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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 62 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +7
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 638 819 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.16% 4.99% 5.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.62% 35.30% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 390 580 1,054
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +5.52% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,375 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 1,430 2,320 3,351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.33% 14.13% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,012 1,383 2,877
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 17 January 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 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 17 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.25%) IIS
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.94%) Confluence
5 4 (0.63%) Apache
6 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.63%) Weka
3 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (5.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 412 (64.58%) Azure
2 344 (53.92%) AWS
3 185 (29.00%) Azure DevOps
4 184 (28.84%) GitHub
5 120 (18.81%) GCP
6 98 (15.36%) GitHub Actions
7 88 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (12.07%) SaaS
9 76 (11.91%) Amazon EKS
10 73 (11.44%) Entra ID
11 65 (10.19%) Serverless
12 64 (10.03%) Azure Monitor
13 53 (8.31%) OCI
14 49 (7.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 46 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (6.58%) Amazon S3
18 38 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
19 35 (5.49%) dbt
20 34 (5.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 83 (13.01%) Firewall
2 42 (6.58%) VPN
3 35 (5.49%) DNS
4 29 (4.55%) WAN
5 26 (4.08%) Network Security
6 23 (3.61%) TCP/IP
7 21 (3.29%) SD-WAN
8 15 (2.35%) LAN
8 15 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (2.19%) Broadband
10 11 (1.72%) Wireshark
11 10 (1.57%) NGFW
11 10 (1.57%) VLAN
12 9 (1.41%) BGP
13 8 (1.25%) DHCP
13 8 (1.25%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.94%) OSPF
14 6 (0.94%) SSL
15 5 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.49%) NoSQL
3 33 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (3.92%) Data Lake
5 24 (3.76%) Power BI
5 24 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.29%) Tableau
8 19 (2.98%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.66%) MySQL
10 15 (2.35%) Redis
11 14 (2.19%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.19%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.04%) Metadata
12 13 (2.04%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.88%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 96 (15.05%) Jenkins
2 77 (12.07%) Git
3 54 (8.46%) GitLab
4 37 (5.80%) Oracle Forms
5 32 (5.02%) TeamCity
6 27 (4.23%) JIRA
7 13 (2.04%) Jaeger
8 9 (1.41%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.94%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.78%) Storybook
11 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.63%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.63%) ERwin
11 4 (0.63%) JMeter
11 4 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.63%) Selenium
11 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.47%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 216 (33.86%) Finance
2 139 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 55 (8.62%) Banking
3 55 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (7.84%) Law
5 47 (7.37%) Retail
6 40 (6.27%) Public Sector
7 38 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (4.70%) Back Office
8 30 (4.70%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.88%) Billing
11 7 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.10%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.10%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.78%) Games
12 5 (0.78%) Marketing
13 4 (0.63%) Front Office
13 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (27.27%) Senior
2 145 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 86 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 82 (12.85%) Lead
5 77 (12.07%) Azure Engineer
6 60 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 52 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (7.68%) Software Engineer
9 48 (7.52%) Developer
10 39 (6.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 37 (5.80%) Applications Engineer
12 34 (5.33%) Data Engineer
13 29 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (4.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (4.08%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 25 (3.92%) Lead DevOps
17 24 (3.76%) Architect
18 22 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 22 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
19 20 (3.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.72%) RESTful
2 58 (9.09%) .NET
3 51 (7.99%) React
4 47 (7.37%) OAuth
5 41 (6.43%) Node.js
6 39 (6.11%) JSON
7 35 (5.49%) OAuth2
8 32 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (3.29%) REST
10 20 (3.13%) SOAP
10 20 (3.13%) XML
11 19 (2.98%) SAML
12 18 (2.82%) Spring
13 17 (2.66%) OpenAPI
13 17 (2.66%) PySpark
13 17 (2.66%) React Native
13 17 (2.66%) Swagger
14 16 (2.51%) .NET Core
14 16 (2.51%) GraphQL
14 16 (2.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 149 (23.35%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.68%) Enterprise Software
3 48 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 31 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (4.55%) Public Cloud
7 27 (4.23%) Onboarding
8 25 (3.92%) Security Posture
9 21 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (2.04%) Blog
11 13 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.88%) PKI
13 11 (1.72%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.25%) Private Cloud
16 7 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
17 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (19.91%) Linux
2 69 (10.82%) Windows
3 38 (5.96%) Unix
4 28 (4.39%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.82%) VMS
6 14 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (1.88%) Android
7 12 (1.88%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.72%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.41%) CentOS
10 8 (1.25%) Debian
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (66.61%) DevOps
2 393 (61.60%) CI/CD
3 384 (60.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 219 (34.33%) Agile
5 168 (26.33%) Mentoring
6 163 (25.55%) Coaching
7 152 (23.82%) Observability
8 132 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (19.44%) Asset Management
10 121 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (18.34%) Containerisation
12 115 (18.03%) Test Automation
13 110 (17.24%) Analytics
14 103 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 98 (15.36%) Platform Engineering
16 92 (14.42%) AI
17 84 (13.17%) Software Engineering
18 83 (13.01%) Microservices
19 76 (11.91%) Cloud Security
20 75 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 294 (46.08%) Python
2 137 (21.47%) SQL
3 127 (19.91%) PowerShell
4 116 (18.18%) Java
5 108 (16.93%) Bash
6 76 (11.91%) Bicep
7 74 (11.60%) JavaScript
8 46 (7.21%) TypeScript
9 45 (7.05%) Go
10 37 (5.80%) PL/SQL
10 37 (5.80%) Shell Script
11 36 (5.64%) C#
12 15 (2.35%) Scala
13 4 (0.63%) Perl
14 3 (0.47%) PHP
15 2 (0.31%) C++
15 2 (0.31%) Rust
15 2 (0.31%) XAML
16 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 66 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.99%) AWS Certification
4 45 (7.05%) Azure Certification
5 32 (5.02%) Degree
6 19 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.72%) CCNP
9 11 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.63%) RHCE
12 4 (0.63%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.47%) CISSP
13 3 (0.47%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.23%) GDPR
3 25 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.92%) QA
4 23 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 22 (3.45%) PCI DSS
6 20 (3.13%) NIST
7 18 (2.82%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.25%) SLA
9 6 (0.94%) GRC
10 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
12 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 205 (32.13%) Docker
2 44 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.35%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.88%) vSphere
8 11 (1.72%) VMware NSX
9 9 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.78%) NFS
11 3 (0.47%) Firmware
12 2 (0.31%) Ceph
12 2 (0.31%) Lustre
12 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.31%) vCloud
13 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 260 (40.75%) Kubernetes
2 149 (23.35%) Ansible
3 110 (17.24%) Grafana
4 87 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 39 (6.11%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (5.64%) Argo
7 28 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (2.04%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.25%) Puppet
9 8 (1.25%) SCOM
10 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.78%) Cilium
12 4 (0.63%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.63%) logstash
13 3 (0.47%) Control-M
13 3 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.31%) Packer
14 2 (0.31%) SCCM
14 2 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.84%) Google
3 44 (6.90%) Oracle
4 40 (6.27%) VMware
5 23 (3.61%) Cisco
6 21 (3.29%) Databricks
6 21 (3.29%) Okta
7 16 (2.51%) Splunk
8 14 (2.19%) Ab Initio
8 14 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.57%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.41%) New Relic
11 8 (1.25%) Arista
11 8 (1.25%) Aruba
11 8 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.25%) NetScout
11 8 (1.25%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.10%) F5
12 7 (1.10%) IBM
13 6 (0.94%) SonicWALL