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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 71 61
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 711 771 987
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.93% 4.75% 4.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.74% 19.99% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 478 358 671
10th Percentile £52,125 £50,750 £47,500
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 £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 4,516 3,857 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.58% 23.74% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,331 2,567 4,829
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 £86,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,250 £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 17 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 (1.27%) Confluence
5 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.56%) IIS
6 4 (0.56%) 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
1 451 (63.43%) AWS
2 391 (54.99%) Azure
3 211 (29.68%) GCP
4 115 (16.17%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (16.17%) GitHub
4 115 (16.17%) SaaS
5 94 (13.22%) Amazon EKS
5 94 (13.22%) Serverless
6 91 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
7 67 (9.42%) PaaS
8 57 (8.02%) Amazon S3
9 54 (7.59%) Azure AKS
10 49 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (6.89%) Azure Monitor
10 49 (6.89%) IaaS
11 41 (5.77%) Entra ID
12 35 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (4.64%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.03%) Firewall
2 49 (6.89%) VPN
3 46 (6.47%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.49%) DNS
5 28 (3.94%) DHCP
6 23 (3.23%) WAN
7 18 (2.53%) LAN
8 11 (1.55%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.41%) BGP
9 10 (1.41%) Network Security
10 9 (1.27%) AMQP
10 9 (1.27%) SMS
11 8 (1.13%) OSPF
11 8 (1.13%) VLAN
11 8 (1.13%) Wireless
12 7 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (0.84%) HTTP
14 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.70%) VXLAN
15 4 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (4.22%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.08%) Metadata
5 25 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.95%) Delta Lake
9 17 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.39%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.25%) Data Vault
10 16 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.97%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.83%) Big Data
12 13 (1.83%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.83%) Power BI
13 10 (1.41%) MySQL
14 9 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (10.69%) Git
2 70 (9.85%) TeamCity
3 57 (8.02%) GitLab
4 50 (7.03%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.83%) JIRA
6 8 (1.13%) Selenium
6 8 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.70%) JMeter
7 5 (0.70%) JUnit
7 5 (0.70%) Maven
7 5 (0.70%) Poetry
7 5 (0.70%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) Snyk
8 4 (0.56%) 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
1 192 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 180 (25.32%) Finance
3 114 (16.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (15.61%) Law
5 110 (15.47%) Banking
6 94 (13.22%) Retail
7 87 (12.24%) Public Sector
8 59 (8.30%) Back Office
9 56 (7.88%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.69%) Marketing
11 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.55%) Legal
13 10 (1.41%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.27%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.98%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.98%) Local Government
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
17 4 (0.56%) Aviation
17 4 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 216 (30.38%) Senior
2 112 (15.75%) Software Engineer
3 111 (15.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 107 (15.05%) Lead
5 90 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (10.13%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.03%) Developer
9 47 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.19%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.05%) Architect
12 42 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 41 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
15 36 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 34 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (4.36%) Python Engineer
17 31 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (4.22%) Site Engineer
19 28 (3.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (9.42%) React
2 51 (7.17%) Node.js
3 47 (6.61%) REST
4 33 (4.64%) Spring
5 32 (4.50%) ARM Templates
6 31 (4.36%) Kafka
6 31 (4.36%) PySpark
7 28 (3.94%) .NET
7 28 (3.94%) OAuth
7 28 (3.94%) Spring Boot
8 25 (3.52%) OpenID
9 24 (3.38%) OAuth2
10 20 (2.81%) YAML
11 18 (2.53%) AWS CDK
12 17 (2.39%) AngularJS
13 16 (2.25%) RESTful
14 15 (2.11%) NestJS
14 15 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (1.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (4.64%) Blog
6 32 (4.50%) Public Cloud
7 29 (4.08%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.81%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.11%) Podcast
10 13 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.83%) PKI
10 13 (1.83%) Replication
11 12 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.41%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.27%) Life Science
13 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (16.88%) Linux
2 83 (11.67%) Windows
3 36 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.08%) 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
1 502 (70.60%) CI/CD
2 460 (64.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 380 (53.45%) DevOps
4 227 (31.93%) Mentoring
5 185 (26.02%) Observability
6 184 (25.88%) Software Engineering
7 169 (23.77%) Agile
8 166 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 162 (22.78%) AI
10 149 (20.96%) Platform Engineering
11 136 (19.13%) Microservices
12 133 (18.71%) Clean Code
13 131 (18.42%) Test Automation
14 127 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
15 126 (17.72%) Containerisation
16 113 (15.89%) Technical Leadership
17 108 (15.19%) Analytics
18 107 (15.05%) Coaching
19 92 (12.94%) Deployment Automation
20 83 (11.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 275 (38.68%) Python
2 159 (22.36%) Java
3 135 (18.99%) PowerShell
4 124 (17.44%) SQL
5 113 (15.89%) Bicep
6 85 (11.95%) Bash
7 47 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.34%) Go
8 38 (5.34%) JavaScript
9 37 (5.20%) C#
10 24 (3.38%) Scala
11 14 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.13%) Groovy
13 7 (0.98%) Ruby
14 6 (0.84%) PHP
14 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.70%) Rust
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.39%) Azure Certification
4 39 (5.49%) Degree
5 36 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.95%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.39%) SnowPro
8 13 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.55%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.41%) CCNP
12 7 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.70%) CCIE
14 5 (0.70%) CCNA
14 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.42%) CCIE Security
16 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.42%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.66%) QA
3 15 (2.11%) GDPR
4 14 (1.97%) NIST
5 11 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) SLA
7 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.98%) NCSC
9 4 (0.56%) 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
1 184 (25.88%) Docker
2 67 (9.42%) Active Directory
3 41 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.53%) vSphere
6 15 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.41%) 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
1 290 (40.79%) Kubernetes
2 140 (19.69%) Ansible
3 124 (17.44%) Grafana
4 39 (5.49%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.08%) Argo
6 20 (2.81%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.69%) Istio
8 12 (1.69%) Packer
9 11 (1.55%) Puppet
10 6 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.70%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.56%) 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 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.33%) Google
3 44 (6.19%) VMware
4 32 (4.50%) Databricks
5 28 (3.94%) Cisco
6 20 (2.81%) Okta
7 18 (2.53%) Oracle
8 16 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.25%) Informatica
9 15 (2.11%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.98%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.84%) Citrix
15 6 (0.84%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.84%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.84%) Splunk