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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 59 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 659 707 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.94% 5.11% 3.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.79% 33.60% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 395 575 1,024
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,554 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +8.97% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £108,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £110,000
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 1,505 2,104 3,592
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.99% 15.20% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,399 3,038
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £47,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,245 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 13 March 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 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.21%) Apache
3 8 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.61%) Confluence
5 4 (0.61%) IIS
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.15%) Camunda
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Weka
2 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 25 (3.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 394 (59.79%) AWS
2 373 (56.60%) Azure
3 167 (25.34%) GitHub
4 156 (23.67%) GCP
5 147 (22.31%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (17.45%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (15.63%) SaaS
8 98 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
9 82 (12.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 67 (10.17%) Serverless
11 55 (8.35%) Azure Monitor
12 53 (8.04%) Amazon S3
12 53 (8.04%) Entra ID
13 48 (7.28%) PaaS
14 46 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 46 (6.98%) OCI
15 45 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (6.83%) dbt
16 39 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (5.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (13.35%) Firewall
2 41 (6.22%) VPN
3 30 (4.55%) DNS
4 28 (4.25%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.19%) Broadband
6 18 (2.73%) Network Security
6 18 (2.73%) NGFW
7 17 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (2.43%) Wireshark
9 15 (2.28%) VLAN
9 15 (2.28%) VXLAN
10 14 (2.12%) WAN
11 13 (1.97%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.37%) BGP
13 8 (1.21%) LAN
14 6 (0.91%) DHCP
15 5 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
16 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
16 4 (0.61%) MQTT
16 4 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (6.07%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (5.92%) NoSQL
4 32 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.95%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.49%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.88%) RDBMS
9 18 (2.73%) Metadata
9 18 (2.73%) Power BI
9 18 (2.73%) Redis
10 17 (2.58%) BigQuery
11 16 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (2.28%) Tableau
13 14 (2.12%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.82%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.82%) MySQL
15 11 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 77 (11.68%) Git
2 74 (11.23%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.10%) TeamCity
4 57 (8.65%) GitLab
5 25 (3.79%) Oracle Forms
6 22 (3.34%) JIRA
7 19 (2.88%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.21%) JMeter
10 6 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.76%) Locust
11 5 (0.76%) Selenium
11 5 (0.76%) Storybook
11 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.61%) ERwin
12 4 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 217 (32.93%) Finance
2 132 (20.03%) Social Skills
3 114 (17.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (14.87%) Banking
5 93 (14.11%) Retail
6 87 (13.20%) Law
7 59 (8.95%) Public Sector
8 55 (8.35%) Back Office
8 55 (8.35%) Financial Institution
9 52 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.43%) Billing
10 16 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.21%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.21%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.06%) Military
13 6 (0.91%) Marketing
14 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Aviation
15 4 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 170 (25.80%) Senior
2 128 (19.42%) Cloud Engineer
3 106 (16.08%) Lead
4 76 (11.53%) Software Engineer
5 75 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 71 (10.77%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
8 62 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 48 (7.28%) Developer
10 39 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
10 39 (5.92%) Data Engineer
11 31 (4.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 27 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.79%) Applications Engineer
14 23 (3.49%) Lead DevOps
15 22 (3.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (3.34%) Java Engineer
15 22 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.80%) React
2 53 (8.04%) RESTful
3 45 (6.83%) .NET
4 40 (6.07%) Node.js
4 40 (6.07%) OAuth
5 36 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
6 32 (4.86%) JSON
7 28 (4.25%) OAuth2
8 27 (4.10%) Kafka
9 25 (3.79%) Spring
10 22 (3.34%) Django
11 21 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 21 (3.19%) REST
12 19 (2.88%) PySpark
13 18 (2.73%) React Native
13 18 (2.73%) Spring Boot
14 17 (2.58%) GraphQL
14 17 (2.58%) OpenAPI
14 17 (2.58%) Swagger
15 15 (2.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 176 (26.71%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.53%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.86%) Blog
6 31 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (4.55%) Public Cloud
8 29 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.49%) Onboarding
10 20 (3.03%) PKI
11 18 (2.73%) Security Posture
12 15 (2.28%) Mobile App
13 14 (2.12%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.97%) Private Cloud
15 12 (1.82%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
18 8 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
19 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
20 6 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 126 (19.12%) Linux
2 60 (9.10%) Windows
3 47 (7.13%) Unix
4 28 (4.25%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.12%) Android
5 14 (2.12%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.82%) VMS
7 8 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.06%) CentOS
8 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.46%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (65.10%) CI/CD
2 409 (62.06%) DevOps
3 393 (59.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (33.69%) Agile
5 193 (29.29%) Mentoring
6 160 (24.28%) Observability
7 147 (22.31%) Coaching
8 139 (21.09%) Test Automation
9 135 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 134 (20.33%) Containerisation
11 126 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (18.66%) Platform Engineering
13 116 (17.60%) Software Engineering
14 106 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 104 (15.78%) Deployment Automation
16 98 (14.87%) Analytics
17 93 (14.11%) Microservices
18 88 (13.35%) Asset Management
19 87 (13.20%) Clean Code
20 78 (11.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 298 (45.22%) Python
2 163 (24.73%) Java
3 117 (17.75%) SQL
4 107 (16.24%) PowerShell
5 104 (15.78%) Bash
6 79 (11.99%) JavaScript
7 72 (10.93%) Bicep
8 59 (8.95%) Go
9 51 (7.74%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.70%) C#
11 25 (3.79%) PL/SQL
11 25 (3.79%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.88%) Scala
13 7 (1.06%) Rust
14 5 (0.76%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) PHP
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.28%) Degree
4 45 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 45 (6.83%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.37%) CCNP
9 7 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.06%) LPIC
10 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.61%) CCNA
12 4 (0.61%) MCSE
12 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.46%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (4.70%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.70%) PCI DSS
3 27 (4.10%) GDPR
3 27 (4.10%) QA
3 27 (4.10%) SOC 2
4 25 (3.79%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.73%) NIST
6 8 (1.21%) SLA
7 7 (1.06%) GRC
8 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.61%) WCAG
10 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 207 (31.41%) Docker
2 32 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.28%) vSphere
6 12 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 10 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.30%) Ceph
10 2 (0.30%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) Lustre
10 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.30%) vCloud
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 281 (42.64%) Kubernetes
2 156 (23.67%) Ansible
3 140 (21.24%) Grafana
4 94 (14.26%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.07%) Argo
6 28 (4.25%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.88%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.97%) Puppet
10 8 (1.21%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.06%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.76%) Cilium
12 5 (0.76%) Packer
12 5 (0.76%) SCOM
13 4 (0.61%) logstash
13 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.46%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.10%) Google
3 45 (6.83%) VMware
4 31 (4.70%) Oracle
5 24 (3.64%) Databricks
6 19 (2.88%) Cisco
6 19 (2.88%) Splunk
7 16 (2.43%) Arista
7 16 (2.43%) Okta
8 15 (2.28%) Aruba
8 15 (2.28%) NetScout
9 13 (1.97%) Ab Initio
10 12 (1.82%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.37%) New Relic
12 8 (1.21%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.06%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.06%) IBM
14 6 (0.91%) F5
14 6 (0.91%) Mercator
15 5 (0.76%) BMC