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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 53 79
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 662 856 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 5.88% 3.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.79% 41.04% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 426 457 1,030
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +10.22% -4.67%
75th Percentile £86,253 £101,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £121,750 £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 1,547 2,086 3,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.17% 14.33% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 1,205 2,927
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,500 £37,060
25th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,938 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -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 26 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 18 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.42%) Apache
2 16 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.06%) Confluence
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.30%) IIS
6 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.51%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 401 (60.57%) AWS
2 354 (53.47%) Azure
3 160 (24.17%) GCP
4 129 (19.49%) GitHub
5 118 (17.82%) Amazon EKS
6 115 (17.37%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (13.75%) SaaS
8 79 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
9 70 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (9.52%) Serverless
11 56 (8.46%) Amazon S3
12 46 (6.95%) Azure AKS
13 44 (6.65%) Amazon EC2
13 44 (6.65%) PaaS
14 43 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
15 42 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
17 32 (4.83%) IaaS
17 32 (4.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 31 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (11.03%) Firewall
2 37 (5.59%) DNS
3 28 (4.23%) VPN
4 24 (3.63%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.87%) Broadband
6 18 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.57%) LAN
8 16 (2.42%) NGFW
8 16 (2.42%) WAN
9 15 (2.27%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.27%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.96%) DHCP
11 12 (1.81%) Network Security
12 10 (1.51%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.51%) VLAN
13 6 (0.91%) BGP
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.91%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.14%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (4.53%) NoSQL
5 26 (3.93%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.72%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.72%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.57%) Metadata
10 15 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.27%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.66%) Redis
13 10 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 85 (12.84%) Git
2 74 (11.18%) GitLab
3 59 (8.91%) TeamCity
4 48 (7.25%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.72%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.57%) JIRA
7 11 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.51%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.21%) JMeter
10 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.91%) Locust
10 6 (0.91%) Selenium
10 6 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.76%) Storybook
12 4 (0.60%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.60%) MLflow
13 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
General
1 176 (26.59%) Finance
2 120 (18.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 114 (17.22%) Social Skills
4 103 (15.56%) Banking
5 92 (13.90%) Law
5 92 (13.90%) Retail
6 81 (12.24%) Public Sector
7 49 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.40%) Back Office
7 49 (7.40%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.57%) Billing
9 13 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.36%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.21%) Legal
13 6 (0.91%) Aviation
13 6 (0.91%) Marketing
13 6 (0.91%) Military
13 6 (0.91%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 167 (25.23%) Senior
2 125 (18.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 119 (17.98%) Lead
4 101 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (12.99%) Azure Engineer
6 81 (12.24%) Software Engineer
7 79 (11.93%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
10 50 (7.55%) Data Engineer
11 45 (6.80%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.34%) Developer
13 38 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 36 (5.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.78%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 24 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (3.47%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.17%) Java Engineer
19 20 (3.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
20 19 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.01%) React
2 51 (7.70%) Node.js
3 42 (6.34%) Kafka
4 33 (4.98%) Spring
5 30 (4.53%) RESTful
6 27 (4.08%) .NET
7 26 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
7 26 (3.93%) REST
8 25 (3.78%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
10 22 (3.32%) ARM Templates
11 20 (3.02%) OAuth
11 20 (3.02%) PySpark
12 18 (2.72%) YAML
13 16 (2.42%) React Native
14 15 (2.27%) JSON
15 14 (2.11%) Django
16 12 (1.81%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.81%) FastAPI
16 12 (1.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 162 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 40 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (4.98%) Blog
7 25 (3.78%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.32%) PKI
9 18 (2.72%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.42%) Mobile App
10 16 (2.42%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.66%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.51%) Replication
14 8 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.06%) CMDB
15 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.91%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 138 (20.85%) Linux
2 76 (11.48%) Windows
3 44 (6.65%) Unix
4 43 (6.50%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.11%) Android
5 14 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.91%) Debian
9 5 (0.76%) CentOS
10 4 (0.60%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (64.80%) CI/CD
2 392 (59.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 388 (58.61%) DevOps
4 207 (31.27%) Mentoring
5 206 (31.12%) Agile
6 156 (23.56%) Platform Engineering
7 150 (22.66%) Containerisation
8 148 (22.36%) Test Automation
9 145 (21.90%) Observability
10 135 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (18.88%) Software Engineering
12 120 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (17.22%) Microservices
14 112 (16.92%) Coaching
15 97 (14.65%) Deployment Automation
15 97 (14.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 96 (14.50%) Clean Code
17 87 (13.14%) Roadmaps
18 80 (12.08%) Analytics
19 77 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 284 (42.90%) Python
2 171 (25.83%) Java
3 89 (13.44%) PowerShell
4 88 (13.29%) Bash
5 78 (11.78%) SQL
6 64 (9.67%) JavaScript
7 62 (9.37%) Go
8 58 (8.76%) Bicep
9 50 (7.55%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.53%) C#
11 22 (3.32%) Scala
12 11 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.66%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.36%) Rust
14 7 (1.06%) PHP
15 6 (0.91%) Perl
16 5 (0.76%) Groovy
17 4 (0.60%) C++
18 2 (0.30%) C
18 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.54%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.55%) Degree
4 49 (7.40%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.44%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.66%) CCNP
8 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.91%) CCNA
10 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.91%) LPIC
11 5 (0.76%) CCIE
12 4 (0.60%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.60%) MCSE
12 4 (0.60%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.60%) VCAP
12 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.63%) QA
3 21 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.02%) GDPR
5 18 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.72%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.27%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.51%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) WCAG
9 3 (0.45%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 198 (29.91%) Docker
2 38 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 30 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.27%) vSphere
6 8 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 310 (46.83%) Kubernetes
2 162 (24.47%) Ansible
3 129 (19.49%) Grafana
4 76 (11.48%) Prometheus
5 53 (8.01%) Argo
6 19 (2.87%) Puppet
7 18 (2.72%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.57%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.11%) Packer
9 14 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.66%) Istio
10 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.21%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.60%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.45%) Control-M
15 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 120 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.85%) Google
3 46 (6.95%) VMware
4 28 (4.23%) Cisco
5 19 (2.87%) Databricks
6 16 (2.42%) Arista
6 16 (2.42%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.27%) Aruba
7 15 (2.27%) NetScout
7 15 (2.27%) Oracle
8 11 (1.66%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.51%) Okta
9 10 (1.51%) Splunk
10 8 (1.21%) Confluent
10 8 (1.21%) F5
10 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.06%) EMC
11 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.06%) Salesforce