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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 70 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 657 811 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.92% 3.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.46% 40.43% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 456 418 836
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,125 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,950
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.81% -2.73%
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 1,853 2,006 3,152
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.55% 12.17% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 1,151 2,323
10th Percentile £37,175 £35,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,236 £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 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £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 22 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 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.44%) Apache
4 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.76%) Confluence
5 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.30%) 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
1 418 (63.62%) AWS
2 359 (54.64%) Azure
3 181 (27.55%) GCP
4 109 (16.59%) Amazon EKS
5 108 (16.44%) GitHub
6 101 (15.37%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (15.37%) SaaS
7 91 (13.85%) Serverless
8 80 (12.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 70 (10.65%) PaaS
10 64 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
11 59 (8.98%) Amazon S3
12 52 (7.91%) Azure AKS
13 48 (7.31%) IaaS
14 46 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
17 41 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
18 39 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (4.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (9.28%) Firewall
2 48 (7.31%) VPN
3 35 (5.33%) TCP/IP
4 31 (4.72%) DNS
5 18 (2.74%) LAN
6 17 (2.59%) WAN
7 16 (2.44%) DHCP
8 10 (1.52%) Network Security
8 10 (1.52%) VLAN
8 10 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.37%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.22%) NGFW
11 7 (1.07%) BGP
11 7 (1.07%) VXLAN
11 7 (1.07%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.91%) HTTP
12 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.91%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (12.48%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (3.35%) Metadata
4 22 (3.35%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.04%) MongoDB
6 17 (2.59%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.44%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.13%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.98%) Redis
10 12 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.67%) Power BI
12 10 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.52%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.37%) Big Data
13 9 (1.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (12.33%) Git
2 62 (9.44%) TeamCity
3 59 (8.98%) GitLab
4 47 (7.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.52%) JIRA
7 9 (1.37%) JMeter
8 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.76%) Locust
8 5 (0.76%) Selenium
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
9 3 (0.46%) Postman
9 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.30%) Maven
10 2 (0.30%) MSI
10 2 (0.30%) NUnit
10 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 164 (24.96%) Finance
2 145 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 109 (16.59%) Law
5 100 (15.22%) Banking
6 89 (13.55%) Retail
7 73 (11.11%) Public Sector
8 52 (7.91%) Back Office
8 52 (7.91%) Financial Institution
9 46 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.37%) Billing
12 8 (1.22%) Marketing
13 7 (1.07%) Legal
13 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.91%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.91%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.76%) Aviation
16 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 180 (27.40%) Senior
2 103 (15.68%) Cloud Engineer
3 99 (15.07%) Lead
4 97 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 90 (13.70%) Software Engineer
6 82 (12.48%) Platform Engineer
7 77 (11.72%) Azure Engineer
8 57 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (7.15%) Senior DevOps
10 45 (6.85%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 39 (5.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 37 (5.63%) Developer
14 34 (5.18%) Architect
15 28 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (3.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 22 (3.35%) Python Engineer
18 21 (3.20%) Engineering Manager
18 21 (3.20%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.83%) React
2 46 (7.00%) Node.js
3 37 (5.63%) Kafka
4 35 (5.33%) REST
5 34 (5.18%) ARM Templates
6 25 (3.81%) Spring
7 19 (2.89%) PySpark
7 19 (2.89%) Spring Boot
8 18 (2.74%) OAuth
8 18 (2.74%) YAML
9 17 (2.59%) .NET
10 16 (2.44%) OpenID
11 15 (2.28%) OAuth2
12 14 (2.13%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.13%) RESTful
13 13 (1.98%) AWS CDK
14 12 (1.83%) Django
14 12 (1.83%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.83%) Flask
15 11 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (28.46%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (6.24%) Public Cloud
6 36 (5.48%) Data Centre
7 28 (4.26%) Blog
8 18 (2.74%) Podcast
9 17 (2.59%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.59%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.44%) PKI
11 14 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.13%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.98%) Replication
13 12 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.37%) Life Science
14 9 (1.37%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (18.42%) Linux
2 85 (12.94%) Windows
3 36 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.35%) Unix
5 14 (2.13%) VMS
6 4 (0.61%) Android
6 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (69.71%) CI/CD
2 426 (64.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 360 (54.79%) DevOps
4 189 (28.77%) Mentoring
5 169 (25.72%) Platform Engineering
6 159 (24.20%) Observability
7 157 (23.90%) Agile
8 156 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (21.46%) Software Engineering
10 138 (21.00%) Containerisation
11 132 (20.09%) Test Automation
12 124 (18.87%) AI
13 121 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
14 115 (17.50%) Microservices
15 108 (16.44%) Clean Code
16 105 (15.98%) Technical Leadership
17 92 (14.00%) Deployment Automation
18 85 (12.94%) Roadmaps
19 84 (12.79%) Analytics
20 82 (12.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 271 (41.25%) Python
2 140 (21.31%) Java
3 113 (17.20%) PowerShell
4 94 (14.31%) SQL
5 93 (14.16%) Bicep
6 83 (12.63%) Bash
7 45 (6.85%) TypeScript
8 42 (6.39%) Go
9 36 (5.48%) JavaScript
10 29 (4.41%) C#
11 15 (2.28%) Scala
12 13 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.22%) PHP
14 7 (1.07%) Groovy
14 7 (1.07%) Rust
15 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
17 2 (0.30%) C
17 2 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 95 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 71 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.31%) Degree
5 27 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.83%) CCNP
10 10 (1.52%) SnowPro
11 9 (1.37%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.07%) CCNA
13 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.76%) CCIE
14 5 (0.76%) LPIC
15 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.61%) MCSE
15 4 (0.61%) VCAP
15 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.81%) QA
3 15 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 14 (2.13%) GDPR
5 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.37%) NIST
8 7 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.76%) WCAG
10 3 (0.46%) NCSC
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 177 (26.94%) Docker
2 57 (8.68%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.81%) vSphere
5 14 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.61%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 293 (44.60%) Kubernetes
2 135 (20.55%) Ansible
3 117 (17.81%) Grafana
4 41 (6.24%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.57%) Argo
6 18 (2.74%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.59%) Istio
7 17 (2.59%) Puppet
8 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.98%) Packer
9 10 (1.52%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.61%) linkerd
13 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 143 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.76%) VMware
3 34 (5.18%) Google
4 27 (4.11%) Cisco
5 24 (3.65%) Databricks
6 16 (2.44%) Okta
6 16 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.28%) Oracle
8 12 (1.83%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.67%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.67%) Ping Identity
10 9 (1.37%) Informatica
11 8 (1.22%) Arista
11 8 (1.22%) Confluent
11 8 (1.22%) F5
12 7 (1.07%) Aruba
12 7 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.07%) EMC
12 7 (1.07%) NetScout
12 7 (1.07%) ServiceNow