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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 63 56
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 666 814 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.27% 4.97% 4.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.31% 34.89% 35.62%
Number of salaries quoted 397 577 1,085
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +5.52% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.77% +3.33% -6.25%

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 1,470 2,333 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.42% 14.25% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,392 2,986
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,398 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,375 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 24 January 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 23 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 17 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.20%) IIS
5 7 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.90%) Confluence
7 5 (0.75%) Apache
8 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
1 6 (0.90%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 411 (61.71%) Azure
2 366 (54.95%) AWS
3 187 (28.08%) GitHub
4 183 (27.48%) Azure DevOps
5 130 (19.52%) GCP
6 100 (15.02%) GitHub Actions
7 94 (14.11%) Amazon EKS
8 91 (13.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 85 (12.76%) SaaS
10 75 (11.26%) Entra ID
11 65 (9.76%) Azure Monitor
12 64 (9.61%) Serverless
13 56 (8.41%) OCI
14 50 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 45 (6.76%) Amazon S3
15 45 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
16 39 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 36 (5.41%) dbt
17 36 (5.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (13.66%) Firewall
2 45 (6.76%) VPN
3 34 (5.11%) DNS
4 28 (4.20%) WAN
5 25 (3.75%) TCP/IP
6 23 (3.45%) Network Security
7 21 (3.15%) Broadband
7 21 (3.15%) SD-WAN
8 19 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (2.40%) Wireshark
10 15 (2.25%) NGFW
11 14 (2.10%) LAN
12 13 (1.95%) VXLAN
13 12 (1.80%) VLAN
14 11 (1.65%) BGP
15 8 (1.20%) DHCP
16 6 (0.90%) OSPF
16 6 (0.90%) SSL
17 5 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
18 4 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.31%) NoSQL
1 42 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (4.05%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.90%) Data Lake
4 26 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.60%) Power BI
6 21 (3.15%) Tableau
7 19 (2.85%) RDBMS
8 16 (2.40%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.40%) MySQL
9 14 (2.10%) DynamoDB
9 14 (2.10%) Metadata
9 14 (2.10%) Redis
10 13 (1.95%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (14.11%) Jenkins
2 75 (11.26%) Git
3 51 (7.66%) GitLab
4 44 (6.61%) TeamCity
5 37 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (4.05%) JIRA
7 19 (2.85%) Jaeger
8 9 (1.35%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.75%) Storybook
11 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.60%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.60%) ERwin
11 4 (0.60%) JMeter
11 4 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.60%) Selenium
11 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 233 (34.98%) Finance
2 140 (21.02%) Social Skills
3 77 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (10.66%) Banking
5 64 (9.61%) Retail
6 63 (9.46%) Law
7 46 (6.91%) Public Sector
8 42 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (6.01%) Back Office
9 40 (6.01%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.10%) Billing
10 14 (2.10%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.20%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.75%) Marketing
14 4 (0.60%) Front Office
14 4 (0.60%) Games
14 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (26.88%) Senior
2 147 (22.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 90 (13.51%) Lead
4 81 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 77 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
6 65 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 60 (9.01%) Software Engineer
8 57 (8.56%) Platform Engineer
9 49 (7.36%) Developer
10 39 (5.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 37 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
12 36 (5.41%) Data Engineer
13 34 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
14 29 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 28 (4.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 24 (3.60%) Architect
17 24 (3.60%) Lead DevOps
18 22 (3.30%) Linux Engineer
19 18 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.46%) RESTful
2 58 (8.71%) .NET
3 54 (8.11%) React
4 47 (7.06%) OAuth
5 40 (6.01%) JSON
6 38 (5.71%) Node.js
7 37 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
8 35 (5.26%) OAuth2
9 21 (3.15%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (3.15%) REST
10 20 (3.00%) SOAP
10 20 (3.00%) XML
11 19 (2.85%) SAML
11 19 (2.85%) Spring
12 18 (2.70%) PySpark
12 18 (2.70%) React Native
13 17 (2.55%) Kafka
13 17 (2.55%) OpenAPI
13 17 (2.55%) Swagger
14 16 (2.40%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 164 (24.62%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 49 (7.36%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (6.31%) Data Centre
5 34 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.20%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.75%) Public Cloud
7 25 (3.75%) Security Posture
8 22 (3.30%) Blog
9 19 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.85%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.55%) PKI
11 14 (2.10%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.65%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.20%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 6 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 131 (19.67%) Linux
2 66 (9.91%) Windows
3 44 (6.61%) Unix
4 28 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.70%) VMS
6 14 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.95%) Android
7 13 (1.95%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.65%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.35%) CentOS
10 8 (1.20%) Debian
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (64.41%) DevOps
2 407 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 394 (59.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 220 (33.03%) Agile
5 187 (28.08%) Mentoring
6 172 (25.83%) Coaching
7 152 (22.82%) Observability
8 140 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (19.22%) Test Automation
10 127 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (18.62%) Asset Management
12 122 (18.32%) Containerisation
13 110 (16.52%) Analytics
14 106 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
15 104 (15.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 97 (14.56%) Software Engineering
17 91 (13.66%) AI
18 90 (13.51%) Microservices
19 84 (12.61%) Deployment Automation
20 81 (12.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 310 (46.55%) Python
2 141 (21.17%) SQL
3 139 (20.87%) Java
4 127 (19.07%) PowerShell
5 115 (17.27%) Bash
6 82 (12.31%) JavaScript
7 79 (11.86%) Bicep
8 55 (8.26%) Go
9 49 (7.36%) TypeScript
10 37 (5.56%) C#
10 37 (5.56%) PL/SQL
10 37 (5.56%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.55%) Scala
12 4 (0.60%) Perl
13 2 (0.30%) C++
13 2 (0.30%) PHP
13 2 (0.30%) Rust
13 2 (0.30%) XAML
14 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 67 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.86%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.46%) Azure Certification
5 31 (4.65%) Degree
6 20 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.50%) CCNP
10 10 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.60%) RHCE
13 4 (0.60%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.45%) CISSP
14 3 (0.45%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.20%) GDPR
3 27 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 26 (3.90%) PCI DSS
5 24 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 24 (3.60%) QA
6 22 (3.30%) NIST
7 21 (3.15%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.20%) SLA
9 6 (0.90%) GRC
10 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 208 (31.23%) Docker
2 43 (6.46%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.55%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.95%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.80%) vSphere
9 9 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.75%) NFS
11 3 (0.45%) Firmware
12 2 (0.30%) Ceph
12 2 (0.30%) Lustre
12 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.30%) vCloud
13 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 276 (41.44%) Kubernetes
2 155 (23.27%) Ansible
3 121 (18.17%) Grafana
4 91 (13.66%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.01%) Argo
6 39 (5.86%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.85%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.50%) Puppet
10 8 (1.20%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.05%) SCOM
12 5 (0.75%) Cilium
13 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.60%) logstash
13 4 (0.60%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.45%) Control-M
14 3 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
15 2 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.30%) Packer
15 2 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 112 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.56%) Google
3 43 (6.46%) Oracle
3 43 (6.46%) VMware
4 22 (3.30%) Cisco
4 22 (3.30%) Databricks
5 21 (3.15%) Okta
6 16 (2.40%) Splunk
7 14 (2.10%) Ab Initio
7 14 (2.10%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.95%) Arista
8 13 (1.95%) Aruba
8 13 (1.95%) NetScout
9 10 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.35%) New Relic
11 8 (1.20%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.05%) F5
12 7 (1.05%) IBM
12 7 (1.05%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.90%) Mercator