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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 59 81
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 -24
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 654 829 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.36% 5.49% 3.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.18% 40.40% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 430 446 984
10th Percentile £47,092 £53,125 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +8.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,375 £112,125
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 1,588 2,052 3,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.16% 13.59% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,095 1,193 2,841
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,118 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +4.04% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,625
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.53% -8.70%

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 9 June 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 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.75%) Apache
2 18 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.76%) Confluence
3 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.31%) Camunda
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) WordPress
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 411 (62.84%) AWS
2 333 (50.92%) Azure
3 161 (24.62%) GCP
4 116 (17.74%) Amazon EKS
5 115 (17.58%) GitHub
6 106 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (14.98%) SaaS
8 73 (11.16%) Serverless
9 72 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (10.86%) GitHub Actions
11 62 (9.48%) Amazon S3
12 54 (8.26%) Azure AKS
13 52 (7.95%) PaaS
14 47 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
16 42 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 40 (6.12%) IaaS
19 36 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
20 33 (5.05%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 73 (11.16%) Firewall
2 32 (4.89%) DNS
3 31 (4.74%) VPN
4 25 (3.82%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.06%) Broadband
6 18 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.60%) LAN
7 17 (2.60%) WAN
8 16 (2.45%) NGFW
9 15 (2.29%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.29%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.99%) DHCP
11 11 (1.68%) Network Security
12 10 (1.53%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.53%) VLAN
13 7 (1.07%) BGP
14 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.47%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.66%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 29 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (3.98%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.06%) BigQuery
7 20 (3.06%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.91%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.75%) Metadata
10 16 (2.45%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.29%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.99%) Redis
13 12 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.38%) Big Data
16 8 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (11.62%) Git
2 68 (10.40%) GitLab
3 57 (8.72%) TeamCity
4 42 (6.42%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.75%) Jaeger
6 13 (1.99%) JIRA
7 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.07%) JMeter
9 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.76%) Locust
10 5 (0.76%) Selenium
10 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.61%) Storybook
12 3 (0.46%) MLflow
12 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 152 (23.24%) Finance
2 121 (18.50%) Social Skills
3 120 (18.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 99 (15.14%) Banking
5 95 (14.53%) Law
6 90 (13.76%) Retail
7 86 (13.15%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (7.34%) Back Office
9 48 (7.34%) Financial Institution
10 16 (2.45%) Billing
11 13 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.22%) Aviation
14 8 (1.22%) Legal
15 6 (0.92%) Marketing
15 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.76%) Military
17 4 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 162 (24.77%) Senior
2 113 (17.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 110 (16.82%) Lead
4 102 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (12.39%) Software Engineer
6 80 (12.23%) Platform Engineer
7 77 (11.77%) Azure Engineer
8 61 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
9 54 (8.26%) Data Engineer
9 54 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (6.88%) Senior DevOps
11 42 (6.42%) Developer
12 37 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 36 (5.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (3.36%) Java Engineer
15 22 (3.36%) Team Leader
16 20 (3.06%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (3.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 18 (2.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.41%) React
2 54 (8.26%) Node.js
3 40 (6.12%) Kafka
4 33 (5.05%) Spring
5 28 (4.28%) ARM Templates
5 28 (4.28%) REST
6 24 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 24 (3.67%) Spring Boot
7 23 (3.52%) .NET
7 23 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (3.36%) PySpark
9 20 (3.06%) RESTful
10 19 (2.91%) YAML
11 15 (2.29%) React Native
12 14 (2.14%) Django
12 14 (2.14%) FastAPI
13 13 (1.99%) Flask
14 12 (1.83%) OAuth
15 11 (1.68%) AngularJS
16 10 (1.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 166 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.57%) Data Centre
3 42 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 38 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (5.50%) Product Ownership
6 33 (5.05%) Blog
7 27 (4.13%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.36%) PKI
9 18 (2.75%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.99%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.53%) Replication
13 9 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.22%) Podcast
15 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.07%) CMDB
16 6 (0.92%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 141 (21.56%) Linux
2 73 (11.16%) Windows
3 44 (6.73%) Unix
4 40 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.14%) Android
5 14 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.92%) Debian
8 5 (0.76%) CentOS
9 4 (0.61%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (64.68%) CI/CD
2 400 (61.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 377 (57.65%) DevOps
4 201 (30.73%) Mentoring
5 187 (28.59%) Agile
6 156 (23.85%) Platform Engineering
7 151 (23.09%) Containerisation
8 140 (21.41%) Observability
8 140 (21.41%) Test Automation
9 135 (20.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 125 (19.11%) Software Engineering
11 116 (17.74%) Microservices
12 114 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
13 93 (14.22%) Clean Code
14 90 (13.76%) Coaching
14 90 (13.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 89 (13.61%) Deployment Automation
16 88 (13.46%) Roadmaps
17 85 (13.00%) AI
18 80 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 280 (42.81%) Python
2 167 (25.54%) Java
3 91 (13.91%) Bash
3 91 (13.91%) PowerShell
4 75 (11.47%) SQL
5 64 (9.79%) JavaScript
6 62 (9.48%) Bicep
6 62 (9.48%) Go
7 54 (8.26%) TypeScript
8 30 (4.59%) C#
9 21 (3.21%) Scala
10 9 (1.38%) Rust
11 7 (1.07%) PHP
12 6 (0.92%) Groovy
12 6 (0.92%) Perl
12 6 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.61%) C++
15 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 99 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.95%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.34%) Degree
5 36 (5.50%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.68%) CCNP
10 10 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.92%) CCNA
11 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.92%) LPIC
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%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.36%) QA
3 18 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.45%) GDPR
6 15 (2.29%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.53%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 191 (29.20%) Docker
2 41 (6.27%) Active Directory
3 32 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.45%) vSphere
6 7 (1.07%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
9 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 303 (46.33%) Kubernetes
2 161 (24.62%) Ansible
3 119 (18.20%) Grafana
4 67 (10.24%) Prometheus
5 51 (7.80%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Puppet
7 18 (2.75%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.75%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.29%) Packer
9 13 (1.99%) Istio
10 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.38%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.76%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.46%) Control-M
16 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 122 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.95%) Google
3 47 (7.19%) VMware
4 28 (4.28%) Cisco
5 19 (2.91%) Databricks
6 16 (2.45%) Arista
6 16 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.29%) Aruba
7 15 (2.29%) NetScout
8 11 (1.68%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.38%) Oracle
9 9 (1.38%) Splunk
10 8 (1.22%) Confluent
10 8 (1.22%) F5
10 8 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.07%) EMC
11 7 (1.07%) Okta
11 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.92%) Citrix