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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 61 80
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 663 658 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 4.89% 3.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.88% 38.26% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 416 521 1,034
10th Percentile £46,446 £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 £86,253 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.85% -5.81%

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 1,511 1,720 3,785
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.34% 12.78% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 1,336 3,001
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 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% +15.64% -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 30 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 15 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.96%) Apache
4 8 (1.21%) Confluence
4 8 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
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 (0.60%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (2.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 395 (59.58%) AWS
2 375 (56.56%) Azure
3 155 (23.38%) GCP
4 144 (21.72%) GitHub
5 127 (19.16%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
7 91 (13.73%) SaaS
8 90 (13.57%) GitHub Actions
9 70 (10.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (9.80%) Serverless
11 51 (7.69%) Amazon S3
12 44 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (6.18%) Azure AKS
14 40 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
14 40 (6.03%) PaaS
15 37 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (5.43%) OCI
17 31 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (4.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 82 (12.37%) Firewall
2 35 (5.28%) DNS
3 33 (4.98%) VPN
4 27 (4.07%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.17%) Broadband
6 18 (2.71%) NGFW
6 18 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.56%) LAN
8 16 (2.41%) WAN
9 15 (2.26%) Network Security
9 15 (2.26%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.26%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.96%) DHCP
11 12 (1.81%) VLAN
12 11 (1.66%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.36%) BGP
14 7 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.75%) OSPF
15 5 (0.75%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.75%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (5.73%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.28%) Relational Database
4 33 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (4.52%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.62%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.87%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.87%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.56%) BigQuery
8 17 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.56%) Metadata
9 15 (2.26%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.11%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.66%) Redis
12 10 (1.51%) Power BI
13 9 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 89 (13.42%) Git
2 73 (11.01%) GitLab
3 56 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 52 (7.84%) TeamCity
5 23 (3.47%) JIRA
6 19 (2.87%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.41%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.36%) JMeter
9 9 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.90%) Locust
10 6 (0.90%) Selenium
10 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.75%) Storybook
12 4 (0.60%) MLflow
13 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 186 (28.05%) Finance
2 122 (18.40%) Social Skills
3 114 (17.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (14.18%) Banking
5 85 (12.82%) Law
6 83 (12.52%) Retail
7 78 (11.76%) Public Sector
8 49 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (6.79%) Back Office
9 45 (6.79%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.87%) Billing
11 17 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.36%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.36%) 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 (0.75%) Advertising
15 5 (0.75%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 177 (26.70%) Senior
2 124 (18.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 114 (17.19%) Lead
4 97 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
6 76 (11.46%) Software Engineer
7 71 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 50 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.49%) Developer
12 42 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
13 33 (4.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 33 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.37%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.47%) Lead DevOps
16 21 (3.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (3.17%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.90%) React
2 55 (8.30%) Node.js
3 44 (6.64%) Kafka
4 40 (6.03%) RESTful
5 35 (5.28%) .NET
6 32 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
7 31 (4.68%) Spring
8 29 (4.37%) OAuth
9 25 (3.77%) REST
10 23 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
10 23 (3.47%) Spring Boot
11 19 (2.87%) ARM Templates
11 19 (2.87%) JSON
12 18 (2.71%) OAuth2
12 18 (2.71%) React Native
13 17 (2.56%) PySpark
14 16 (2.41%) Django
15 14 (2.11%) GraphQL
15 14 (2.11%) Swagger
15 14 (2.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 155 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.18%) Data Centre
3 38 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (4.52%) Blog
6 27 (4.07%) Public Cloud
7 21 (3.17%) PKI
8 19 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.87%) Private Cloud
9 18 (2.71%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.56%) Mobile App
11 15 (2.26%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.21%) Data Structures
15 7 (1.06%) Replication
16 6 (0.90%) CMDB
16 6 (0.90%) CUDA
16 6 (0.90%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 142 (21.42%) Linux
2 80 (12.07%) Windows
3 49 (7.39%) Unix
4 40 (6.03%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.41%) Android
5 16 (2.41%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.90%) CentOS
7 6 (0.90%) VMS
8 5 (0.75%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (64.56%) CI/CD
2 399 (60.18%) DevOps
3 387 (58.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 220 (33.18%) Agile
5 205 (30.92%) Mentoring
6 146 (22.02%) Observability
7 144 (21.72%) Containerisation
8 142 (21.42%) Test Automation
9 135 (20.36%) Platform Engineering
10 133 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (19.16%) Coaching
12 126 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
13 123 (18.55%) Software Engineering
14 107 (16.14%) Microservices
15 105 (15.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 94 (14.18%) Deployment Automation
17 86 (12.97%) Roadmaps
18 84 (12.67%) Clean Code
19 81 (12.22%) Analytics
20 72 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 287 (43.29%) Python
2 168 (25.34%) Java
3 92 (13.88%) SQL
4 86 (12.97%) Bash
4 86 (12.97%) PowerShell
5 73 (11.01%) JavaScript
6 65 (9.80%) Go
7 62 (9.35%) Bicep
8 54 (8.14%) TypeScript
9 33 (4.98%) C#
10 22 (3.32%) Scala
11 17 (2.56%) PL/SQL
11 17 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.36%) Rust
13 7 (1.06%) Perl
13 7 (1.06%) PHP
14 4 (0.60%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) Groovy
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 74 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.54%) Degree
4 42 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.81%) CCNP
8 12 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.21%) LPIC
10 7 (1.06%) CCNA
11 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.75%) MCSE
12 5 (0.75%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.60%) VCAP
14 3 (0.45%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.45%) JNCIP
14 3 (0.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.77%) QA
3 23 (3.47%) GDPR
4 22 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (3.02%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.87%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.81%) NIST
8 5 (0.75%) WCAG
9 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.60%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 199 (30.02%) Docker
2 37 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.26%) vSphere
5 14 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
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
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 305 (46.00%) Kubernetes
2 166 (25.04%) Ansible
3 124 (18.70%) Grafana
4 81 (12.22%) Prometheus
5 51 (7.69%) Argo
6 21 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.02%) Puppet
8 19 (2.87%) Kustomize
9 13 (1.96%) Packer
9 13 (1.96%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.36%) Istio
10 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.21%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.60%) logstash
13 4 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 123 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.54%) Google
3 45 (6.79%) VMware
4 28 (4.22%) Cisco
5 22 (3.32%) Databricks
6 20 (3.02%) Oracle
7 16 (2.41%) Arista
7 16 (2.41%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.26%) Aruba
8 15 (2.26%) NetScout
9 14 (2.11%) Splunk
10 13 (1.96%) Okta
11 11 (1.66%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.21%) Ab Initio
12 8 (1.21%) Confluent
13 7 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.06%) F5
13 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.90%) EMC