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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 62 79
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 -23
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 642 819 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 5.37% 3.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.02% 40.29% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 423 432 983
10th Percentile £47,174 £52,625 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +3.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £111,000
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 1,604 2,033 3,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 13.34% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 1,177 2,838
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.66% -9.63%

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 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 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.80%) Apache
4 7 (1.09%) 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
1 410 (63.86%) AWS
2 325 (50.62%) Azure
3 156 (24.30%) GCP
4 112 (17.45%) Amazon EKS
5 108 (16.82%) GitHub
6 101 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (15.26%) SaaS
8 76 (11.84%) Serverless
9 73 (11.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
11 62 (9.66%) Amazon S3
12 55 (8.57%) PaaS
13 53 (8.26%) Azure AKS
14 48 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
15 44 (6.85%) Azure Monitor
16 43 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
17 42 (6.54%) IaaS
18 41 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
20 33 (5.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.21%) Firewall
2 33 (5.14%) VPN
3 26 (4.05%) DNS
4 25 (3.89%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.27%) Broadband
6 18 (2.80%) WAN
6 18 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.65%) LAN
8 16 (2.49%) NGFW
9 15 (2.34%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.34%) Wireshark
10 13 (2.02%) DHCP
11 11 (1.71%) Network Security
11 11 (1.71%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.56%) 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 74 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.61%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (3.89%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.58%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.12%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.80%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.80%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.80%) Metadata
9 16 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (2.49%) Delta Lake
9 16 (2.49%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.02%) Redis
11 12 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.40%) Big Data
14 8 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (11.21%) Git
2 62 (9.66%) GitLab
3 56 (8.72%) TeamCity
4 41 (6.39%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.80%) Jaeger
6 12 (1.87%) JIRA
7 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (1.25%) 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 (22.74%) Finance
2 128 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 123 (19.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (14.95%) Banking
5 94 (14.64%) Law
6 89 (13.86%) Retail
7 83 (12.93%) Public Sector
8 52 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (7.48%) Back Office
9 48 (7.48%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.34%) Billing
11 13 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.40%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.25%) Aviation
13 8 (1.25%) Legal
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 (24.61%) Senior
2 104 (16.20%) Cloud Engineer
2 104 (16.20%) Lead
3 100 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 81 (12.62%) Platform Engineer
5 77 (11.99%) Software Engineer
6 74 (11.53%) Azure Engineer
7 62 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
8 51 (7.94%) Data Engineer
9 47 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (7.01%) Senior DevOps
11 41 (6.39%) Developer
12 38 (5.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 36 (5.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (3.43%) Java Engineer
15 22 (3.43%) Team Leader
16 21 (3.27%) Architect
17 20 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.26%) Node.js
2 51 (7.94%) React
3 39 (6.07%) Kafka
4 33 (5.14%) Spring
5 28 (4.36%) ARM Templates
5 28 (4.36%) REST
6 24 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 24 (3.74%) Spring Boot
7 23 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (3.43%) PySpark
9 20 (3.12%) .NET
10 18 (2.80%) YAML
11 17 (2.65%) RESTful
12 13 (2.02%) Django
12 13 (2.02%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.87%) Flask
13 12 (1.87%) React Native
14 11 (1.71%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.71%) AWS CDK
14 11 (1.71%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 170 (26.48%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.01%) Data Centre
3 44 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 39 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (5.61%) Product Ownership
6 32 (4.98%) Blog
7 29 (4.52%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.43%) PKI
9 18 (2.80%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.34%) Security Posture
11 13 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 13 (2.02%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.56%) Podcast
12 10 (1.56%) Replication
13 9 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.09%) CMDB
14 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.93%) CUDA
15 6 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 142 (22.12%) Linux
2 75 (11.68%) Windows
3 43 (6.70%) Unix
4 38 (5.92%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.87%) Android
5 12 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.93%) Debian
7 6 (0.93%) VMS
8 5 (0.78%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.16%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (64.95%) CI/CD
2 405 (63.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 370 (57.63%) DevOps
4 192 (29.91%) Mentoring
5 177 (27.57%) Agile
6 155 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
7 150 (23.36%) Containerisation
8 142 (22.12%) Observability
9 135 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 133 (20.72%) Test Automation
11 122 (19.00%) Software Engineering
12 114 (17.76%) Microservices
13 110 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (14.33%) Clean Code
15 90 (14.02%) AI
16 86 (13.40%) Deployment Automation
16 86 (13.40%) Roadmaps
17 83 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 79 (12.31%) Analytics
19 78 (12.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 272 (42.37%) Python
2 163 (25.39%) Java
3 92 (14.33%) Bash
4 90 (14.02%) PowerShell
5 75 (11.68%) SQL
6 67 (10.44%) Bicep
7 59 (9.19%) Go
7 59 (9.19%) JavaScript
8 53 (8.26%) TypeScript
9 28 (4.36%) C#
10 19 (2.96%) Scala
11 9 (1.40%) Rust
12 7 (1.09%) PHP
13 6 (0.93%) Groovy
13 6 (0.93%) Perl
14 5 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
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 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.88%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.48%) Degree
5 37 (5.76%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.71%) CCNP
9 10 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.93%) CCNA
10 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.93%) LPIC
11 5 (0.78%) CCIE
12 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.62%) MCSE
12 4 (0.62%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.62%) VCAP
12 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.98%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.43%) QA
3 18 (2.80%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.34%) GDPR
5 15 (2.34%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.56%) 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 (28.82%) Docker
2 43 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 34 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.80%) vSphere
5 17 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
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
8 5 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
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 (46.57%) Kubernetes
2 164 (25.55%) Ansible
3 118 (18.38%) Grafana
4 67 (10.44%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.48%) Argo
6 19 (2.96%) Puppet
7 18 (2.80%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.34%) Packer
9 14 (2.18%) Istio
10 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.56%) 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%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.31%) MIIS
Vendors
1 124 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.79%) Google
3 49 (7.63%) VMware
4 28 (4.36%) Cisco
5 21 (3.27%) Databricks
6 16 (2.49%) Arista
6 16 (2.49%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.34%) Aruba
7 15 (2.34%) NetScout
8 11 (1.71%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.40%) Oracle
10 8 (1.25%) Confluent
10 8 (1.25%) F5
10 8 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.25%) Splunk
11 7 (1.09%) EMC
11 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.93%) Citrix
12 6 (0.93%) NetApp