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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 71 61
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 705 771 987
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.92% 4.75% 4.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.73% 19.99% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 475 358 671
10th Percentile £51,750 £50,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,449 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,481 3,857 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.59% 23.74% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,311 2,567 4,829
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

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 16 September 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 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.70%) Apache
4 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.28%) Confluence
6 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.57%) IIS
7 4 (0.57%) WordPress
8 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.43%) Camunda
8 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 449 (63.69%) AWS
2 388 (55.04%) Azure
3 209 (29.65%) GCP
4 114 (16.17%) Azure DevOps
4 114 (16.17%) SaaS
5 113 (16.03%) GitHub
6 94 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
7 92 (13.05%) Serverless
8 90 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (9.36%) PaaS
10 65 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (8.09%) Amazon S3
12 54 (7.66%) Azure AKS
13 49 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (6.95%) Azure Monitor
13 49 (6.95%) IaaS
14 40 (5.67%) Entra ID
15 34 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.95%) Firewall
2 48 (6.81%) VPN
3 46 (6.52%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.53%) DNS
5 28 (3.97%) DHCP
6 23 (3.26%) WAN
7 18 (2.55%) LAN
8 11 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.42%) BGP
9 10 (1.42%) Network Security
10 9 (1.28%) AMQP
10 9 (1.28%) SMS
11 8 (1.13%) OSPF
11 8 (1.13%) VLAN
11 8 (1.13%) Wireless
12 7 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (0.85%) HTTP
14 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.71%) VXLAN
15 4 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 29 (4.11%) Metadata
2 29 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (3.26%) DynamoDB
6 21 (2.98%) Delta Lake
7 17 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (2.41%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.27%) Data Vault
8 16 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.84%) Big Data
11 12 (1.70%) BigQuery
11 12 (1.70%) Power BI
12 10 (1.42%) MySQL
13 9 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (10.78%) Git
2 70 (9.93%) TeamCity
3 56 (7.94%) GitLab
4 49 (6.95%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.84%) JIRA
6 8 (1.13%) Selenium
6 8 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.71%) JMeter
7 5 (0.71%) JUnit
7 5 (0.71%) Maven
7 5 (0.71%) Poetry
7 5 (0.71%) Postman
8 4 (0.57%) Snyk
8 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.43%) Mockito
9 3 (0.43%) NUnit
9 3 (0.43%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.28%) MSI
General
1 192 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 180 (25.53%) Finance
3 114 (16.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (15.74%) Law
5 110 (15.60%) Banking
6 94 (13.33%) Retail
7 87 (12.34%) Public Sector
8 59 (8.37%) Back Office
9 56 (7.94%) Financial Institution
10 40 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.70%) Marketing
11 12 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.56%) Legal
13 10 (1.42%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.99%) Local Government
16 5 (0.71%) Billing
17 4 (0.57%) Aviation
17 4 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 214 (30.35%) Senior
2 112 (15.89%) Software Engineer
3 110 (15.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 107 (15.18%) Lead
5 87 (12.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 85 (12.06%) Azure Engineer
7 71 (10.07%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.09%) Developer
9 47 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.24%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.10%) Architect
12 41 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
12 41 (5.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
14 36 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (4.40%) Python Engineer
16 31 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.26%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (9.36%) React
2 51 (7.23%) Node.js
3 46 (6.52%) REST
4 33 (4.68%) Spring
5 31 (4.40%) Kafka
5 31 (4.40%) PySpark
6 30 (4.26%) ARM Templates
7 28 (3.97%) OAuth
7 28 (3.97%) Spring Boot
8 27 (3.83%) .NET
9 25 (3.55%) OpenID
10 24 (3.40%) OAuth2
11 20 (2.84%) YAML
12 18 (2.55%) AWS CDK
13 17 (2.41%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.27%) RESTful
15 15 (2.13%) NestJS
15 15 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (1.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (28.09%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (4.68%) Blog
6 32 (4.54%) Public Cloud
7 29 (4.11%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.84%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.13%) Podcast
10 13 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.84%) PKI
10 13 (1.84%) Replication
11 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.28%) Life Science
13 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 119 (16.88%) Linux
2 81 (11.49%) Windows
3 35 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.11%) Unix
5 13 (1.84%) VMS
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.43%) Debian
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.28%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (70.64%) CI/CD
2 455 (64.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 375 (53.19%) DevOps
4 227 (32.20%) Mentoring
5 184 (26.10%) Software Engineering
6 183 (25.96%) Observability
7 169 (23.97%) Agile
8 164 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 160 (22.70%) AI
10 148 (20.99%) Platform Engineering
11 135 (19.15%) Microservices
12 133 (18.87%) Clean Code
13 131 (18.58%) Test Automation
14 127 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
15 126 (17.87%) Containerisation
16 113 (16.03%) Technical Leadership
17 107 (15.18%) Coaching
18 106 (15.04%) Analytics
19 91 (12.91%) Deployment Automation
20 83 (11.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 271 (38.44%) Python
2 158 (22.41%) Java
3 132 (18.72%) PowerShell
4 121 (17.16%) SQL
5 110 (15.60%) Bicep
6 84 (11.91%) Bash
7 47 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.39%) Go
9 37 (5.25%) JavaScript
10 36 (5.11%) C#
11 23 (3.26%) Scala
12 14 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.99%) Groovy
13 7 (0.99%) Ruby
14 6 (0.85%) PHP
15 5 (0.71%) Rust
15 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 99 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.21%) Azure Certification
4 39 (5.53%) Degree
5 34 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.41%) SnowPro
8 13 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.42%) CCNP
12 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.71%) CCIE
14 5 (0.71%) CCNA
14 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
16 3 (0.43%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.43%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.69%) QA
3 14 (1.99%) GDPR
3 14 (1.99%) NIST
4 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.28%) SLA
6 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.99%) NCSC
8 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 182 (25.82%) Docker
2 66 (9.36%) Active Directory
3 41 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.55%) vSphere
6 14 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.43%) Firmware
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 289 (40.99%) Kubernetes
2 140 (19.86%) Ansible
3 124 (17.59%) Grafana
4 39 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.11%) Argo
6 20 (2.84%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.70%) Istio
8 12 (1.70%) Packer
9 11 (1.56%) Puppet
10 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
13 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.43%) Cilium
13 3 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 159 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.24%) VMware
3 43 (6.10%) Google
4 32 (4.54%) Databricks
5 28 (3.97%) Cisco
6 20 (2.84%) Okta
7 18 (2.55%) Oracle
8 16 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.27%) Informatica
9 15 (2.13%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.85%) Citrix
15 6 (0.85%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds
16 5 (0.71%) EMC