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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 71 58
Rank change year-on-year -18 -13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 745 758 930
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.96% 4.59% 4.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.52% 20.18% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 481 332 628
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £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 £88,148 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,801 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.62% -1.60% -

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 4,511 3,756 6,575
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.94% 22.72% 31.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,281 2,441 4,434
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +1.48% +3.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 15 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 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (3.22%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.09%) Apache
3 16 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.94%) Confluence
4 7 (0.94%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.67%) Camunda
6 4 (0.54%) nginx
7 3 (0.40%) IIS
7 3 (0.40%) WordPress
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.13%) 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 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 488 (65.50%) AWS
2 377 (50.60%) Azure
3 242 (32.48%) GCP
4 152 (20.40%) SaaS
5 130 (17.45%) GitHub
6 123 (16.51%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (15.97%) Amazon EKS
8 101 (13.56%) Serverless
9 88 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (9.93%) PaaS
11 73 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (8.32%) Amazon S3
13 57 (7.65%) Azure Monitor
14 55 (7.38%) IaaS
15 52 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (6.98%) Azure AKS
15 52 (6.98%) Entra ID
16 41 (5.50%) Azure Key Vault
17 35 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.40%) VPN
2 56 (7.52%) Firewall
2 56 (7.52%) TCP/IP
3 38 (5.10%) DNS
4 25 (3.36%) BGP
5 22 (2.95%) DHCP
6 20 (2.68%) WAN
7 19 (2.55%) Network Security
8 18 (2.42%) VLAN
9 13 (1.74%) AMQP
9 13 (1.74%) LAN
9 13 (1.74%) SMS
10 8 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.94%) Wireless
12 6 (0.81%) OSPF
13 5 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.67%) HTTP
13 5 (0.67%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (4.30%) Metadata
5 24 (3.22%) DynamoDB
6 23 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.95%) Delta Lake
7 22 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 22 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (2.42%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.15%) Data Vault
10 16 (2.15%) Power BI
11 14 (1.88%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.74%) Big Data
12 13 (1.74%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.74%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.21%) MySQL
14 8 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 103 (13.83%) TeamCity
2 62 (8.32%) Git
3 60 (8.05%) GitLab
4 55 (7.38%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.61%) JIRA
6 7 (0.94%) JUnit
6 7 (0.94%) Selenium
6 7 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.67%) Mockito
7 5 (0.67%) Poetry
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) Snyk
8 4 (0.54%) Maven
8 4 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.54%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 207 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 205 (27.52%) Finance
3 136 (18.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 133 (17.85%) Law
5 129 (17.32%) Banking
6 117 (15.70%) Retail
7 99 (13.29%) Public Sector
8 83 (11.14%) Back Office
9 80 (10.74%) Financial Institution
10 47 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.74%) Health Technology
11 13 (1.74%) Tech for Good
12 12 (1.61%) Marketing
13 10 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.07%) Legal
14 8 (1.07%) Police
15 7 (0.94%) Local Government
16 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.54%) Games
17 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (32.62%) Senior
2 130 (17.45%) Software Engineer
3 108 (14.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 103 (13.83%) Lead
5 98 (13.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (10.74%) Azure Engineer
7 66 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
8 56 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 52 (6.98%) Developer
10 49 (6.58%) Architect
11 47 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 44 (5.91%) Data Engineer
13 38 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (5.10%) Senior DevOps
14 36 (4.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 35 (4.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 30 (4.03%) Python Engineer
16 30 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (3.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 29 (3.89%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (9.66%) React
2 52 (6.98%) Node.js
3 44 (5.91%) REST
4 35 (4.70%) Spring
5 34 (4.56%) PySpark
6 33 (4.43%) OAuth
7 32 (4.30%) Spring Boot
8 31 (4.16%) .NET
9 30 (4.03%) OAuth2
9 30 (4.03%) OpenID
10 29 (3.89%) ARM Templates
11 28 (3.76%) Kafka
12 25 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
13 23 (3.09%) RESTful
14 19 (2.55%) YAML
15 17 (2.28%) AWS CDK
16 16 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (2.01%) NestJS
17 15 (2.01%) Next.js
17 15 (2.01%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 234 (31.41%) Cloud Native
2 80 (10.74%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.38%) Blog
3 55 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 31 (4.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (4.16%) Security Posture
5 29 (3.89%) Data Centre
6 26 (3.49%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (2.15%) Replication
11 14 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.61%) Podcast
13 10 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (1.34%) PKI
14 9 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.21%) Life Science
14 9 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (15.97%) Linux
2 72 (9.66%) Windows
3 28 (3.76%) Unix
4 27 (3.62%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.74%) VMS
6 5 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.40%) Debian
9 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (73.56%) CI/CD
2 474 (63.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 394 (52.89%) DevOps
4 236 (31.68%) Mentoring
5 209 (28.05%) Software Engineering
6 203 (27.25%) Observability
7 187 (25.10%) AI
8 172 (23.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (22.01%) Agile
10 154 (20.67%) Microservices
11 152 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
12 151 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
13 149 (20.00%) Clean Code
14 146 (19.60%) Test Automation
15 136 (18.26%) Containerisation
16 124 (16.64%) Technical Leadership
17 115 (15.44%) Coaching
18 114 (15.30%) Deployment Automation
19 113 (15.17%) Analytics
20 112 (15.03%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 298 (40.00%) Python
2 200 (26.85%) Java
3 151 (20.27%) SQL
4 136 (18.26%) PowerShell
5 122 (16.38%) Bicep
6 102 (13.69%) Bash
7 57 (7.65%) Go
8 55 (7.38%) TypeScript
9 42 (5.64%) JavaScript
10 40 (5.37%) C#
11 27 (3.62%) Scala
12 13 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.94%) Groovy
14 7 (0.94%) PHP
14 7 (0.94%) Ruby
15 4 (0.54%) Rust
16 3 (0.40%) C
17 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
18 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 116 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.74%) Azure Certification
4 37 (4.97%) Degree
5 35 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.28%) SnowPro
8 16 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.48%) CISSP
9 11 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.21%) CISM
11 9 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.07%) CCSP
13 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.81%) CCNP
14 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.89%) PCI DSS
2 29 (3.89%) QA
3 28 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (3.36%) NIST
5 21 (2.82%) SOC 2
6 14 (1.88%) GDPR
7 11 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.07%) SLA
9 6 (0.81%) NCSC
10 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 205 (27.52%) Docker
2 57 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.28%) vSphere
7 9 (1.21%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) LXC
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.13%) QEMU
10 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 322 (43.22%) Kubernetes
2 164 (22.01%) Grafana
3 134 (17.99%) Ansible
4 50 (6.71%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.03%) Argo
6 21 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.74%) Packer
10 12 (1.61%) Istio
11 11 (1.48%) Cilium
12 8 (1.07%) Puppet
13 5 (0.67%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.54%) linkerd
15 3 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
15 3 (0.40%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.40%) Kibana
15 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 164 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.53%) Google
3 39 (5.23%) VMware
4 34 (4.56%) Databricks
5 24 (3.22%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.68%) Cisco
7 17 (2.28%) Oracle
8 16 (2.15%) Informatica
8 16 (2.15%) Okta
9 15 (2.01%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.61%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.34%) Splunk
12 9 (1.21%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.07%) YouTube
14 7 (0.94%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.67%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.67%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.67%) New Relic