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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 75 66
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 706 778 967
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.05% 4.70% 3.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.67% 18.92% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 496 378 716
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £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 4,505 4,112 6,970
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.45% 24.85% 28.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 2,787 5,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 25 August 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 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.55%) Apache
4 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.13%) Confluence
6 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.57%) Camunda
7 4 (0.57%) IIS
7 4 (0.57%) WordPress
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 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%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 438 (62.04%) AWS
2 401 (56.80%) Azure
3 200 (28.33%) GCP
4 113 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (15.72%) GitHub
6 102 (14.45%) SaaS
7 94 (13.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 93 (13.17%) Serverless
9 89 (12.61%) Amazon EKS
10 69 (9.77%) PaaS
11 61 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (7.93%) Amazon S3
13 51 (7.22%) Azure AKS
14 50 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.80%) IaaS
16 46 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
17 37 (5.24%) Entra ID
18 36 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 33 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.79%) Firewall
2 50 (7.08%) VPN
3 45 (6.37%) TCP/IP
4 41 (5.81%) DNS
5 27 (3.82%) DHCP
6 20 (2.83%) WAN
7 18 (2.55%) LAN
8 12 (1.70%) Network Security
9 11 (1.56%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.27%) Wireless
11 7 (0.99%) BGP
11 7 (0.99%) VLAN
12 6 (0.85%) AMQP
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.85%) HTTP
12 6 (0.85%) SMS
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.71%) OSPF
13 5 (0.71%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.11%) Metadata
4 27 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (3.40%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 21 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (2.97%) Delta Lake
8 19 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 15 (2.12%) Data Vault
10 14 (1.98%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.98%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.70%) Big Data
12 12 (1.70%) MySQL
12 12 (1.70%) Power BI
13 10 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (11.61%) Git
2 57 (8.07%) GitLab
3 53 (7.51%) TeamCity
4 48 (6.80%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.56%) JIRA
5 11 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (1.27%) JMeter
6 9 (1.27%) Selenium
7 5 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.71%) Locust
7 5 (0.71%) Postman
8 4 (0.57%) JUnit
8 4 (0.57%) Maven
8 4 (0.57%) NUnit
8 4 (0.57%) Snyk
8 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.42%) MLflow
10 2 (0.28%) Mockito
General
1 178 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 176 (24.93%) Finance
3 102 (14.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (13.60%) Banking
5 94 (13.31%) Law
6 81 (11.47%) Public Sector
7 72 (10.20%) Retail
8 46 (6.52%) Back Office
9 44 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (6.23%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.98%) Legal
11 11 (1.56%) Marketing
11 11 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.13%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.85%) Legal Technology
13 6 (0.85%) Local Government
13 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.85%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 203 (28.75%) Senior
2 110 (15.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 104 (14.73%) Lead
4 98 (13.88%) Software Engineer
5 97 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (12.46%) Azure Engineer
7 77 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (6.80%) Developer
10 47 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 43 (6.09%) Data Engineer
12 43 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
13 42 (5.95%) Architect
14 39 (5.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 33 (4.67%) Python Engineer
15 33 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
16 31 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.25%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.21%) React
2 53 (7.51%) Node.js
3 48 (6.80%) REST
4 39 (5.52%) Kafka
5 32 (4.53%) ARM Templates
6 29 (4.11%) Spring
7 28 (3.97%) .NET
8 27 (3.82%) PySpark
9 25 (3.54%) OAuth
10 23 (3.26%) OpenID
11 22 (3.12%) OAuth2
11 22 (3.12%) Spring Boot
12 19 (2.69%) YAML
13 18 (2.55%) AWS CDK
14 16 (2.27%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.27%) RESTful
15 15 (2.12%) NestJS
16 14 (1.98%) SAML
17 13 (1.84%) Next.js
17 13 (1.84%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 184 (26.06%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (5.24%) Public Cloud
6 28 (3.97%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.26%) Blog
8 19 (2.69%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.55%) Podcast
10 15 (2.12%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.98%) Replication
12 13 (1.84%) PKI
12 13 (1.84%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.27%) Life Science
14 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 124 (17.56%) Linux
2 91 (12.89%) Windows
3 42 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.97%) Unix
5 13 (1.84%) VMS
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.57%) 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
1 488 (69.12%) CI/CD
2 468 (66.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 388 (54.96%) DevOps
4 215 (30.45%) Mentoring
5 185 (26.20%) Observability
6 173 (24.50%) Agile
7 172 (24.36%) Software Engineering
8 171 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 161 (22.80%) Platform Engineering
10 147 (20.82%) AI
11 143 (20.25%) Containerisation
12 127 (17.99%) Test Automation
13 124 (17.56%) Microservices
14 121 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
15 120 (17.00%) Clean Code
16 118 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
17 104 (14.73%) Analytics
18 92 (13.03%) Coaching
19 91 (12.89%) Roadmaps
20 83 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 285 (40.37%) Python
2 136 (19.26%) Java
3 134 (18.98%) PowerShell
4 113 (16.01%) Bicep
4 113 (16.01%) SQL
5 83 (11.76%) Bash
6 45 (6.37%) Go
6 45 (6.37%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.96%) C#
7 35 (4.96%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.12%) Scala
9 13 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.99%) Groovy
10 7 (0.99%) Ruby
11 6 (0.85%) PHP
12 5 (0.71%) Rust
12 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.42%) C
14 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 103 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 85 (12.04%) Azure Certification
4 49 (6.94%) Degree
5 35 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.27%) SnowPro
8 14 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.84%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.70%) CCNP
11 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.99%) CCNA
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.85%) CCIE
13 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.57%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.57%) MCSE
14 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.97%) QA
3 15 (2.12%) GDPR
4 13 (1.84%) NIST
5 12 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) SLA
7 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.85%) NCSC
9 5 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.71%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
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%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 189 (26.77%) Docker
2 69 (9.77%) Active Directory
3 46 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.26%) vSphere
5 22 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.71%) Firmware
8 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.14%) QEMU
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 291 (41.22%) Kubernetes
2 140 (19.83%) Ansible
3 116 (16.43%) Grafana
4 39 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.39%) Argo
6 20 (2.83%) Istio
7 17 (2.41%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.98%) Puppet
10 12 (1.70%) Packer
11 5 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
13 3 (0.42%) Cilium
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 165 (23.37%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.22%) VMware
3 45 (6.37%) Google
4 31 (4.39%) Cisco
5 30 (4.25%) Databricks
6 19 (2.69%) Okta
7 17 (2.41%) Oracle
8 16 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.27%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.12%) Informatica
10 14 (1.98%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.42%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.13%) Confluent
15 7 (0.99%) EMC
15 7 (0.99%) F5
15 7 (0.99%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.99%) Splunk