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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 51 79
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 657 861 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.48% 5.93% 3.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.47% 41.16% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 421 461 1,026
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +8.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.16% -2.67%

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 1,547 2,092 3,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.19% 14.42% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,205 2,919
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,700 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,930 £51,068 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +4.04% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,212 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% +10.74% -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 23 May 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 18 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.44%) Apache
2 16 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.07%) Confluence
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
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 10 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 396 (60.27%) AWS
2 351 (53.42%) Azure
3 159 (24.20%) GCP
4 128 (19.48%) GitHub
5 118 (17.96%) Amazon EKS
6 114 (17.35%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (13.85%) SaaS
8 79 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (10.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (9.59%) Serverless
11 56 (8.52%) Amazon S3
12 45 (6.85%) Azure AKS
13 44 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (6.54%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (6.54%) PaaS
15 40 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
17 31 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (4.72%) IaaS
17 31 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (11.11%) Firewall
2 37 (5.63%) DNS
3 28 (4.26%) VPN
4 24 (3.65%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.89%) Broadband
6 18 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.59%) LAN
8 16 (2.44%) NGFW
8 16 (2.44%) WAN
9 15 (2.28%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.28%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.98%) DHCP
11 12 (1.83%) Network Security
12 10 (1.52%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.52%) VLAN
13 6 (0.91%) BGP
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.91%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.18%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (4.57%) NoSQL
5 26 (3.96%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.35%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.04%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.74%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.74%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.59%) Metadata
10 15 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.28%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.67%) Redis
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 83 (12.63%) Git
2 72 (10.96%) GitLab
3 59 (8.98%) TeamCity
4 45 (6.85%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.74%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.59%) JIRA
7 11 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.22%) JMeter
10 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.91%) Locust
10 6 (0.91%) Selenium
10 6 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.76%) Storybook
12 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.61%) MLflow
13 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
General
1 174 (26.48%) Finance
2 121 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 114 (17.35%) Social Skills
4 103 (15.68%) Banking
5 92 (14.00%) Law
5 92 (14.00%) Retail
6 81 (12.33%) Public Sector
7 49 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.46%) Back Office
7 49 (7.46%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.59%) Billing
9 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.37%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.22%) Legal
13 6 (0.91%) Aviation
13 6 (0.91%) Marketing
13 6 (0.91%) Military
13 6 (0.91%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 167 (25.42%) Senior
2 122 (18.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 117 (17.81%) Lead
4 98 (14.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (12.79%) Azure Engineer
6 81 (12.33%) Software Engineer
7 78 (11.87%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 57 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
10 50 (7.61%) Data Engineer
11 44 (6.70%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.39%) Developer
13 37 (5.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 35 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.81%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 24 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (3.50%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.20%) Java Engineer
19 20 (3.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
20 19 (2.89%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.07%) React
2 51 (7.76%) Node.js
3 42 (6.39%) Kafka
4 33 (5.02%) Spring
5 30 (4.57%) RESTful
6 27 (4.11%) .NET
7 26 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (3.81%) REST
8 25 (3.81%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.50%) OpenTelemetry
10 22 (3.35%) ARM Templates
11 20 (3.04%) OAuth
11 20 (3.04%) PySpark
12 18 (2.74%) YAML
13 16 (2.44%) React Native
14 15 (2.28%) JSON
15 14 (2.13%) Django
16 12 (1.83%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.83%) FastAPI
16 12 (1.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 159 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.39%) Data Centre
3 40 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.02%) Blog
7 23 (3.50%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.35%) PKI
9 18 (2.74%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.44%) Mobile App
11 15 (2.28%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.67%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.52%) Replication
15 8 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.07%) CMDB
16 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
17 6 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.16%) Linux
2 76 (11.57%) Windows
3 44 (6.70%) Unix
4 43 (6.54%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.13%) Android
5 14 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.91%) Debian
9 5 (0.76%) CentOS
10 4 (0.61%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (64.69%) CI/CD
2 386 (58.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 385 (58.60%) DevOps
4 205 (31.20%) Mentoring
5 204 (31.05%) Agile
6 153 (23.29%) Platform Engineering
7 148 (22.53%) Test Automation
8 147 (22.37%) Containerisation
9 141 (21.46%) Observability
10 135 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (19.03%) Software Engineering
12 118 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (17.35%) Microservices
14 112 (17.05%) Coaching
15 98 (14.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 97 (14.76%) Deployment Automation
17 96 (14.61%) Clean Code
18 87 (13.24%) Roadmaps
19 79 (12.02%) Analytics
20 75 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 280 (42.62%) Python
2 171 (26.03%) Java
3 85 (12.94%) Bash
3 85 (12.94%) PowerShell
4 78 (11.87%) SQL
5 65 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 61 (9.28%) Go
7 55 (8.37%) Bicep
8 50 (7.61%) TypeScript
9 30 (4.57%) C#
10 22 (3.35%) Scala
11 11 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.37%) Rust
13 7 (1.07%) Perl
13 7 (1.07%) PHP
14 5 (0.76%) Groovy
15 4 (0.61%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 81 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.76%) Degree
4 49 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.48%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.67%) CCNP
8 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.07%) LPIC
11 6 (0.91%) CCNA
11 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.76%) CCIE
13 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.61%) MCSE
13 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.61%) VCAP
13 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.65%) QA
3 21 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.04%) GDPR
5 18 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.74%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.28%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.52%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 195 (29.68%) Docker
2 38 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.28%) vSphere
6 8 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.46%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 307 (46.73%) Kubernetes
2 163 (24.81%) Ansible
3 126 (19.18%) Grafana
4 73 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 51 (7.76%) Argo
6 20 (3.04%) Puppet
7 18 (2.74%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.59%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.13%) Packer
9 14 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.67%) Istio
10 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.22%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.46%) Control-M
15 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 119 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.76%) Google
3 45 (6.85%) VMware
4 28 (4.26%) Cisco
5 19 (2.89%) Databricks
6 16 (2.44%) Arista
6 16 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.28%) Aruba
7 15 (2.28%) NetScout
8 13 (1.98%) Oracle
9 11 (1.67%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.52%) Okta
10 10 (1.52%) Splunk
11 8 (1.22%) Confluent
11 8 (1.22%) F5
11 8 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.07%) EMC
12 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.07%) Salesforce