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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 62 64
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 673 807 1,273
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.25% 5.05% 4.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.11% 35.15% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 401 572 1,118
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £56,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £99,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £106,625
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 1,492 2,296 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.42% 14.36% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 1,371 3,146
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,069 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 3 February 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 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 17 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.19%) IIS
5 6 (0.89%) Confluence
6 5 (0.74%) Apache
7 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
1 6 (0.89%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (5.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 412 (61.22%) Azure
2 375 (55.72%) AWS
3 187 (27.79%) GitHub
4 185 (27.49%) Azure DevOps
5 132 (19.61%) GCP
6 103 (15.30%) GitHub Actions
7 100 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
8 90 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 88 (13.08%) SaaS
10 77 (11.44%) Entra ID
11 67 (9.96%) Azure Monitor
11 67 (9.96%) Serverless
12 58 (8.62%) OCI
13 55 (8.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 48 (7.13%) Amazon S3
15 47 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
17 39 (5.79%) IaaS
18 38 (5.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (13.82%) Firewall
2 46 (6.84%) VPN
3 34 (5.05%) DNS
4 25 (3.71%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.71%) WAN
5 24 (3.57%) Network Security
6 21 (3.12%) Broadband
6 21 (3.12%) SD-WAN
7 20 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (2.67%) Wireshark
9 17 (2.53%) NGFW
10 15 (2.23%) VXLAN
11 13 (1.93%) VLAN
12 12 (1.78%) BGP
13 11 (1.63%) LAN
14 9 (1.34%) DHCP
15 6 (0.89%) OSPF
15 6 (0.89%) SSL
16 4 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
16 4 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.24%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (4.31%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.71%) Data Lake
5 25 (3.71%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.57%) Power BI
7 23 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (3.12%) Tableau
9 19 (2.82%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.53%) BigQuery
11 15 (2.23%) MySQL
12 14 (2.08%) Metadata
12 14 (2.08%) Redis
13 13 (1.93%) Delta Lake
13 13 (1.93%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (1.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 96 (14.26%) Jenkins
2 74 (11.00%) Git
3 52 (7.73%) GitLab
4 46 (6.84%) TeamCity
5 37 (5.50%) Oracle Forms
6 28 (4.16%) JIRA
7 19 (2.82%) Jaeger
8 9 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.74%) Storybook
11 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.59%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.59%) ERwin
11 4 (0.59%) JMeter
11 4 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.59%) Selenium
11 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 236 (35.07%) Finance
2 142 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 82 (12.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (11.14%) Banking
5 70 (10.40%) Retail
6 68 (10.10%) Law
7 49 (7.28%) Public Sector
8 43 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (6.39%) Back Office
8 43 (6.39%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.38%) Billing
10 14 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.19%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.04%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.59%) Front Office
13 4 (0.59%) Games
13 4 (0.59%) Military
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (26.60%) Senior
2 152 (22.59%) Cloud Engineer
3 89 (13.22%) Lead
4 80 (11.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (11.74%) Azure Engineer
6 69 (10.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 63 (9.36%) Software Engineer
8 61 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
9 49 (7.28%) Developer
10 38 (5.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 37 (5.50%) Applications Engineer
11 37 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (5.35%) Data Engineer
13 31 (4.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (4.31%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 27 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.42%) Architect
17 22 (3.27%) Lead DevOps
18 20 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
19 19 (2.82%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.66%) RESTful
2 58 (8.62%) .NET
3 55 (8.17%) React
4 47 (6.98%) OAuth
5 40 (5.94%) JSON
6 38 (5.65%) Node.js
7 37 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
8 35 (5.20%) OAuth2
9 21 (3.12%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (3.12%) REST
10 20 (2.97%) Kafka
10 20 (2.97%) SOAP
10 20 (2.97%) Spring
10 20 (2.97%) XML
11 19 (2.82%) SAML
12 18 (2.67%) PySpark
12 18 (2.67%) React Native
13 17 (2.53%) OpenAPI
13 17 (2.53%) Swagger
14 16 (2.38%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 170 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 55 (8.17%) Product Ownership
3 49 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (6.54%) Data Centre
5 38 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.16%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.86%) Blog
8 25 (3.71%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.57%) Security Posture
10 22 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.82%) PKI
12 17 (2.53%) Management Information System
13 14 (2.08%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.63%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.34%) Private Cloud
17 8 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
18 7 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
18 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
19 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 131 (19.47%) Linux
2 65 (9.66%) Windows
3 44 (6.54%) Unix
4 27 (4.01%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.67%) VMS
6 13 (1.93%) Android
6 13 (1.93%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.63%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.34%) CentOS
10 8 (1.19%) Debian
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (64.19%) DevOps
2 417 (61.96%) CI/CD
3 396 (58.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (32.99%) Agile
5 190 (28.23%) Mentoring
6 175 (26.00%) Coaching
7 154 (22.88%) Observability
8 144 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
9 130 (19.32%) Test Automation
10 129 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (18.57%) Containerisation
12 124 (18.42%) Asset Management
13 111 (16.49%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (16.05%) Analytics
14 108 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 102 (15.16%) Software Engineering
16 92 (13.67%) AI
16 92 (13.67%) Microservices
17 90 (13.37%) Deployment Automation
18 80 (11.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 318 (47.25%) Python
2 145 (21.55%) Java
3 142 (21.10%) SQL
4 126 (18.72%) PowerShell
5 119 (17.68%) Bash
6 83 (12.33%) JavaScript
7 78 (11.59%) Bicep
8 57 (8.47%) Go
9 50 (7.43%) TypeScript
10 37 (5.50%) C#
10 37 (5.50%) PL/SQL
10 37 (5.50%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.53%) Scala
12 4 (0.59%) Perl
13 3 (0.45%) Rust
14 2 (0.30%) C++
14 2 (0.30%) PHP
14 2 (0.30%) XAML
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 68 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.39%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.20%) Degree
6 21 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.34%) CCNP
10 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.59%) RHCE
14 3 (0.45%) CISSP
14 3 (0.45%) LPIC
14 3 (0.45%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.16%) GDPR
3 27 (4.01%) PCI DSS
4 26 (3.86%) Data Quality
5 25 (3.71%) QA
6 24 (3.57%) Accessibility
7 22 (3.27%) SOC 2
8 21 (3.12%) NIST
9 8 (1.19%) SLA
10 6 (0.89%) GRC
11 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.15%) MiFID
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 212 (31.50%) Docker
2 42 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.93%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.63%) vSphere
9 9 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.45%) Firmware
10 3 (0.45%) NFS
11 2 (0.30%) Ceph
11 2 (0.30%) Lustre
11 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.30%) vCloud
11 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 279 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 155 (23.03%) Ansible
3 125 (18.57%) Grafana
4 93 (13.82%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.94%) Argo
6 39 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (4.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.82%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.49%) Puppet
10 9 (1.34%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.04%) SCOM
12 5 (0.74%) Cilium
13 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.59%) logstash
13 4 (0.59%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.45%) Control-M
14 3 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.45%) Packer
14 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.32%) Google
3 43 (6.39%) Oracle
4 41 (6.09%) VMware
5 22 (3.27%) Databricks
6 21 (3.12%) Okta
7 19 (2.82%) Cisco
8 16 (2.38%) Splunk
9 15 (2.23%) Arista
9 15 (2.23%) Aruba
9 15 (2.23%) NetScout
10 14 (2.08%) Ab Initio
11 12 (1.78%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.49%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.34%) New Relic
14 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.04%) F5
15 7 (1.04%) IBM
15 7 (1.04%) SolarWinds
16 6 (0.89%) Mercator