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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 70 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 688 796 967
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.04% 4.83% 3.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.93% 40.59% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 487 408 744
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 1,915 1,961 2,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 11.89% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 1,117 1,961
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,467 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% +1.56% -4.48%

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 7 August 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 21 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.18%) Apache
4 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.87%) Confluence
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) Camunda
7 4 (0.58%) WordPress
8 3 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.44%) IIS
8 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 431 (62.65%) AWS
2 395 (57.41%) Azure
3 197 (28.63%) GCP
4 108 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
5 106 (15.41%) GitHub
6 101 (14.68%) SaaS
7 97 (14.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 93 (13.52%) Amazon EKS
9 91 (13.23%) Serverless
10 72 (10.47%) PaaS
11 58 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (7.99%) Amazon S3
13 50 (7.27%) Azure AKS
14 47 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (6.83%) IaaS
15 41 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
18 34 (4.94%) Entra ID
19 33 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.27%) Firewall
2 45 (6.54%) TCP/IP
3 43 (6.25%) VPN
4 35 (5.09%) DNS
5 20 (2.91%) DHCP
6 18 (2.62%) LAN
7 17 (2.47%) WAN
8 9 (1.31%) Network Security
9 8 (1.16%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.16%) VLAN
10 7 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (1.02%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.02%) WebEx
11 6 (0.87%) HTTP
11 6 (0.87%) Wireless
12 4 (0.58%) AMQP
12 4 (0.58%) BGP
12 4 (0.58%) MQTT
12 4 (0.58%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.51%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (3.78%) Metadata
4 20 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.76%) DynamoDB
5 19 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.62%) Delta Lake
7 15 (2.18%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.18%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.89%) Data Vault
8 13 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.89%) Redis
9 11 (1.60%) Big Data
9 11 (1.60%) Power BI
10 10 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (11.92%) Git
2 56 (8.14%) GitLab
3 55 (7.99%) TeamCity
4 45 (6.54%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.31%) JIRA
6 9 (1.31%) JMeter
6 9 (1.31%) Selenium
7 5 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.73%) Locust
7 5 (0.73%) Postman
8 4 (0.58%) NUnit
8 4 (0.58%) Snyk
8 4 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.44%) JUnit
9 3 (0.44%) Maven
9 3 (0.44%) MLflow
10 2 (0.29%) MSI
10 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 170 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 166 (24.13%) Finance
3 107 (15.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (13.95%) Law
5 92 (13.37%) Banking
6 75 (10.90%) Retail
7 74 (10.76%) Public Sector
8 45 (6.54%) Back Office
9 44 (6.40%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.74%) Legal
11 12 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.60%) Marketing
13 7 (1.02%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.87%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
15 5 (0.73%) Billing
15 5 (0.73%) Military
16 4 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 197 (28.63%) Senior
2 108 (15.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 102 (14.83%) Lead
4 100 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 92 (13.37%) Software Engineer
6 82 (11.92%) Azure Engineer
7 81 (11.77%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (6.54%) Senior DevOps
11 44 (6.40%) Data Engineer
11 44 (6.40%) Developer
12 43 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 40 (5.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 37 (5.38%) Architect
15 32 (4.65%) Python Engineer
16 30 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
17 29 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 26 (3.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 26 (3.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (9.59%) React
2 51 (7.41%) Node.js
3 43 (6.25%) REST
4 35 (5.09%) Kafka
5 33 (4.80%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.07%) Spring
7 27 (3.92%) .NET
8 23 (3.34%) OAuth
8 23 (3.34%) PySpark
9 21 (3.05%) OpenID
10 20 (2.91%) OAuth2
10 20 (2.91%) Spring Boot
11 18 (2.62%) YAML
12 16 (2.33%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.33%) AWS CDK
13 15 (2.18%) NestJS
14 14 (2.03%) SAML
15 12 (1.74%) Django
15 12 (1.74%) Flask
15 12 (1.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 176 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 43 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (5.81%) Public Cloud
6 24 (3.49%) Data Centre
7 21 (3.05%) Blog
8 19 (2.76%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.62%) Podcast
10 14 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.03%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.03%) Replication
11 13 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.45%) PKI
13 9 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.31%) Life Science
14 8 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (18.90%) Linux
2 91 (13.23%) Windows
3 42 (6.10%) Windows Server
4 33 (4.80%) Unix
5 14 (2.03%) VMS
6 4 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.44%) Android
7 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.44%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (69.19%) CI/CD
2 458 (66.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 383 (55.67%) DevOps
4 206 (29.94%) Mentoring
5 175 (25.44%) Observability
6 173 (25.15%) Agile
6 173 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 163 (23.69%) Platform Engineering
8 160 (23.26%) Software Engineering
9 140 (20.35%) Containerisation
10 139 (20.20%) AI
11 126 (18.31%) Test Automation
12 121 (17.59%) Clean Code
13 118 (17.15%) Microservices
14 114 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
15 94 (13.66%) Analytics
16 93 (13.52%) Roadmaps
17 86 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 83 (12.06%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 280 (40.70%) Python
2 136 (19.77%) Java
3 127 (18.46%) PowerShell
4 105 (15.26%) SQL
5 104 (15.12%) Bicep
6 81 (11.77%) Bash
7 44 (6.40%) TypeScript
8 42 (6.10%) Go
9 37 (5.38%) C#
9 37 (5.38%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.76%) Scala
11 13 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.02%) Groovy
13 6 (0.87%) PHP
13 6 (0.87%) Ruby
14 5 (0.73%) Rust
15 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) C
16 2 (0.29%) C++
16 2 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (17.15%) Security Cleared
2 107 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.48%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.27%) Degree
5 31 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.03%) SnowPro
9 13 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.74%) CCNP
11 7 (1.02%) CCNA
12 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.73%) CCIE
13 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.58%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.58%) LPIC
14 4 (0.58%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.78%) QA
3 14 (2.03%) GDPR
4 11 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.60%) NIST
5 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.16%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.73%) NCSC
8 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 5 (0.73%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 188 (27.33%) Docker
2 64 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 46 (6.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.63%) vSphere
5 17 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.58%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 290 (42.15%) Kubernetes
2 137 (19.91%) Ansible
3 113 (16.42%) Grafana
4 38 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.36%) Argo
6 19 (2.76%) Istio
7 18 (2.62%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.18%) Puppet
9 14 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (1.74%) Packer
11 7 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
11 7 (1.02%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.58%) linkerd
14 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
Vendors
1 159 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.56%) VMware
3 47 (6.83%) Google
4 28 (4.07%) Cisco
5 27 (3.92%) Databricks
6 19 (2.76%) Okta
7 17 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.33%) Oracle
9 14 (2.03%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.74%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.74%) Informatica
10 12 (1.74%) ScienceLogic
11 8 (1.16%) Confluent
11 8 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.02%) EMC
12 7 (1.02%) F5
12 7 (1.02%) NetApp
12 7 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.02%) Splunk