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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 54 82
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 -25
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 652 878 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.47% 5.82% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.64% 40.39% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 411 478 1,020
10th Percentile £47,092 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%
75th Percentile £86,253 £105,938 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 1,529 2,174 3,721
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 14.40% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 1,281 2,934
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,165 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -6.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 20 May 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 16 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.15%) Apache
2 14 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.07%) Confluence
4 6 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.84%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 391 (59.97%) AWS
2 354 (54.29%) Azure
3 155 (23.77%) GCP
4 134 (20.55%) GitHub
5 119 (18.25%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (18.10%) Amazon EKS
7 89 (13.65%) SaaS
8 82 (12.58%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (9.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (9.66%) Serverless
11 54 (8.28%) Amazon S3
12 44 (6.75%) Azure AKS
13 42 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
14 41 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (6.13%) PaaS
16 38 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (4.75%) OCI
18 30 (4.60%) dbt
19 29 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.66%) Firewall
2 36 (5.52%) DNS
3 29 (4.45%) VPN
4 25 (3.83%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.91%) Broadband
6 18 (2.76%) LAN
6 18 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.61%) NGFW
7 17 (2.61%) WAN
8 15 (2.30%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.30%) Wireshark
9 13 (1.99%) DHCP
9 13 (1.99%) Network Security
10 11 (1.69%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.69%) VLAN
11 7 (1.07%) BGP
11 7 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (4.75%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 19 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.76%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.76%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.61%) Metadata
9 15 (2.30%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.15%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.84%) Redis
12 11 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.07%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 85 (13.04%) Git
2 66 (10.12%) GitLab
3 57 (8.74%) TeamCity
4 46 (7.06%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.76%) Jaeger
5 18 (2.76%) JIRA
6 12 (1.84%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (1.23%) JMeter
9 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.92%) Locust
9 6 (0.92%) Selenium
9 6 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.77%) Storybook
11 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.61%) MLflow
12 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
General
1 177 (27.15%) Finance
2 119 (18.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 114 (17.48%) Social Skills
4 101 (15.49%) Banking
5 90 (13.80%) Retail
6 89 (13.65%) Law
7 79 (12.12%) Public Sector
8 47 (7.21%) Back Office
8 47 (7.21%) Financial Institution
9 46 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (2.76%) Billing
11 13 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.38%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.23%) Legal
15 6 (0.92%) Aviation
15 6 (0.92%) Marketing
15 6 (0.92%) Military
15 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 172 (26.38%) Senior
2 118 (18.10%) Cloud Engineer
3 114 (17.48%) Lead
4 97 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (12.88%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (12.12%) Software Engineer
7 75 (11.50%) Platform Engineer
8 62 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (7.36%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.60%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.44%) Developer
13 34 (5.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 34 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 24 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.37%) Team Leader
17 21 (3.22%) Java Engineer
18 20 (3.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
19 18 (2.76%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.44%) React
2 50 (7.67%) Node.js
3 42 (6.44%) Kafka
4 34 (5.21%) RESTful
5 33 (5.06%) Spring
6 30 (4.60%) .NET
7 27 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (3.99%) REST
9 25 (3.83%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.53%) OAuth
11 22 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (3.07%) ARM Templates
13 18 (2.76%) PySpark
13 18 (2.76%) YAML
14 16 (2.45%) JSON
14 16 (2.45%) React Native
15 14 (2.15%) Django
15 14 (2.15%) OAuth2
16 12 (1.84%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 153 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.44%) Data Centre
3 39 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (5.06%) Blog
5 33 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (3.53%) Public Cloud
7 22 (3.37%) PKI
8 18 (2.76%) Private Cloud
9 16 (2.45%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.45%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.84%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.38%) Replication
13 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.07%) CMDB
14 6 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.92%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.32%) Linux
2 76 (11.66%) Windows
3 45 (6.90%) Unix
4 42 (6.44%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.15%) Android
5 14 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.92%) Debian
9 5 (0.77%) CentOS
9 5 (0.77%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (64.72%) CI/CD
2 384 (58.90%) DevOps
3 377 (57.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 204 (31.29%) Mentoring
5 203 (31.13%) Agile
6 147 (22.55%) Platform Engineering
7 146 (22.39%) Test Automation
8 140 (21.47%) Observability
9 139 (21.32%) Containerisation
10 133 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (19.02%) Software Engineering
12 119 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (17.64%) Coaching
14 109 (16.72%) Microservices
15 99 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 97 (14.88%) Deployment Automation
17 94 (14.42%) Clean Code
18 87 (13.34%) Roadmaps
19 77 (11.81%) Analytics
20 73 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 280 (42.94%) Python
2 170 (26.07%) Java
3 83 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 81 (12.42%) Bash
5 79 (12.12%) SQL
6 67 (10.28%) JavaScript
7 61 (9.36%) Go
8 55 (8.44%) Bicep
9 50 (7.67%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.60%) C#
11 22 (3.37%) Scala
12 13 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.38%) Rust
14 8 (1.23%) PHP
15 7 (1.07%) Perl
16 5 (0.77%) Groovy
17 4 (0.61%) C++
18 2 (0.31%) C
18 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.67%) Degree
4 47 (7.21%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.84%) CCNP
9 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.07%) LPIC
12 6 (0.92%) CCNA
12 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.77%) CCIE
14 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.61%) MCSE
14 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.61%) VCAP
14 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.68%) QA
3 22 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.07%) GDPR
5 18 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.76%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.30%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.53%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 191 (29.29%) Docker
2 38 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 28 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.30%) vSphere
5 8 (1.23%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.46%) Firmware
9 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 302 (46.32%) Kubernetes
2 163 (25.00%) Ansible
3 122 (18.71%) Grafana
4 70 (10.74%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.21%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Puppet
7 18 (2.76%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (2.15%) Packer
10 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.53%) Istio
12 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.61%) logstash
15 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 120 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.52%) Google
3 43 (6.60%) VMware
4 29 (4.45%) Cisco
5 19 (2.91%) Databricks
6 17 (2.61%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.45%) Arista
8 15 (2.30%) Aruba
8 15 (2.30%) NetScout
8 15 (2.30%) Oracle
9 12 (1.84%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.69%) Okta
11 10 (1.53%) Splunk
12 8 (1.23%) Confluent
12 8 (1.23%) F5
12 8 (1.23%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.07%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.92%) EMC
14 6 (0.92%) NetApp