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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 70 68
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -21
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 706 787 963
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 4.77% 3.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.67% 19.09% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 493 382 704
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,125
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 4,504 4,123 6,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.32% 24.98% 28.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,347 2,805 5,261
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -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 29 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 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
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
1 437 (61.90%) AWS
2 401 (56.80%) Azure
3 201 (28.47%) GCP
4 113 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
5 112 (15.86%) GitHub
6 102 (14.45%) SaaS
7 94 (13.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 92 (13.03%) Serverless
9 90 (12.75%) Amazon EKS
10 66 (9.35%) PaaS
11 62 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.22%) Amazon S3
13 51 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (7.22%) Azure AKS
14 48 (6.80%) IaaS
15 46 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
16 37 (5.24%) Entra ID
17 36 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
18 34 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 33 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.79%) Firewall
2 49 (6.94%) VPN
3 45 (6.37%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.81%) DNS
5 27 (3.82%) DHCP
6 21 (2.97%) WAN
7 19 (2.69%) LAN
8 12 (1.70%) Network Security
9 11 (1.56%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.27%) Wireless
11 8 (1.13%) BGP
11 8 (1.13%) VLAN
12 7 (0.99%) AMQP
12 7 (0.99%) SMS
13 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.85%) HTTP
13 6 (0.85%) OSPF
14 5 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.71%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.25%) Metadata
4 27 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (3.40%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.40%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.12%) Delta Lake
7 21 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.69%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.69%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.27%) Data Vault
11 14 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.98%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.98%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.70%) Big Data
12 12 (1.70%) MySQL
12 12 (1.70%) Power BI
13 10 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (11.61%) Git
2 56 (7.93%) GitLab
3 54 (7.65%) TeamCity
4 48 (6.80%) 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
11 2 (0.28%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.28%) Locust
11 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 180 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 177 (25.07%) Finance
3 100 (14.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (13.88%) Banking
5 95 (13.46%) Law
6 83 (11.76%) Public Sector
7 74 (10.48%) Retail
8 47 (6.66%) Back Office
9 45 (6.37%) Financial Institution
10 44 (6.23%) 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
1 206 (29.18%) Senior
2 110 (15.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 102 (14.45%) Lead
4 98 (13.88%) Software Engineer
5 97 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (12.32%) Azure Engineer
7 77 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
9 49 (6.94%) Developer
10 47 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 44 (6.23%) Data Engineer
12 43 (6.09%) Architect
12 43 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (5.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.67%) Python Engineer
14 33 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 31 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.25%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.21%) React
2 53 (7.51%) Node.js
3 49 (6.94%) REST
4 39 (5.52%) Kafka
5 32 (4.53%) ARM Templates
6 29 (4.11%) PySpark
6 29 (4.11%) Spring
7 28 (3.97%) .NET
8 26 (3.68%) OAuth
9 24 (3.40%) OpenID
10 23 (3.26%) OAuth2
11 22 (3.12%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.83%) YAML
13 19 (2.69%) AWS CDK
14 17 (2.41%) RESTful
15 16 (2.27%) AngularJS
16 15 (2.12%) NestJS
17 14 (1.98%) SAML
18 13 (1.84%) OpenTelemetry
18 13 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 187 (26.49%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (5.24%) Public Cloud
6 29 (4.11%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.40%) 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 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.42%) 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%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 124 (17.56%) Linux
2 90 (12.75%) Windows
3 41 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.97%) 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
1 487 (68.98%) CI/CD
2 466 (66.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 384 (54.39%) DevOps
4 216 (30.59%) Mentoring
5 183 (25.92%) Observability
6 173 (24.50%) Software Engineering
7 169 (23.94%) Agile
8 167 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (22.38%) Platform Engineering
10 150 (21.25%) AI
11 138 (19.55%) Containerisation
12 125 (17.71%) Microservices
13 123 (17.42%) Test Automation
14 121 (17.14%) Clean Code
15 119 (16.86%) Technical Leadership
16 118 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
17 106 (15.01%) Analytics
18 93 (13.17%) Coaching
19 92 (13.03%) Roadmaps
20 81 (11.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 284 (40.23%) Python
2 134 (18.98%) Java
3 133 (18.84%) PowerShell
4 116 (16.43%) SQL
5 113 (16.01%) Bicep
6 83 (11.76%) Bash
7 46 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 45 (6.37%) Go
9 35 (4.96%) C#
9 35 (4.96%) JavaScript
10 23 (3.26%) Scala
11 13 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.99%) Groovy
12 7 (0.99%) Ruby
13 6 (0.85%) PHP
14 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.57%) Rust
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 85 (12.04%) Azure Certification
4 48 (6.80%) Degree
5 36 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.41%) SnowPro
8 16 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.84%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.70%) CCNP
12 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.99%) CCNA
13 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.85%) CCIE
14 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.57%) MCSE
15 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.81%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.54%) QA
3 15 (2.12%) GDPR
4 13 (1.84%) NIST
5 12 (1.70%) 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 5 (0.71%) 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%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (26.35%) Docker
2 68 (9.63%) Active Directory
3 46 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (3.12%) vSphere
5 21 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.42%) 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
1 287 (40.65%) Kubernetes
2 141 (19.97%) Ansible
3 113 (16.01%) Grafana
4 38 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.39%) Argo
6 20 (2.83%) Istio
7 17 (2.41%) 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
13 3 (0.42%) Cilium
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 165 (23.37%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.08%) VMware
3 45 (6.37%) Google
4 32 (4.53%) Cisco
5 31 (4.39%) Databricks
6 19 (2.69%) Okta
7 17 (2.41%) Oracle
8 16 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.27%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.12%) Informatica
10 14 (1.98%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.42%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
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