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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 57 78
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 647 832 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 5.60% 3.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.39% 40.43% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 424 447 1,004
10th Percentile £47,092 £53,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +10.22% -4.67%
75th Percentile £85,250 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,250 £110,000
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 1,563 2,058 3,687
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.10% 13.84% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,193 2,863
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,750 £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 £78,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 5 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 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.78%) Apache
2 18 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.77%) Confluence
3 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.31%) Camunda
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) WordPress
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 407 (62.91%) AWS
2 330 (51.00%) Azure
3 160 (24.73%) GCP
4 115 (17.77%) Amazon EKS
5 114 (17.62%) GitHub
6 105 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (15.15%) SaaS
8 72 (11.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (11.13%) Serverless
9 70 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (9.27%) Amazon S3
11 53 (8.19%) Azure AKS
12 52 (8.04%) PaaS
13 46 (7.11%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (6.65%) Azure Monitor
15 41 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (6.18%) IaaS
17 35 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
18 33 (5.10%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 73 (11.28%) Firewall
2 32 (4.95%) DNS
3 31 (4.79%) VPN
4 25 (3.86%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.09%) Broadband
6 18 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (2.63%) LAN
7 17 (2.63%) WAN
8 16 (2.47%) NGFW
9 15 (2.32%) VXLAN
9 15 (2.32%) Wireshark
10 13 (2.01%) DHCP
11 11 (1.70%) Network Security
12 10 (1.55%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.55%) VLAN
13 7 (1.08%) 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 76 (11.75%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 29 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (3.86%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.55%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.94%) BigQuery
7 19 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.94%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.78%) Metadata
9 16 (2.47%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.32%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.01%) Redis
12 12 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.39%) Big Data
16 7 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 75 (11.59%) Git
2 68 (10.51%) GitLab
3 57 (8.81%) TeamCity
4 42 (6.49%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.78%) Jaeger
6 12 (1.85%) JIRA
7 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.08%) JMeter
9 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.77%) Locust
10 5 (0.77%) Selenium
10 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.62%) Storybook
12 3 (0.46%) MLflow
12 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 151 (23.34%) Finance
2 121 (18.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 118 (18.24%) Social Skills
4 99 (15.30%) Banking
5 95 (14.68%) Law
6 90 (13.91%) Retail
7 86 (13.29%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (7.42%) Back Office
9 48 (7.42%) Financial Institution
10 16 (2.47%) Billing
11 13 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.39%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.24%) Aviation
14 8 (1.24%) Legal
15 6 (0.93%) Marketing
15 6 (0.93%) Military
15 6 (0.93%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 161 (24.88%) Senior
2 112 (17.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 110 (17.00%) Lead
4 102 (15.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (12.52%) Software Engineer
6 79 (12.21%) Platform Engineer
7 78 (12.06%) Azure Engineer
8 60 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
9 54 (8.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 51 (7.88%) Data Engineer
11 45 (6.96%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (6.34%) Developer
13 38 (5.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 36 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.40%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.40%) Team Leader
17 20 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 19 (2.94%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.35%) Node.js
1 54 (8.35%) React
2 39 (6.03%) Kafka
3 33 (5.10%) Spring
4 28 (4.33%) REST
5 27 (4.17%) ARM Templates
6 24 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (3.71%) Spring Boot
7 23 (3.55%) .NET
7 23 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 22 (3.40%) PySpark
9 20 (3.09%) RESTful
10 18 (2.78%) YAML
11 15 (2.32%) React Native
12 14 (2.16%) Django
13 13 (2.01%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.85%) Flask
14 12 (1.85%) OAuth
15 11 (1.70%) AngularJS
15 11 (1.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 164 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.65%) Data Centre
3 41 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 33 (5.10%) Blog
7 27 (4.17%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.40%) PKI
9 18 (2.78%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.32%) Mobile App
11 14 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.01%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.55%) Replication
14 9 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.24%) Podcast
16 7 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.08%) CMDB
17 6 (0.93%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.48%) Linux
2 73 (11.28%) Windows
3 44 (6.80%) Unix
4 40 (6.18%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.16%) Android
5 14 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.93%) Debian
8 5 (0.77%) CentOS
9 4 (0.62%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (64.61%) CI/CD
2 395 (61.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 375 (57.96%) DevOps
4 199 (30.76%) Mentoring
5 185 (28.59%) Agile
6 154 (23.80%) Platform Engineering
7 150 (23.18%) Containerisation
8 139 (21.48%) Test Automation
9 137 (21.17%) Observability
10 132 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (19.17%) Software Engineering
12 116 (17.93%) Microservices
13 113 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
14 93 (14.37%) Clean Code
15 90 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 89 (13.76%) Coaching
16 89 (13.76%) Deployment Automation
17 87 (13.45%) Roadmaps
18 82 (12.67%) AI
19 77 (11.90%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 275 (42.50%) Python
2 166 (25.66%) Java
3 90 (13.91%) Bash
3 90 (13.91%) PowerShell
4 73 (11.28%) SQL
5 64 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 62 (9.58%) Go
7 61 (9.43%) Bicep
8 54 (8.35%) TypeScript
9 29 (4.48%) C#
10 21 (3.25%) Scala
11 9 (1.39%) Rust
12 7 (1.08%) PHP
13 6 (0.93%) Groovy
13 6 (0.93%) Perl
14 5 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.62%) C++
16 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 100 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.04%) Azure Certification
4 47 (7.26%) Degree
5 36 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.70%) 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 (0.77%) CCIE
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)
14 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.40%) QA
3 18 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.47%) GDPR
6 15 (2.32%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.55%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 189 (29.21%) Docker
2 41 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 32 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.47%) vSphere
6 7 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
9 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 303 (46.83%) Kubernetes
2 162 (25.04%) Ansible
3 119 (18.39%) Grafana
4 67 (10.36%) Prometheus
5 50 (7.73%) Argo
6 19 (2.94%) Puppet
7 18 (2.78%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.32%) Packer
9 12 (1.85%) Istio
9 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.39%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.46%) Control-M
15 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 120 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.04%) Google
3 47 (7.26%) VMware
4 28 (4.33%) Cisco
5 19 (2.94%) Databricks
6 16 (2.47%) Arista
6 16 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.32%) Aruba
7 15 (2.32%) NetScout
8 11 (1.70%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.39%) Oracle
9 9 (1.39%) Splunk
10 8 (1.24%) Confluent
10 8 (1.24%) F5
10 8 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.08%) EMC
11 7 (1.08%) Okta
11 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.93%) Citrix