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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 68 79
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 -29
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 654 820 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.06% 4.97% 3.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.95% 40.33% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 446 431 884
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,712
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,750 £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 1,819 2,033 3,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.52% 12.33% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,337 1,180 2,528
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £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 £77,500 £86,250 £84,930
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £64,618 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.59% +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 15 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 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.75%) Apache
4 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.76%) Confluence
5 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.31%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 417 (63.76%) AWS
2 350 (53.52%) Azure
3 169 (25.84%) GCP
4 114 (17.43%) Amazon EKS
5 109 (16.67%) GitHub
6 101 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (14.98%) SaaS
8 90 (13.76%) Serverless
9 80 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (10.55%) PaaS
11 65 (9.94%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (9.02%) Amazon S3
13 54 (8.26%) Azure AKS
14 50 (7.65%) IaaS
15 45 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
17 41 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
18 39 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 29 (4.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 65 (9.94%) Firewall
2 47 (7.19%) VPN
3 31 (4.74%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.59%) DNS
5 18 (2.75%) LAN
6 17 (2.60%) WAN
7 15 (2.29%) DHCP
8 14 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.83%) NGFW
10 11 (1.68%) VXLAN
10 11 (1.68%) Wireshark
11 10 (1.53%) Broadband
11 10 (1.53%) VLAN
12 9 (1.38%) Network Security
12 9 (1.38%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.07%) BGP
14 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.28%) Relational Database
4 27 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (3.21%) Metadata
6 21 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 18 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.60%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.45%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.14%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.14%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.99%) Redis
12 12 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.68%) Power BI
14 10 (1.53%) Big Data
14 10 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 79 (12.08%) Git
2 62 (9.48%) TeamCity
3 57 (8.72%) GitLab
4 47 (7.19%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.53%) JIRA
6 10 (1.53%) JMeter
7 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.92%) Jaeger
7 6 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.76%) Locust
9 4 (0.61%) Selenium
10 3 (0.46%) Maven
10 3 (0.46%) MLflow
10 3 (0.46%) Postman
10 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.31%) MSI
11 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 157 (24.01%) Finance
2 140 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 123 (18.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (16.51%) Law
5 99 (15.14%) Banking
6 88 (13.46%) Retail
7 77 (11.77%) Public Sector
8 51 (7.80%) Back Office
8 51 (7.80%) Financial Institution
9 48 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.38%) Billing
12 7 (1.07%) Legal
12 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.92%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.92%) Legal Technology
13 6 (0.92%) Marketing
14 5 (0.76%) Aviation
15 4 (0.61%) Advertising
15 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (26.15%) Senior
2 102 (15.60%) Lead
3 101 (15.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 98 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 87 (13.30%) Software Engineer
6 79 (12.08%) Platform Engineer
7 74 (11.31%) Azure Engineer
8 58 (8.87%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (7.03%) Senior DevOps
11 45 (6.88%) Data Engineer
12 39 (5.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (5.50%) Developer
15 33 (5.05%) Architect
16 27 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (3.36%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 22 (3.36%) Java Engineer
18 21 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.72%) React
2 47 (7.19%) Node.js
3 39 (5.96%) Kafka
4 34 (5.20%) ARM Templates
5 32 (4.89%) REST
6 27 (4.13%) Spring
7 20 (3.06%) Spring Boot
8 19 (2.91%) YAML
9 18 (2.75%) PySpark
10 16 (2.45%) .NET
11 15 (2.29%) AngularJS
11 15 (2.29%) AWS CDK
11 15 (2.29%) OAuth
12 14 (2.14%) RESTful
13 13 (1.99%) OpenID
13 13 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (1.83%) Django
14 12 (1.83%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.83%) Flask
15 11 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 186 (28.44%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (6.73%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.27%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.12%) Data Centre
6 38 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (4.43%) Blog
8 19 (2.91%) PKI
9 18 (2.75%) Podcast
9 18 (2.75%) Private Cloud
9 18 (2.75%) Security Posture
10 15 (2.29%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.68%) Replication
13 9 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.22%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 127 (19.42%) Linux
2 85 (13.00%) Windows
3 35 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.13%) Unix
5 14 (2.14%) VMS
6 6 (0.92%) Android
6 6 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.61%) Debian
8 3 (0.46%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (68.96%) CI/CD
2 426 (65.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 361 (55.20%) DevOps
4 193 (29.51%) Mentoring
5 167 (25.54%) Platform Engineering
6 162 (24.77%) Agile
7 156 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 154 (23.55%) Observability
9 142 (21.71%) Containerisation
10 135 (20.64%) Software Engineering
11 134 (20.49%) Test Automation
12 122 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.74%) AI
14 113 (17.28%) Microservices
15 102 (15.60%) Clean Code
16 101 (15.44%) Technical Leadership
17 92 (14.07%) Roadmaps
18 90 (13.76%) Deployment Automation
19 84 (12.84%) Analytics
20 81 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 276 (42.20%) Python
2 148 (22.63%) Java
3 114 (17.43%) PowerShell
4 93 (14.22%) Bicep
4 93 (14.22%) SQL
5 90 (13.76%) Bash
6 48 (7.34%) Go
7 45 (6.88%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.57%) JavaScript
9 28 (4.28%) C#
10 16 (2.45%) Scala
11 13 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.22%) Groovy
12 8 (1.22%) PHP
13 7 (1.07%) Rust
14 3 (0.46%) Perl
14 3 (0.46%) Ruby
15 2 (0.31%) C++
15 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.55%) Azure Certification
4 47 (7.19%) Degree
5 28 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.83%) CCNP
10 10 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.38%) SnowPro
12 7 (1.07%) CCNA
13 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.76%) CCIE
14 5 (0.76%) LPIC
15 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.61%) VCAP
15 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.82%) QA
3 15 (2.29%) GDPR
3 15 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.53%) NIST
6 9 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.76%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) NCSC
8 3 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 176 (26.91%) Docker
2 55 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.82%) vSphere
5 14 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.92%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
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
1 295 (45.11%) Kubernetes
2 145 (22.17%) Ansible
3 118 (18.04%) Grafana
4 48 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.50%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Puppet
7 18 (2.75%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.45%) Istio
9 14 (2.14%) Packer
10 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (1.68%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.92%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.76%) ZABBIX
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
1 141 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.26%) VMware
3 34 (5.20%) Google
4 27 (4.13%) Cisco
5 22 (3.36%) Databricks
6 16 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.14%) Oracle
8 13 (1.99%) Okta
9 12 (1.83%) Arista
9 12 (1.83%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.68%) Aruba
10 11 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.68%) NetScout
11 8 (1.22%) Confluent
11 8 (1.22%) F5
11 8 (1.22%) Ping Identity
11 8 (1.22%) Splunk
12 7 (1.07%) Informatica
12 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.07%) ServiceNow