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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 74 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 725 769 942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 4.59% 4.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.28% 20.53% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 481 332 629
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,313 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,375 £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 4,454 3,745 6,624
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.89% 22.34% 30.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,273 2,424 4,493
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 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 6 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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.03%) Apache
4 17 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.97%) Confluence
5 7 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.69%) Camunda
7 3 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.41%) nginx
7 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.41%) WordPress
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
1 461 (63.59%) AWS
2 386 (53.24%) Azure
3 223 (30.76%) GCP
4 135 (18.62%) SaaS
5 125 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (16.97%) GitHub
7 104 (14.34%) Amazon EKS
8 99 (13.66%) Serverless
9 93 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (10.34%) PaaS
11 69 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.00%) Amazon S3
12 58 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
13 56 (7.72%) Azure AKS
13 56 (7.72%) IaaS
14 51 (7.03%) Entra ID
15 50 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (5.66%) Azure Key Vault
17 35 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.41%) VPN
2 53 (7.31%) Firewall
3 49 (6.76%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.66%) DNS
5 25 (3.45%) DHCP
6 20 (2.76%) WAN
7 15 (2.07%) BGP
8 14 (1.93%) Network Security
9 13 (1.79%) LAN
10 11 (1.52%) AMQP
10 11 (1.52%) SMS
10 11 (1.52%) VLAN
11 8 (1.10%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.97%) 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 97 (13.38%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.28%) Metadata
4 25 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.31%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.90%) Delta Lake
8 19 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.21%) 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 (1.66%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.24%) MySQL
14 9 (1.24%) Redis
15 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 87 (12.00%) TeamCity
2 61 (8.41%) Git
2 61 (8.41%) GitLab
3 54 (7.45%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.66%) JIRA
5 7 (0.97%) JUnit
5 7 (0.97%) Selenium
5 7 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.69%) Mockito
6 5 (0.69%) Poetry
6 5 (0.69%) Postman
7 4 (0.55%) Maven
7 4 (0.55%) Snyk
7 4 (0.55%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
8 3 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 201 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 193 (26.62%) Finance
3 124 (17.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (16.69%) Law
5 119 (16.41%) Banking
6 105 (14.48%) Retail
7 99 (13.66%) Public Sector
8 70 (9.66%) Back Office
9 67 (9.24%) Financial Institution
10 46 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.66%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.52%) Marketing
12 11 (1.52%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.10%) Legal
15 7 (0.97%) Local Government
15 7 (0.97%) Police
16 6 (0.83%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.55%) Games
17 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 234 (32.28%) Senior
2 121 (16.69%) Software Engineer
3 107 (14.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 102 (14.07%) Lead
5 97 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 84 (11.59%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
8 52 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 49 (6.76%) Architect
9 49 (6.76%) Developer
10 42 (5.79%) Data Engineer
11 40 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
12 39 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
13 37 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (5.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 31 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 30 (4.14%) Python Engineer
15 30 (4.14%) Site Engineer
16 28 (3.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.52%) React
2 54 (7.45%) Node.js
3 44 (6.07%) REST
4 33 (4.55%) Spring
5 32 (4.41%) PySpark
6 31 (4.28%) OAuth
7 30 (4.14%) ARM Templates
7 30 (4.14%) Kafka
7 30 (4.14%) Spring Boot
8 28 (3.86%) .NET
8 28 (3.86%) OAuth2
8 28 (3.86%) OpenID
9 21 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 19 (2.62%) YAML
11 18 (2.48%) RESTful
12 17 (2.34%) AWS CDK
13 15 (2.07%) NestJS
13 15 (2.07%) Next.js
13 15 (2.07%) SAML
14 14 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 217 (29.93%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 42 (5.79%) Blog
5 34 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.86%) Data Centre
7 27 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 25 (3.45%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (2.21%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 15 (2.07%) Replication
12 12 (1.66%) Podcast
13 11 (1.52%) PKI
14 10 (1.38%) 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%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.59%) Linux
2 77 (10.62%) Windows
3 30 (4.14%) Unix
4 29 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.66%) 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
1 527 (72.69%) CI/CD
2 465 (64.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 395 (54.48%) DevOps
4 236 (32.55%) Mentoring
5 198 (27.31%) Software Engineering
6 196 (27.03%) Observability
7 178 (24.55%) AI
8 172 (23.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 165 (22.76%) Agile
10 150 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
11 146 (20.14%) Microservices
12 143 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
13 138 (19.03%) Test Automation
14 136 (18.76%) Clean Code
15 131 (18.07%) Containerisation
16 117 (16.14%) Technical Leadership
17 116 (16.00%) Analytics
18 113 (15.59%) Coaching
19 107 (14.76%) Deployment Automation
20 98 (13.52%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 280 (38.62%) Python
2 182 (25.10%) Java
3 135 (18.62%) PowerShell
4 134 (18.48%) SQL
5 120 (16.55%) Bicep
6 94 (12.97%) Bash
7 54 (7.45%) TypeScript
8 47 (6.48%) Go
9 40 (5.52%) JavaScript
10 37 (5.10%) C#
11 26 (3.59%) Scala
12 14 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.97%) Groovy
13 7 (0.97%) PHP
13 7 (0.97%) Ruby
13 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.69%) Rust
15 4 (0.55%) C
16 2 (0.28%) C++
16 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 128 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.17%) Azure Certification
4 36 (4.97%) Degree
5 34 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.34%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.97%) CCNP
12 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.83%) 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 49 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.72%) QA
3 21 (2.90%) NIST
4 20 (2.76%) PCI DSS
5 19 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.07%) GDPR
7 10 (1.38%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.10%) SLA
9 6 (0.83%) NCSC
10 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 196 (27.03%) Docker
2 61 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.21%) 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
1 306 (42.21%) Kubernetes
2 146 (20.14%) Grafana
3 132 (18.21%) Ansible
4 45 (6.21%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.41%) Argo
6 20 (2.76%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.79%) Packer
9 12 (1.66%) Istio
10 10 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.10%) Puppet
12 6 (0.83%) Cilium
13 5 (0.69%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.55%) linkerd
15 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
16 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 165 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.72%) Google
3 39 (5.38%) VMware
4 33 (4.55%) Databricks
5 24 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.62%) Cisco
7 18 (2.48%) Okta
8 17 (2.34%) Oracle
9 16 (2.21%) Informatica
10 15 (2.07%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.66%) ScienceLogic
12 9 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.97%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.97%) Splunk
13 7 (0.97%) YouTube
14 6 (0.83%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.83%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.69%) Citrix
16 4 (0.55%) TIBCO