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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 73 62
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 736 760 916
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.95% 4.60% 4.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.48% 20.30% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 475 327 613
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,625 £91,250
90th Percentile £106,500 £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 4,465 3,744 6,591
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.91% 22.65% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,251 2,422 4,451
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 £87,500
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 12 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 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.13%) Apache
2 23 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.95%) Confluence
4 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.68%) Camunda
6 4 (0.54%) nginx
7 3 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.41%) WordPress
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 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
1 479 (65.08%) AWS
2 377 (51.22%) Azure
3 239 (32.47%) GCP
4 148 (20.11%) SaaS
5 126 (17.12%) GitHub
6 122 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (15.76%) Amazon EKS
8 100 (13.59%) Serverless
9 88 (11.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (10.05%) PaaS
11 71 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
12 60 (8.15%) Amazon S3
13 57 (7.74%) Azure Monitor
14 55 (7.47%) IaaS
15 52 (7.07%) Azure AKS
15 52 (7.07%) Entra ID
16 51 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (5.57%) Azure Key Vault
18 35 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (9.24%) VPN
2 56 (7.61%) Firewall
3 55 (7.47%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.30%) DNS
5 23 (3.13%) BGP
5 23 (3.13%) DHCP
6 20 (2.72%) WAN
7 18 (2.45%) Network Security
8 17 (2.31%) 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
1 107 (14.54%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (4.21%) Metadata
5 24 (3.26%) DynamoDB
6 23 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.99%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.85%) Delta Lake
9 19 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.45%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.17%) Data Vault
11 16 (2.17%) Power BI
12 14 (1.90%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.77%) Big Data
13 13 (1.77%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.77%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.22%) MySQL
15 8 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (13.72%) TeamCity
2 61 (8.29%) Git
3 59 (8.02%) GitLab
4 54 (7.34%) 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 (27.72%) Finance
1 204 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 134 (18.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 132 (17.93%) Law
4 129 (17.53%) Banking
5 116 (15.76%) Retail
6 97 (13.18%) Public Sector
7 81 (11.01%) Back Office
8 78 (10.60%) Financial Institution
9 47 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.63%) Health Technology
10 12 (1.63%) Marketing
10 12 (1.63%) Tech for Good
11 10 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.09%) Legal
12 8 (1.09%) Police
13 7 (0.95%) Local Government
14 6 (0.82%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.54%) Games
15 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (32.61%) Senior
2 130 (17.66%) Software Engineer
3 107 (14.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 101 (13.72%) Lead
5 97 (13.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
7 65 (8.83%) Platform Engineer
8 55 (7.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 51 (6.93%) Developer
10 49 (6.66%) Architect
11 47 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 43 (5.84%) Data Engineer
13 38 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (5.16%) Senior DevOps
14 36 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 35 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 30 (4.08%) Python Engineer
16 30 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (3.94%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (9.78%) React
2 52 (7.07%) Node.js
3 44 (5.98%) REST
4 34 (4.62%) Spring
5 33 (4.48%) PySpark
6 32 (4.35%) OAuth
7 31 (4.21%) .NET
7 31 (4.21%) Spring Boot
8 29 (3.94%) OAuth2
8 29 (3.94%) OpenID
9 28 (3.80%) ARM Templates
9 28 (3.80%) Kafka
10 24 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (2.99%) RESTful
12 19 (2.58%) YAML
13 17 (2.31%) AWS CDK
14 15 (2.04%) NestJS
14 15 (2.04%) Next.js
14 15 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 232 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 78 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.47%) Product Ownership
4 53 (7.20%) Blog
5 31 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (3.94%) Security Posture
7 28 (3.80%) Data Centre
8 26 (3.53%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.58%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.58%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (2.17%) Replication
12 14 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.63%) Podcast
14 10 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (1.36%) PKI
15 9 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.22%) Life Science
15 9 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (15.76%) Linux
2 73 (9.92%) Windows
3 28 (3.80%) Unix
3 28 (3.80%) 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
1 540 (73.37%) CI/CD
2 468 (63.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 391 (53.13%) DevOps
4 235 (31.93%) Mentoring
5 208 (28.26%) Software Engineering
6 200 (27.17%) Observability
7 187 (25.41%) AI
8 170 (23.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 163 (22.15%) Agile
10 153 (20.79%) Microservices
11 149 (20.24%) Platform Engineering
11 149 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
12 147 (19.97%) Clean Code
13 146 (19.84%) Test Automation
14 133 (18.07%) Containerisation
15 124 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
16 115 (15.63%) Coaching
17 114 (15.49%) Analytics
17 114 (15.49%) Deployment Automation
18 108 (14.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 294 (39.95%) Python
2 197 (26.77%) Java
3 147 (19.97%) SQL
4 136 (18.48%) PowerShell
5 122 (16.58%) Bicep
6 100 (13.59%) Bash
7 55 (7.47%) Go
7 55 (7.47%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.71%) JavaScript
9 40 (5.43%) C#
10 27 (3.67%) Scala
11 13 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.95%) Groovy
13 7 (0.95%) PHP
13 7 (0.95%) Ruby
14 4 (0.54%) Rust
15 3 (0.41%) C
16 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.87%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.03%) Degree
5 35 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.31%) SnowPro
8 15 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.36%) CISSP
10 10 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.22%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (1.09%) CISM
13 7 (0.95%) CCSP
14 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.82%) CCNP
15 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.80%) QA
3 27 (3.67%) PCI DSS
4 26 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (3.26%) NIST
6 19 (2.58%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.90%) GDPR
8 11 (1.49%) 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 (27.17%) Docker
2 58 (7.88%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.31%) vSphere
7 9 (1.22%) 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
1 318 (43.21%) Kubernetes
2 161 (21.88%) Grafana
3 132 (17.93%) Ansible
4 49 (6.66%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.94%) Argo
6 21 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.77%) Packer
9 12 (1.63%) Istio
10 10 (1.36%) 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%) Kibana
14 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 165 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.24%) Google
3 39 (5.30%) VMware
4 33 (4.48%) Databricks
5 24 (3.26%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.72%) Cisco
7 17 (2.31%) Okta
7 17 (2.31%) Oracle
8 16 (2.17%) Informatica
9 15 (2.04%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.63%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.36%) Splunk
12 9 (1.22%) 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