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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 68 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 705 771 974
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.94% 4.76% 4.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.81% 20.07% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 477 358 667
10th Percentile £52,000 £50,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,875 £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 4,459 3,841 6,695
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.60% 23.73% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 2,553 4,843
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,750 £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 £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -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 15 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%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 450 (63.83%) AWS
2 391 (55.46%) Azure
3 211 (29.93%) GCP
4 113 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (15.74%) SaaS
6 110 (15.60%) GitHub
7 96 (13.62%) Amazon EKS
8 91 (12.91%) Serverless
9 89 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (9.36%) PaaS
11 62 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (8.09%) Amazon S3
13 53 (7.52%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.95%) Azure Monitor
14 49 (6.95%) IaaS
15 40 (5.67%) Entra ID
16 34 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.95%) Firewall
2 47 (6.67%) VPN
3 45 (6.38%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.53%) DNS
5 28 (3.97%) DHCP
6 24 (3.40%) WAN
7 19 (2.70%) 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
10 9 (1.28%) VLAN
11 8 (1.13%) OSPF
11 8 (1.13%) Wireless
12 7 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (0.85%) HTTP
14 5 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.71%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (11.91%) 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%) DynamoDB
6 22 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (2.98%) Delta Lake
8 17 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (2.41%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.27%) Data Vault
9 16 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.99%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.84%) Big Data
12 12 (1.70%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.70%) Power BI
13 10 (1.42%) MySQL
14 9 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (10.64%) Git
2 67 (9.50%) 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
1 189 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 183 (25.96%) Finance
3 114 (16.17%) Banking
4 112 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (15.46%) Law
6 92 (13.05%) Retail
7 86 (12.20%) Public Sector
8 56 (7.94%) Back Office
9 53 (7.52%) Financial Institution
10 40 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.84%) Marketing
11 13 (1.84%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.70%) 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%) Games
17 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (30.21%) Senior
2 110 (15.60%) Cloud Engineer
2 110 (15.60%) Software Engineer
3 106 (15.04%) Lead
4 93 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (12.06%) Azure Engineer
6 71 (10.07%) Platform Engineer
7 48 (6.81%) Developer
7 48 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 47 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (6.24%) Data Engineer
10 43 (6.10%) Architect
11 41 (5.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 39 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
13 37 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
15 31 (4.40%) Python Engineer
15 31 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.26%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.22%) React
2 51 (7.23%) Node.js
3 45 (6.38%) REST
4 37 (5.25%) Kafka
5 33 (4.68%) Spring
6 31 (4.40%) PySpark
7 30 (4.26%) ARM Templates
8 28 (3.97%) Spring Boot
9 27 (3.83%) OAuth
10 26 (3.69%) .NET
11 25 (3.55%) OpenID
12 24 (3.40%) OAuth2
13 20 (2.84%) YAML
14 18 (2.55%) AWS CDK
15 16 (2.27%) AngularJS
15 16 (2.27%) RESTful
16 15 (2.13%) NestJS
16 15 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
17 14 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
17 14 (1.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 197 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (7.38%) 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 16 (2.27%) Podcast
10 15 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.99%) Replication
12 13 (1.84%) PKI
13 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.28%) Life Science
15 9 (1.28%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 118 (16.74%) Linux
2 82 (11.63%) Windows
3 36 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.97%) 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
1 491 (69.65%) CI/CD
2 452 (64.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 376 (53.33%) DevOps
4 223 (31.63%) Mentoring
5 183 (25.96%) Observability
6 182 (25.82%) Software Engineering
7 167 (23.69%) Agile
8 164 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 159 (22.55%) AI
10 148 (20.99%) Platform Engineering
11 132 (18.72%) Microservices
12 130 (18.44%) Clean Code
12 130 (18.44%) Containerisation
13 128 (18.16%) Test Automation
14 126 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (16.17%) Technical Leadership
16 105 (14.89%) Analytics
17 104 (14.75%) Coaching
18 89 (12.62%) Deployment Automation
19 83 (11.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 275 (39.01%) Python
2 154 (21.84%) Java
3 132 (18.72%) PowerShell
4 121 (17.16%) SQL
5 110 (15.60%) Bicep
6 83 (11.77%) Bash
7 46 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.96%) Go
9 36 (5.11%) JavaScript
10 34 (4.82%) C#
11 23 (3.26%) Scala
12 13 (1.84%) 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 40 (5.67%) Degree
5 34 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.84%) 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%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.43%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.69%) QA
3 14 (1.99%) NIST
4 13 (1.84%) GDPR
5 9 (1.28%) 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
1 187 (26.52%) Docker
2 66 (9.36%) Active Directory
3 41 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (2.70%) vSphere
7 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.43%) Firmware
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
1 290 (41.13%) Kubernetes
2 140 (19.86%) Ansible
3 121 (17.16%) Grafana
4 38 (5.39%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.11%) Argo
6 20 (2.84%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.55%) Istio
8 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.70%) Packer
10 11 (1.56%) Puppet
11 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
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%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.43%) Cilium
13 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 158 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.24%) VMware
3 43 (6.10%) Google
4 31 (4.40%) Databricks
5 29 (4.11%) 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%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.13%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.85%) Citrix
14 6 (0.85%) Confluent
14 6 (0.85%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.85%) Splunk