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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 66 78
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -27
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 668 826 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 4.99% 3.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.76% 40.16% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 456 436 883
10th Percentile £47,046 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £57,674
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £95,000
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 1,817 2,057 3,387
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.51% 12.44% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,347 1,193 2,525
10th Percentile £36,650 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.47% -8.57%
75th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 13 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 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.69%) Apache
4 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.75%) Confluence
5 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.60%) WordPress
7 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Weka
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 426 (63.77%) AWS
2 356 (53.29%) Azure
3 172 (25.75%) GCP
4 116 (17.37%) Amazon EKS
5 112 (16.77%) GitHub
6 103 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (14.52%) SaaS
8 89 (13.32%) Serverless
9 81 (12.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (10.48%) PaaS
11 65 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (9.13%) Amazon S3
13 54 (8.08%) Azure AKS
14 51 (7.63%) IaaS
15 47 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
17 43 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
19 29 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.48%) Firewall
2 47 (7.04%) VPN
3 31 (4.64%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.49%) DNS
5 18 (2.69%) LAN
5 18 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (2.54%) WAN
7 16 (2.40%) NGFW
8 15 (2.25%) DHCP
8 15 (2.25%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.25%) Wireshark
9 10 (1.50%) Broadband
9 10 (1.50%) VLAN
10 9 (1.35%) Network Security
10 9 (1.35%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.05%) BGP
12 6 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.90%) HTTP
12 6 (0.90%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.34%) Relational Database
2 29 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (3.29%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.14%) Metadata
7 19 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.54%) BigQuery
8 17 (2.54%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.25%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.25%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.10%) Redis
11 13 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.65%) Power BI
14 10 (1.50%) Big Data
14 10 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 81 (12.13%) Git
2 63 (9.43%) TeamCity
3 56 (8.38%) GitLab
4 47 (7.04%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.50%) JIRA
6 10 (1.50%) JMeter
7 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.90%) Jaeger
7 6 (0.90%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.75%) Locust
8 5 (0.75%) Selenium
9 3 (0.45%) Maven
9 3 (0.45%) MLflow
9 3 (0.45%) Postman
9 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.30%) MSI
10 2 (0.30%) NUnit
10 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 160 (23.95%) Finance
2 143 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 126 (18.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (16.62%) Law
5 102 (15.27%) Banking
6 92 (13.77%) Retail
7 82 (12.28%) Public Sector
8 52 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (7.78%) Back Office
8 52 (7.78%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.35%) Billing
11 7 (1.05%) Legal
11 7 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.90%) Aviation
12 6 (0.90%) Legal Technology
12 6 (0.90%) Marketing
13 5 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.60%) Advertising
14 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (25.90%) Senior
2 104 (15.57%) Lead
3 103 (15.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 99 (14.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (12.87%) Software Engineer
6 84 (12.57%) Platform Engineer
7 74 (11.08%) Azure Engineer
8 60 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (7.04%) Data Engineer
11 46 (6.89%) Senior DevOps
12 40 (5.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (5.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (5.39%) Developer
15 32 (4.79%) Architect
16 27 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 22 (3.29%) Java Engineer
17 22 (3.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 21 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.68%) React
2 49 (7.34%) Node.js
3 40 (5.99%) Kafka
4 34 (5.09%) ARM Templates
5 33 (4.94%) REST
6 26 (3.89%) Spring
7 19 (2.84%) PySpark
7 19 (2.84%) Spring Boot
7 19 (2.84%) YAML
8 16 (2.40%) .NET
8 16 (2.40%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.25%) AWS CDK
10 14 (2.10%) RESTful
11 13 (1.95%) OAuth
11 13 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.80%) Django
12 12 (1.80%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.80%) Flask
13 11 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (1.65%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 190 (28.44%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.74%) Data Centre
4 44 (6.59%) Product Ownership
5 41 (6.14%) Public Cloud
6 39 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (4.79%) Blog
8 23 (3.44%) PKI
9 19 (2.84%) Security Posture
10 18 (2.69%) Podcast
10 18 (2.69%) Private Cloud
11 15 (2.25%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.65%) Replication
14 9 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.20%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 134 (20.06%) Linux
2 86 (12.87%) Windows
3 35 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.34%) Unix
5 14 (2.10%) VMS
6 6 (0.90%) Android
6 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Debian
8 3 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (68.56%) CI/CD
2 431 (64.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 368 (55.09%) DevOps
4 197 (29.49%) Mentoring
5 172 (25.75%) Platform Engineering
6 166 (24.85%) Agile
7 158 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (23.20%) Observability
9 144 (21.56%) Containerisation
10 136 (20.36%) Test Automation
11 134 (20.06%) Software Engineering
12 125 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (17.22%) AI
14 113 (16.92%) Microservices
15 103 (15.42%) Clean Code
16 100 (14.97%) Technical Leadership
17 93 (13.92%) Deployment Automation
18 92 (13.77%) Roadmaps
19 86 (12.87%) Analytics
20 83 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 285 (42.66%) Python
2 152 (22.75%) Java
3 114 (17.07%) PowerShell
4 95 (14.22%) SQL
5 92 (13.77%) Bicep
6 91 (13.62%) Bash
7 48 (7.19%) Go
8 47 (7.04%) TypeScript
9 45 (6.74%) JavaScript
10 28 (4.19%) C#
11 17 (2.54%) Scala
12 13 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.20%) Groovy
13 8 (1.20%) PHP
14 7 (1.05%) Rust
15 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) Ruby
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 99 (14.82%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.18%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.19%) Degree
5 28 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.80%) CCNP
10 10 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.35%) SnowPro
12 7 (1.05%) CCNA
13 6 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.75%) CCIE
14 5 (0.75%) LPIC
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 33 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.59%) QA
3 17 (2.54%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.40%) GDPR
5 13 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.95%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.65%) NIST
7 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.75%) WCAG
9 3 (0.45%) NCSC
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%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 178 (26.65%) Docker
2 54 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.89%) vSphere
5 15 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.05%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
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
Systems Management
1 302 (45.21%) Kubernetes
2 155 (23.20%) Ansible
3 121 (18.11%) Grafana
4 50 (7.49%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.39%) Argo
6 21 (3.14%) Progress Chef
6 21 (3.14%) Puppet
7 16 (2.40%) Istio
8 15 (2.25%) Packer
9 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.65%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.05%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.90%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.45%) linkerd
15 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 141 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.53%) VMware
3 35 (5.24%) Google
4 27 (4.04%) Cisco
5 23 (3.44%) Databricks
6 16 (2.40%) Arista
6 16 (2.40%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.25%) Aruba
7 15 (2.25%) NetScout
8 14 (2.10%) Oracle
9 12 (1.80%) Okta
9 12 (1.80%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.65%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.20%) Confluent
11 8 (1.20%) F5
11 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.20%) Splunk
12 7 (1.05%) Informatica
12 7 (1.05%) Ping Identity
12 7 (1.05%) Red Hat