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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 673 811 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.26% 5.00% 4.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.23% 35.05% 35.32%
Number of salaries quoted 400 575 1,108
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,471 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,987 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,250 £106,625
UK median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.77% +3.33% -6.25%

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 1,488 2,314 3,582
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.41% 14.28% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 1,383 3,064
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -4.83%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 31 January 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 23 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 17 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.19%) IIS
5 7 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.89%) Confluence
7 5 (0.74%) Apache
8 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
1 6 (0.89%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (5.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 413 (61.37%) Azure
2 374 (55.57%) AWS
3 188 (27.93%) GitHub
4 182 (27.04%) Azure DevOps
5 133 (19.76%) GCP
6 102 (15.16%) GitHub Actions
7 100 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
8 90 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 88 (13.08%) SaaS
10 75 (11.14%) Entra ID
11 66 (9.81%) Serverless
12 65 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
13 58 (8.62%) OCI
14 54 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 47 (6.98%) Amazon S3
16 46 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
17 45 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
18 39 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
19 37 (5.50%) dbt
19 37 (5.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.67%) Firewall
2 46 (6.84%) VPN
3 34 (5.05%) DNS
4 26 (3.86%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.86%) WAN
5 23 (3.42%) Network Security
6 21 (3.12%) Broadband
6 21 (3.12%) SD-WAN
7 20 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (2.67%) Wireshark
9 17 (2.53%) NGFW
10 15 (2.23%) VXLAN
11 13 (1.93%) VLAN
12 12 (1.78%) BGP
12 12 (1.78%) LAN
13 9 (1.34%) DHCP
14 6 (0.89%) OSPF
14 6 (0.89%) SSL
15 4 (0.59%) MPLS
15 4 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.24%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (4.16%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.71%) Data Lake
5 25 (3.71%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.57%) Power BI
7 23 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (3.12%) Tableau
9 19 (2.82%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.53%) BigQuery
11 15 (2.23%) MySQL
12 14 (2.08%) Metadata
12 14 (2.08%) Redis
13 13 (1.93%) Delta Lake
13 13 (1.93%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (1.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (14.12%) Jenkins
2 75 (11.14%) Git
3 54 (8.02%) GitLab
4 46 (6.84%) TeamCity
5 37 (5.50%) Oracle Forms
6 28 (4.16%) JIRA
7 19 (2.82%) Jaeger
8 9 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.74%) Storybook
11 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.59%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.59%) ERwin
11 4 (0.59%) JMeter
11 4 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.59%) Selenium
11 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 236 (35.07%) Finance
2 142 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 82 (12.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (11.14%) Banking
5 70 (10.40%) Retail
6 68 (10.10%) Law
7 48 (7.13%) Public Sector
8 43 (6.39%) Back Office
8 43 (6.39%) Financial Institution
9 42 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (2.08%) Billing
10 14 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.19%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.04%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.59%) Front Office
13 4 (0.59%) Games
13 4 (0.59%) Marketing
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (26.60%) Senior
2 150 (22.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 91 (13.52%) Lead
4 82 (12.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 78 (11.59%) Azure Engineer
6 69 (10.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 63 (9.36%) Software Engineer
8 59 (8.77%) Platform Engineer
9 49 (7.28%) Developer
10 39 (5.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 37 (5.50%) Applications Engineer
11 37 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (5.20%) Data Engineer
13 30 (4.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (4.31%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 27 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
17 23 (3.42%) Architect
18 20 (2.97%) Linux Engineer
18 20 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.66%) RESTful
