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 79 (12.19%) Git
2 61 (9.41%) TeamCity
3 57 (8.80%) GitLab
4 46 (7.10%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.54%) JIRA
7 9 (1.39%) JMeter
8 6 (0.93%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.77%) Locust
10 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.46%) Maven
11 3 (0.46%) MLflow
11 3 (0.46%) Postman
11 3 (0.46%) Selenium
11 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.31%) MSI
12 2 (0.31%) NUnit
12 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (24.54%) Finance
2 140 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 123 (18.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (16.51%) Law
5 99 (15.28%) Banking
6 86 (13.27%) Retail
7 73 (11.27%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.87%) Back Office
8 51 (7.87%) Financial Institution
9 46 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.39%) Billing
12 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 7 (1.08%) Marketing
12 7 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.77%) Aviation
14 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 174 (26.85%) Senior
2 102 (15.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 101 (15.59%) Lead
4 96 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (13.27%) Software Engineer
6 80 (12.35%) Platform Engineer
7 74 (11.42%) Azure Engineer
8 57 (8.80%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 46 (7.10%) Senior DevOps
10 45 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 39 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 38 (5.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 35 (5.40%) Developer
14 33 (5.09%) Architect
15 28 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.24%) Engineering Manager
17 21 (3.24%) Java Engineer
18 20 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.49%) React
2 46 (7.10%) Node.js
3 38 (5.86%) Kafka
4 34 (5.25%) ARM Templates
5 31 (4.78%) REST
6 24 (3.70%) Spring
7 19 (2.93%) YAML
8 18 (2.78%) PySpark
8 18 (2.78%) Spring Boot
9 16 (2.47%) .NET
10 15 (2.31%) AWS CDK
11 14 (2.16%) OAuth
11 14 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
11 14 (2.16%) RESTful
12 13 (2.01%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.85%) Django
13 12 (1.85%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.85%) Flask
13 12 (1.85%) OpenID
14 11 (1.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 184 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.33%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (5.56%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.32%) Blog
8 18 (2.78%) Podcast
9 17 (2.62%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.62%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.47%) PKI
11 14 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.01%) Replication
13 10 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.23%) Life Science
14 8 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.08%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 126 (19.44%) Linux
2 84 (12.96%) Windows
3 35 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.01%) Unix
5 14 (2.16%) VMS
6 4 (0.62%) Android
6 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (69.14%) CI/CD
2 426 (65.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 360 (55.56%) DevOps
4 189 (29.17%) Mentoring
5 167 (25.77%) Platform Engineering
6 159 (24.54%) Agile
7 156 (24.07%) Observability
8 154 (23.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (21.76%) Containerisation
10 134 (20.68%) Software Engineering
11 132 (20.37%) Test Automation
12 120 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.90%) AI
14 112 (17.28%) Microservices
15 102 (15.74%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (15.59%) Clean Code
17 91 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
17 91 (14.04%) Roadmaps
18 83 (12.81%) Analytics
19 80 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 273 (42.13%) Python
2 144 (22.22%) Java
3 112 (17.28%) PowerShell
4 93 (14.35%) SQL
5 91 (14.04%) Bicep
6 88 (13.58%) Bash
7 48 (7.41%) Go
8 44 (6.79%) TypeScript
9 42 (6.48%) JavaScript
10 28 (4.32%) C#
11 16 (2.47%) Scala
12 13 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.23%) Groovy
13 8 (1.23%) PHP
14 7 (1.08%) Rust
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 93 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 81 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.65%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.41%) Degree
5 27 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 26 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.85%) CCNP
10 9 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.39%) SnowPro
11 7 (1.08%) CCNA
12 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.77%) CCIE
13 5 (0.77%) 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 33 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.70%) QA
3 15 (2.31%) GDPR
3 15 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.85%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.54%) NIST
6 8 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.77%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) NCSC
8 3 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 174 (26.85%) Docker
2 55 (8.49%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.86%) vSphere
5 14 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 293 (45.22%) Kubernetes
2 140 (21.60%) Ansible
3 116 (17.90%) Grafana
4 47 (7.25%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.56%) Argo
6 19 (2.93%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.78%) Puppet
8 16 (2.47%) Istio
9 13 (2.01%) Packer
10 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.54%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.93%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.46%) linkerd
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.18%) VMware
3 35 (5.40%) Google
4 27 (4.17%) Cisco
5 22 (3.40%) Databricks
6 16 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.31%) Oracle
8 13 (2.01%) Okta
9 12 (1.85%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.70%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.23%) Arista
11 8 (1.23%) Confluent
11 8 (1.23%) F5
11 8 (1.23%) Informatica
11 8 (1.23%) Ping Identity
12 7 (1.08%) Aruba
12 7 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.08%) EMC
12 7 (1.08%) NetScout
12 7 (1.08%) ServiceNow