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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 70 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 -6 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 710 776 968
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.86% 4.68% 4.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.74% 20.25% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 475 346 645
10th Percentile £51,750 £48,125 £48,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,500 £98,125 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -

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 4,512 3,833 6,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.20% 23.10% 29.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,321 2,515 4,650
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £49,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 27 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 25 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.96%) Apache
4 16 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.85%) Confluence
5 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.70%) Camunda
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.42%) WordPress
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
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 2 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 457 (64.37%) AWS
2 379 (53.38%) Azure
3 217 (30.56%) GCP
4 129 (18.17%) SaaS
5 119 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (16.62%) GitHub
7 104 (14.65%) Amazon EKS
8 98 (13.80%) Serverless
9 90 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (9.72%) PaaS
11 66 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.17%) Amazon S3
13 55 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
14 54 (7.61%) Azure AKS
15 51 (7.18%) IaaS
16 50 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
17 49 (6.90%) Entra ID
18 37 (5.21%) Azure Key Vault
19 34 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 34 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.46%) VPN
2 48 (6.76%) Firewall
3 47 (6.62%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.49%) DNS
5 28 (3.94%) DHCP
6 20 (2.82%) WAN
7 14 (1.97%) LAN
8 12 (1.69%) BGP
9 11 (1.55%) Network Security
10 10 (1.41%) AMQP
10 10 (1.41%) SMS
11 9 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.27%) VLAN
12 7 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.99%) OSPF
12 7 (0.99%) Wireless
13 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.70%) HTTP
13 5 (0.70%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.56%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.37%) Metadata
4 28 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (3.24%) DynamoDB
9 21 (2.96%) Delta Lake
10 17 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (2.39%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.25%) Data Vault
12 15 (2.11%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.97%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.97%) Power BI
13 14 (1.97%) Relational Database
14 13 (1.83%) Big Data
15 9 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.27%) MySQL
15 9 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (10.99%) TeamCity
2 67 (9.44%) Git
3 59 (8.31%) GitLab
4 52 (7.32%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.55%) JIRA
6 7 (0.99%) JUnit
6 7 (0.99%) Selenium
6 7 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.70%) Mockito
7 5 (0.70%) Poetry
7 5 (0.70%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) Maven
8 4 (0.56%) Snyk
8 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.56%) Vagrant
8 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.42%) JMeter
10 2 (0.28%) MSI
10 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 199 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 187 (26.34%) Finance
3 122 (17.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (16.76%) Law
5 117 (16.48%) Banking
6 103 (14.51%) Retail
7 95 (13.38%) Public Sector
8 67 (9.44%) Back Office
9 64 (9.01%) Financial Institution
10 40 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.55%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.55%) Marketing
12 10 (1.41%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.27%) Legal
13 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.99%) Local Government
15 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.70%) Police
17 4 (0.56%) Games
17 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (31.55%) Senior
2 118 (16.62%) Software Engineer
3 108 (15.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 104 (14.65%) Lead
5 89 (12.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (11.41%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (9.58%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (6.76%) Developer
9 47 (6.62%) Architect
10 46 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (6.06%) Data Engineer
12 39 (5.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 38 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (4.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 31 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.23%) Python Engineer
16 30 (4.23%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.58%) React
2 51 (7.18%) Node.js
3 45 (6.34%) REST
4 35 (4.93%) Spring
5 31 (4.37%) Kafka
5 31 (4.37%) PySpark
5 31 (4.37%) Spring Boot
6 30 (4.23%) OAuth
7 29 (4.08%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.66%) OAuth2
8 26 (3.66%) OpenID
9 25 (3.52%) .NET
10 19 (2.68%) YAML
11 18 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (2.39%) AWS CDK
12 17 (2.39%) RESTful
13 16 (2.25%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.11%) NestJS
14 15 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (2.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 204 (28.73%) Cloud Native
2 64 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.61%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.21%) Blog
4 37 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.94%) Public Cloud
6 23 (3.24%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.97%) Replication
9 13 (1.83%) PKI
9 13 (1.83%) Podcast
10 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.27%) Life Science
11 9 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.92%) Linux
2 80 (11.27%) Windows
3 32 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.23%) Unix
5 12 (1.69%) VMS
6 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) Debian
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.28%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (71.69%) CI/CD
2 460 (64.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 382 (53.80%) DevOps
4 229 (32.25%) Mentoring
5 191 (26.90%) Observability
5 191 (26.90%) Software Engineering
6 168 (23.66%) AI
7 167 (23.52%) Agile
7 167 (23.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 144 (20.28%) Microservices
9 143 (20.14%) Platform Engineering
10 134 (18.87%) Clean Code
10 134 (18.87%) Test Automation
11 131 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (17.89%) Containerisation
13 112 (15.77%) Analytics
14 111 (15.63%) Coaching
14 111 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
15 101 (14.23%) Deployment Automation
16 88 (12.39%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 273 (38.45%) Python
2 173 (24.37%) Java
3 134 (18.87%) PowerShell
4 131 (18.45%) SQL
5 116 (16.34%) Bicep
6 90 (12.68%) Bash
7 49 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.92%) Go
9 37 (5.21%) JavaScript
10 35 (4.93%) C#
11 26 (3.66%) Scala
12 14 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.99%) Groovy
14 7 (0.99%) Ruby
15 6 (0.85%) PHP
16 5 (0.70%) Rust
17 3 (0.42%) C
17 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 125 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.13%) Azure Certification
4 34 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (4.51%) Degree
6 20 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.39%) SnowPro
8 10 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.99%) CCNP
12 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.56%) CCNA
14 4 (0.56%) CISSP
15 3 (0.42%) CCIE
15 3 (0.42%) OCP
15 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.66%) QA
3 16 (2.25%) NIST
4 15 (2.11%) GDPR
4 15 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.13%) SLA
7 7 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.85%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
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
1 187 (26.34%) Docker
2 65 (9.15%) Active Directory
3 36 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.25%) vSphere
7 10 (1.41%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.28%) Firmware
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 300 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 138 (19.44%) Grafana
3 133 (18.73%) Ansible
4 42 (5.92%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.23%) Argo
6 20 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.69%) Istio
8 12 (1.69%) Packer
9 9 (1.27%) Puppet
9 9 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.70%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.56%) Cilium
11 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.56%) linkerd
12 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 158 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.90%) Google
3 40 (5.63%) VMware
4 32 (4.51%) Databricks
5 22 (3.10%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.82%) Cisco
6 20 (2.82%) Okta
7 18 (2.54%) Oracle
8 16 (2.25%) Informatica
9 15 (2.11%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.99%) ForgeRock
12 7 (0.99%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.99%) Splunk
13 6 (0.85%) Citrix
13 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.85%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.70%) IBM
14 5 (0.70%) YouTube