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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 72 63
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -19
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 728 781 961
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.92% 4.63% 4.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.18% 20.51% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 480 341 642
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,250 £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 4,498 3,807 6,756
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.04% 22.57% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,310 2,478 4,624
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £49,938
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £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 2 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 25 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.88%) Apache
4 16 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.96%) Confluence
6 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.69%) Camunda
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.41%) IIS
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.41%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 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
1 469 (64.42%) AWS
2 382 (52.47%) Azure
3 228 (31.32%) GCP
4 135 (18.54%) SaaS
5 122 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (16.48%) GitHub
7 110 (15.11%) Amazon EKS
8 99 (13.60%) Serverless
9 94 (12.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 73 (10.03%) PaaS
11 69 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (7.97%) Amazon S3
13 56 (7.69%) Azure AKS
14 55 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
15 54 (7.42%) IaaS
16 51 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
17 47 (6.46%) Entra ID
18 38 (5.22%) Azure Key Vault
19 35 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 35 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.38%) VPN
2 51 (7.01%) Firewall
3 49 (6.73%) TCP/IP
4 38 (5.22%) DNS
5 26 (3.57%) DHCP
6 20 (2.75%) WAN
7 15 (2.06%) BGP
8 14 (1.92%) LAN
9 13 (1.79%) Network Security
10 11 (1.51%) AMQP
10 11 (1.51%) SMS
11 10 (1.37%) VLAN
12 9 (1.24%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (0.96%) OSPF
13 7 (0.96%) Wireless
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 98 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (4.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.26%) Metadata
4 25 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.43%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.30%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 21 (2.88%) Delta Lake
7 18 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.20%) Data Vault
9 15 (2.06%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.92%) Power BI
10 14 (1.92%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.79%) Big Data
11 13 (1.79%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.24%) MySQL
13 9 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 87 (11.95%) TeamCity
2 66 (9.07%) Git
3 61 (8.38%) GitLab
4 56 (7.69%) 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
8 4 (0.55%) Maven
8 4 (0.55%) Snyk
8 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.55%) Vagrant
8 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.41%) JMeter
10 2 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 202 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 191 (26.24%) Finance
3 128 (17.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (17.17%) Law
5 122 (16.76%) Banking
6 109 (14.97%) Retail
7 96 (13.19%) Public Sector
8 71 (9.75%) Back Office
9 68 (9.34%) Financial Institution
10 45 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.65%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.51%) Marketing
12 11 (1.51%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.24%) Legal
13 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.96%) Local Government
15 6 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.69%) Police
17 4 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (32.28%) Senior
2 123 (16.90%) Software Engineer
3 109 (14.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 105 (14.42%) Lead
5 94 (12.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 83 (11.40%) Azure Engineer
7 70 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
8 52 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 49 (6.73%) Developer
10 47 (6.46%) Architect
11 44 (6.04%) Data Engineer
12 41 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 38 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
15 37 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (4.26%) Python Engineer
16 31 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.12%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (9.62%) React
2 53 (7.28%) Node.js
3 45 (6.18%) REST
4 35 (4.81%) Spring
5 31 (4.26%) ARM Templates
5 31 (4.26%) Kafka
5 31 (4.26%) PySpark
5 31 (4.26%) Spring Boot
6 30 (4.12%) OAuth
7 27 (3.71%) OAuth2
7 27 (3.71%) OpenID
8 26 (3.57%) .NET
9 20 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
10 19 (2.61%) YAML
11 17 (2.34%) AWS CDK
11 17 (2.34%) RESTful
12 15 (2.06%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.06%) NestJS
12 15 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (2.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 217 (29.81%) Cloud Native
2 70 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.91%) Blog
5 36 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 27 (3.71%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.43%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.06%) Replication
11 14 (1.92%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.79%) Podcast
13 12 (1.65%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.65%) PKI
14 10 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.24%) Life Science
15 9 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 116 (15.93%) Linux
2 78 (10.71%) Windows
3 30 (4.12%) Unix
3 30 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.65%) VMS
5 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.41%) Debian
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.14%) Solaris
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (72.39%) CI/CD
2 470 (64.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 392 (53.85%) DevOps
4 237 (32.55%) Mentoring
5 197 (27.06%) Software Engineering
6 195 (26.79%) Observability
7 177 (24.31%) AI
8 171 (23.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 165 (22.66%) Agile
10 148 (20.33%) Microservices
10 148 (20.33%) Platform Engineering
11 141 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
12 139 (19.09%) Clean Code
12 139 (19.09%) Test Automation
13 131 (17.99%) Containerisation
14 117 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
15 115 (15.80%) Coaching
16 114 (15.66%) Analytics
17 107 (14.70%) Deployment Automation
18 97 (13.32%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 285 (39.15%) Python
2 184 (25.27%) Java
3 135 (18.54%) PowerShell
3 135 (18.54%) SQL
4 117 (16.07%) Bicep
5 94 (12.91%) Bash
6 52 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 49 (6.73%) Go
8 39 (5.36%) JavaScript
9 36 (4.95%) C#
10 26 (3.57%) Scala
11 14 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.10%) Groovy
12 8 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.96%) Ruby
14 6 (0.82%) PHP
15 5 (0.69%) Rust
16 4 (0.55%) C
17 2 (0.27%) C++
17 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 78 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 36 (4.95%) Degree
5 34 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.34%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.96%) CCNP
12 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.82%) CISSP
13 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.55%) CCNA
14 4 (0.55%) CISM
15 3 (0.41%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.71%) QA
3 21 (2.88%) NIST
4 19 (2.61%) PCI DSS
5 17 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.06%) GDPR
7 9 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.10%) SLA
9 6 (0.82%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 195 (26.79%) Docker
2 62 (8.52%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.20%) vSphere
7 9 (1.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.27%) Firmware
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 312 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 146 (20.05%) Grafana
3 136 (18.68%) Ansible
4 45 (6.18%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.26%) Argo
6 21 (2.88%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.65%) Istio
8 12 (1.65%) Packer
9 9 (1.24%) Puppet
9 9 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.82%) Cilium
10 6 (0.82%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.55%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Kibana
12 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 162 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.42%) Google
3 40 (5.49%) VMware
4 33 (4.53%) Databricks
5 22 (3.02%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.75%) Cisco
7 18 (2.47%) Okta
7 18 (2.47%) Oracle
8 16 (2.20%) Informatica
9 15 (2.06%) 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 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.82%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.69%) Citrix
14 5 (0.69%) SolarWinds