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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 72 65
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 702 769 956
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.00% 4.79% 4.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.72% 19.89% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 490 363 690
10th Percentile £52,375 £51,250 £50,000
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 £88,148 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £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 4,467 3,867 6,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.11% 24.10% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 2,583 5,079
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £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 £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 4 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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.71%) Apache
4 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.14%) Confluence
6 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.57%) Camunda
7 4 (0.57%) IIS
7 4 (0.57%) WordPress
8 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
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%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 437 (62.25%) AWS
2 397 (56.55%) Azure
3 201 (28.63%) GCP
4 115 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (16.38%) GitHub
5 103 (14.67%) SaaS
6 95 (13.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 92 (13.11%) Serverless
8 88 (12.54%) Amazon EKS
9 66 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (9.40%) PaaS
10 59 (8.40%) Amazon S3
11 53 (7.55%) Azure AKS
12 51 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
13 48 (6.84%) IaaS
14 38 (5.41%) Entra ID
15 36 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.12%) Firewall
2 48 (6.84%) VPN
3 45 (6.41%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.84%) DNS
5 27 (3.85%) DHCP
6 21 (2.99%) WAN
7 17 (2.42%) LAN
8 11 (1.57%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.42%) Network Security
10 8 (1.14%) AMQP
10 8 (1.14%) BGP
10 8 (1.14%) SMS
10 8 (1.14%) Wireless
11 7 (1.00%) VLAN
12 6 (0.85%) HTTP
12 6 (0.85%) OSPF
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (0.57%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.13%) Metadata
4 28 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 21 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.99%) Delta Lake
8 18 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 16 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (2.28%) Data Vault
10 14 (1.99%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.99%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.71%) Big Data
11 12 (1.71%) MySQL
12 11 (1.57%) Power BI
13 9 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (11.25%) Git
2 59 (8.40%) GitLab
3 54 (7.69%) TeamCity
4 48 (6.84%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.42%) JIRA
7 9 (1.28%) Selenium
8 6 (0.85%) JMeter
8 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.71%) JUnit
9 5 (0.71%) Maven
9 5 (0.71%) Postman
10 4 (0.57%) NUnit
10 4 (0.57%) Poetry
10 4 (0.57%) Snyk
10 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.43%) MLflow
11 3 (0.43%) Mockito
12 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 183 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 174 (24.79%) Finance
3 100 (14.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (13.68%) Banking
5 94 (13.39%) Law
6 84 (11.97%) Public Sector
7 73 (10.40%) Retail
8 48 (6.84%) Back Office
9 45 (6.41%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.85%) Legal
12 11 (1.57%) Marketing
12 11 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.42%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.14%) Tech for Good
15 7 (1.00%) Local Government
16 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.71%) Aviation
17 5 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 208 (29.63%) Senior
2 112 (15.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 104 (14.81%) Lead
4 99 (14.10%) Software Engineer
5 97 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (12.39%) Azure Engineer
7 76 (10.83%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.12%) Developer
9 47 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 43 (6.13%) Architect
11 43 (6.13%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (4.56%) Python Engineer
16 31 (4.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.27%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.26%) React
2 54 (7.69%) Node.js
3 49 (6.98%) REST
4 36 (5.13%) Kafka
5 32 (4.56%) ARM Templates
6 31 (4.42%) Spring
7 30 (4.27%) PySpark
8 27 (3.85%) .NET
8 27 (3.85%) OAuth
9 25 (3.56%) OpenID
10 24 (3.42%) OAuth2
10 24 (3.42%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.85%) YAML
12 19 (2.71%) AWS CDK
13 17 (2.42%) RESTful
14 16 (2.28%) AngularJS
15 15 (2.14%) NestJS
16 14 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (1.99%) SAML
17 13 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 185 (26.35%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.70%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 28 (3.99%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.56%) Blog
8 19 (2.71%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.42%) Podcast
10 14 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.85%) PKI
11 13 (1.85%) Replication
12 12 (1.71%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.28%) Life Science
15 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (17.24%) Linux
2 87 (12.39%) Windows
3 40 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.99%) Unix
5 13 (1.85%) 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
1 488 (69.52%) CI/CD
2 464 (66.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 380 (54.13%) DevOps
4 220 (31.34%) Mentoring
5 184 (26.21%) Observability
6 175 (24.93%) Software Engineering
7 167 (23.79%) Agile
7 167 (23.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 158 (22.51%) Platform Engineering
9 151 (21.51%) AI
10 135 (19.23%) Containerisation
11 126 (17.95%) Microservices
12 125 (17.81%) Test Automation
13 122 (17.38%) Clean Code
14 121 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (16.81%) Technical Leadership
16 108 (15.38%) Analytics
17 95 (13.53%) Coaching
18 91 (12.96%) Roadmaps
19 80 (11.40%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 282 (40.17%) Python
2 137 (19.52%) Java
3 133 (18.95%) PowerShell
4 117 (16.67%) SQL
5 113 (16.10%) Bicep
6 84 (11.97%) Bash
7 46 (6.55%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.13%) Go
9 35 (4.99%) JavaScript
10 34 (4.84%) C#
11 22 (3.13%) Scala
12 13 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.00%) Groovy
13 7 (1.00%) 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 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.82%) Azure Certification
4 45 (6.41%) Degree
5 35 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.42%) SnowPro
8 15 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.71%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.57%) CCNP
12 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.85%) CCNA
14 5 (0.71%) CCIE
14 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.70%) QA
3 13 (1.85%) GDPR
3 13 (1.85%) NIST
4 11 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.28%) SLA
6 8 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.85%) NCSC
8 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (26.92%) Docker
2 68 (9.69%) Active Directory
3 44 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.85%) vSphere
6 19 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.71%) Firmware
9 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.14%) QEMU
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 285 (40.60%) Kubernetes
2 141 (20.09%) Ansible
3 112 (15.95%) Grafana
4 37 (5.27%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.42%) Argo
6 18 (2.56%) Istio
7 17 (2.42%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.85%) Puppet
10 12 (1.71%) Packer
11 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.57%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
12 4 (0.57%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.43%) Cilium
13 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 162 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.70%) VMware
3 45 (6.41%) Google
4 30 (4.27%) Cisco
5 29 (4.13%) Databricks
6 19 (2.71%) Okta
7 17 (2.42%) Oracle
8 16 (2.28%) Dynatrace
9 15 (2.14%) Informatica
10 14 (1.99%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.99%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.71%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 7 (1.00%) EMC
15 7 (1.00%) F5
15 7 (1.00%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.85%) Confluent
16 6 (0.85%) HubSpot