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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 71 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 712 779 986
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.97% 4.80% 4.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.72% 20.05% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 489 365 680
10th Percentile £52,250 £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 £88,148 £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 4,528 3,885 6,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.88% 23.92% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,346 2,587 4,931
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £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 11 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%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 452 (63.48%) AWS
2 398 (55.90%) Azure
3 206 (28.93%) GCP
4 116 (16.29%) GitHub
5 115 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (14.89%) SaaS
7 95 (13.34%) Serverless
8 93 (13.06%) Amazon EKS
8 93 (13.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (9.27%) GitHub Actions
10 65 (9.13%) PaaS
11 61 (8.57%) Amazon S3
12 53 (7.44%) Azure AKS
13 52 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
14 48 (6.74%) IaaS
15 39 (5.48%) Entra ID
16 36 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.02%) Firewall
2 47 (6.60%) VPN
3 46 (6.46%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.76%) DNS
5 28 (3.93%) 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 83 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.07%) Metadata
4 28 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 23 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (2.95%) Delta Lake
9 18 (2.53%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (2.25%) Data Vault
11 16 (2.25%) NoSQL
11 16 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.83%) Big Data
12 13 (1.83%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.69%) Power BI
14 11 (1.54%) MySQL
15 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (11.10%) Git
2 60 (8.43%) TeamCity
3 58 (8.15%) GitLab
4 50 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.69%) JIRA
6 10 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (1.26%) Selenium
8 8 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.70%) JMeter
9 5 (0.70%) JUnit
9 5 (0.70%) Maven
9 5 (0.70%) Poetry
9 5 (0.70%) Postman
10 4 (0.56%) NUnit
10 4 (0.56%) Snyk
10 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.42%) MLflow
11 3 (0.42%) Mockito
11 3 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 185 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 179 (25.14%) Finance
3 105 (14.75%) Banking
3 105 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (14.04%) Law
5 89 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 83 (11.66%) Retail
7 51 (7.16%) Back Office
8 48 (6.74%) Financial Institution
9 41 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (1.83%) Marketing
10 13 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.69%) Legal
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 5 (0.70%) Aviation
15 5 (0.70%) Billing
15 5 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (30.20%) Senior
2 111 (15.59%) Cloud Engineer
3 106 (14.89%) Lead
3 106 (14.89%) Software Engineer
4 96 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (12.08%) Azure Engineer
6 74 (10.39%) Platform Engineer
7 53 (7.44%) Developer
8 48 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (6.32%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.04%) Architect
11 43 (6.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 41 (5.76%) Senior DevOps
13 38 (5.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
15 31 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.21%) Python Engineer
16 30 (4.21%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.55%) React
2 54 (7.58%) Node.js
3 47 (6.60%) REST
4 38 (5.34%) Kafka
5 35 (4.92%) Spring
6 32 (4.49%) ARM Templates
7 31 (4.35%) PySpark
8 28 (3.93%) OAuth
8 28 (3.93%) Spring Boot
9 27 (3.79%) .NET
10 26 (3.65%) OpenID
11 25 (3.51%) OAuth2
12 21 (2.95%) 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
1 191 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (4.78%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.21%) Blog
7 29 (4.07%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.81%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.25%) Podcast
10 14 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.83%) PKI
11 13 (1.83%) Replication
12 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.26%) Life Science
14 9 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (16.85%) Linux
2 85 (11.94%) Windows
3 38 (5.34%) 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
1 495 (69.52%) CI/CD
2 462 (64.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 380 (53.37%) DevOps
4 222 (31.18%) Mentoring
5 187 (26.26%) Observability
6 181 (25.42%) Software Engineering
7 171 (24.02%) Agile
8 166 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 156 (21.91%) AI
10 153 (21.49%) Platform Engineering
11 134 (18.82%) Containerisation
12 129 (18.12%) Microservices
13 128 (17.98%) Test Automation
14 126 (17.70%) Clean Code
15 123 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
16 115 (16.15%) Technical Leadership
17 108 (15.17%) Analytics
18 99 (13.90%) Coaching
19 87 (12.22%) Roadmaps
20 84 (11.80%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 282 (39.61%) Python
2 148 (20.79%) Java
3 132 (18.54%) PowerShell
4 121 (16.99%) SQL
5 112 (15.73%) Bicep
6 84 (11.80%) Bash
7 49 (6.88%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.04%) Go
9 37 (5.20%) 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 80 (11.24%) Azure Certification
4 41 (5.76%) 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%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.42%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.65%) QA
3 13 (1.83%) GDPR
3 13 (1.83%) NIST
4 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.26%) SLA
6 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
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
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 192 (26.97%) Docker
2 67 (9.41%) Active Directory
3 43 (6.04%) 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
1 289 (40.59%) Kubernetes
2 142 (19.94%) Ansible
3 116 (16.29%) Grafana
4 38 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.21%) Argo
6 19 (2.67%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.53%) Istio
8 16 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.83%) Packer
10 12 (1.69%) Puppet
11 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
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%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.42%) Cilium
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 160 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.46%) VMware
3 44 (6.18%) Google
4 31 (4.35%) Cisco
4 31 (4.35%) Databricks
5 20 (2.81%) Okta
6 17 (2.39%) Oracle
7 16 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.25%) Informatica
8 15 (2.11%) Ping Identity
9 13 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.12%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.84%) Citrix
14 6 (0.84%) EMC
14 6 (0.84%) F5
14 6 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.84%) Splunk