2 58 (8.62%) .NET
3 55 (8.17%) React
4 47 (6.98%) OAuth
5 40 (5.94%) JSON
6 38 (5.65%) Node.js
7 37 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
8 35 (5.20%) OAuth2
9 21 (3.12%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (3.12%) REST
10 20 (2.97%) SOAP
10 20 (2.97%) Spring
10 20 (2.97%) XML
11 19 (2.82%) Kafka
11 19 (2.82%) SAML
12 18 (2.67%) PySpark
12 18 (2.67%) React Native
13 17 (2.53%) OpenAPI
13 17 (2.53%) Swagger
14 16 (2.38%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 170 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.02%) Product Ownership
3 49 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (6.54%) Data Centre
5 36 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.16%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.86%) Blog
8 25 (3.71%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.57%) Security Posture
10 22 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.82%) PKI
12 18 (2.67%) Management Information System
13 14 (2.08%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.63%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.34%) Private Cloud
17 7 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
17 7 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
17 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
18 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 131 (19.47%) Linux
2 67 (9.96%) Windows
3 44 (6.54%) Unix
4 29 (4.31%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.67%) VMS
6 13 (1.93%) Android
6 13 (1.93%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.34%) CentOS
9 8 (1.19%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (64.04%) DevOps
2 414 (61.52%) CI/CD
3 397 (58.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 224 (33.28%) Agile
5 190 (28.23%) Mentoring
6 175 (26.00%) Coaching
7 156 (23.18%) Observability
8 142 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 129 (19.17%) Test Automation
10 124 (18.42%) Asset Management
10 124 (18.42%) Containerisation
11 109 (16.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 109 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
12 108 (16.05%) Analytics
13 101 (15.01%) Software Engineering
14 92 (13.67%) Microservices
15 91 (13.52%) AI
16 89 (13.22%) Deployment Automation
17 80 (11.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 316 (46.95%) Python
2 145 (21.55%) Java
3 141 (20.95%) SQL
4 128 (19.02%) PowerShell
5 118 (17.53%) Bash
6 82 (12.18%) JavaScript
7 79 (11.74%) Bicep
8 56 (8.32%) Go
9 50 (7.43%) TypeScript
10 37 (5.50%) C#
10 37 (5.50%) PL/SQL
10 37 (5.50%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.53%) Scala
12 4 (0.59%) Perl
13 3 (0.45%) Rust
14 2 (0.30%) C++
14 2 (0.30%) PHP
14 2 (0.30%) XAML
15 1 (0.15%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 68 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.39%) Azure Certification
5 34 (5.05%) Degree
6 20 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.34%) CCNP
10 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.59%) RHCE
14 3 (0.45%) CISSP
14 3 (0.45%) LPIC
14 3 (0.45%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.16%) GDPR
3 27 (4.01%) PCI DSS
4 26 (3.86%) Data Quality
5 25 (3.71%) QA
6 24 (3.57%) Accessibility
7 22 (3.27%) SOC 2
8 21 (3.12%) NIST
9 8 (1.19%) SLA
10 6 (0.89%) GRC
11 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.15%) MiFID
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 212 (31.50%) Docker
2 44 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.93%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.78%) vSphere
9 9 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.59%) NFS
11 3 (0.45%) Firmware
12 2 (0.30%) Ceph
12 2 (0.30%) Lustre
12 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.30%) vCloud
12 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 281 (41.75%) Kubernetes
2 159 (23.63%) Ansible
3 127 (18.87%) Grafana
4 95 (14.12%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.94%) Argo
6 39 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (4.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.82%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.49%) Puppet
10 9 (1.34%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.04%) SCOM
12 5 (0.74%) Cilium
13 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.59%) logstash
13 4 (0.59%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.45%) Control-M
14 3 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.45%) Packer
14 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.32%) Google
3 44 (6.54%) VMware
4 43 (6.39%) Oracle
5 22 (3.27%) Databricks
6 21 (3.12%) Okta
7 20 (2.97%) Cisco
8 16 (2.38%) Splunk
9 15 (2.23%) Arista
9 15 (2.23%) Aruba
9 15 (2.23%) NetScout
10 14 (2.08%) Ab Initio
11 13 (1.93%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.49%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.34%) New Relic
14 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.04%) F5
15 7 (1.04%) IBM
15 7 (1.04%) SolarWinds
16 6 (0.89%) Mercator