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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 58 77
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 659 674 1,218
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.67% 5.05% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.16% 38.01% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 406 535 1,034
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,509 £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 1,527 1,773 3,833
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.51% 13.29% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,357 3,040
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.53% -7.12%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,875 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.47% +15.83% -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 24 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 14 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.82%) Apache
3 11 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.21%) Confluence
4 8 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (2.43%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 394 (59.79%) AWS
2 373 (56.60%) Azure
3 154 (23.37%) GCP
4 145 (22.00%) GitHub
5 128 (19.42%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (18.51%) Amazon EKS
7 90 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
7 90 (13.66%) SaaS
8 72 (10.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (10.17%) Serverless
10 52 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 47 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
12 42 (6.37%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (6.07%) PaaS
15 38 (5.77%) Azure AKS
16 37 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (5.46%) OCI
18 32 (4.86%) dbt
18 32 (4.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 84 (12.75%) Firewall
2 34 (5.16%) DNS
3 33 (5.01%) VPN
4 27 (4.10%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.19%) Broadband
6 18 (2.73%) NGFW
6 18 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.58%) LAN
8 16 (2.43%) WAN
9 15 (2.28%) Network Security
9 15 (2.28%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.28%) Wireshark
10 12 (1.82%) DHCP
10 12 (1.82%) VLAN
11 11 (1.67%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.37%) BGP
13 7 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.76%) OSPF
14 5 (0.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.92%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 33 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (5.01%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.19%) MongoDB
6 19 (2.88%) RDBMS
7 17 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.43%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (2.43%) Metadata
9 15 (2.28%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.12%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.52%) Power BI
13 9 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.37%) MySQL
13 9 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (13.96%) Git
2 69 (10.47%) GitLab
3 55 (8.35%) Jenkins
4 52 (7.89%) TeamCity
5 23 (3.49%) JIRA
6 19 (2.88%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.43%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.37%) JMeter
9 9 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.91%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.91%) Locust
10 6 (0.91%) Selenium
10 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.76%) Storybook
12 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.46%) MLflow
12 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 191 (28.98%) Finance
2 125 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 116 (17.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (14.42%) Banking
5 85 (12.90%) Law
6 83 (12.59%) Retail
7 75 (11.38%) Public Sector
8 50 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (6.83%) Back Office
9 45 (6.83%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.88%) Billing
11 17 (2.58%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.37%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.21%) Marketing
14 7 (1.06%) Legal
14 7 (1.06%) Military
14 7 (1.06%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.76%) Advertising
15 5 (0.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 172 (26.10%) Senior
2 125 (18.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 113 (17.15%) Lead
4 91 (13.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (12.29%) Azure Engineer
6 77 (11.68%) Software Engineer
7 68 (10.32%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 49 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
10 43 (6.53%) Developer
11 42 (6.37%) Data Engineer
12 37 (5.61%) Senior DevOps
13 32 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (4.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 28 (4.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.49%) Lead DevOps
17 21 (3.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 21 (3.19%) Team Leader
18 20 (3.03%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.26%) React
2 54 (8.19%) Node.js
3 42 (6.37%) RESTful
4 41 (6.22%) Kafka
5 39 (5.92%) .NET
6 33 (5.01%) OAuth
7 32 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
8 30 (4.55%) Spring
9 25 (3.79%) REST
10 22 (3.34%) OpenTelemetry
11 21 (3.19%) Spring Boot
12 20 (3.03%) JSON
12 20 (3.03%) OAuth2
13 19 (2.88%) ARM Templates
14 18 (2.73%) React Native
15 17 (2.58%) PySpark
16 16 (2.43%) Django
16 16 (2.43%) GraphQL
16 16 (2.43%) OpenAPI
16 16 (2.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 157 (23.82%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.61%) Data Centre
4 34 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (4.55%) Blog
6 28 (4.25%) Public Cloud
7 22 (3.34%) PKI
8 19 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.88%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.73%) Private Cloud
10 17 (2.58%) Mobile App
11 14 (2.12%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
15 7 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.06%) Replication
16 6 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.91%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 135 (20.49%) Linux
2 73 (11.08%) Windows
3 46 (6.98%) Unix
4 39 (5.92%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.43%) Android
5 16 (2.43%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.91%) CentOS
7 6 (0.91%) VMS
8 4 (0.61%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (64.49%) CI/CD
2 401 (60.85%) DevOps
3 387 (58.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 220 (33.38%) Agile
5 198 (30.05%) Mentoring
6 148 (22.46%) Observability
7 146 (22.15%) Containerisation
8 141 (21.40%) Test Automation
9 138 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 131 (19.88%) Coaching
11 130 (19.73%) Platform Engineering
12 129 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (19.27%) Software Engineering
14 105 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 104 (15.78%) Microservices
16 96 (14.57%) Deployment Automation
17 85 (12.90%) Roadmaps
18 82 (12.44%) Analytics
19 81 (12.29%) Clean Code
20 71 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 286 (43.40%) Python
2 164 (24.89%) Java
3 95 (14.42%) SQL
4 85 (12.90%) Bash
5 84 (12.75%) PowerShell
6 74 (11.23%) JavaScript
7 65 (9.86%) Go
8 64 (9.71%) Bicep
9 55 (8.35%) TypeScript
10 35 (5.31%) C#
11 22 (3.34%) Scala
12 17 (2.58%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.58%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.37%) Rust
14 7 (1.06%) Perl
14 7 (1.06%) PHP
15 4 (0.61%) C++
16 3 (0.46%) Groovy
17 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 69 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.59%) Degree
4 41 (6.22%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.82%) CCNP
8 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.21%) LPIC
11 7 (1.06%) CCNA
12 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.76%) MCSE
13 5 (0.76%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.61%) VCAP
15 3 (0.46%) CISSP
15 3 (0.46%) JNCIP
15 3 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.10%) Data Quality
1 27 (4.10%) QA
2 25 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (3.49%) GDPR
5 20 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.88%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.97%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.76%) WCAG
9 4 (0.61%) GRC
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 197 (29.89%) Docker
2 35 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 28 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.12%) vSphere
6 8 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.15%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 300 (45.52%) Kubernetes
2 163 (24.73%) Ansible
3 126 (19.12%) Grafana
4 83 (12.59%) Prometheus
5 49 (7.44%) Argo
6 21 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.03%) Puppet
8 19 (2.88%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.67%) Packer
11 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.21%) Istio
12 8 (1.21%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.61%) logstash
14 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.46%) Control-M
Vendors
1 121 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.28%) Google
3 44 (6.68%) VMware
4 28 (4.25%) Cisco
5 21 (3.19%) Databricks
6 20 (3.03%) Oracle
7 16 (2.43%) Arista
7 16 (2.43%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.28%) Aruba
8 15 (2.28%) NetScout
9 14 (2.12%) Splunk
10 13 (1.97%) Okta
11 11 (1.67%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.37%) Ab Initio
13 8 (1.21%) Confluent
14 7 (1.06%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.06%) F5
14 7 (1.06%) New Relic
14 7 (1.06%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.91%) SolarWinds