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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 60 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 655 678 1,181
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.84% 5.07% 3.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.26% 33.38% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 390 561 1,013
10th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £64,471 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +8.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,063 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £121,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.77% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,514 2,031 3,589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.88% 15.18% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,388 3,030
10th Percentile £36,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,451
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.61% -6.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,118 £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 21 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 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (1.37%) Apache
4 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.76%) Confluence
6 5 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.61%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.36%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 400 (61.07%) AWS
2 365 (55.73%) Azure
3 166 (25.34%) GCP
4 160 (24.43%) GitHub
5 140 (21.37%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (18.78%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (15.73%) SaaS
8 95 (14.50%) GitHub Actions
9 82 (12.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 67 (10.23%) Serverless
11 54 (8.24%) Amazon S3
12 48 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
13 45 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 44 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (6.72%) dbt
14 44 (6.72%) OCI
15 42 (6.41%) PaaS
16 41 (6.26%) Entra ID
17 40 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (12.82%) Firewall
2 35 (5.34%) VPN
3 31 (4.73%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.97%) DNS
5 21 (3.21%) Broadband
6 18 (2.75%) Network Security
6 18 (2.75%) NGFW
7 17 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (2.29%) VLAN
8 15 (2.29%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.29%) WAN
8 15 (2.29%) Wireshark
9 13 (1.98%) SD-WAN
10 12 (1.83%) LAN
11 9 (1.37%) BGP
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.92%) DHCP
13 4 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (6.11%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.04%) Relational Database
5 27 (4.12%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (2.90%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.75%) Metadata
8 18 (2.75%) Redis
9 17 (2.60%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.60%) Power BI
10 16 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (2.14%) Delta Lake
11 14 (2.14%) Tableau
12 13 (1.98%) MySQL
13 11 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.68%) DynamoDB
14 9 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 79 (12.06%) Git
2 70 (10.69%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.16%) TeamCity
4 56 (8.55%) GitLab
5 22 (3.36%) JIRA
5 22 (3.36%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (2.90%) Jaeger
7 10 (1.53%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.37%) JMeter
9 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.76%) Locust
10 5 (0.76%) Selenium
10 5 (0.76%) Storybook
10 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.61%) ERwin
11 4 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
General
1 216 (32.98%) Finance
2 125 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 118 (18.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (16.18%) Banking
5 95 (14.50%) Retail
6 89 (13.59%) Law
7 58 (8.85%) Public Sector
8 56 (8.55%) Back Office
8 56 (8.55%) Financial Institution
9 48 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.44%) Billing
12 8 (1.22%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.22%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.07%) Marketing
13 7 (1.07%) Military
14 6 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.76%) Legal
16 4 (0.61%) Electronics
16 4 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 173 (26.41%) Senior
2 123 (18.78%) Cloud Engineer
3 108 (16.49%) Lead
4 80 (12.21%) Software Engineer
5 78 (11.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 71 (10.84%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (10.38%) Platform Engineer
8 63 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (7.18%) Developer
10 45 (6.87%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (5.65%) Data Engineer
12 31 (4.73%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 28 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.66%) Lead DevOps
16 23 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
17 22 (3.36%) Applications Engineer
18 21 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.21%) Java Engineer
19 20 (3.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.85%) React
2 50 (7.63%) RESTful
3 45 (6.87%) .NET
4 40 (6.11%) Node.js
5 39 (5.95%) OAuth
6 36 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
7 33 (5.04%) Kafka
8 29 (4.43%) JSON
9 27 (4.12%) OAuth2
10 26 (3.97%) Spring
11 23 (3.51%) Django
12 22 (3.36%) REST
13 21 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
14 19 (2.90%) Spring Boot
15 18 (2.75%) PySpark
15 18 (2.75%) React Native
16 17 (2.60%) ARM Templates
16 17 (2.60%) OpenAPI
16 17 (2.60%) Swagger
17 16 (2.44%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 174 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.56%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.89%) Blog
6 29 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 27 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (3.05%) PKI
10 19 (2.90%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.60%) Security Posture
12 15 (2.29%) Mobile App
13 14 (2.14%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.98%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.83%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
18 8 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
19 7 (1.07%) Replication
19 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (19.85%) Linux
2 60 (9.16%) Windows
3 47 (7.18%) Unix
4 30 (4.58%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.14%) Android
5 14 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.53%) VMS
7 8 (1.22%) CentOS
7 8 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.07%) 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 (65.50%) CI/CD
2 407 (62.14%) DevOps
3 385 (58.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 216 (32.98%) Agile
5 189 (28.85%) Mentoring
6 158 (24.12%) Observability
7 143 (21.83%) Containerisation
8 138 (21.07%) Coaching
8 138 (21.07%) Test Automation
9 134 (20.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 125 (19.08%) Software Engineering
11 123 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
12 122 (18.63%) Platform Engineering
13 106 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 102 (15.57%) Deployment Automation
15 93 (14.20%) Microservices
16 90 (13.74%) Analytics
17 88 (13.44%) Clean Code
18 80 (12.21%) Asset Management
19 78 (11.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 300 (45.80%) Python
2 160 (24.43%) Java
3 110 (16.79%) SQL
4 101 (15.42%) Bash
5 96 (14.66%) PowerShell
6 78 (11.91%) JavaScript
7 67 (10.23%) Bicep
8 66 (10.08%) Go
9 51 (7.79%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.58%) C#
11 22 (3.36%) PL/SQL
11 22 (3.36%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.90%) Scala
13 7 (1.07%) Rust
14 5 (0.76%) Perl
15 4 (0.61%) PHP
16 2 (0.31%) C++
16 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 84 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.79%) Degree
4 45 (6.87%) AWS Certification
5 41 (6.26%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.37%) CCNP
11 7 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 7 (1.07%) LPIC
12 6 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.61%) CCNA
14 4 (0.61%) MCSE
14 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.46%) VCAP
16 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.58%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.58%) PCI DSS
3 27 (4.12%) QA
4 26 (3.97%) SOC 2
5 25 (3.82%) Accessibility
5 25 (3.82%) GDPR
6 17 (2.60%) NIST
7 8 (1.22%) SLA
8 7 (1.07%) GRC
9 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.61%) WCAG
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 215 (32.82%) Docker
2 25 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.44%) vSphere
6 12 (1.83%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.07%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.31%) Ceph
12 2 (0.31%) Firmware
12 2 (0.31%) Lustre
12 2 (0.31%) vCloud
13 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 290 (44.27%) Kubernetes
2 157 (23.97%) Ansible
3 139 (21.22%) Grafana
4 91 (13.89%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.80%) Argo
6 25 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.90%) Kustomize
8 15 (2.29%) Puppet
9 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.37%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.22%) Istio
12 7 (1.07%) Packer
12 7 (1.07%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.61%) Cilium
14 4 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.61%) logstash
14 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.46%) Control-M
15 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 106 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.31%) Google
3 42 (6.41%) VMware
4 29 (4.43%) Oracle
5 24 (3.66%) Databricks
6 23 (3.51%) Cisco
7 20 (3.05%) Splunk
8 16 (2.44%) Arista
9 15 (2.29%) Aruba
9 15 (2.29%) NetScout
10 14 (2.14%) Okta
10 14 (2.14%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.83%) Ab Initio
12 10 (1.53%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.37%) New Relic
14 8 (1.22%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.22%) Confluent
15 7 (1.07%) F5
15 7 (1.07%) IBM
16 5 (0.76%) EMC