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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 66 77
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -25
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 656 821 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 5.25% 3.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.68% 40.19% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 438 431 958
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,630 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,375
% change year-on-year - +2.21% -2.17%

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 1,696 2,043 3,657
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.32% 13.06% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 1,182 2,774
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £49,238 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,563 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.94% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,350 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 25 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 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.59%) Apache
4 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.76%) Confluence
5 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
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 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 420 (64.02%) AWS
2 337 (51.37%) Azure
3 154 (23.48%) GCP
4 117 (17.84%) Amazon EKS
5 113 (17.23%) GitHub
6 105 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (15.24%) SaaS
8 88 (13.41%) Serverless
9 80 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
10 64 (9.76%) PaaS
11 62 (9.45%) Amazon S3
12 57 (8.69%) Azure AKS
13 51 (7.77%) IaaS
14 50 (7.62%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (7.62%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
18 33 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.82%) Firewall
2 42 (6.40%) VPN
3 28 (4.27%) DNS
4 26 (3.96%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.74%) LAN
5 18 (2.74%) WAN
5 18 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (2.44%) Broadband
6 16 (2.44%) NGFW
7 15 (2.29%) VXLAN
7 15 (2.29%) Wireshark
8 14 (2.13%) DHCP
9 11 (1.68%) Network Security
10 10 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.52%) VLAN
11 7 (1.07%) BGP
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.91%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 31 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.90%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.74%) Metadata
9 17 (2.59%) DynamoDB
10 16 (2.44%) Data Lake
11 15 (2.29%) Delta Lake
11 15 (2.29%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.98%) Redis
13 11 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.52%) Big Data
14 10 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 82 (12.50%) Git
2 60 (9.15%) GitLab
2 60 (9.15%) TeamCity
3 43 (6.55%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.83%) Jaeger
5 11 (1.68%) JIRA
5 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.22%) JMeter
7 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.76%) Locust
8 5 (0.76%) Selenium
8 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
9 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.30%) Maven
10 2 (0.30%) MSI
10 2 (0.30%) NUnit
10 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 151 (23.02%) Finance
2 138 (21.04%) Social Skills
3 128 (19.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (16.16%) Law
5 97 (14.79%) Banking
6 90 (13.72%) Retail
7 81 (12.35%) Public Sector
8 50 (7.62%) Back Office
8 50 (7.62%) Financial Institution
9 48 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (2.13%) Billing
11 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.37%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.22%) Aviation
14 7 (1.07%) Legal
14 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.91%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.91%) Marketing
15 6 (0.91%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 162 (24.70%) Senior
2 104 (15.85%) Lead
3 102 (15.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 100 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 82 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 81 (12.35%) Software Engineer
7 71 (10.82%) Azure Engineer
8 63 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (7.32%) Data Engineer
10 47 (7.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.71%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (6.40%) Developer
13 39 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 35 (5.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 30 (4.57%) Architect
16 28 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.35%) Java Engineer
17 22 (3.35%) Team Leader
18 21 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.20%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.08%) React
2 50 (7.62%) Node.js
3 39 (5.95%) Kafka
4 32 (4.88%) Spring
5 31 (4.73%) ARM Templates
6 29 (4.42%) REST
7 24 (3.66%) Spring Boot
8 21 (3.20%) .NET
9 19 (2.90%) PySpark
9 19 (2.90%) YAML
10 18 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
11 17 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (2.13%) AWS CDK
13 13 (1.98%) RESTful
14 12 (1.83%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.83%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.83%) Flask
15 11 (1.68%) Django
16 10 (1.52%) React Native
17 9 (1.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 179 (27.29%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (7.01%) Data Centre
4 41 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 35 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.57%) Blog
7 23 (3.51%) Security Posture
8 22 (3.35%) PKI
9 18 (2.74%) Podcast
9 18 (2.74%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.29%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.68%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.68%) Replication
12 10 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.07%) CMDB
16 6 (0.91%) FlexPod
16 6 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 138 (21.04%) Linux
2 83 (12.65%) Windows
3 36 (5.49%) Unix
3 36 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.13%) VMS
5 12 (1.83%) Android
5 12 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.76%) Debian
8 4 (0.61%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (66.92%) CI/CD
2 423 (64.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 367 (55.95%) DevOps
4 197 (30.03%) Mentoring
5 173 (26.37%) Agile
6 162 (24.70%) Platform Engineering
7 152 (23.17%) Observability
8 146 (22.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (21.49%) Containerisation
10 134 (20.43%) Test Automation
11 127 (19.36%) Software Engineering
12 118 (17.99%) Microservices
13 111 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (16.77%) AI
15 97 (14.79%) Clean Code
16 94 (14.33%) Roadmaps
17 90 (13.72%) Deployment Automation
18 89 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
19 85 (12.96%) Analytics
20 79 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 272 (41.46%) Python
2 158 (24.09%) Java
3 103 (15.70%) PowerShell
4 97 (14.79%) Bash
5 88 (13.41%) Bicep
6 86 (13.11%) SQL
7 53 (8.08%) Go
8 52 (7.93%) TypeScript
9 51 (7.77%) JavaScript
10 33 (5.03%) C#
11 17 (2.59%) Scala
12 13 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.22%) PHP
13 8 (1.22%) Rust
14 7 (1.07%) Groovy
15 5 (0.76%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) C++
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
17 2 (0.30%) C
17 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 88 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.37%) Azure Certification
4 46 (7.01%) Degree
5 34 (5.18%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.83%) CCNP
10 10 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.07%) CCNA
12 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.91%) LPIC
12 6 (0.91%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.76%) CCIE
14 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.61%) MCSE
14 4 (0.61%) VCAP
14 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.20%) QA
3 16 (2.44%) GDPR
3 16 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 13 (1.98%) SOC 2
5 11 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.52%) NIST
7 5 (0.76%) WCAG
8 4 (0.61%) NCSC
9 3 (0.46%) 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
System Software
1 175 (26.68%) Docker
2 53 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.96%) vSphere
5 16 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.07%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.46%) Firmware
11 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.15%) KVM
12 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 296 (45.12%) Kubernetes
2 161 (24.54%) Ansible
3 121 (18.45%) Grafana
4 59 (8.99%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.40%) Argo
6 20 (3.05%) Progress Chef
6 20 (3.05%) Puppet
7 16 (2.44%) Istio
8 15 (2.29%) Packer
9 12 (1.83%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.68%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.07%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.46%) linkerd
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 134 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.54%) VMware
3 41 (6.25%) Google
4 28 (4.27%) Cisco
5 23 (3.51%) Databricks
6 16 (2.44%) Arista
6 16 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.29%) Aruba
7 15 (2.29%) NetScout
8 12 (1.83%) Oracle
8 12 (1.83%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.22%) Confluent
10 8 (1.22%) F5
10 8 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.22%) Splunk
11 7 (1.07%) EMC
11 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.91%) NetApp