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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 70 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 712 770 978
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.97% 4.75% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.71% 19.79% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 490 364 680
10th Percentile £52,375 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,600 £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 4,533 3,890 6,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.93% 23.98% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,346 2,603 4,913
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 £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 10 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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.81%) Apache
3 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.26%) Confluence
5 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.56%) Camunda
6 4 (0.56%) IIS
6 4 (0.56%) WordPress
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 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
1 447 (62.78%) AWS
2 402 (56.46%) Azure
3 202 (28.37%) 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 39 (5.48%) 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 80 (11.24%) 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 22 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (2.95%) Delta Lake
10 17 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (2.39%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.25%) Data Vault
11 16 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 15 (2.11%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.83%) Big Data
13 13 (1.83%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.69%) Power BI
15 11 (1.54%) MySQL
16 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (11.24%) Git
2 59 (8.29%) GitLab
3 56 (7.87%) TeamCity
4 50 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.69%) JIRA
6 11 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
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
1 185 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 178 (25.00%) Finance
3 103 (14.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 101 (14.19%) Banking
5 97 (13.62%) Law
6 88 (12.36%) Public Sector
7 78 (10.96%) Retail
8 50 (7.02%) Back Office
9 47 (6.60%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.90%) 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%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.98%) Local Government
15 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.70%) Aviation
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 214 (30.06%) Senior
2 113 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 106 (14.89%) Lead
4 101 (14.19%) Software Engineer
5 98 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
7 77 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
8 52 (7.30%) Developer
9 48 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
10 47 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 44 (6.18%) Data Engineer
12 43 (6.04%) Architect
13 42 (5.90%) Senior DevOps
14 39 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 34 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
16 31 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.21%) Python Engineer
17 30 (4.21%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.13%) React
2 54 (7.58%) Node.js
3 47 (6.60%) REST
4 38 (5.34%) Kafka
5 33 (4.63%) Spring
6 32 (4.49%) ARM Templates
7 31 (4.35%) PySpark
8 28 (3.93%) OAuth
9 27 (3.79%) .NET
10 26 (3.65%) OpenID
10 26 (3.65%) Spring Boot
11 25 (3.51%) OAuth2
12 22 (3.09%) YAML
13 20 (2.81%) AWS CDK
14 18 (2.53%) RESTful
15 16 (2.25%) AngularJS
16 15 (2.11%) NestJS
16 15 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
17 14 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
17 14 (1.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 186 (26.12%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.01%) 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 27 (3.79%) 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
11 13 (1.83%) Replication
12 12 (1.69%) Private Cloud
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
1 121 (16.99%) 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
1 496 (69.66%) CI/CD
2 466 (65.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 384 (53.93%) DevOps
4 223 (31.32%) Mentoring
5 189 (26.54%) Observability
6 176 (24.72%) Software Engineering
7 171 (24.02%) Agile
8 170 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (22.19%) Platform Engineering
10 155 (21.77%) AI
11 135 (18.96%) Containerisation
12 128 (17.98%) Microservices
13 127 (17.84%) Test Automation
14 123 (17.28%) Clean Code
15 122 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
16 118 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
17 108 (15.17%) Analytics
18 98 (13.76%) Coaching
19 91 (12.78%) Roadmaps
20 82 (11.52%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 285 (40.03%) Python
2 142 (19.94%) Java
3 134 (18.82%) PowerShell
4 120 (16.85%) 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
1 120 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.66%) Azure Certification
4 43 (6.04%) Degree
5 35 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.39%) SnowPro
8 13 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.54%) CCNP
10 7 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.84%) CCNA
12 5 (0.70%) CCIE
12 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.42%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.90%) 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 69 (9.69%) 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
2 147 (20.65%) Ansible
3 114 (16.01%) Grafana
4 37 (5.20%) 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
1 163 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.60%) VMware
3 44 (6.18%) Google
4 32 (4.49%) Cisco
5 30 (4.21%) Databricks
6 21 (2.95%) 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