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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 72 62
Rank change year-on-year -13 -10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 734 761 922
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.95% 4.58% 4.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.49% 20.20% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 477 327 619
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,625 £91,250
90th Percentile £106,000 £97,500 £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 4,451 3,767 6,625
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.89% 22.67% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,250 2,440 4,474
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 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -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 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 23 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.00%) Apache
3 16 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.95%) Confluence
4 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.68%) Camunda
6 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 3 (0.41%) nginx
6 3 (0.41%) WordPress
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) 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
1 476 (64.85%) AWS
2 379 (51.63%) Azure
3 238 (32.43%) GCP
4 146 (19.89%) SaaS
5 127 (17.30%) GitHub
6 122 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (15.40%) Amazon EKS
8 99 (13.49%) Serverless
9 88 (11.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (10.08%) PaaS
11 71 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (8.04%) Amazon S3
13 57 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
14 55 (7.49%) IaaS
15 52 (7.08%) Azure AKS
15 52 (7.08%) Entra ID
16 50 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (5.59%) Azure Key Vault
18 34 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
18 34 (4.63%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (8.99%) VPN
2 55 (7.49%) Firewall
3 54 (7.36%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.31%) DNS
5 23 (3.13%) DHCP
6 22 (3.00%) BGP
7 20 (2.72%) WAN
8 17 (2.32%) Network Security
8 17 (2.32%) VLAN
9 13 (1.77%) LAN
10 12 (1.63%) AMQP
10 12 (1.63%) SMS
11 8 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.95%) Wireless
13 6 (0.82%) OSPF
14 5 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
14 5 (0.68%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.68%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (14.31%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (4.22%) Metadata
5 24 (3.27%) DynamoDB
6 23 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.86%) Delta Lake
9 19 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.45%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.18%) Data Vault
11 16 (2.18%) Power BI
12 14 (1.91%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.77%) Big Data
13 13 (1.77%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.77%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.23%) MySQL
15 8 (1.09%) Redis
16 7 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 99 (13.49%) TeamCity
2 62 (8.45%) Git
3 58 (7.90%) GitLab
4 53 (7.22%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.63%) JIRA
6 7 (0.95%) JUnit
6 7 (0.95%) Selenium
6 7 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.68%) Mockito
7 5 (0.68%) Poetry
7 5 (0.68%) Postman
7 5 (0.68%) Snyk
8 4 (0.54%) Maven
8 4 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.54%) 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 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 204 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 202 (27.52%) Finance
3 133 (18.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 130 (17.71%) Law
5 128 (17.44%) Banking
6 115 (15.67%) Retail
7 97 (13.22%) Public Sector
8 79 (10.76%) Back Office
9 76 (10.35%) Financial Institution
10 46 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.63%) Health Technology
11 12 (1.63%) Marketing
11 12 (1.63%) Tech for Good
12 10 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.09%) Legal
14 7 (0.95%) Local Government
14 7 (0.95%) Police
15 6 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.54%) Games
16 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 241 (32.83%) Senior
2 130 (17.71%) Software Engineer
3 107 (14.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 101 (13.76%) Lead
5 96 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (10.90%) Azure Engineer
7 65 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
8 55 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 51 (6.95%) Developer
10 49 (6.68%) Architect
11 47 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 42 (5.72%) Data Engineer
13 38 (5.18%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 35 (4.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (4.09%) Python Engineer
18 30 (4.09%) Site Engineer
19 29 (3.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (9.67%) React
2 52 (7.08%) Node.js
3 44 (5.99%) REST
4 34 (4.63%) Spring
5 32 (4.36%) OAuth
5 32 (4.36%) PySpark
6 31 (4.22%) Spring Boot
7 30 (4.09%) .NET
8 29 (3.95%) OAuth2
8 29 (3.95%) OpenID
9 28 (3.81%) ARM Templates
9 28 (3.81%) Kafka
10 24 (3.27%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (3.00%) RESTful
12 19 (2.59%) YAML
13 17 (2.32%) AWS CDK
14 15 (2.04%) NestJS
14 15 (2.04%) Next.js
14 15 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (31.34%) Cloud Native
2 77 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.49%) Product Ownership
4 52 (7.08%) Blog
5 31 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.81%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.81%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.68%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.18%) Replication
11 14 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.63%) Podcast
13 11 (1.50%) PKI
14 10 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.23%) Life Science
15 9 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 115 (15.67%) Linux
2 72 (9.81%) Windows
3 28 (3.81%) Unix
3 28 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.77%) VMS
5 5 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.41%) Debian
8 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (73.30%) CI/CD
2 467 (63.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 389 (53.00%) DevOps
4 234 (31.88%) Mentoring
5 208 (28.34%) Software Engineering
6 201 (27.38%) Observability
7 185 (25.20%) AI
8 171 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 162 (22.07%) Agile
10 150 (20.44%) Microservices
11 148 (20.16%) Platform Engineering
11 148 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
12 147 (20.03%) Clean Code
13 146 (19.89%) Test Automation
14 133 (18.12%) Containerisation
15 123 (16.76%) Technical Leadership
16 114 (15.53%) Coaching
17 113 (15.40%) Deployment Automation
18 112 (15.26%) Analytics
19 107 (14.58%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 291 (39.65%) Python
2 195 (26.57%) Java
3 145 (19.75%) SQL
4 136 (18.53%) PowerShell
5 122 (16.62%) Bicep
6 100 (13.62%) Bash
7 55 (7.49%) TypeScript
8 54 (7.36%) Go
9 41 (5.59%) JavaScript
10 39 (5.31%) C#
11 27 (3.68%) Scala
12 13 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.95%) Groovy
14 7 (0.95%) PHP
14 7 (0.95%) Ruby
15 5 (0.68%) Rust
16 4 (0.54%) C
17 2 (0.27%) C++
17 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 130 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.90%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.04%) Degree
5 35 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.32%) SnowPro
8 14 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.23%) CISSP
11 9 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.95%) CISM
13 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.82%) CCNP
13 6 (0.82%) CCSP
14 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.81%) QA
3 26 (3.54%) PCI DSS
4 25 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (3.13%) NIST
6 18 (2.45%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.91%) GDPR
8 11 (1.50%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.09%) SLA
10 6 (0.82%) NCSC
11 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.27%) IFRS
12 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.14%) PSD2
13 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 200 (27.25%) Docker
2 58 (7.90%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.32%) vSphere
7 9 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.14%) LXC
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.14%) QEMU
10 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 317 (43.19%) Kubernetes
2 159 (21.66%) Grafana
3 132 (17.98%) Ansible
4 49 (6.68%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.95%) Argo
6 21 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.77%) Packer
9 12 (1.63%) Istio
10 9 (1.23%) Cilium
11 8 (1.09%) Puppet
12 5 (0.68%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.54%) linkerd
14 3 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.27%) Kibana
15 2 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 165 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.13%) Google
3 39 (5.31%) VMware
4 33 (4.50%) Databricks
5 24 (3.27%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.72%) Cisco
7 17 (2.32%) Okta
7 17 (2.32%) Oracle
8 16 (2.18%) Informatica
9 15 (2.04%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.63%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.36%) Splunk
12 9 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.09%) YouTube
14 7 (0.95%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.68%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.68%) New Relic