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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 68 70
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 646 809 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.96% 4.90% 3.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.05% 40.49% 33.95%
Number of salaries quoted 457 415 789
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +2.74% -2.67%
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 1,843 1,998 2,954
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.44% 12.10% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,143 2,163
10th Percentile £37,075 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,165 £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 £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,125 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.35% +4.00% -7.41%

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 27 July 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 22 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.48%) Apache
4 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.93%) Confluence
6 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.62%) WordPress
8 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.46%) Camunda
9 2 (0.31%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.31%) 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
1 404 (62.54%) AWS
2 366 (56.66%) Azure
3 176 (27.24%) GCP
4 107 (16.56%) GitHub
5 103 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (14.40%) SaaS
7 92 (14.24%) Amazon EKS
8 91 (14.09%) Serverless
9 83 (12.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.53%) PaaS
11 62 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (8.51%) Amazon S3
13 51 (7.89%) Azure AKS
14 46 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (7.12%) IaaS
15 42 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
17 39 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
18 36 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (4.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.74%) Firewall
2 44 (6.81%) VPN
3 36 (5.57%) TCP/IP
4 32 (4.95%) DNS
5 17 (2.63%) DHCP
5 17 (2.63%) LAN
6 16 (2.48%) WAN
7 9 (1.39%) Network Security
8 8 (1.24%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.24%) VLAN
9 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (0.93%) HTTP
9 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.93%) WebEx
9 6 (0.93%) Wireless
10 5 (0.77%) BGP
10 5 (0.77%) MQTT
11 4 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.46%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.64%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (3.56%) Metadata
6 20 (3.10%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.10%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.32%) Delta Lake
9 14 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.17%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.01%) Redis
11 11 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.70%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.70%) Power BI
12 10 (1.55%) Big Data
12 10 (1.55%) Data Vault
12 10 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (12.54%) Git
2 57 (8.82%) GitLab
3 51 (7.89%) TeamCity
4 45 (6.97%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.55%) JIRA
7 9 (1.39%) JMeter
8 7 (1.08%) Selenium
9 5 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.77%) Locust
10 4 (0.62%) Postman
10 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.46%) MLflow
11 3 (0.46%) NUnit
11 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.31%) Maven
12 2 (0.31%) MSI
12 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 154 (23.84%) Finance
2 150 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 103 (15.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 93 (14.40%) Law
5 84 (13.00%) Banking
6 71 (10.99%) Retail
7 69 (10.68%) Public Sector
8 43 (6.66%) Back Office
8 43 (6.66%) Financial Institution
9 42 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.39%) Legal
11 9 (1.39%) Marketing
12 7 (1.08%) Billing
12 7 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.77%) Aviation
14 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.77%) Military
15 4 (0.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 183 (28.33%) Senior
2 103 (15.94%) Cloud Engineer
3 98 (15.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 96 (14.86%) Lead
5 85 (13.16%) Software Engineer
6 80 (12.38%) Platform Engineer
7 75 (11.61%) Azure Engineer
8 50 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (7.12%) Senior DevOps
10 44 (6.81%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 41 (6.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (6.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 37 (5.73%) Developer
15 34 (5.26%) Architect
16 28 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (3.87%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 24 (3.72%) Python Engineer
19 21 (3.25%) Engineering Manager
19 21 (3.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.98%) React
2 48 (7.43%) Node.js
3 38 (5.88%) REST
4 36 (5.57%) Kafka
5 34 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 25 (3.87%) Spring
7 22 (3.41%) .NET
8 20 (3.10%) PySpark
9 19 (2.94%) OAuth
10 18 (2.79%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.79%) YAML
11 17 (2.63%) OpenID
12 16 (2.48%) OAuth2
13 15 (2.32%) AngularJS
14 13 (2.01%) NestJS
15 12 (1.86%) AWS CDK
15 12 (1.86%) Django
15 12 (1.86%) Flask
15 12 (1.86%) RESTful
15 12 (1.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.66%) Distributed Systems
2 43 (6.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 43 (6.66%) Product Ownership
3 40 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 27 (4.18%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.79%) Blog
5 18 (2.79%) Podcast
6 17 (2.63%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 14 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (2.17%) Replication
9 13 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.70%) PKI
11 9 (1.39%) Life Science
12 8 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 125 (19.35%) Linux
2 86 (13.31%) Windows
3 37 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.87%) Unix
5 14 (2.17%) VMS
6 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Android
7 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (69.97%) CI/CD
2 429 (66.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 362 (56.04%) DevOps
4 185 (28.64%) Mentoring
5 163 (25.23%) Agile
5 163 (25.23%) Platform Engineering
6 162 (25.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (24.77%) Observability
8 140 (21.67%) Software Engineering
9 139 (21.52%) Containerisation
10 129 (19.97%) AI
11 123 (19.04%) Test Automation
12 115 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
13 112 (17.34%) Microservices
14 107 (16.56%) Technical Leadership
15 103 (15.94%) Clean Code
16 90 (13.93%) Roadmaps
17 85 (13.16%) Analytics
18 80 (12.38%) Deployment Automation
18 80 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 267 (41.33%) Python
2 127 (19.66%) Java
3 117 (18.11%) PowerShell
4 96 (14.86%) Bicep
4 96 (14.86%) SQL
5 81 (12.54%) Bash
6 42 (6.50%) TypeScript
7 41 (6.35%) Go
8 37 (5.73%) JavaScript
9 33 (5.11%) C#
10 16 (2.48%) Scala
11 13 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.24%) PHP
13 7 (1.08%) Groovy
13 7 (1.08%) Rust
14 4 (0.62%) Ruby
14 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 104 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 93 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 73 (11.30%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.74%) Degree
5 28 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.86%) CCNP
10 11 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.70%) SnowPro
11 7 (1.08%) CCNA
12 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.77%) CCIE
13 5 (0.77%) LPIC
14 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.62%) MCSE
14 4 (0.62%) VCAP
14 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.87%) QA
3 14 (2.17%) GDPR
4 11 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.55%) NIST
6 9 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.77%) WCAG
9 4 (0.62%) NCSC
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 184 (28.48%) Docker
2 59 (9.13%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.72%) vSphere
5 14 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.46%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 286 (44.27%) Kubernetes
2 131 (20.28%) Ansible
3 106 (16.41%) Grafana
4 41 (6.35%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.64%) Argo
6 18 (2.79%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.63%) Istio
7 17 (2.63%) Puppet
8 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (2.01%) Packer
9 9 (1.39%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.62%) linkerd
13 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
Vendors
1 148 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.74%) VMware
3 36 (5.57%) Google
4 26 (4.02%) Cisco
5 25 (3.87%) Databricks
6 17 (2.63%) Okta
7 16 (2.48%) Oracle
7 16 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.86%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.86%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.70%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.55%) Informatica
11 8 (1.24%) Confluent
11 8 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.08%) EMC
12 7 (1.08%) F5
12 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.08%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.93%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.93%) Splunk