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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 61 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 655 717 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.95% 5.12% 3.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.87% 33.73% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 390 578 1,028
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,554 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.97% +7.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £107,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.77% +3.33% -4.02%

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 1,493 2,126 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.00% 15.19% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,405 3,069
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £99,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 10 March 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 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (1.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.37%) Apache
3 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.76%) IIS
5 4 (0.61%) Confluence
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Weka
2 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 29 (4.43%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 389 (59.39%) AWS
2 372 (56.79%) Azure
3 165 (25.19%) GitHub
4 152 (23.21%) Azure DevOps
4 152 (23.21%) GCP
5 112 (17.10%) Amazon EKS
6 101 (15.42%) SaaS
7 94 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
8 80 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 65 (9.92%) Serverless
10 59 (9.01%) Entra ID
11 57 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
12 50 (7.63%) Amazon S3
12 50 (7.63%) OCI
13 49 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 48 (7.33%) PaaS
15 45 (6.87%) dbt
16 44 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (5.95%) IaaS
18 36 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 87 (13.28%) Firewall
2 40 (6.11%) VPN
3 27 (4.12%) DNS
3 27 (4.12%) TCP/IP
4 21 (3.21%) Broadband
5 18 (2.75%) Network Security
5 18 (2.75%) NGFW
6 17 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (2.44%) WAN
7 16 (2.44%) Wireshark
8 15 (2.29%) SD-WAN
8 15 (2.29%) VLAN
8 15 (2.29%) VXLAN
9 10 (1.53%) BGP
10 8 (1.22%) LAN
11 5 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.76%) DHCP
11 5 (0.76%) SSL
12 4 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 32 (4.89%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 23 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 20 (3.05%) Power BI
8 19 (2.90%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.90%) Redis
9 18 (2.75%) Metadata
10 17 (2.60%) Tableau
11 16 (2.44%) BigQuery
11 16 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (2.14%) Delta Lake
13 11 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.68%) MySQL
14 9 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 77 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 76 (11.60%) Git
3 58 (8.85%) TeamCity
4 55 (8.40%) GitLab
5 29 (4.43%) Oracle Forms
6 24 (3.66%) JIRA
7 19 (2.90%) Jaeger
8 10 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.07%) JMeter
10 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.76%) Storybook
12 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.61%) ERwin
12 4 (0.61%) Locust
12 4 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.61%) Selenium
12 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.46%) Eclipse
General
1 222 (33.89%) Finance
2 132 (20.15%) Social Skills
3 108 (16.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (14.50%) Banking
5 91 (13.89%) Retail
6 83 (12.67%) Law
7 59 (9.01%) Public Sector
8 53 (8.09%) Back Office
8 53 (8.09%) Financial Institution
9 50 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.44%) Billing
10 16 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.22%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.22%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.07%) Military
13 6 (0.92%) Marketing
14 4 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Games
14 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (26.41%) Senior
2 130 (19.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 104 (15.88%) Lead
4 74 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 74 (11.30%) Software Engineer
5 71 (10.84%) Azure Engineer
6 65 (9.92%) Platform Engineer
7 62 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 45 (6.87%) Developer
9 41 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
10 40 (6.11%) Data Engineer
11 31 (4.73%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.43%) Applications Engineer
13 26 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (3.51%) Lead DevOps
16 22 (3.36%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
17 21 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.70%) React
1 57 (8.70%) RESTful
2 45 (6.87%) .NET
3 43 (6.56%) OAuth
4 38 (5.80%) Node.js
5 36 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
6 35 (5.34%) JSON
7 31 (4.73%) OAuth2
8 27 (4.12%) Kafka
9 24 (3.66%) Spring
10 21 (3.21%) Django
10 21 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (3.05%) PySpark
11 20 (3.05%) REST
12 19 (2.90%) Spring Boot
13 18 (2.75%) React Native
14 17 (2.60%) GraphQL
14 17 (2.60%) OpenAPI
14 17 (2.60%) Swagger
15 16 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 177 (27.02%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.41%) Data Centre
3 42 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (4.89%) Blog
6 29 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (4.27%) Public Cloud
8 23 (3.51%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.05%) PKI
10 19 (2.90%) Security Posture
11 15 (2.29%) Mobile App
12 14 (2.14%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.68%) Private Cloud
14 10 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 6 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 124 (18.93%) Linux
2 58 (8.85%) Windows
3 48 (7.33%) Unix
4 27 (4.12%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.14%) Android
5 14 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.83%) VMS
7 8 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.07%) CentOS
8 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.46%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (64.89%) CI/CD
2 407 (62.14%) DevOps
3 389 (59.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 221 (33.74%) Agile
5 194 (29.62%) Mentoring
6 163 (24.89%) Observability
7 158 (24.12%) Coaching
8 137 (20.92%) Test Automation
9 131 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 129 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
13 111 (16.95%) Software Engineering
14 105 (16.03%) Deployment Automation
15 101 (15.42%) Analytics
15 101 (15.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 97 (14.81%) Asset Management
17 92 (14.05%) Microservices
18 86 (13.13%) Clean Code
19 80 (12.21%) AI
Programming Languages
1 299 (45.65%) Python
2 163 (24.89%) Java
3 125 (19.08%) SQL
4 109 (16.64%) PowerShell
5 104 (15.88%) Bash
6 81 (12.37%) JavaScript
7 71 (10.84%) Bicep
8 61 (9.31%) Go
9 52 (7.94%) TypeScript
10 31 (4.73%) C#
11 29 (4.43%) PL/SQL
11 29 (4.43%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.90%) Scala
13 7 (1.07%) Rust
14 5 (0.76%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) PHP
16 2 (0.31%) C++
16 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.91%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.02%) AWS Certification
3 46 (7.02%) Degree
4 41 (6.26%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.37%) CCNP
9 8 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.92%) LPIC
11 6 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.46%) CCNA
14 3 (0.46%) MCSE
14 3 (0.46%) RHCSA
15 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (4.58%) PCI DSS
4 28 (4.27%) GDPR
5 26 (3.97%) QA
5 26 (3.97%) SOC 2
6 25 (3.82%) Accessibility
7 19 (2.90%) NIST
8 9 (1.37%) SLA
9 7 (1.07%) GRC
10 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.46%) WCAG
12 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.15%) MiFID
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 208 (31.76%) Docker
2 33 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.14%) vSphere
6 13 (1.98%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.31%) Ceph
10 2 (0.31%) Lustre
10 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.31%) vCloud
11 1 (0.15%) Firmware
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 276 (42.14%) Kubernetes
2 151 (23.05%) Ansible
3 139 (21.22%) Grafana
4 93 (14.20%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.95%) Argo
6 32 (4.89%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.90%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.83%) Puppet
10 8 (1.22%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.07%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.92%) SCOM
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.76%) Cilium
14 4 (0.61%) logstash
14 4 (0.61%) Packer
14 4 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.46%) Cisco CUCM
15 3 (0.46%) Istio
15 3 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.01%) Google
3 45 (6.87%) VMware
4 35 (5.34%) Oracle
5 24 (3.66%) Databricks
6 19 (2.90%) Splunk
7 18 (2.75%) Cisco
8 17 (2.60%) Okta
9 16 (2.44%) Arista
10 15 (2.29%) Aruba
10 15 (2.29%) NetScout
11 14 (2.14%) Ab Initio
12 12 (1.83%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.37%) New Relic
14 8 (1.22%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.07%) Fortinet
15 7 (1.07%) IBM
16 6 (0.92%) F5
16 6 (0.92%) Mercator
17 5 (0.76%) BMC