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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 73 67
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 -20
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 702 779 967
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.05% 4.70% 3.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.54% 18.90% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 496 378 718
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,746 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £87,188 £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 4,516 4,122 6,944
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.62% 24.89% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,368 2,787 5,459
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.10% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -7.41%

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 22 August 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 Spark
2 22 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.71%) Apache
4 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.00%) 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
1 434 (61.82%) AWS
2 401 (57.12%) Azure
3 195 (27.78%) GCP
4 112 (15.95%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (15.81%) GitHub
6 100 (14.25%) SaaS
7 94 (13.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (13.39%) Serverless
8 87 (12.39%) Amazon EKS
9 70 (9.97%) PaaS
10 60 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (8.12%) Amazon S3
12 51 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (7.26%) Azure AKS
13 48 (6.84%) IaaS
14 45 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (5.27%) Entra ID
16 34 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.83%) Firewall
2 49 (6.98%) VPN
3 45 (6.41%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.84%) DNS
5 27 (3.85%) DHCP
6 20 (2.85%) WAN
7 19 (2.71%) LAN
8 12 (1.71%) Network Security
9 10 (1.42%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.14%) VLAN
10 8 (1.14%) Wireless
11 7 (1.00%) BGP
11 7 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.85%) AMQP
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.85%) HTTP
12 6 (0.85%) SMS
12 6 (0.85%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.85%) WebEx
13 5 (0.71%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.27%) Metadata
4 27 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.42%) DynamoDB
7 21 (2.99%) Delta Lake
8 20 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.71%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.71%) Relational Database
10 15 (2.14%) Data Vault
10 15 (2.14%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.71%) Big Data
13 12 (1.71%) MySQL
13 12 (1.71%) Power BI
14 11 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (11.82%) Git
2 57 (8.12%) GitLab
3 51 (7.26%) TeamCity
4 49 (6.98%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.57%) JIRA
5 11 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.28%) JMeter
6 9 (1.28%) Selenium
7 5 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.71%) Locust
7 5 (0.71%) Postman
8 4 (0.57%) JUnit
8 4 (0.57%) Maven
8 4 (0.57%) NUnit
8 4 (0.57%) Snyk
8 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.43%) MLflow
10 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 179 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 173 (24.64%) Finance
3 98 (13.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 93 (13.25%) Banking
5 91 (12.96%) Law
6 82 (11.68%) Public Sector
7 69 (9.83%) Retail
8 45 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (6.27%) Back Office
10 42 (5.98%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.99%) Legal
12 12 (1.71%) Marketing
12 12 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.14%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.85%) Legal Technology
14 6 (0.85%) Local Government
14 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.85%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.71%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 203 (28.92%) Senior
2 110 (15.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 102 (14.53%) Lead
4 96 (13.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 96 (13.68%) Software Engineer
5 89 (12.68%) Azure Engineer
6 77 (10.97%) Platform Engineer
7 51 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (6.70%) Developer
10 44 (6.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 44 (6.27%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.13%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (5.98%) Architect
13 39 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.84%) Python Engineer
15 33 (4.70%) Senior Software 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 66 (9.40%) React
2 54 (7.69%) Node.js
3 46 (6.55%) REST
4 39 (5.56%) Kafka
5 32 (4.56%) ARM Templates
6 29 (4.13%) Spring
7 28 (3.99%) .NET
8 27 (3.85%) PySpark
9 25 (3.56%) OAuth
10 23 (3.28%) OpenID
11 22 (3.13%) OAuth2
11 22 (3.13%) Spring Boot
12 19 (2.71%) YAML
13 18 (2.56%) AWS CDK
14 16 (2.28%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.28%) RESTful
15 15 (2.14%) NestJS
16 14 (1.99%) SAML
17 13 (1.85%) CSS
17 13 (1.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 182 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 42 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (5.27%) Public Cloud
6 27 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.99%) Blog
8 19 (2.71%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.56%) Podcast
10 16 (2.28%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.99%) Replication
12 13 (1.85%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.71%) PKI
14 10 (1.42%) 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
1 125 (17.81%) Linux
2 92 (13.11%) Windows
3 43 (6.13%) 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
1 484 (68.95%) CI/CD
2 469 (66.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 385 (54.84%) DevOps
4 210 (29.91%) Mentoring
5 183 (26.07%) Observability
6 174 (24.79%) Agile
7 172 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 168 (23.93%) Software Engineering
9 161 (22.93%) Platform Engineering
10 146 (20.80%) AI
11 143 (20.37%) Containerisation
12 125 (17.81%) Test Automation
13 122 (17.38%) Microservices
14 119 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
15 118 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
16 117 (16.67%) Clean Code
17 102 (14.53%) Analytics
18 91 (12.96%) Roadmaps
19 89 (12.68%) Coaching
20 84 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 286 (40.74%) Python
2 133 (18.95%) Java
2 133 (18.95%) PowerShell
3 116 (16.52%) SQL
4 112 (15.95%) Bicep
5 82 (11.68%) Bash
6 46 (6.55%) TypeScript
7 43 (6.13%) Go
8 36 (5.13%) C#
8 36 (5.13%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.13%) Scala
10 13 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.00%) Groovy
11 7 (1.00%) Ruby
12 6 (0.85%) PHP
13 5 (0.71%) Rust
13 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.43%) C
15 2 (0.28%) C++
15 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 105 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 86 (12.25%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.12%) Degree
5 35 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.28%) SnowPro
8 14 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.71%) CCNP
11 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.00%) CCNA
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.85%) CCIE
13 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.57%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.57%) MCSE
14 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.99%) QA
3 15 (2.14%) GDPR
4 13 (1.85%) NIST
5 12 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.28%) SLA
7 8 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.85%) NCSC
9 5 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.71%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (26.92%) Docker
2 69 (9.83%) Active Directory
3 47 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.42%) vSphere
5 22 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.71%) Firmware
10 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.14%) QEMU
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 286 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 141 (20.09%) Ansible
3 114 (16.24%) Grafana
4 38 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.42%) Argo
6 20 (2.85%) Istio
7 17 (2.42%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.99%) Puppet
10 12 (1.71%) Packer
11 6 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.57%) linkerd
14 3 (0.43%) Cilium
14 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 165 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.41%) VMware
3 45 (6.41%) Google
4 31 (4.42%) Cisco
4 31 (4.42%) Databricks
5 19 (2.71%) Okta
6 17 (2.42%) Oracle
6 17 (2.42%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.28%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.14%) Informatica
9 14 (1.99%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.71%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.57%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.14%) Confluent
14 8 (1.14%) Splunk
15 7 (1.00%) EMC
15 7 (1.00%) F5
15 7 (1.00%) NetApp