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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 726 769 945
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.93% 4.58% 4.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.38% 20.39% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 481 333 632
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,250 £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 4,432 3,771 6,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.87% 22.45% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,258 2,449 4,525
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £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 8 October 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 24 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.03%) Apache
4 17 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.96%) Confluence
5 7 (0.96%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 3 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.41%) nginx
7 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.41%) WordPress
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
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
1 467 (64.33%) AWS
2 382 (52.62%) Azure
3 229 (31.54%) GCP
4 141 (19.42%) SaaS
5 125 (17.22%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (16.94%) GitHub
7 109 (15.01%) Amazon EKS
8 99 (13.64%) Serverless
9 92 (12.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (10.19%) PaaS
11 69 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (7.85%) Amazon S3
12 57 (7.85%) Azure Monitor
13 56 (7.71%) Azure AKS
14 55 (7.58%) IaaS
15 52 (7.16%) Entra ID
16 50 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
18 35 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.68%) VPN
2 54 (7.44%) Firewall
3 51 (7.02%) TCP/IP
4 40 (5.51%) DNS
5 24 (3.31%) DHCP
6 20 (2.75%) WAN
7 18 (2.48%) BGP
8 16 (2.20%) Network Security
9 13 (1.79%) LAN
10 12 (1.65%) AMQP
10 12 (1.65%) SMS
10 12 (1.65%) VLAN
11 8 (1.10%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.96%) Wireless
13 6 (0.83%) OSPF
14 5 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.69%) HTTP
14 5 (0.69%) VXLAN
15 4 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (13.77%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (4.27%) Metadata
5 24 (3.31%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.89%) Delta Lake
8 19 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.20%) Data Vault
11 14 (1.93%) Power BI
12 13 (1.79%) Big Data
12 13 (1.79%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.79%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.65%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.24%) MySQL
15 8 (1.10%) Redis
16 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 92 (12.67%) TeamCity
2 62 (8.54%) GitLab
3 61 (8.40%) Git
4 53 (7.30%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.65%) JIRA
6 7 (0.96%) JUnit
6 7 (0.96%) Selenium
6 7 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.69%) Mockito
7 5 (0.69%) Poetry
7 5 (0.69%) Postman
7 5 (0.69%) Snyk
8 4 (0.55%) Maven
8 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.55%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 204 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 196 (27.00%) Finance
3 127 (17.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 124 (17.08%) Law
5 121 (16.67%) Banking
6 108 (14.88%) Retail
7 99 (13.64%) Public Sector
8 75 (10.33%) Back Office
9 72 (9.92%) Financial Institution
10 45 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.79%) Health Technology
12 12 (1.65%) Tech for Good
13 11 (1.52%) Marketing
14 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.10%) Legal
16 7 (0.96%) Local Government
16 7 (0.96%) Police
17 6 (0.83%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.55%) Games
18 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (32.78%) Senior
2 123 (16.94%) Software Engineer
3 106 (14.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 101 (13.91%) Lead
5 96 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 82 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
8 54 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 50 (6.89%) Developer
10 49 (6.75%) Architect
11 41 (5.65%) Data Engineer
12 40 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 39 (5.37%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 36 (4.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.13%) Python Engineer
17 30 (4.13%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.50%) React
2 54 (7.44%) Node.js
3 44 (6.06%) REST
4 33 (4.55%) Spring
5 32 (4.41%) OAuth
5 32 (4.41%) PySpark
6 30 (4.13%) Spring Boot
7 29 (3.99%) ARM Templates
7 29 (3.99%) Kafka
7 29 (3.99%) OAuth2
7 29 (3.99%) OpenID
8 28 (3.86%) .NET
9 22 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
10 19 (2.62%) RESTful
10 19 (2.62%) YAML
11 17 (2.34%) AWS CDK
12 15 (2.07%) NestJS
12 15 (2.07%) Next.js
12 15 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (2.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 222 (30.58%) Cloud Native
2 71 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 45 (6.20%) Blog
5 34 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (3.72%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.72%) Public Cloud
6 27 (3.72%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.07%) Replication
10 12 (1.65%) Podcast
11 11 (1.52%) PKI
12 10 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.24%) Life Science
13 9 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 112 (15.43%) Linux
2 76 (10.47%) Windows
3 30 (4.13%) Unix
4 29 (3.99%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.65%) VMS
6 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.41%) Debian
8 2 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.28%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (72.87%) CI/CD
2 464 (63.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 389 (53.58%) DevOps
4 237 (32.64%) Mentoring
5 200 (27.55%) Software Engineering
6 197 (27.13%) Observability
7 178 (24.52%) AI
8 169 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (22.59%) Agile
10 150 (20.66%) Microservices
11 149 (20.52%) Platform Engineering
12 143 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
13 140 (19.28%) Test Automation
14 139 (19.15%) Clean Code
15 130 (17.91%) Containerisation
16 117 (16.12%) Technical Leadership
17 114 (15.70%) Coaching
18 113 (15.56%) Analytics
19 109 (15.01%) Deployment Automation
20 101 (13.91%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 282 (38.84%) Python
2 187 (25.76%) Java
3 138 (19.01%) SQL
4 135 (18.60%) PowerShell
5 120 (16.53%) Bicep
6 95 (13.09%) Bash
7 54 (7.44%) TypeScript
8 50 (6.89%) Go
9 40 (5.51%) JavaScript
10 37 (5.10%) C#
11 26 (3.58%) Scala
12 13 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.96%) Groovy
13 7 (0.96%) PHP
13 7 (0.96%) Ruby
13 7 (0.96%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.69%) Rust
15 4 (0.55%) C
16 2 (0.28%) C++
16 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 127 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.02%) Azure Certification
4 35 (4.82%) Degree
4 35 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.34%) SnowPro
7 14 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.10%) CISSP
12 7 (0.96%) CCNP
13 6 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.83%) CISM
14 5 (0.69%) CCSP
14 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.55%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.86%) QA
3 23 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (3.03%) NIST
4 22 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.07%) GDPR
6 14 (1.93%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.10%) SLA
8 6 (0.83%) NCSC
9 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
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 PLUS
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 196 (27.00%) Docker
2 59 (8.13%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.20%) vSphere
7 9 (1.24%) 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
1 308 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 150 (20.66%) Grafana
3 132 (18.18%) Ansible
4 46 (6.34%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.41%) Argo
6 20 (2.75%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.65%) Istio
8 12 (1.65%) Packer
9 11 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.10%) Cilium
10 8 (1.10%) Puppet
11 5 (0.69%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.55%) linkerd
13 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.28%) Kibana
15 1 (0.14%) Opsview
Vendors
1 162 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.26%) Google
3 38 (5.23%) VMware
4 33 (4.55%) Databricks
5 24 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.62%) Cisco
7 17 (2.34%) Okta
7 17 (2.34%) Oracle
8 16 (2.20%) Informatica
9 15 (2.07%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.65%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.96%) ForgeRock
12 7 (0.96%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.96%) Splunk
12 7 (0.96%) YouTube
13 6 (0.83%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.55%) Meraki
14 4 (0.55%) New Relic