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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 75 67
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 699 775 961
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 4.74% 3.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.64% 19.13% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 486 374 695
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
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 4,468 4,051 6,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.12% 24.78% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,312 2,751 5,193
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,125 £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 £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 3 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 22 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
1 22 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.58%) Apache
3 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.14%) Confluence
5 6 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.57%) Camunda
6 4 (0.57%) IIS
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) 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 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.29%) 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
1 435 (62.23%) AWS
2 397 (56.80%) Azure
3 201 (28.76%) GCP
4 114 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
4 114 (16.31%) GitHub
5 101 (14.45%) SaaS
6 95 (13.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 92 (13.16%) Serverless
8 88 (12.59%) Amazon EKS
9 66 (9.44%) PaaS
10 65 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (8.30%) Amazon S3
12 53 (7.58%) Azure AKS
13 51 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
14 48 (6.87%) IaaS
15 38 (5.44%) Entra ID
16 36 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.15%) Firewall
2 48 (6.87%) VPN
3 45 (6.44%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.87%) DNS
5 27 (3.86%) DHCP
6 21 (3.00%) WAN
7 17 (2.43%) LAN
8 11 (1.57%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.43%) Network Security
10 8 (1.14%) BGP
10 8 (1.14%) Wireless
11 7 (1.00%) AMQP
11 7 (1.00%) SMS
11 7 (1.00%) VLAN
12 6 (0.86%) HTTP
12 6 (0.86%) OSPF
13 5 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (0.57%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.15%) Metadata
4 28 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.58%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 21 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (3.00%) Delta Lake
8 20 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.58%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.58%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.29%) Data Vault
11 15 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (2.00%) BigQuery
12 14 (2.00%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.72%) Big Data
13 12 (1.72%) MySQL
14 11 (1.57%) Power BI
15 9 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (11.30%) Git
2 59 (8.44%) GitLab
3 54 (7.73%) TeamCity
4 48 (6.87%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.43%) JIRA
7 9 (1.29%) Selenium
8 6 (0.86%) JMeter
9 5 (0.72%) JUnit
9 5 (0.72%) Maven
9 5 (0.72%) Postman
9 5 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.57%) NUnit
10 4 (0.57%) Snyk
10 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.43%) MLflow
11 3 (0.43%) Mockito
11 3 (0.43%) Poetry
12 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 182 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 174 (24.89%) Finance
3 101 (14.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (13.73%) Banking
5 95 (13.59%) Law
6 83 (11.87%) Public Sector
7 73 (10.44%) Retail
8 48 (6.87%) Back Office
9 45 (6.44%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (2.00%) Legal
12 11 (1.57%) Marketing
12 11 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.29%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.00%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.86%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.86%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.86%) Local Government
15 6 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 205 (29.33%) Senior
2 111 (15.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 104 (14.88%) Lead
4 99 (14.16%) Software Engineer
5 97 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (12.45%) Azure Engineer
7 76 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (7.01%) Developer
9 47 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 43 (6.15%) Architect
12 42 (6.01%) Data Engineer
12 42 (6.01%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (5.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (4.58%) Python Engineer
16 31 (4.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.29%) Site Engineer
18 28 (4.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.30%) React
2 54 (7.73%) Node.js
3 49 (7.01%) REST
4 35 (5.01%) Kafka
5 32 (4.58%) ARM Templates
6 30 (4.29%) Spring
7 29 (4.15%) PySpark
8 27 (3.86%) .NET
9 26 (3.72%) OAuth
10 24 (3.43%) OpenID
11 23 (3.29%) OAuth2
11 23 (3.29%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.86%) YAML
13 19 (2.72%) AWS CDK
14 17 (2.43%) RESTful
15 16 (2.29%) AngularJS
16 15 (2.15%) NestJS
17 14 (2.00%) SAML
18 13 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
18 13 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 186 (26.61%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (5.15%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.01%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.58%) Blog
8 19 (2.72%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.58%) Podcast
10 14 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.86%) PKI
11 13 (1.86%) Replication
12 12 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.29%) Life Science
15 9 (1.29%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (17.31%) Linux
2 87 (12.45%) Windows
3 40 (5.72%) Windows Server
4 28 (4.01%) Unix
5 13 (1.86%) VMS
6 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.43%) Debian
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.29%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (69.67%) CI/CD
2 463 (66.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 380 (54.36%) DevOps
4 219 (31.33%) Mentoring
5 184 (26.32%) Observability
6 175 (25.04%) Software Engineering
7 167 (23.89%) Agile
7 167 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 158 (22.60%) Platform Engineering
9 150 (21.46%) AI
10 136 (19.46%) Containerisation
11 126 (18.03%) Microservices
12 125 (17.88%) Test Automation
13 121 (17.31%) Clean Code
13 121 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
14 119 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
15 107 (15.31%) Analytics
16 95 (13.59%) Coaching
17 91 (13.02%) Roadmaps
18 80 (11.44%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 280 (40.06%) Python
2 136 (19.46%) Java
3 133 (19.03%) PowerShell
4 115 (16.45%) SQL
5 113 (16.17%) Bicep
6 84 (12.02%) Bash
7 46 (6.58%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.15%) Go
9 35 (5.01%) JavaScript
10 34 (4.86%) C#
11 22 (3.15%) Scala
12 13 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.00%) Groovy
13 7 (1.00%) Ruby
14 6 (0.86%) PHP
15 5 (0.72%) Rust
15 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.87%) Azure Certification
4 46 (6.58%) Degree
5 35 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.43%) SnowPro
8 15 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.43%) CCNP
11 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.86%) CCNA
13 5 (0.72%) CCIE
13 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.72%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.58%) QA
3 13 (1.86%) GDPR
4 12 (1.72%) NIST
5 10 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.29%) SLA
7 8 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.86%) NCSC
9 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.29%) 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
1 187 (26.75%) Docker
2 68 (9.73%) Active Directory
3 44 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.86%) vSphere
6 19 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.43%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.72%) Firmware
9 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.57%) 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
1 285 (40.77%) Kubernetes
2 139 (19.89%) Ansible
3 112 (16.02%) Grafana
4 37 (5.29%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.43%) Argo
6 18 (2.58%) Istio
7 17 (2.43%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.86%) Puppet
10 12 (1.72%) Packer
11 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) Cilium
13 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.29%) Consul
Vendors
1 162 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.72%) VMware
3 45 (6.44%) Google
4 29 (4.15%) Cisco
4 29 (4.15%) Databricks
5 19 (2.72%) Okta
6 17 (2.43%) Oracle
7 16 (2.29%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.15%) Informatica
9 14 (2.00%) Palo Alto
9 14 (2.00%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.72%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.14%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.00%) EMC
14 7 (1.00%) F5
14 7 (1.00%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.86%) Citrix
15 6 (0.86%) Splunk