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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 75
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 658 797 991
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.01% 4.84% 3.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.49% 40.25% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 467 405 778
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,824 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -1.67%

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 1,854 1,980 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 12.03% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,373 1,130 2,111
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,675 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £48,165 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,410 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.72%

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 29 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 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.43%) Apache
4 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.91%) Confluence
6 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.61%) WordPress
8 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.46%) Camunda
8 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.30%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
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
1 412 (62.61%) AWS
2 375 (56.99%) Azure
3 181 (27.51%) GCP
4 108 (16.41%) GitHub
5 106 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (14.44%) SaaS
7 93 (14.13%) Amazon EKS
8 91 (13.83%) Serverless
9 88 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (10.79%) PaaS
11 62 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (8.21%) Amazon S3
13 51 (7.75%) Azure AKS
14 47 (7.14%) IaaS
15 45 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (6.23%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
18 36 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (4.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.60%) Firewall
2 45 (6.84%) VPN
3 37 (5.62%) TCP/IP
4 32 (4.86%) DNS
5 17 (2.58%) DHCP
5 17 (2.58%) LAN
6 16 (2.43%) WAN
7 9 (1.37%) Network Security
8 8 (1.22%) SD-WAN
9 7 (1.06%) VLAN
10 6 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.91%) HTTP
10 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.91%) WebEx
10 6 (0.91%) Wireless
11 5 (0.76%) MQTT
12 4 (0.61%) BGP
13 3 (0.46%) OSPF
13 3 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.65%) Metadata
5 20 (3.04%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.04%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.58%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.43%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.13%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.98%) Redis
10 11 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.67%) Data Vault
10 11 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.67%) Power BI
11 10 (1.52%) Big Data
11 10 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (12.46%) Git
2 58 (8.81%) GitLab
3 53 (8.05%) TeamCity
4 47 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.52%) JIRA
7 9 (1.37%) JMeter
8 8 (1.22%) Selenium
9 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.76%) Locust
10 4 (0.61%) Postman
10 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.46%) MLflow
11 3 (0.46%) NUnit
11 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.30%) Maven
12 2 (0.30%) MSI
12 2 (0.30%) Snyk
12 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 154 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 153 (23.25%) Finance
3 104 (15.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (14.29%) Law
5 86 (13.07%) Banking
6 72 (10.94%) Retail
7 69 (10.49%) Public Sector
8 42 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (6.38%) Back Office
8 42 (6.38%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.37%) Legal
10 9 (1.37%) Marketing
11 7 (1.06%) Billing
11 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.91%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.91%) Legal Technology
13 5 (0.76%) Aviation
14 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 188 (28.57%) Senior
2 104 (15.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 100 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 98 (14.89%) Lead
5 87 (13.22%) Software Engineer
6 81 (12.31%) Platform Engineer
7 78 (11.85%) Azure Engineer
8 49 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
10 44 (6.69%) Data Engineer
10 44 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (6.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 40 (6.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 38 (5.78%) Developer
14 35 (5.32%) Architect
15 28 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (3.95%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.95%) Python Engineer
17 22 (3.34%) Technical Leader
18 21 (3.19%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.12%) React
2 50 (7.60%) Node.js
3 40 (6.08%) REST
4 36 (5.47%) Kafka
5 34 (5.17%) ARM Templates
6 26 (3.95%) Spring
7 23 (3.50%) .NET
8 21 (3.19%) OAuth
8 21 (3.19%) PySpark
9 19 (2.89%) OpenID
9 19 (2.89%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.74%) OAuth2
10 18 (2.74%) YAML
11 15 (2.28%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.13%) NestJS
13 13 (1.98%) SAML
14 12 (1.82%) AWS CDK
14 12 (1.82%) Django
14 12 (1.82%) Flask
15 11 (1.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 173 (26.29%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (6.08%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.74%) Blog
7 18 (2.74%) Podcast
7 18 (2.74%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.43%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.13%) Replication
10 13 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.52%) PKI
12 9 (1.37%) Life Science
13 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (19.45%) Linux
2 86 (13.07%) Windows
3 37 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.10%) Unix
5 14 (2.13%) VMS
6 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Android
7 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (70.06%) CI/CD
2 437 (66.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 372 (56.53%) DevOps
4 190 (28.88%) Mentoring
5 165 (25.08%) Agile
5 165 (25.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 163 (24.77%) Observability
6 163 (24.77%) Platform Engineering
7 145 (22.04%) Software Engineering
8 139 (21.12%) Containerisation
9 132 (20.06%) AI
10 124 (18.84%) Test Automation
11 114 (17.33%) Microservices
11 114 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
12 109 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
13 108 (16.41%) Clean Code
14 91 (13.83%) Roadmaps
15 86 (13.07%) Analytics
16 81 (12.31%) Deployment Automation
16 81 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 271 (41.19%) Python
2 129 (19.60%) Java
3 118 (17.93%) PowerShell
4 99 (15.05%) Bicep
4 99 (15.05%) SQL
5 83 (12.61%) Bash
6 43 (6.53%) Go
7 42 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.78%) JavaScript
9 34 (5.17%) C#
10 17 (2.58%) Scala
11 13 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.22%) PHP
13 7 (1.06%) Groovy
13 7 (1.06%) Rust
14 4 (0.61%) Ruby
14 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 106 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 95 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.40%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.60%) Degree
5 29 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.82%) CCNP
9 12 (1.82%) SnowPro
10 11 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.06%) CCNA
12 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.76%) CCIE
13 5 (0.76%) LPIC
14 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.61%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.61%) MCSE
14 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.95%) QA
3 14 (2.13%) GDPR
4 11 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.67%) NIST
4 11 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.22%) SOC 2
6 5 (0.76%) WCAG
7 4 (0.61%) NCSC
8 3 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 187 (28.42%) Docker
2 59 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.65%) vSphere
5 15 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.46%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 291 (44.22%) Kubernetes
2 131 (19.91%) Ansible
3 108 (16.41%) Grafana
4 41 (6.23%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.56%) Argo
6 19 (2.89%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.74%) Istio
8 17 (2.58%) Puppet
9 14 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (1.98%) Packer
11 9 (1.37%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.61%) linkerd
15 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 151 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.60%) VMware
3 38 (5.78%) Google
4 26 (3.95%) Cisco
4 26 (3.95%) Databricks
5 18 (2.74%) Okta
6 16 (2.43%) Oracle
6 16 (2.43%) Palo Alto
7 13 (1.98%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.82%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.67%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.52%) Informatica
11 8 (1.22%) Confluent
11 8 (1.22%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.06%) EMC
12 7 (1.06%) F5
12 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.91%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.91%) Splunk