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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -29
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 662 826 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 5.14% 3.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.87% 40.35% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 445 436 945
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +3.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £117,500 £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 1,748 2,047 3,540
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.39% 12.75% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 1,187 2,673
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £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 £77,500 £87,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 3 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 21 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.57%) Apache
4 13 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.91%) Confluence
6 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 424 (64.05%) AWS
2 347 (52.42%) Azure
3 160 (24.17%) GCP
4 116 (17.52%) Amazon EKS
5 113 (17.07%) GitHub
6 104 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (14.80%) SaaS
8 90 (13.60%) Serverless
9 82 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (10.42%) PaaS
11 66 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (9.37%) Amazon S3
13 56 (8.46%) Azure AKS
14 52 (7.85%) IaaS
15 49 (7.40%) Amazon EC2
16 46 (6.95%) Azure Monitor
17 45 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
18 41 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
20 31 (4.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.73%) Firewall
2 45 (6.80%) VPN
3 29 (4.38%) DNS
4 28 (4.23%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.72%) LAN
5 18 (2.72%) WAN
5 18 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (2.42%) Broadband
6 16 (2.42%) NGFW
7 15 (2.27%) VXLAN
7 15 (2.27%) Wireshark
8 14 (2.11%) DHCP
9 10 (1.51%) Network Security
9 10 (1.51%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.51%) VLAN
10 7 (1.06%) BGP
11 6 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.91%) HTTP
11 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.98%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.78%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.87%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.87%) Metadata
9 17 (2.57%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 15 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.27%) RDBMS
11 13 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.96%) Redis
12 11 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.51%) Big Data
13 10 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 81 (12.24%) Git
2 60 (9.06%) TeamCity
3 58 (8.76%) GitLab
4 45 (6.80%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.81%) Jaeger
5 12 (1.81%) JIRA
6 11 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.21%) JMeter
8 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.76%) Locust
9 5 (0.76%) Selenium
9 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.45%) MLflow
11 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.30%) MSI
12 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 156 (23.56%) Finance
2 137 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 129 (19.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (16.16%) Law
5 96 (14.50%) Banking
6 89 (13.44%) Retail
7 83 (12.54%) Public Sector
8 50 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (7.55%) Back Office
8 50 (7.55%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.81%) Billing
11 7 (1.06%) Aviation
11 7 (1.06%) Legal
11 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.91%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.91%) Legal Technology
12 6 (0.91%) Marketing
13 4 (0.60%) Advertising
13 4 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 170 (25.68%) Senior
2 107 (16.16%) Lead
3 103 (15.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 100 (15.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
6 80 (12.08%) Software Engineer
7 73 (11.03%) Azure Engineer
8 62 (9.37%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (7.10%) Data Engineer
11 45 (6.80%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 38 (5.74%) Developer
14 36 (5.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 31 (4.68%) Architect
16 26 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.32%) Java Engineer
17 22 (3.32%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.61%) React
2 53 (8.01%) Node.js
3 39 (5.89%) Kafka
4 33 (4.98%) ARM Templates
5 29 (4.38%) REST
6 28 (4.23%) Spring
7 20 (3.02%) Spring Boot
8 19 (2.87%) .NET
8 19 (2.87%) PySpark
8 19 (2.87%) YAML
9 18 (2.72%) OpenTelemetry
10 17 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (2.27%) AWS CDK
12 14 (2.11%) AngularJS
13 13 (1.96%) RESTful
14 12 (1.81%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.81%) Flask
15 11 (1.66%) Django
16 9 (1.36%) Next.js
16 9 (1.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 186 (28.10%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (6.95%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.19%) Public Cloud
5 38 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.53%) Blog
7 22 (3.32%) PKI
8 21 (3.17%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.72%) Podcast
9 18 (2.72%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.27%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.66%) Replication
12 9 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.06%) CMDB
14 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (21.15%) Linux
2 81 (12.24%) Windows
3 36 (5.44%) Unix
4 34 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.11%) VMS
6 9 (1.36%) Android
6 9 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.76%) Debian
9 4 (0.60%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (67.22%) CI/CD
2 430 (64.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 369 (55.74%) DevOps
4 202 (30.51%) Mentoring
5 172 (25.98%) Agile
6 167 (25.23%) Platform Engineering
7 154 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (23.11%) Observability
9 145 (21.90%) Containerisation
10 135 (20.39%) Test Automation
11 129 (19.49%) Software Engineering
12 120 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (17.22%) AI
13 114 (17.22%) Microservices
14 97 (14.65%) Clean Code
15 96 (14.50%) Technical Leadership
16 95 (14.35%) Roadmaps
17 90 (13.60%) Deployment Automation
18 86 (12.99%) Analytics
19 79 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 280 (42.30%) Python
2 154 (23.26%) Java
3 105 (15.86%) PowerShell
4 96 (14.50%) Bash
5 89 (13.44%) Bicep
6 88 (13.29%) SQL
7 54 (8.16%) Go
8 53 (8.01%) JavaScript
9 51 (7.70%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.68%) C#
11 17 (2.57%) Scala
12 13 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.21%) Groovy
13 8 (1.21%) PHP
13 8 (1.21%) Rust
14 5 (0.76%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) Ruby
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 99 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 67 (10.12%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.25%) Degree
5 34 (5.14%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.81%) CCNP
10 10 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.21%) SnowPro
12 7 (1.06%) CCNA
13 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.91%) LPIC
14 5 (0.76%) CCIE
15 4 (0.60%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.60%) MCSE
15 4 (0.60%) VCAP
15 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.32%) QA
3 17 (2.57%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.42%) GDPR
5 15 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.96%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.66%) NIST
8 9 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.76%) WCAG
10 4 (0.60%) NCSC
11 3 (0.45%) SLA
12 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.30%) IFRS
12 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 178 (26.89%) Docker
2 53 (8.01%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.93%) vSphere
5 16 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.06%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.45%) Firmware
11 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.15%) KVM
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 303 (45.77%) Kubernetes
2 158 (23.87%) Ansible
3 119 (17.98%) Grafana
4 57 (8.61%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.34%) Argo
6 21 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 20 (3.02%) Puppet
8 16 (2.42%) Istio
9 15 (2.27%) Packer
10 12 (1.81%) Kustomize
10 12 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (1.66%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.06%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.45%) linkerd
16 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 136 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.46%) VMware
3 39 (5.89%) Google
4 28 (4.23%) Cisco
5 23 (3.47%) Databricks
6 16 (2.42%) Arista
6 16 (2.42%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.27%) Aruba
7 15 (2.27%) NetScout
8 12 (1.81%) Oracle
8 12 (1.81%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.66%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.21%) Confluent
10 8 (1.21%) F5
10 8 (1.21%) Okta
10 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.21%) Splunk
11 7 (1.06%) EMC
11 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.91%) Citrix