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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 70 69
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 675 799 962
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.81% 3.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.89% 40.23% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 478 405 749
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £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 1,881 1,986 2,760
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.43% 11.96% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,390 1,136 1,977
10th Percentile £36,975 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,795 £48,000 £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 £78,679 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £100,626 £102,500
UK median annual salary £63,687 £65,000 £63,388
% change year-on-year -2.02% +2.54% -5.39%

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 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
2 20 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.37%) Apache
4 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.89%) Confluence
6 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) WordPress
8 3 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.44%) Camunda
8 3 (0.44%) IIS
8 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
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
1 427 (63.26%) AWS
2 385 (57.04%) Azure
3 190 (28.15%) GCP
4 108 (16.00%) GitHub
5 106 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (14.81%) SaaS
7 94 (13.93%) Amazon EKS
7 94 (13.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 90 (13.33%) Serverless
9 72 (10.67%) PaaS
10 60 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (8.15%) Amazon S3
12 49 (7.26%) Azure AKS
13 48 (7.11%) IaaS
14 45 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
17 34 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (4.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.11%) Firewall
2 44 (6.52%) VPN
3 41 (6.07%) TCP/IP
4 33 (4.89%) DNS
5 18 (2.67%) DHCP
5 18 (2.67%) LAN
6 17 (2.52%) WAN
7 9 (1.33%) Network Security
8 8 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.19%) VLAN
9 7 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (1.04%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.04%) WebEx
10 6 (0.89%) HTTP
10 6 (0.89%) Wireless
11 4 (0.59%) BGP
11 4 (0.59%) MQTT
12 3 (0.44%) OSPF
12 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (3.56%) Metadata
6 20 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.81%) DynamoDB
7 19 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.37%) Delta Lake
9 14 (2.07%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.07%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.93%) Redis
11 12 (1.78%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.63%) Data Vault
12 11 (1.63%) Power BI
13 10 (1.48%) Big Data
13 10 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (12.15%) Git
2 58 (8.59%) GitLab
3 55 (8.15%) TeamCity
4 46 (6.81%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.48%) JIRA
7 9 (1.33%) JMeter
7 9 (1.33%) Selenium
8 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.74%) Locust
8 5 (0.74%) Postman
8 5 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.59%) NUnit
9 4 (0.59%) Snyk
10 3 (0.44%) JUnit
10 3 (0.44%) Maven
10 3 (0.44%) MLflow
11 2 (0.30%) MSI
11 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 165 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 159 (23.56%) Finance
3 106 (15.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 97 (14.37%) Law
5 90 (13.33%) Banking
6 75 (11.11%) Retail
7 72 (10.67%) Public Sector
8 45 (6.67%) Back Office
9 44 (6.52%) Financial Institution
10 42 (6.22%) 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
1 196 (29.04%) Senior
2 106 (15.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 102 (15.11%) Lead
4 100 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (13.19%) Software Engineer
6 79 (11.70%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
7 50 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 46 (6.81%) Senior DevOps
9 43 (6.37%) Data Engineer
10 42 (6.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 42 (6.22%) Developer
11 40 (5.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 35 (5.19%) Architect
13 30 (4.44%) Python Engineer
14 29 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 25 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.33%) React
2 52 (7.70%) Node.js
3 42 (6.22%) REST
4 34 (5.04%) ARM Templates
4 34 (5.04%) Kafka
5 26 (3.85%) Spring
6 25 (3.70%) .NET
7 21 (3.11%) OAuth
7 21 (3.11%) PySpark
8 19 (2.81%) OpenID
8 19 (2.81%) Spring Boot
9 18 (2.67%) OAuth2
9 18 (2.67%) YAML
10 16 (2.37%) AngularJS
11 15 (2.22%) AWS CDK
12 14 (2.07%) NestJS
13 13 (1.93%) SAML
14 12 (1.78%) Django
14 12 (1.78%) Flask
14 12 (1.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (25.78%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 43 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (5.93%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.81%) Blog
8 18 (2.67%) Podcast
8 18 (2.67%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.22%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.07%) Replication
11 13 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.48%) PKI
13 9 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.33%) Life Science
14 8 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (19.56%) Linux
2 88 (13.04%) Windows
3 39 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 31 (4.59%) 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
1 469 (69.48%) CI/CD
2 448 (66.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 380 (56.30%) DevOps
4 199 (29.48%) Mentoring
5 172 (25.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 172 (25.48%) Observability
6 170 (25.19%) Agile
7 161 (23.85%) Platform Engineering
8 153 (22.67%) Software Engineering
9 139 (20.59%) Containerisation
10 134 (19.85%) AI
11 125 (18.52%) Test Automation
12 116 (17.19%) Clean Code
12 116 (17.19%) Microservices
13 113 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (16.44%) Technical Leadership
15 91 (13.48%) Roadmaps
16 89 (13.19%) Analytics
17 83 (12.30%) Deployment Automation
17 83 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 276 (40.89%) Python
2 132 (19.56%) Java
3 122 (18.07%) PowerShell
4 100 (14.81%) Bicep
5 99 (14.67%) SQL
6 83 (12.30%) Bash
7 44 (6.52%) Go
7 44 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 39 (5.78%) JavaScript
9 35 (5.19%) C#
10 17 (2.52%) Scala
11 13 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.19%) PHP
13 7 (1.04%) Groovy
14 6 (0.89%) Rust
15 4 (0.59%) Ruby
15 4 (0.59%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.44%) Perl
17 2 (0.30%) C
17 2 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 113 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 102 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 76 (11.26%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.41%) Degree
5 29 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.78%) CCNP
9 12 (1.78%) SnowPro
10 11 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.04%) CCNA
12 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.74%) CCIE
13 5 (0.74%) LPIC
13 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.59%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.59%) MCSE
14 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.70%) QA
3 14 (2.07%) GDPR
4 12 (1.78%) NIST
5 11 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.19%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.74%) NCSC
7 5 (0.74%) WCAG
8 4 (0.59%) SLA
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 188 (27.85%) Docker
2 61 (9.04%) Active Directory
3 43 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.70%) vSphere
5 15 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.89%) Hyper-V
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
1 291 (43.11%) Kubernetes
2 134 (19.85%) Ansible
3 113 (16.74%) Grafana
4 40 (5.93%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.44%) Argo
6 19 (2.81%) Istio
7 18 (2.67%) Progress Chef
8 17 (2.52%) Puppet
9 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (1.78%) Packer
11 8 (1.19%) 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
1 154 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.41%) VMware
3 43 (6.37%) Google
4 27 (4.00%) Cisco
5 26 (3.85%) Databricks
6 18 (2.67%) Okta
7 17 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.37%) Oracle
9 13 (1.93%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.78%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.78%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.63%) Informatica
12 10 (1.48%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.19%) Confluent
13 8 (1.19%) 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