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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 72 62
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 712 769 977
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 4.75% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.74% 19.83% 14.58%
Number of salaries quoted 493 363 679
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £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 4,523 3,878 6,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.02% 23.95% 28.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,347 2,587 4,894
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,050 £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 £118,750 £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 9 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 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.81%) Apache
4 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.12%) Confluence
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.56%) Camunda
7 4 (0.56%) IIS
7 4 (0.56%) WordPress
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.42%) 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
1 445 (62.50%) AWS
2 400 (56.18%) Azure
3 204 (28.65%) GCP
4 118 (16.57%) GitHub
5 115 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (14.89%) SaaS
7 95 (13.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 93 (13.06%) Serverless
9 91 (12.78%) Amazon EKS
10 68 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (9.27%) PaaS
12 61 (8.57%) Amazon S3
13 53 (7.44%) Azure AKS
14 52 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
15 48 (6.74%) IaaS
16 38 (5.34%) Entra ID
17 36 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
18 34 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.30%) Firewall
2 48 (6.74%) VPN
3 47 (6.60%) TCP/IP
4 43 (6.04%) DNS
5 29 (4.07%) DHCP
6 23 (3.23%) WAN
7 19 (2.67%) LAN
8 11 (1.54%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.40%) BGP
9 10 (1.40%) Network Security
10 9 (1.26%) AMQP
10 9 (1.26%) SMS
10 9 (1.26%) VLAN
11 8 (1.12%) OSPF
11 8 (1.12%) Wireless
12 7 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (0.84%) HTTP
14 5 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.07%) Metadata
4 28 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 23 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (2.95%) Delta Lake
9 18 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (2.25%) Data Vault
12 15 (2.11%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.97%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.83%) Big Data
15 12 (1.69%) Power BI
16 11 (1.54%) MySQL
17 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
18 8 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (11.38%) Git
2 59 (8.29%) GitLab
3 56 (7.87%) TeamCity
4 49 (6.88%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.40%) JIRA
7 9 (1.26%) Selenium
8 8 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.84%) JMeter
10 5 (0.70%) JUnit
10 5 (0.70%) Maven
10 5 (0.70%) Poetry
10 5 (0.70%) Postman
11 4 (0.56%) NUnit
11 4 (0.56%) Snyk
11 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.42%) MLflow
12 3 (0.42%) Mockito
13 2 (0.28%) Locust
General
1 186 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 178 (25.00%) Finance
3 102 (14.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (14.04%) Banking
5 96 (13.48%) Law
6 87 (12.22%) Public Sector
7 77 (10.81%) Retail
8 50 (7.02%) Back Office
9 47 (6.60%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.83%) Legal
11 13 (1.83%) Marketing
11 13 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.40%) Health Technology
13 9 (1.26%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.98%) Local Government
15 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.70%) Aviation
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 213 (29.92%) Senior
2 113 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 106 (14.89%) Lead
4 101 (14.19%) Software Engineer
5 97 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
7 77 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
8 51 (7.16%) Developer
9 48 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
10 47 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (6.32%) Data Engineer
12 44 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 43 (6.04%) Architect
14 42 (5.90%) Senior DevOps
15 39 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 34 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (4.49%) Python Engineer
18 31 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 30 (4.21%) Site Engineer
20 28 (3.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.13%) React
2 54 (7.58%) Node.js
3 49 (6.88%) REST
4 38 (5.34%) Kafka
5 32 (4.49%) ARM Templates
5 32 (4.49%) Spring
6 31 (4.35%) PySpark
7 28 (3.93%) OAuth
8 27 (3.79%) .NET
9 26 (3.65%) OpenID
10 25 (3.51%) OAuth2
10 25 (3.51%) Spring Boot
11 22 (3.09%) YAML
12 20 (2.81%) AWS CDK
13 18 (2.53%) RESTful
14 16 (2.25%) AngularJS
15 15 (2.11%) NestJS
15 15 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (1.97%) SAML
17 13 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 187 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.88%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (5.06%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.21%) Data Centre
7 26 (3.65%) Blog
8 19 (2.67%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.39%) Podcast
10 14 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.83%) PKI
12 12 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.69%) Replication
13 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.26%) Life Science
15 9 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (16.85%) Linux
2 87 (12.22%) Windows
3 40 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.93%) Unix
5 13 (1.83%) VMS
6 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.42%) 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
1 497 (69.80%) CI/CD
2 468 (65.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 382 (53.65%) DevOps
4 224 (31.46%) Mentoring
5 187 (26.26%) Observability
6 178 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 169 (23.74%) Agile
7 169 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 159 (22.33%) Platform Engineering
9 154 (21.63%) AI
10 135 (18.96%) Containerisation
11 128 (17.98%) Microservices
12 127 (17.84%) Test Automation
13 125 (17.56%) Clean Code
14 121 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (16.71%) Technical Leadership
16 110 (15.45%) Analytics
17 98 (13.76%) Coaching
18 91 (12.78%) Roadmaps
19 82 (11.52%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 288 (40.45%) Python
2 140 (19.66%) Java
3 134 (18.82%) PowerShell
4 121 (16.99%) SQL
5 113 (15.87%) Bicep
6 85 (11.94%) Bash
7 47 (6.60%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.04%) Go
9 36 (5.06%) JavaScript
10 34 (4.78%) C#
11 23 (3.23%) Scala
12 13 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.98%) Groovy
13 7 (0.98%) Ruby
14 6 (0.84%) PHP
15 5 (0.70%) Rust
15 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.66%) Azure Certification
4 45 (6.32%) Degree
5 35 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.39%) SnowPro
8 15 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.54%) CCNP
12 7 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.84%) CCNA
14 5 (0.70%) CCIE
14 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.42%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.79%) QA
3 13 (1.83%) GDPR
3 13 (1.83%) NIST
4 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.26%) SLA
6 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.98%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) 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
1 191 (26.83%) Docker
2 68 (9.55%) Active Directory
3 44 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.81%) vSphere
6 19 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.40%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.70%) Firmware
9 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.56%) 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
1 288 (40.45%) Kubernetes
2 145 (20.37%) Ansible
3 113 (15.87%) Grafana
4 36 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.21%) Argo
6 18 (2.53%) Istio
7 17 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.83%) Puppet
10 12 (1.69%) Packer
11 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.56%) linkerd
12 4 (0.56%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.42%) Cilium
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 162 (22.75%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.60%) VMware
3 45 (6.32%) Google
4 32 (4.49%) Cisco
5 30 (4.21%) Databricks
6 20 (2.81%) Okta
7 17 (2.39%) Oracle
8 16 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.25%) Informatica
9 15 (2.11%) Ping Identity
10 14 (1.97%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.12%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.98%) EMC
15 7 (0.98%) F5
15 7 (0.98%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.84%) Citrix
16 6 (0.84%) Splunk