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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 68 59
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 723 777 957
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.94% 4.81% 4.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.93% 20.29% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 483 358 646
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,525 £48,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,875 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -

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 4,540 3,830 6,624
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.46% 23.70% 29.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,350 2,525 4,653
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 23 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 24 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.77%) Apache
4 16 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.24%) Confluence
6 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.55%) Camunda
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.41%) IIS
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.41%) WordPress
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
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 2 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 459 (63.49%) AWS
2 392 (54.22%) Azure
3 218 (30.15%) GCP
4 128 (17.70%) SaaS
5 122 (16.87%) GitHub
6 120 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
8 99 (13.69%) Serverless
9 90 (12.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (9.68%) PaaS
11 68 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (7.88%) Amazon S3
13 55 (7.61%) Azure AKS
14 54 (7.47%) Azure Monitor
15 51 (7.05%) IaaS
16 50 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
17 48 (6.64%) Entra ID
18 37 (5.12%) Azure Key Vault
19 35 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 35 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.33%) VPN
2 51 (7.05%) Firewall
3 47 (6.50%) TCP/IP
4 40 (5.53%) DNS
5 28 (3.87%) DHCP
6 22 (3.04%) WAN
7 16 (2.21%) LAN
8 12 (1.66%) BGP
8 12 (1.66%) Network Security
9 10 (1.38%) AMQP
9 10 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.38%) SMS
9 10 (1.38%) VLAN
10 8 (1.11%) Wireless
11 7 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.97%) OSPF
12 5 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.69%) HTTP
12 5 (0.69%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (12.72%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.29%) Metadata
4 29 (4.01%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (3.32%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.90%) Delta Lake
9 17 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.21%) Data Vault
10 16 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.94%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.94%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.94%) Power BI
12 13 (1.80%) Big Data
13 9 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.24%) MySQL
13 9 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (10.65%) TeamCity
2 76 (10.51%) Git
3 58 (8.02%) GitLab
4 52 (7.19%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.94%) JIRA
6 8 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (0.97%) Selenium
7 7 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.83%) JUnit
9 5 (0.69%) Maven
9 5 (0.69%) Poetry
9 5 (0.69%) Postman
10 4 (0.55%) JMeter
10 4 (0.55%) Mockito
10 4 (0.55%) Snyk
10 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.55%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.28%) MSI
12 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 201 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 191 (26.42%) Finance
3 122 (16.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (16.32%) Law
5 117 (16.18%) Banking
6 102 (14.11%) Retail
7 94 (13.00%) Public Sector
8 66 (9.13%) Back Office
9 63 (8.71%) Financial Institution
10 43 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.66%) Marketing
12 11 (1.52%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.38%) Legal
13 10 (1.38%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.97%) Local Government
15 6 (0.83%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.69%) Billing
16 5 (0.69%) Police
17 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (30.71%) Senior
2 115 (15.91%) Software Engineer
3 110 (15.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 108 (14.94%) Lead
5 89 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 86 (11.89%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (9.96%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (6.92%) Developer
9 48 (6.64%) Architect
10 47 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.09%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (5.12%) Senior DevOps
15 35 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 34 (4.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (4.29%) Python Engineer
17 31 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (4.15%) Site Engineer
19 28 (3.87%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.54%) React
2 51 (7.05%) Node.js
3 47 (6.50%) REST
4 35 (4.84%) Spring
5 31 (4.29%) Kafka
5 31 (4.29%) OAuth
5 31 (4.29%) PySpark
6 30 (4.15%) Spring Boot
7 29 (4.01%) ARM Templates
8 27 (3.73%) OAuth2
8 27 (3.73%) OpenID
9 25 (3.46%) .NET
10 19 (2.63%) YAML
11 18 (2.49%) AWS CDK
11 18 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (2.35%) AngularJS
12 17 (2.35%) RESTful
13 15 (2.07%) NestJS
13 15 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (2.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 206 (28.49%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.61%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (5.12%) Blog
6 32 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 29 (4.01%) Data Centre
8 22 (3.04%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.07%) Replication
10 14 (1.94%) PKI
10 14 (1.94%) Podcast
11 10 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.24%) Life Science
12 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (16.60%) Linux
2 83 (11.48%) Windows
3 35 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.15%) Unix
5 13 (1.80%) VMS
6 5 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.41%) 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%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (71.23%) CI/CD
2 467 (64.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 386 (53.39%) DevOps
4 230 (31.81%) Mentoring
5 193 (26.69%) Observability
6 191 (26.42%) Software Engineering
7 172 (23.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 170 (23.51%) Agile
9 168 (23.24%) AI
10 148 (20.47%) Platform Engineering
11 142 (19.64%) Microservices
12 136 (18.81%) Clean Code
13 134 (18.53%) Test Automation
14 132 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (17.70%) Containerisation
16 114 (15.77%) Analytics
17 113 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
18 111 (15.35%) Coaching
19 101 (13.97%) Deployment Automation
20 88 (12.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 280 (38.73%) Python
2 171 (23.65%) Java
3 137 (18.95%) PowerShell
4 131 (18.12%) SQL
5 117 (16.18%) Bicep
6 89 (12.31%) Bash
7 49 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.81%) Go
9 38 (5.26%) JavaScript
10 35 (4.84%) C#
11 25 (3.46%) Scala
12 14 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.11%) Groovy
14 7 (0.97%) Ruby
14 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.83%) PHP
16 5 (0.69%) Rust
17 3 (0.41%) C
17 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (17.15%) Security Cleared
2 108 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.62%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.12%) Degree
5 35 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.35%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.24%) CCNP
11 8 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.69%) CCNA
13 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.55%) CCIE
14 4 (0.55%) CISSP
15 3 (0.41%) OCP
15 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.73%) QA
3 16 (2.21%) NIST
4 15 (2.07%) GDPR
5 14 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.24%) SLA
8 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.83%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 187 (25.86%) Docker
2 68 (9.41%) Active Directory
3 40 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.49%) vSphere
6 17 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.41%) Firmware
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 299 (41.36%) Kubernetes
2 139 (19.23%) Ansible
2 139 (19.23%) Grafana
3 43 (5.95%) Prometheus
4 29 (4.01%) Argo
5 21 (2.90%) Progress Chef
6 18 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (1.94%) Packer
8 12 (1.66%) Istio
9 10 (1.38%) Puppet
10 9 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.69%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.55%) Cilium
12 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.55%) linkerd
13 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 167 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.64%) Google
3 43 (5.95%) VMware
4 32 (4.43%) Databricks
5 26 (3.60%) Cisco
6 22 (3.04%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.77%) Okta
8 18 (2.49%) Oracle
9 16 (2.21%) Informatica
10 15 (2.07%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.66%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.38%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.24%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.97%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.97%) Splunk
15 6 (0.83%) Citrix
15 6 (0.83%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.83%) HubSpot
16 5 (0.69%) EMC