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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 75 68
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 694 762 961
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.62% 3.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.39% 40.42% 35.53%
Number of salaries quoted 489 374 721
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £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 1,885 2,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.33% 11.43% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,081 1,877
10th Percentile £36,875 £35,000 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -0.54%

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 19 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 23 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.59%) Apache
4 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.01%) Confluence
6 6 (0.86%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) Camunda
7 4 (0.58%) IIS
7 4 (0.58%) WordPress
8 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 431 (62.10%) AWS
2 402 (57.93%) Azure
3 193 (27.81%) GCP
4 112 (16.14%) Azure DevOps
5 109 (15.71%) GitHub
6 98 (14.12%) SaaS
7 94 (13.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (13.54%) Serverless
8 86 (12.39%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (9.94%) PaaS
10 58 (8.36%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (8.07%) Amazon S3
12 51 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (7.35%) Azure AKS
13 48 (6.92%) IaaS
14 45 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (5.33%) Entra ID
16 33 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.64%) Firewall
2 48 (6.92%) VPN
3 42 (6.05%) TCP/IP
4 38 (5.48%) DNS
5 25 (3.60%) DHCP
6 19 (2.74%) WAN
7 18 (2.59%) LAN
8 12 (1.73%) Network Security
9 10 (1.44%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.15%) Wireless
11 7 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (1.01%) VLAN
12 6 (0.86%) BGP
12 6 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.86%) HTTP
12 6 (0.86%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.86%) WebEx
13 5 (0.72%) AMQP
13 5 (0.72%) SMS
14 4 (0.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.18%) Metadata
4 27 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (3.46%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.46%) MongoDB
6 20 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.88%) Delta Lake
7 19 (2.74%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.16%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.02%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.02%) Data Vault
11 12 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.73%) Big Data
11 12 (1.73%) MySQL
11 12 (1.73%) Power BI
12 11 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (11.82%) Git
2 57 (8.21%) GitLab
3 51 (7.35%) TeamCity
4 49 (7.06%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.59%) JIRA
5 11 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.30%) JMeter
6 9 (1.30%) Selenium
7 5 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.72%) Locust
7 5 (0.72%) Postman
8 4 (0.58%) JUnit
8 4 (0.58%) Maven
8 4 (0.58%) NUnit
8 4 (0.58%) Snyk
8 4 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.43%) MLflow
9 3 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 177 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 170 (24.50%) Finance
3 97 (13.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (13.11%) Law
5 90 (12.97%) Banking
6 80 (11.53%) Public Sector
7 68 (9.80%) Retail
8 44 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (6.34%) Back Office
9 42 (6.05%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.02%) Legal
11 11 (1.59%) Marketing
11 11 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.15%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.86%) Legal Technology
13 6 (0.86%) Local Government
13 6 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.72%) Aviation
14 5 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 201 (28.96%) Senior
2 109 (15.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 103 (14.84%) Lead
4 98 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 94 (13.54%) Software Engineer
6 89 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
7 77 (11.10%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (6.63%) Developer
9 46 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 44 (6.34%) Senior DevOps
11 43 (6.20%) Data Engineer
12 42 (6.05%) Architect
13 40 (5.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.76%) Python Engineer
14 33 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (4.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (4.03%) Site Engineer
16 28 (4.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.37%) React
2 54 (7.78%) Node.js
3 44 (6.34%) REST
4 38 (5.48%) Kafka
5 32 (4.61%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.03%) .NET
6 28 (4.03%) Spring
7 25 (3.60%) PySpark
8 24 (3.46%) OAuth
9 22 (3.17%) OpenID
10 21 (3.03%) OAuth2
10 21 (3.03%) Spring Boot
11 18 (2.59%) AWS CDK
11 18 (2.59%) YAML
12 16 (2.31%) AngularJS
13 15 (2.16%) NestJS
13 15 (2.16%) RESTful
14 14 (2.02%) SAML
15 13 (1.87%) Next.js
16 12 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 180 (25.94%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (5.48%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.75%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.88%) Blog
8 18 (2.59%) Podcast
8 18 (2.59%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (2.02%) Replication
11 13 (1.87%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.73%) PKI
13 10 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.30%) Life Science
14 9 (1.30%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 124 (17.87%) Linux
2 93 (13.40%) Windows
3 43 (6.20%) Windows Server
4 28 (4.03%) Unix
5 13 (1.87%) VMS
6 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.43%) Debian
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (69.16%) CI/CD
2 467 (67.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 387 (55.76%) DevOps
4 211 (30.40%) Mentoring
5 180 (25.94%) Observability
6 173 (24.93%) Agile
7 172 (24.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 164 (23.63%) Software Engineering
9 160 (23.05%) Platform Engineering
10 144 (20.75%) AI
11 141 (20.32%) Containerisation
12 122 (17.58%) Test Automation
13 121 (17.44%) Microservices
14 119 (17.15%) Technical Leadership
15 118 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
16 115 (16.57%) Clean Code
17 100 (14.41%) Analytics
18 90 (12.97%) Roadmaps
19 89 (12.82%) Coaching
20 83 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 281 (40.49%) Python
2 132 (19.02%) Java
2 132 (19.02%) PowerShell
3 112 (16.14%) SQL
4 111 (15.99%) Bicep
5 83 (11.96%) Bash
6 46 (6.63%) TypeScript
7 41 (5.91%) Go
8 36 (5.19%) C#
9 35 (5.04%) JavaScript
10 20 (2.88%) Scala
11 13 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.01%) Groovy
12 7 (1.01%) Ruby
13 6 (0.86%) PHP
14 4 (0.58%) Rust
14 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.29%) C
15 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 105 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 86 (12.39%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.20%) Degree
5 35 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.16%) SnowPro
9 13 (1.87%) CCNP
9 13 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.15%) CCNA
11 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.86%) CCIE
13 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.72%) MCSE
14 4 (0.58%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.60%) QA
3 15 (2.16%) GDPR
4 13 (1.87%) NIST
5 12 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.15%) SLA
8 6 (0.86%) NCSC
9 5 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.72%) WCAG
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (26.80%) Docker
2 69 (9.94%) Active Directory
3 48 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.60%) vSphere
5 21 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.44%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.58%) Firmware
9 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 286 (41.21%) Kubernetes
2 136 (19.60%) Ansible
3 111 (15.99%) Grafana
4 38 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.47%) Argo
6 20 (2.88%) Istio
7 17 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (2.02%) Puppet
10 12 (1.73%) Packer
11 6 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.72%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.58%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.58%) linkerd
13 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.43%) Cilium
14 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
Vendors
1 166 (23.92%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.64%) VMware
3 45 (6.48%) Google
4 31 (4.47%) Cisco
5 30 (4.32%) Databricks
6 19 (2.74%) Okta
7 17 (2.45%) Oracle
7 17 (2.45%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.16%) Informatica
9 14 (2.02%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.02%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.73%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.59%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.44%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.30%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.15%) Confluent
15 7 (1.01%) EMC
15 7 (1.01%) F5
15 7 (1.01%) NetApp
15 7 (1.01%) Splunk