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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 67 74
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 647 817 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 4.96% 3.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.22% 40.59% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 454 424 829
10th Percentile £49,223 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,375 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,750
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 1,837 2,013 3,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.48% 12.21% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 1,159 2,299
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,150 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 23 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 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.47%) Apache
4 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.77%) Confluence
5 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
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
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
1 407 (62.91%) AWS
2 355 (54.87%) Azure
3 176 (27.20%) GCP
4 109 (16.85%) GitHub
5 102 (15.77%) Amazon EKS
6 99 (15.30%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (14.68%) SaaS
8 92 (14.22%) Serverless
9 80 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.51%) PaaS
11 65 (10.05%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.96%) Amazon S3
13 50 (7.73%) Azure AKS
14 47 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (7.11%) IaaS
16 45 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
17 40 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
18 30 (4.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.66%) Firewall
2 47 (7.26%) VPN
3 34 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 31 (4.79%) DNS
5 18 (2.78%) LAN
6 17 (2.63%) WAN
7 16 (2.47%) DHCP
8 10 (1.55%) Network Security
9 9 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.39%) VLAN
10 7 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.93%) BGP
11 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.93%) HTTP
11 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.93%) WebEx
12 5 (0.77%) MQTT
12 5 (0.77%) NGFW
12 5 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (3.40%) Metadata
5 21 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.09%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.32%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.16%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (2.01%) Redis
11 12 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.70%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.70%) Power BI
13 10 (1.55%) Big Data
13 10 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (12.52%) Git
2 59 (9.12%) GitLab
3 56 (8.66%) TeamCity
4 47 (7.26%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.55%) JIRA
7 9 (1.39%) JMeter
8 5 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.77%) Locust
8 5 (0.77%) Selenium
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
9 3 (0.46%) Postman
9 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.31%) Maven
10 2 (0.31%) NUnit
10 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (24.57%) Finance
2 145 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 110 (17.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (15.46%) Law
5 92 (14.22%) Banking
6 80 (12.36%) Retail
7 70 (10.82%) Public Sector
8 47 (7.26%) Back Office
8 47 (7.26%) Financial Institution
9 44 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.24%) Marketing
12 7 (1.08%) Billing
12 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 7 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.77%) Aviation
14 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 179 (27.67%) Senior
2 102 (15.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 98 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 97 (14.99%) Lead
5 86 (13.29%) Software Engineer
6 82 (12.67%) Platform Engineer
7 75 (11.59%) Azure Engineer
8 55 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (7.26%) Senior DevOps
10 45 (6.96%) Data Engineer
11 44 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 43 (6.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (6.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (5.56%) Developer
15 34 (5.26%) Architect
16 27 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (3.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 22 (3.40%) Python Engineer
19 21 (3.25%) Engineering Manager
20 20 (3.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.81%) React
2 46 (7.11%) Node.js
3 36 (5.56%) Kafka
4 35 (5.41%) REST
5 34 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 24 (3.71%) Spring
7 19 (2.94%) PySpark
8 18 (2.78%) .NET
8 18 (2.78%) OAuth
8 18 (2.78%) Spring Boot
8 18 (2.78%) YAML
9 16 (2.47%) OpenID
10 15 (2.32%) OAuth2
11 14 (2.16%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.01%) AWS CDK
12 13 (2.01%) RESTful
13 12 (1.85%) Django
13 12 (1.85%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.85%) Flask
13 12 (1.85%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 179 (27.67%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.34%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (4.95%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.40%) Blog
8 18 (2.78%) Podcast
9 17 (2.63%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.63%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.16%) PKI
11 13 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.01%) Replication
12 9 (1.39%) Life Science
13 8 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (18.70%) Linux
2 85 (13.14%) Windows
3 36 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.40%) Unix
5 14 (2.16%) VMS
6 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.62%) 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
1 451 (69.71%) CI/CD
2 424 (65.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 358 (55.33%) DevOps
4 185 (28.59%) Mentoring
5 167 (25.81%) Platform Engineering
6 158 (24.42%) Agile
6 158 (24.42%) Observability
7 156 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 138 (21.33%) Containerisation
9 137 (21.17%) Software Engineering
10 128 (19.78%) Test Automation
11 126 (19.47%) AI
12 119 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
13 112 (17.31%) Microservices
14 106 (16.38%) Technical Leadership
15 103 (15.92%) Clean Code
16 87 (13.45%) Deployment Automation
16 87 (13.45%) Roadmaps
17 84 (12.98%) Analytics
18 80 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 269 (41.58%) Python
2 130 (20.09%) Java
3 114 (17.62%) PowerShell
4 94 (14.53%) SQL
5 93 (14.37%) Bicep
6 84 (12.98%) Bash
7 44 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 41 (6.34%) Go
9 35 (5.41%) JavaScript
10 30 (4.64%) C#
11 15 (2.32%) Scala
12 13 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.24%) PHP
14 7 (1.08%) Groovy
14 7 (1.08%) Rust
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 96 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 85 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 71 (10.97%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.73%) Degree
5 27 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.25%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.85%) CCNP
10 10 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.55%) SnowPro
11 7 (1.08%) CCNA
12 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.77%) CCIE
13 5 (0.77%) LPIC
14 4 (0.62%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.62%) MCSE
14 4 (0.62%) VCAP
14 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.86%) QA
3 14 (2.16%) GDPR
4 13 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.55%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.39%) NIST
8 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.77%) WCAG
10 3 (0.46%) NCSC
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 180 (27.82%) Docker
2 57 (8.81%) Active Directory
3 41 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.86%) vSphere
5 14 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.46%) Firmware
10 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 289 (44.67%) Kubernetes
2 133 (20.56%) Ansible
3 113 (17.47%) Grafana
4 42 (6.49%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.64%) Argo
6 18 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.63%) Istio
7 17 (2.63%) Puppet
8 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (2.01%) Packer
9 10 (1.55%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.62%) linkerd
13 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
Vendors
1 143 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.88%) VMware
3 35 (5.41%) Google
4 27 (4.17%) Cisco
5 24 (3.71%) Databricks
6 16 (2.47%) Okta
6 16 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.32%) Oracle
8 12 (1.85%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.70%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.70%) Ping Identity
10 9 (1.39%) Informatica
11 8 (1.24%) Confluent
11 8 (1.24%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.24%) F5
12 7 (1.08%) EMC
12 7 (1.08%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.93%) Citrix
13 6 (0.93%) NetApp
13 6 (0.93%) Red Hat