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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 66 63
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 706 789 985
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.90% 4.84% 4.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.69% 20.36% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 473 369 671
10th Percentile £51,500 £48,600 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £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 £97,500 £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 4,499 3,876 6,799
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.48% 23.76% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,320 2,575 4,839
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 £86,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 18 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 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.83%) Apache
3 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.27%) Confluence
5 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.57%) IIS
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.42%) Camunda
7 3 (0.42%) nginx
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
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%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 447 (63.31%) AWS
2 389 (55.10%) Azure
3 210 (29.75%) GCP
4 116 (16.43%) SaaS
5 115 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (16.29%) GitHub
6 95 (13.46%) Amazon EKS
7 92 (13.03%) Serverless
8 91 (12.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (9.49%) PaaS
10 57 (8.07%) Amazon S3
11 54 (7.65%) Azure AKS
12 49 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (6.94%) IaaS
13 41 (5.81%) Entra ID
14 35 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.94%) Firewall
1 49 (6.94%) VPN
2 46 (6.52%) TCP/IP
3 39 (5.52%) DNS
4 28 (3.97%) DHCP
5 22 (3.12%) WAN
6 17 (2.41%) LAN
7 10 (1.42%) BGP
7 10 (1.42%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.27%) AMQP
8 9 (1.27%) Network Security
8 9 (1.27%) SMS
9 8 (1.13%) OSPF
9 8 (1.13%) VLAN
10 7 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.99%) Wireless
11 6 (0.85%) HTTP
12 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.11%) Metadata
5 25 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (3.26%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.97%) Delta Lake
9 17 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.41%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.27%) Data Vault
11 15 (2.12%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.98%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.84%) Big Data
13 13 (1.84%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.84%) Power BI
14 10 (1.42%) MySQL
15 9 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (10.62%) Git
2 71 (10.06%) TeamCity
3 57 (8.07%) GitLab
4 50 (7.08%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.84%) JIRA
6 8 (1.13%) Selenium
6 8 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.71%) JMeter
7 5 (0.71%) JUnit
7 5 (0.71%) Maven
7 5 (0.71%) Poetry
7 5 (0.71%) Postman
8 4 (0.57%) Snyk
8 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.42%) Mockito
9 3 (0.42%) NUnit
9 3 (0.42%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.28%) MSI
General
1 190 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 180 (25.50%) Finance
3 115 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (15.86%) Law
5 110 (15.58%) Banking
6 95 (13.46%) Retail
7 87 (12.32%) Public Sector
8 60 (8.50%) Back Office
9 57 (8.07%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.70%) Marketing
12 11 (1.56%) Legal
12 11 (1.56%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.42%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.27%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.99%) Local Government
16 5 (0.71%) Billing
17 4 (0.57%) Aviation
17 4 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 214 (30.31%) Senior
2 111 (15.72%) Software Engineer
3 110 (15.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 107 (15.16%) Lead
5 90 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (12.32%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (6.94%) Developer
9 47 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.23%) Data Engineer
11 42 (5.95%) Architect
11 42 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 41 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.25%) Python Engineer
17 30 (4.25%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (9.49%) React
2 51 (7.22%) Node.js
3 45 (6.37%) REST
4 32 (4.53%) ARM Templates
5 31 (4.39%) Kafka
5 31 (4.39%) PySpark
5 31 (4.39%) Spring
6 28 (3.97%) OAuth
7 27 (3.82%) .NET
8 26 (3.68%) Spring Boot
9 25 (3.54%) OpenID
10 24 (3.40%) OAuth2
11 20 (2.83%) YAML
12 18 (2.55%) AWS CDK
13 17 (2.41%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.27%) RESTful
15 15 (2.12%) NestJS
15 15 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (1.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (28.05%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (4.67%) Blog
6 32 (4.53%) Public Cloud
7 28 (3.97%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.83%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.12%) Podcast
10 13 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.84%) PKI
10 13 (1.84%) Replication
11 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.27%) Life Science
13 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (17.00%) Linux
2 83 (11.76%) Windows
3 36 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.11%) 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
1 499 (70.68%) CI/CD
2 456 (64.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 379 (53.68%) DevOps
4 226 (32.01%) Mentoring
5 185 (26.20%) Observability
6 182 (25.78%) Software Engineering
7 166 (23.51%) Agile
7 166 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 162 (22.95%) AI
9 149 (21.10%) Platform Engineering
10 136 (19.26%) Microservices
11 132 (18.70%) Clean Code
12 130 (18.41%) Test Automation
13 127 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (17.71%) Containerisation
15 111 (15.72%) Technical Leadership
16 107 (15.16%) Analytics
16 107 (15.16%) Coaching
17 93 (13.17%) Deployment Automation
18 82 (11.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 273 (38.67%) Python
2 158 (22.38%) Java
3 135 (19.12%) PowerShell
4 124 (17.56%) SQL
5 113 (16.01%) Bicep
6 85 (12.04%) Bash
7 47 (6.66%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.38%) Go
8 38 (5.38%) JavaScript
9 36 (5.10%) C#
10 24 (3.40%) Scala
11 14 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.13%) Groovy
13 7 (0.99%) Ruby
14 6 (0.85%) PHP
14 6 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.71%) Rust
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.33%) Azure Certification
4 38 (5.38%) Degree
5 36 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.41%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.27%) CCNP
11 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.71%) CCNA
13 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.57%) CCIE
14 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.42%) OCP
15 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.68%) QA
3 15 (2.12%) GDPR
4 14 (1.98%) NIST
5 11 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) SLA
7 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.99%) NCSC
9 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
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%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 181 (25.64%) Docker
2 67 (9.49%) Active Directory
3 41 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.55%) vSphere
6 15 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.42%) Firmware
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 287 (40.65%) Kubernetes
2 139 (19.69%) Ansible
3 125 (17.71%) Grafana
4 39 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.11%) Argo
6 20 (2.83%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.70%) Istio
8 12 (1.70%) Packer
9 11 (1.56%) Puppet
10 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
13 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.42%) Cilium
13 3 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 161 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.37%) Google
3 44 (6.23%) VMware
4 32 (4.53%) Databricks
5 27 (3.82%) Cisco
6 20 (2.83%) Okta
7 18 (2.55%) Oracle
8 16 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.27%) Informatica
9 15 (2.12%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.42%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.85%) Citrix
13 6 (0.85%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.85%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.85%) Splunk