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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 64 82
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -27
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 642 820 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 5.34% 3.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.63% 40.33% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 423 429 968
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +3.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,875 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,800 £118,750 £111,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 1,620 2,033 3,695
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.11% 13.24% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,137 1,172 2,806
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

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 June 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 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.80%) Apache
4 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.78%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.47%) WordPress
7 2 (0.31%) Camunda
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 412 (64.17%) AWS
2 330 (51.40%) Azure
3 153 (23.83%) GCP
4 113 (17.60%) Amazon EKS
5 109 (16.98%) GitHub
6 105 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (14.80%) SaaS
8 81 (12.62%) Serverless
9 75 (11.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (9.35%) Amazon S3
12 58 (9.03%) PaaS
13 55 (8.57%) Azure AKS
14 48 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
16 45 (7.01%) IaaS
17 44 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
18 42 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 38 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
20 34 (5.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.06%) Firewall
2 34 (5.30%) VPN
3 26 (4.05%) DNS
4 24 (3.74%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.43%) Broadband
6 18 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.65%) LAN
7 17 (2.65%) WAN
8 16 (2.49%) NGFW
9 15 (2.34%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.34%) Wireshark
10 13 (2.02%) DHCP
11 11 (1.71%) Network Security
12 10 (1.56%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.56%) VLAN
13 7 (1.09%) BGP
14 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.76%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (3.89%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.58%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.27%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (2.80%) BigQuery
9 18 (2.80%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.49%) DynamoDB
10 16 (2.49%) Metadata
11 15 (2.34%) Delta Lake
12 13 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (2.02%) Redis
13 11 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.40%) Big Data
16 8 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (11.84%) Git
2 63 (9.81%) GitLab
3 56 (8.72%) TeamCity
4 42 (6.54%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.80%) Jaeger
6 12 (1.87%) JIRA
7 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (1.25%) JMeter
9 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.78%) Locust
10 5 (0.78%) Selenium
10 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.47%) MLflow
11 3 (0.47%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.31%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.31%) Storybook
12 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 145 (22.59%) Finance
2 128 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 124 (19.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (14.64%) Law
5 93 (14.49%) Banking
6 86 (13.40%) Retail
7 80 (12.46%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (7.17%) Back Office
9 46 (7.17%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.34%) Billing
11 13 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.40%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.25%) Aviation
14 7 (1.09%) Legal
14 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.93%) Marketing
15 6 (0.93%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 158 (24.61%) Senior
2 104 (16.20%) Lead
3 103 (16.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 100 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 82 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
6 76 (11.84%) Software Engineer
7 73 (11.37%) Azure Engineer
8 61 (9.50%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.32%) Data Engineer
10 45 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.85%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.54%) Developer
13 39 (6.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 35 (5.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.89%) Architect
15 25 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.43%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.43%) Team Leader
17 21 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
17 21 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.10%) React
2 50 (7.79%) Node.js
3 38 (5.92%) Kafka
4 33 (5.14%) Spring
5 29 (4.52%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.36%) REST
7 24 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 24 (3.74%) Spring Boot
8 23 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (3.27%) .NET
10 19 (2.96%) PySpark
10 19 (2.96%) YAML
11 18 (2.80%) RESTful
12 13 (2.02%) AWS CDK
13 12 (1.87%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.87%) Flask
14 11 (1.71%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.71%) Django
14 11 (1.71%) React Native
15 9 (1.40%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 172 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.85%) Data Centre
2 44 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.98%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.67%) Blog
7 22 (3.43%) PKI
8 18 (2.80%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.65%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.87%) Podcast
12 10 (1.56%) Replication
13 9 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.09%) CMDB
16 6 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.93%) FlexPod
16 6 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 141 (21.96%) Linux
2 76 (11.84%) Windows
3 43 (6.70%) Unix
4 37 (5.76%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.87%) Android
5 12 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.25%) VMS
7 6 (0.93%) Debian
8 5 (0.78%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.16%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (66.04%) CI/CD
2 412 (64.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 369 (57.48%) DevOps
4 193 (30.06%) Mentoring
5 175 (27.26%) Agile
6 156 (24.30%) Platform Engineering
7 150 (23.36%) Containerisation
8 146 (22.74%) Observability
9 138 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (21.03%) Test Automation
11 123 (19.16%) Software Engineering
12 114 (17.76%) Microservices
13 111 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (15.11%) AI
15 93 (14.49%) Clean Code
16 90 (14.02%) Roadmaps
17 86 (13.40%) Deployment Automation
18 81 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
19 80 (12.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 79 (12.31%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 271 (42.21%) Python
2 162 (25.23%) Java
3 95 (14.80%) Bash
4 92 (14.33%) PowerShell
5 79 (12.31%) SQL
6 74 (11.53%) Bicep
7 61 (9.50%) Go
8 58 (9.03%) JavaScript
9 53 (8.26%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.67%) C#
11 16 (2.49%) Scala
12 9 (1.40%) Rust
13 7 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.09%) PHP
14 6 (0.93%) Groovy
14 6 (0.93%) Perl
15 4 (0.62%) C++
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 99 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.35%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.48%) Degree
5 38 (5.92%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.71%) CCNP
10 10 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.93%) CCNA
11 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.93%) LPIC
12 5 (0.78%) CCIE
13 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.62%) MCSE
13 4 (0.62%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.62%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.62%) VCAP
13 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.43%) QA
3 16 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.49%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.34%) GDPR
5 14 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.02%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.56%) NIST
8 5 (0.78%) WCAG
9 4 (0.62%) NCSC
10 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 184 (28.66%) Docker
2 46 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 36 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.12%) vSphere
5 17 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.09%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.78%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.47%) Firmware
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
11 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 298 (46.42%) Kubernetes
2 163 (25.39%) Ansible
3 119 (18.54%) Grafana
4 68 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.48%) Argo
6 20 (3.12%) Puppet
7 19 (2.96%) Progress Chef
8 18 (2.80%) Kustomize
9 15 (2.34%) Istio
9 15 (2.34%) Packer
10 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.56%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.93%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.47%) linkerd
15 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 128 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.94%) VMware
3 48 (7.48%) Google
4 28 (4.36%) Cisco
5 22 (3.43%) Databricks
6 16 (2.49%) Arista
6 16 (2.49%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.34%) Aruba
7 15 (2.34%) NetScout
8 11 (1.71%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.56%) Oracle
10 8 (1.25%) Confluent
10 8 (1.25%) F5
10 8 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.25%) Splunk
11 7 (1.09%) EMC
11 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.93%) Citrix
12 6 (0.93%) NetApp