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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 70 67
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 707 782 970
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.76% 3.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.80% 19.16% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 493 378 703
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,000
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 £86,250 £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 4,476 4,082 6,895
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.19% 24.83% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 2,771 5,246
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,733 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +3.13% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 1 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 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.69%) Apache
4 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.13%) Confluence
6 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.57%) Camunda
7 4 (0.57%) IIS
7 4 (0.57%) 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
1 442 (62.52%) AWS
2 400 (56.58%) Azure
3 202 (28.57%) GCP
4 115 (16.27%) GitHub
5 112 (15.84%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (14.43%) SaaS
7 95 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 93 (13.15%) Serverless
9 91 (12.87%) Amazon EKS
10 66 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
10 66 (9.34%) PaaS
11 59 (8.35%) Amazon S3
12 52 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (7.36%) Azure AKS
13 48 (6.79%) IaaS
14 46 (6.51%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (5.23%) Entra ID
16 34 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.50%) Firewall
2 49 (6.93%) VPN
3 45 (6.36%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.80%) DNS
5 27 (3.82%) DHCP
6 21 (2.97%) WAN
7 18 (2.55%) LAN
8 11 (1.56%) Network Security
8 11 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.13%) BGP
9 8 (1.13%) VLAN
9 8 (1.13%) Wireless
10 7 (0.99%) AMQP
10 7 (0.99%) SMS
11 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.85%) HTTP
11 6 (0.85%) OSPF
12 5 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.71%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.24%) Metadata
4 27 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.39%) DynamoDB
7 21 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (2.97%) Delta Lake
8 20 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.55%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.55%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.26%) Data Vault
11 15 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.98%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.70%) Big Data
13 12 (1.70%) MySQL
14 11 (1.56%) Power BI
15 10 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (11.32%) Git
2 58 (8.20%) GitLab
3 55 (7.78%) TeamCity
4 49 (6.93%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.56%) JIRA
5 11 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.27%) Selenium
7 6 (0.85%) JMeter
8 5 (0.71%) Postman
8 5 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.57%) JUnit
9 4 (0.57%) Maven
9 4 (0.57%) NUnit
9 4 (0.57%) Snyk
9 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.42%) MLflow
10 3 (0.42%) Poetry
11 2 (0.28%) Locust
11 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 181 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 175 (24.75%) Finance
3 101 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 99 (14.00%) Banking
5 96 (13.58%) Law
6 84 (11.88%) Public Sector
7 75 (10.61%) Retail
8 47 (6.65%) Back Office
9 45 (6.36%) Financial Institution
10 43 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (1.98%) Legal
12 12 (1.70%) Marketing
12 12 (1.70%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.99%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.85%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.85%) Local Government
15 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 209 (29.56%) Senior
2 110 (15.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 103 (14.57%) Lead
4 100 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 99 (14.00%) Software Engineer
6 88 (12.45%) Azure Engineer
7 76 (10.75%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.07%) AWS Engineer
9 49 (6.93%) Developer
10 47 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 44 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
12 43 (6.08%) Architect
12 43 (6.08%) Data Engineer
13 40 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (4.67%) Python Engineer
16 31 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.24%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.19%) React
2 54 (7.64%) Node.js
3 48 (6.79%) REST
4 39 (5.52%) Kafka
5 32 (4.53%) ARM Templates
6 29 (4.10%) PySpark
6 29 (4.10%) Spring
7 28 (3.96%) .NET
8 26 (3.68%) OAuth
9 24 (3.39%) OpenID
10 23 (3.25%) OAuth2
11 22 (3.11%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.83%) YAML
13 19 (2.69%) AWS CDK
14 17 (2.40%) RESTful
15 16 (2.26%) AngularJS
16 15 (2.12%) NestJS
17 14 (1.98%) SAML
18 13 (1.84%) OpenTelemetry
18 13 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 187 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (5.23%) Public Cloud
6 28 (3.96%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.54%) Blog
8 19 (2.69%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.55%) Podcast
10 15 (2.12%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.98%) Replication
12 13 (1.84%) PKI
12 13 (1.84%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.27%) Life Science
14 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.99%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 124 (17.54%) Linux
2 89 (12.59%) Windows
3 41 (5.80%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.96%) Unix
5 13 (1.84%) VMS
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.57%) 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
1 490 (69.31%) CI/CD
2 468 (66.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 384 (54.31%) DevOps
4 217 (30.69%) Mentoring
5 185 (26.17%) Observability
6 175 (24.75%) Software Engineering
7 170 (24.05%) Agile
8 167 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (22.35%) Platform Engineering
10 151 (21.36%) AI
11 139 (19.66%) Containerisation
12 125 (17.68%) Microservices
12 125 (17.68%) Test Automation
13 122 (17.26%) Clean Code
14 120 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (16.83%) Technical Leadership
16 106 (14.99%) Analytics
17 94 (13.30%) Coaching
18 91 (12.87%) Roadmaps
19 81 (11.46%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 287 (40.59%) Python
2 135 (19.09%) Java
3 134 (18.95%) PowerShell
4 116 (16.41%) SQL
5 113 (15.98%) Bicep
6 85 (12.02%) Bash
7 46 (6.51%) Go
7 46 (6.51%) TypeScript
8 35 (4.95%) C#
8 35 (4.95%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.11%) Scala
10 13 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.99%) Groovy
11 7 (0.99%) Ruby
12 6 (0.85%) PHP
13 5 (0.71%) Rust
13 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.42%) C
14 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.88%) Azure Certification
4 47 (6.65%) Degree
5 36 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.40%) SnowPro
8 15 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.84%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.56%) CCNP
11 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.99%) CCNA
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.71%) CCIE
13 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.57%) MCSE
14 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.54%) QA
3 14 (1.98%) GDPR
4 13 (1.84%) NIST
5 11 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.27%) SLA
7 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.85%) NCSC
9 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (26.73%) Docker
2 68 (9.62%) Active Directory
3 46 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (3.11%) vSphere
5 21 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.41%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.71%) Firmware
7 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 290 (41.02%) Kubernetes
2 142 (20.08%) Ansible
3 114 (16.12%) Grafana
4 38 (5.37%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.38%) Argo
6 20 (2.83%) Istio
7 18 (2.55%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.98%) Puppet
10 12 (1.70%) Packer
11 5 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
12 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.42%) Cilium
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 164 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.07%) VMware
3 45 (6.36%) Google
4 31 (4.38%) Cisco
5 30 (4.24%) Databricks
6 19 (2.69%) Okta
7 17 (2.40%) Oracle
8 16 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 15 (2.12%) Informatica
9 15 (2.12%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.98%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.27%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.13%) Confluent
15 7 (0.99%) EMC
15 7 (0.99%) F5
15 7 (0.99%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.99%) Splunk