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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 63 82
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 645 821 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 5.36% 3.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.81% 40.32% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 424 430 970
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,430 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +5.42% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,063 £96,250 £94,688
90th Percentile £99,700 £118,875 £111,375
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 2,036 3,698
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 13.28% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 1,175 2,807
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 16 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 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.79%) Apache
4 9 (1.40%) 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
1 413 (64.03%) AWS
2 329 (51.01%) Azure
3 156 (24.19%) GCP
4 113 (17.52%) Amazon EKS
5 110 (17.05%) GitHub
6 105 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (14.88%) SaaS
8 81 (12.56%) Serverless
9 74 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (9.30%) Amazon S3
12 58 (8.99%) PaaS
13 55 (8.53%) Azure AKS
14 48 (7.44%) Amazon EC2
15 46 (7.13%) Azure Monitor
16 45 (6.98%) IaaS
17 44 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
18 42 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 38 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
20 34 (5.27%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.16%) Firewall
2 35 (5.43%) VPN
3 26 (4.03%) DNS
4 25 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.41%) Broadband
6 18 (2.79%) WAN
6 18 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.64%) LAN
8 16 (2.48%) NGFW
9 15 (2.33%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.33%) Wireshark
10 13 (2.02%) DHCP
11 11 (1.71%) Network Security
11 11 (1.71%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.55%) 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 73 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.74%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.96%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.26%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (2.79%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.79%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.48%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.48%) Metadata
10 15 (2.33%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (2.02%) Redis
12 11 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.40%) Big Data
15 8 (1.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (11.63%) Git
2 63 (9.77%) GitLab
3 56 (8.68%) TeamCity
4 42 (6.51%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.79%) Jaeger
6 12 (1.86%) JIRA
7 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (1.24%) 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%) Storybook
11 3 (0.47%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.31%) Maven
12 2 (0.31%) MSI
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 146 (22.64%) Finance
2 130 (20.16%) Social Skills
3 124 (19.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (14.73%) Banking
4 95 (14.73%) Law
5 87 (13.49%) Retail
6 80 (12.40%) Public Sector
7 52 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (7.29%) Back Office
8 47 (7.29%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.33%) Billing
10 13 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.40%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.24%) Aviation
12 8 (1.24%) Legal
13 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 6 (0.93%) Marketing
14 6 (0.93%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 158 (24.50%) Senior
2 103 (15.97%) Cloud Engineer
2 103 (15.97%) Lead
3 100 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 82 (12.71%) Platform Engineer
5 78 (12.09%) Software Engineer
6 73 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
7 62 (9.61%) AWS Engineer
8 47 (7.29%) Data Engineer
9 46 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
11 42 (6.51%) Developer
12 39 (6.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 35 (5.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.72%) Architect
16 22 (3.41%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.41%) Team Leader
17 21 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
17 21 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.22%) React
2 51 (7.91%) Node.js
3 38 (5.89%) Kafka
4 33 (5.12%) Spring
5 29 (4.50%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.34%) REST
7 24 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
7 24 (3.72%) Spring Boot
8 23 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (3.26%) .NET
10 19 (2.95%) PySpark
10 19 (2.95%) YAML
11 17 (2.64%) RESTful
12 13 (2.02%) AWS CDK
12 13 (2.02%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.86%) Django
13 12 (1.86%) Flask
13 12 (1.86%) React Native
14 11 (1.71%) AngularJS
15 9 (1.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 172 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 38 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (5.58%) Product Ownership
6 31 (4.81%) Blog
6 31 (4.81%) Public Cloud
7 22 (3.41%) PKI
8 18 (2.79%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.64%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 13 (2.02%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.86%) Podcast
12 10 (1.55%) Replication
13 9 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.09%) CMDB
15 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.93%) CUDA
16 6 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 141 (21.86%) Linux
2 76 (11.78%) Windows
3 43 (6.67%) Unix
4 37 (5.74%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.86%) Android
5 12 (1.86%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.24%) 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 (65.74%) CI/CD
2 413 (64.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 369 (57.21%) DevOps
4 195 (30.23%) Mentoring
5 176 (27.29%) Agile
6 157 (24.34%) Platform Engineering
7 151 (23.41%) Containerisation
8 146 (22.64%) Observability
9 138 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (20.93%) Test Automation
11 125 (19.38%) Software Engineering
12 115 (17.83%) Microservices
13 112 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (15.19%) AI
15 93 (14.42%) Clean Code
16 90 (13.95%) Roadmaps
17 86 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
18 81 (12.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 80 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
20 79 (12.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 272 (42.17%) Python
2 163 (25.27%) Java
3 95 (14.73%) Bash
4 93 (14.42%) PowerShell
5 78 (12.09%) SQL
6 72 (11.16%) Bicep
7 62 (9.61%) Go
8 58 (8.99%) JavaScript
9 54 (8.37%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.65%) C#
11 16 (2.48%) 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 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.80%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.30%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.44%) Degree
5 38 (5.89%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.71%) CCNP
10 10 (1.55%) 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%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.62%) MCSE
13 4 (0.62%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.62%) VCAP
13 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.41%) QA
3 17 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.64%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.33%) GDPR
5 14 (2.17%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.55%) NIST
7 5 (0.78%) WCAG
8 3 (0.47%) NCSC
8 3 (0.47%) SLA
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 185 (28.68%) Docker
2 46 (7.13%) Active Directory
3 36 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.10%) vSphere
5 17 (2.64%) 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
1 299 (46.36%) Kubernetes
2 163 (25.27%) Ansible
3 119 (18.45%) Grafana
4 68 (10.54%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.44%) Argo
6 20 (3.10%) Puppet
7 19 (2.95%) Progress Chef
8 18 (2.79%) Kustomize
9 15 (2.33%) Istio
9 15 (2.33%) Packer
10 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.55%) 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 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.91%) Google
2 51 (7.91%) VMware
3 28 (4.34%) Cisco
4 22 (3.41%) Databricks
5 16 (2.48%) Arista
5 16 (2.48%) Palo Alto
6 15 (2.33%) Aruba
6 15 (2.33%) NetScout
7 11 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.40%) Oracle
9 8 (1.24%) Confluent
9 8 (1.24%) F5
9 8 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.24%) Splunk
10 7 (1.09%) EMC
10 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.93%) Citrix
11 6 (0.93%) NetApp