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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 71 67
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 687 783 956
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.77% 3.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.06% 40.40% 35.03%
Number of salaries quoted 490 398 728
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,297 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,575 £103,250 £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 1,905 1,938 2,729
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.40% 11.80% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,109 1,923
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +2.31% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,529 £102,700
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 12 August 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 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.33%) Apache
4 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.02%) Confluence
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) Camunda
7 4 (0.58%) IIS
7 4 (0.58%) WordPress
8 3 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 429 (62.45%) AWS
2 403 (58.66%) Azure
3 196 (28.53%) GCP
4 108 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
5 107 (15.57%) GitHub
6 98 (14.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 97 (14.12%) SaaS
8 90 (13.10%) Serverless
9 86 (12.52%) Amazon EKS
10 72 (10.48%) PaaS
11 57 (8.30%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (7.86%) Amazon S3
13 49 (7.13%) Azure AKS
14 47 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (6.84%) IaaS
15 41 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
16 38 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
17 37 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
18 34 (4.95%) Entra ID
19 33 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.57%) Firewall
2 46 (6.70%) VPN
3 45 (6.55%) TCP/IP
4 35 (5.09%) DNS
5 21 (3.06%) DHCP
6 20 (2.91%) WAN
7 19 (2.77%) LAN
8 11 (1.60%) Network Security
9 10 (1.46%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.31%) VLAN
11 8 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (1.16%) Wireless
12 7 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (1.02%) HTTP
12 7 (1.02%) Unified Communications
12 7 (1.02%) WebEx
13 6 (0.87%) BGP
14 4 (0.58%) AMQP
14 4 (0.58%) OSPF
14 4 (0.58%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.06%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.51%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.93%) Metadata
4 26 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.91%) DynamoDB
6 20 (2.91%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.77%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.62%) Delta Lake
9 16 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.18%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.18%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.89%) Data Vault
11 13 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.89%) Redis
12 12 (1.75%) Power BI
13 11 (1.60%) Big Data
13 11 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 82 (11.94%) Git
2 56 (8.15%) GitLab
3 49 (7.13%) TeamCity
4 47 (6.84%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.31%) JIRA
6 9 (1.31%) JMeter
6 9 (1.31%) Selenium
7 5 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.73%) Locust
7 5 (0.73%) Postman
8 4 (0.58%) NUnit
8 4 (0.58%) Snyk
8 4 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.44%) JUnit
9 3 (0.44%) Maven
9 3 (0.44%) MLflow
10 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 171 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 162 (23.58%) Finance
3 99 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (12.95%) Law
5 85 (12.37%) Banking
6 77 (11.21%) Public Sector
7 68 (9.90%) Retail
8 41 (5.97%) Back Office
9 40 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (5.82%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.89%) Legal
11 12 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.60%) Marketing
13 7 (1.02%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.87%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
15 5 (0.73%) Billing
15 5 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 199 (28.97%) Senior
2 108 (15.72%) Cloud Engineer
3 103 (14.99%) Lead
4 100 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 87 (12.66%) Software Engineer
6 84 (12.23%) Azure Engineer
7 81 (11.79%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (7.13%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (6.55%) Senior DevOps
10 44 (6.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 44 (6.40%) Data Engineer
10 44 (6.40%) Developer
11 40 (5.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 38 (5.53%) Architect
13 32 (4.66%) Python Engineer
14 29 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (4.08%) Technical Leader
16 27 (3.93%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (9.32%) React
2 51 (7.42%) Node.js
3 43 (6.26%) REST
4 36 (5.24%) Kafka
5 32 (4.66%) ARM Templates
6 27 (3.93%) .NET
6 27 (3.93%) Spring
7 23 (3.35%) OAuth
7 23 (3.35%) PySpark
8 21 (3.06%) OpenID
9 20 (2.91%) OAuth2
9 20 (2.91%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.62%) YAML
11 17 (2.47%) AWS CDK
12 16 (2.33%) AngularJS
13 15 (2.18%) NestJS
14 14 (2.04%) SAML
15 13 (1.89%) RESTful
16 12 (1.75%) Django
17 11 (1.60%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 174 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 39 (5.68%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.78%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.77%) Security Posture
8 18 (2.62%) Blog
8 18 (2.62%) Podcast
9 15 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.04%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.04%) Replication
11 13 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.46%) PKI
13 9 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.31%) Life Science
14 8 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (19.21%) Linux
2 92 (13.39%) Windows
3 42 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 33 (4.80%) Unix
5 14 (2.04%) VMS
6 5 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Android
8 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.44%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (68.85%) CI/CD
2 461 (67.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 380 (55.31%) DevOps
4 205 (29.84%) Mentoring
5 176 (25.62%) Observability
6 174 (25.33%) Agile
7 171 (24.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 164 (23.87%) Platform Engineering
9 158 (23.00%) Software Engineering
10 142 (20.67%) Containerisation
11 138 (20.09%) AI
12 118 (17.18%) Test Automation
13 116 (16.89%) Clean Code
14 115 (16.74%) Microservices
15 114 (16.59%) Technical Leadership
16 113 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
17 96 (13.97%) Analytics
18 93 (13.54%) Roadmaps
19 84 (12.23%) Coaching
19 84 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 279 (40.61%) Python
2 130 (18.92%) Java
3 128 (18.63%) PowerShell
4 107 (15.57%) SQL
5 104 (15.14%) Bicep
6 81 (11.79%) Bash
7 44 (6.40%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.26%) Go
9 36 (5.24%) C#
10 35 (5.09%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.77%) Scala
12 13 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.02%) Groovy
14 6 (0.87%) PHP
14 6 (0.87%) Ruby
15 4 (0.58%) Rust
15 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.29%) Perl
16 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 111 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.94%) Azure Certification
4 49 (7.13%) Degree
5 32 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.91%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.04%) SnowPro
9 13 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.75%) CCNP
10 12 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.02%) CCNA
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.73%) CCIE
12 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.58%) LPIC
13 4 (0.58%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.58%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.49%) QA
3 16 (2.33%) GDPR
4 12 (1.75%) NIST
5 11 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.87%) NCSC
7 6 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 5 (0.73%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (27.51%) Docker
2 65 (9.46%) Active Directory
3 47 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.64%) vSphere
5 18 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.58%) Firmware
10 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 285 (41.48%) Kubernetes
2 135 (19.65%) Ansible
3 107 (15.57%) Grafana
4 39 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.37%) Argo
6 19 (2.77%) Istio
7 18 (2.62%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (2.04%) Puppet
10 13 (1.89%) Packer
11 7 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
11 7 (1.02%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.58%) linkerd
14 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
Vendors
1 160 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.71%) VMware
3 51 (7.42%) Google
4 30 (4.37%) Cisco
5 27 (3.93%) Databricks
6 19 (2.77%) Okta
7 18 (2.62%) Palo Alto
8 17 (2.47%) Oracle
9 14 (2.04%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.89%) Informatica
11 12 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.75%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.75%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.46%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.16%) Confluent
13 8 (1.16%) NetApp
13 8 (1.16%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.02%) F5
14 7 (1.02%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.02%) Splunk