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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 65 78
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -28
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 673 825 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 4.99% 3.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.54% 40.09% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 461 435 880
10th Percentile £47,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £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 1,842 2,058 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.62% 12.45% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,194 2,524
10th Percentile £36,525 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +4.65% -7.86%
75th Percentile £78,000 £86,250 £84,930
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +6.19% -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 12 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 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.67%) Apache
4 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.89%) Confluence
6 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Weka
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 429 (63.74%) AWS
2 359 (53.34%) Azure
3 174 (25.85%) GCP
4 116 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
5 112 (16.64%) GitHub
6 103 (15.30%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (14.71%) SaaS
8 89 (13.22%) Serverless
9 81 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (10.40%) PaaS
11 65 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (9.06%) Amazon S3
13 54 (8.02%) Azure AKS
14 51 (7.58%) IaaS
15 47 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
17 43 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
19 29 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.40%) Firewall
2 47 (6.98%) VPN
3 31 (4.61%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.46%) DNS
5 18 (2.67%) LAN
5 18 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (2.53%) WAN
7 16 (2.38%) NGFW
8 15 (2.23%) DHCP
8 15 (2.23%) VXLAN
8 15 (2.23%) Wireshark
9 10 (1.49%) Broadband
9 10 (1.49%) VLAN
10 9 (1.34%) Network Security
10 9 (1.34%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.04%) BGP
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.89%) HTTP
12 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.31%) Relational Database
2 29 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (3.27%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.12%) Metadata
7 19 (2.82%) BigQuery
7 19 (2.82%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.53%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.23%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.23%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.08%) Redis
11 13 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.63%) Power BI
14 10 (1.49%) Big Data
14 10 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (12.18%) Git
2 63 (9.36%) TeamCity
3 56 (8.32%) GitLab
4 47 (6.98%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.63%) JIRA
5 11 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.49%) JMeter
7 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.89%) Jaeger
7 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.74%) Locust
8 5 (0.74%) Selenium
9 3 (0.45%) Maven
9 3 (0.45%) MLflow
9 3 (0.45%) Postman
9 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.30%) MSI
10 2 (0.30%) NUnit
10 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 161 (23.92%) Finance
2 144 (21.40%) Social Skills
3 126 (18.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 113 (16.79%) Law
5 102 (15.16%) Banking
6 92 (13.67%) Retail
7 82 (12.18%) Public Sector
8 53 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (7.73%) Back Office
9 52 (7.73%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.49%) Billing
12 7 (1.04%) Legal
12 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.89%) Aviation
13 6 (0.89%) Legal Technology
13 6 (0.89%) Marketing
14 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.59%) Advertising
15 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (26.15%) Senior
2 104 (15.45%) Lead
3 103 (15.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 100 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 87 (12.93%) Software Engineer
6 84 (12.48%) Platform Engineer
7 74 (11.00%) Azure Engineer
8 60 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (6.98%) Data Engineer
11 46 (6.84%) Senior DevOps
12 40 (5.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (5.50%) Developer
13 37 (5.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 32 (4.75%) Architect
15 28 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 22 (3.27%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.77%) React
2 51 (7.58%) Node.js
3 40 (5.94%) Kafka
4 34 (5.05%) ARM Templates
4 34 (5.05%) REST
5 26 (3.86%) Spring
6 19 (2.82%) PySpark
6 19 (2.82%) Spring Boot
6 19 (2.82%) YAML
7 17 (2.53%) .NET
8 16 (2.38%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.23%) AWS CDK
10 14 (2.08%) RESTful
11 13 (1.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.78%) Django
12 12 (1.78%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.78%) Flask
12 12 (1.78%) OAuth
13 11 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (1.49%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 191 (28.38%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (6.69%) Data Centre
4 44 (6.54%) Product Ownership
5 41 (6.09%) Public Cloud
6 39 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (4.75%) Blog
8 23 (3.42%) PKI
9 19 (2.82%) Security Posture
10 18 (2.67%) Podcast
10 18 (2.67%) Private Cloud
11 15 (2.23%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.63%) Replication
14 10 (1.49%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (1.19%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 135 (20.06%) Linux
2 86 (12.78%) Windows
3 35 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.46%) Unix
5 14 (2.08%) VMS
6 8 (1.19%) Android
6 8 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.74%) Debian
9 4 (0.59%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (68.35%) CI/CD
2 433 (64.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 370 (54.98%) DevOps
4 198 (29.42%) Mentoring
5 172 (25.56%) Platform Engineering
6 167 (24.81%) Agile
7 160 (23.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 157 (23.33%) Observability
9 144 (21.40%) Containerisation
10 139 (20.65%) Test Automation
11 137 (20.36%) Software Engineering
12 127 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (17.24%) AI
13 116 (17.24%) Microservices
14 104 (15.45%) Clean Code
15 101 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
16 93 (13.82%) Deployment Automation
17 92 (13.67%) Roadmaps
18 86 (12.78%) Analytics
19 83 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 285 (42.35%) Python
2 152 (22.59%) Java
3 114 (16.94%) PowerShell
4 95 (14.12%) SQL
5 92 (13.67%) Bicep
6 91 (13.52%) Bash
7 49 (7.28%) Go
7 49 (7.28%) TypeScript
8 47 (6.98%) JavaScript
9 29 (4.31%) C#
10 17 (2.53%) Scala
11 13 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.19%) Groovy
12 8 (1.19%) PHP
12 8 (1.19%) Rust
13 4 (0.59%) Perl
14 3 (0.45%) C++
14 3 (0.45%) Ruby
15 2 (0.30%) C
15 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 99 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.10%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.43%) Degree
5 28 (4.16%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.78%) CCNP
10 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.34%) SnowPro
12 7 (1.04%) CCNA
13 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.74%) CCIE
14 5 (0.74%) LPIC
15 4 (0.59%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.59%) MCSE
15 4 (0.59%) VCAP
15 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.57%) QA
3 17 (2.53%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.38%) GDPR
5 13 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.93%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.63%) NIST
7 9 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.74%) WCAG
9 3 (0.45%) NCSC
9 3 (0.45%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 180 (26.75%) Docker
2 54 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.86%) vSphere
5 16 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.04%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.45%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 303 (45.02%) Kubernetes
2 156 (23.18%) Ansible
3 122 (18.13%) Grafana
4 51 (7.58%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.65%) Argo
6 21 (3.12%) Progress Chef
6 21 (3.12%) Puppet
7 16 (2.38%) Istio
8 15 (2.23%) Packer
9 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.63%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.04%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.89%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.45%) linkerd
15 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 142 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.47%) VMware
3 35 (5.20%) Google
4 27 (4.01%) Cisco
5 23 (3.42%) Databricks
6 16 (2.38%) Arista
6 16 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.23%) Aruba
7 15 (2.23%) NetScout
8 14 (2.08%) Oracle
9 12 (1.78%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.63%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.63%) Okta
11 8 (1.19%) Confluent
11 8 (1.19%) F5
11 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.19%) Splunk
12 7 (1.04%) EMC
12 7 (1.04%) Informatica
12 7 (1.04%) Red Hat