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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 73 68
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 676 789 973
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.04% 4.78% 3.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.00% 40.17% 35.13%
Number of salaries quoted 478 401 749
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 1,878 1,964 2,770
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.43% 11.90% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 1,121 1,970
10th Percentile £37,075 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,538 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £102,750
UK median annual salary £63,373 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.36% -5.22%

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 4 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 21 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
1 21 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.37%) Apache
3 13 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.89%) Confluence
5 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.59%) Camunda
6 4 (0.59%) WordPress
7 3 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.44%) IIS
7 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 426 (63.02%) AWS
2 388 (57.40%) Azure
3 191 (28.25%) GCP
4 107 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
5 106 (15.68%) GitHub
6 100 (14.79%) SaaS
7 94 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
7 94 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 89 (13.17%) Serverless
9 71 (10.50%) PaaS
10 60 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (8.14%) Amazon S3
12 50 (7.40%) Azure AKS
13 47 (6.95%) IaaS
14 45 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
16 39 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
17 34 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (4.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.40%) Firewall
2 45 (6.66%) VPN
3 44 (6.51%) TCP/IP
4 35 (5.18%) DNS
5 20 (2.96%) DHCP
6 18 (2.66%) LAN
7 17 (2.51%) WAN
8 9 (1.33%) Network Security
9 8 (1.18%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.18%) VLAN
10 7 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (1.04%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.04%) WebEx
11 6 (0.89%) HTTP
11 6 (0.89%) Wireless
12 4 (0.59%) BGP
12 4 (0.59%) MQTT
13 3 (0.44%) OSPF
13 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.55%) Metadata
5 20 (2.96%) MongoDB
6 19 (2.81%) DynamoDB
6 19 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.37%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.07%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.07%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.92%) Redis
10 11 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.63%) Big Data
10 11 (1.63%) Data Vault
10 11 (1.63%) Power BI
11 10 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (12.13%) Git
2 56 (8.28%) GitLab
3 55 (8.14%) TeamCity
4 46 (6.80%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.33%) JIRA
6 9 (1.33%) JMeter
6 9 (1.33%) Selenium
7 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.74%) Locust
7 5 (0.74%) Postman
8 4 (0.59%) NUnit
8 4 (0.59%) Snyk
8 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.44%) JUnit
9 3 (0.44%) Maven
9 3 (0.44%) MLflow
10 2 (0.30%) MSI
10 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 166 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 159 (23.52%) Finance
3 107 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 97 (14.35%) Law
5 90 (13.31%) Banking
6 75 (11.09%) Retail
7 73 (10.80%) Public Sector
8 45 (6.66%) Back Office
9 44 (6.51%) Financial Institution
10 42 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.48%) Legal
12 10 (1.48%) Marketing
13 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.89%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.89%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.74%) Aviation
15 5 (0.74%) Billing
15 5 (0.74%) Military
16 4 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 193 (28.55%) Senior
2 106 (15.68%) Cloud Engineer
3 101 (14.94%) Lead
4 99 (14.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (13.17%) Software Engineer
6 81 (11.98%) Azure Engineer
7 80 (11.83%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (6.66%) Senior DevOps
11 44 (6.51%) Data Engineer
12 43 (6.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 42 (6.21%) Developer
14 39 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 35 (5.18%) Architect
16 31 (4.59%) Python Engineer
17 29 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
18 26 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 26 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 25 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.17%) React
2 51 (7.54%) Node.js
3 42 (6.21%) REST
4 35 (5.18%) Kafka
5 33 (4.88%) ARM Templates
6 27 (3.99%) Spring
7 25 (3.70%) .NET
8 21 (3.11%) OAuth
8 21 (3.11%) PySpark
9 19 (2.81%) OpenID
9 19 (2.81%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.66%) OAuth2
10 18 (2.66%) YAML
11 16 (2.37%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.22%) AWS CDK
13 14 (2.07%) NestJS
14 13 (1.92%) SAML
15 12 (1.78%) Django
15 12 (1.78%) Flask
15 12 (1.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.66%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.92%) Public Cloud
5 25 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.81%) Blog
7 18 (2.66%) Podcast
7 18 (2.66%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.07%) Replication
10 13 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.48%) PKI
12 9 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.33%) Life Science
13 8 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (19.23%) Linux
2 90 (13.31%) Windows
3 41 (6.07%) Windows Server
4 32 (4.73%) Unix
5 14 (2.07%) VMS
6 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.44%) Android
7 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.44%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (69.53%) CI/CD
2 450 (66.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 379 (56.07%) DevOps
4 203 (30.03%) Mentoring
5 173 (25.59%) Observability
6 171 (25.30%) Agile
6 171 (25.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 162 (23.96%) Platform Engineering
8 156 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 138 (20.41%) Containerisation
10 136 (20.12%) AI
11 127 (18.79%) Test Automation
12 118 (17.46%) Clean Code
13 116 (17.16%) Microservices
14 115 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
15 112 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
16 92 (13.61%) Roadmaps
17 90 (13.31%) Analytics
18 85 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 82 (12.13%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 275 (40.68%) Python
2 133 (19.67%) Java
3 124 (18.34%) PowerShell
4 101 (14.94%) Bicep
4 101 (14.94%) SQL
5 82 (12.13%) Bash
6 44 (6.51%) Go
7 43 (6.36%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.62%) JavaScript
9 35 (5.18%) C#
10 17 (2.51%) Scala
11 13 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.04%) Groovy
13 6 (0.89%) PHP
14 5 (0.74%) Rust
15 4 (0.59%) Ruby
15 4 (0.59%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 104 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 78 (11.54%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.40%) Degree
5 29 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.78%) CCNP
9 12 (1.78%) SnowPro
10 7 (1.04%) CCNA
11 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.74%) CCIE
12 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.59%) LPIC
13 4 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.70%) QA
3 14 (2.07%) GDPR
4 11 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.63%) NIST
5 10 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.74%) NCSC
8 5 (0.74%) WCAG
9 4 (0.59%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 185 (27.37%) Docker
2 63 (9.32%) Active Directory
3 45 (6.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.70%) vSphere
5 17 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.18%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.59%) Firmware
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 290 (42.90%) Kubernetes
2 134 (19.82%) Ansible
3 112 (16.57%) Grafana
4 39 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.44%) Argo
6 19 (2.81%) Istio
7 18 (2.66%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.22%) Puppet
9 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (1.78%) Packer
11 8 (1.18%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.59%) linkerd
15 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 156 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.69%) VMware
3 44 (6.51%) Google
4 27 (3.99%) Cisco
5 26 (3.85%) Databricks
6 18 (2.66%) Okta
7 17 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.37%) Oracle
9 13 (1.92%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.78%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.78%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.63%) Informatica
12 10 (1.48%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.18%) Confluent
13 8 (1.18%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.04%) EMC
14 7 (1.04%) F5
14 7 (1.04%) NetApp
14 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.04%) Splunk