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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 71 68
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 686 783 958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.02% 4.76% 3.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.97% 40.38% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 488 398 729
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,725 £102,500 £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 1,907 1,939 2,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.40% 11.79% 10.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,110 1,925
10th Percentile £37,425 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,434 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% +2.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £102,650
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 11 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 22 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.33%) Apache
4 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.02%) Confluence
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) Camunda
7 4 (0.58%) IIS
7 4 (0.58%) WordPress
8 3 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
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
1 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 428 (62.39%) AWS
2 401 (58.45%) Azure
3 194 (28.28%) GCP
4 109 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
5 106 (15.45%) GitHub
6 100 (14.58%) SaaS
7 97 (14.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 91 (13.27%) Serverless
9 87 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
10 73 (10.64%) PaaS
11 56 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (7.87%) Amazon S3
13 50 (7.29%) Azure AKS
14 48 (7.00%) IaaS
15 47 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
18 37 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (5.10%) Entra ID
20 33 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.43%) Firewall
2 45 (6.56%) TCP/IP
2 45 (6.56%) VPN
3 35 (5.10%) DNS
4 21 (3.06%) DHCP
5 19 (2.77%) WAN
6 18 (2.62%) LAN
7 10 (1.46%) Network Security
8 9 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.17%) VLAN
10 7 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (1.02%) HTTP
10 7 (1.02%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.02%) WebEx
10 7 (1.02%) Wireless
11 5 (0.73%) BGP
12 4 (0.58%) AMQP
12 4 (0.58%) SMS
13 3 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.94%) Metadata
4 26 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.92%) DynamoDB
6 20 (2.92%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.77%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.62%) Delta Lake
9 16 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.19%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.90%) Data Vault
11 13 (1.90%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.90%) Redis
12 12 (1.75%) Power BI
13 11 (1.60%) Big Data
13 11 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 83 (12.10%) Git
2 55 (8.02%) GitLab
3 50 (7.29%) TeamCity
4 46 (6.71%) 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
1 172 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 163 (23.76%) Finance
3 101 (14.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (13.27%) Law
5 87 (12.68%) Banking
6 75 (10.93%) Public Sector
7 70 (10.20%) Retail
8 43 (6.27%) Back Office
9 42 (6.12%) Financial Institution
10 40 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.75%) Legal
11 12 (1.75%) 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%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
15 5 (0.73%) Billing
15 5 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (28.86%) Senior
2 107 (15.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 103 (15.01%) Lead
4 100 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 88 (12.83%) Software Engineer
6 84 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
7 81 (11.81%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
11 44 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 44 (6.41%) Data Engineer
11 44 (6.41%) Developer
12 40 (5.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 38 (5.54%) Architect
14 32 (4.66%) Python Engineer
15 29 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 27 (3.94%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 27 (3.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (9.33%) React
2 51 (7.43%) Node.js
3 43 (6.27%) REST
4 35 (5.10%) Kafka
5 33 (4.81%) ARM Templates
6 27 (3.94%) .NET
6 27 (3.94%) Spring
7 23 (3.35%) OAuth
7 23 (3.35%) PySpark
8 21 (3.06%) OpenID
9 20 (2.92%) OAuth2
9 20 (2.92%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.62%) YAML
11 17 (2.48%) AWS CDK
12 16 (2.33%) AngularJS
13 15 (2.19%) NestJS
14 14 (2.04%) SAML
15 13 (1.90%) RESTful
16 12 (1.75%) Django
17 11 (1.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 175 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.69%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.79%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.77%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.62%) Blog
7 18 (2.62%) Podcast
8 15 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.04%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.04%) Replication
10 13 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.46%) PKI
12 9 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.31%) Life Science
13 8 (1.17%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (19.24%) Linux
2 92 (13.41%) Windows
3 42 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 33 (4.81%) Unix
5 14 (2.04%) VMS
6 5 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Android
8 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.44%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (68.66%) CI/CD
2 460 (67.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 379 (55.25%) DevOps
4 204 (29.74%) Mentoring
5 176 (25.66%) Observability
6 172 (25.07%) Agile
6 172 (25.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 165 (24.05%) Platform Engineering
8 158 (23.03%) Software Engineering
9 141 (20.55%) Containerisation
10 138 (20.12%) AI
11 119 (17.35%) Test Automation
12 117 (17.06%) Clean Code
13 116 (16.91%) Microservices
14 113 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
15 97 (14.14%) Analytics
16 93 (13.56%) Roadmaps
17 86 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 83 (12.10%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 276 (40.23%) Python
2 132 (19.24%) Java
3 129 (18.80%) PowerShell
4 107 (15.60%) SQL
5 105 (15.31%) Bicep
6 79 (11.52%) Bash
7 44 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 42 (6.12%) Go
9 37 (5.39%) C#
10 34 (4.96%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.77%) Scala
12 13 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.02%) Groovy
14 6 (0.87%) PHP
14 6 (0.87%) Ruby
15 4 (0.58%) Rust
15 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) C
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 109 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.10%) Azure Certification
4 49 (7.14%) Degree
5 32 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.04%) SnowPro
9 13 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.75%) CCNP
10 12 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.02%) CCNA
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.73%) CCIE
12 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.58%) MCSE
13 4 (0.58%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.50%) QA
3 16 (2.33%) GDPR
4 12 (1.75%) NIST
5 11 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.73%) NCSC
9 5 (0.73%) SLA
9 5 (0.73%) WCAG
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 188 (27.41%) Docker
2 66 (9.62%) Active Directory
3 47 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.64%) vSphere
5 18 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.58%) Firmware
9 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 285 (41.55%) Kubernetes
2 134 (19.53%) Ansible
3 107 (15.60%) Grafana
4 38 (5.54%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.37%) Argo
6 19 (2.77%) Istio
7 18 (2.62%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (2.04%) Puppet
10 13 (1.90%) 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
1 161 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.73%) VMware
3 50 (7.29%) Google
4 29 (4.23%) Cisco
5 27 (3.94%) Databricks
6 19 (2.77%) Okta
7 17 (2.48%) Oracle
7 17 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.04%) Ping Identity
9 13 (1.90%) Informatica
10 12 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.75%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.75%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.17%) Confluent
12 8 (1.17%) NetApp
12 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.02%) EMC
13 7 (1.02%) F5
13 7 (1.02%) Splunk