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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 67 59
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 714 782 972
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.92% 4.84% 4.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.81% 20.51% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 480 363 660
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £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 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.33% -0.33% -

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 4,517 3,813 6,691
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.45% 23.62% 29.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,336 2,518 4,708
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,513 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +5.40% -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 22 September 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 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (3.22%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.66%) Apache
3 16 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.26%) Confluence
5 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.56%) Camunda
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.42%) WordPress
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
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
1 450 (63.03%) AWS
2 393 (55.04%) Azure
3 211 (29.55%) GCP
4 122 (17.09%) SaaS
5 121 (16.95%) GitHub
6 120 (16.81%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (13.87%) Serverless
8 96 (13.45%) Amazon EKS
9 90 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (9.80%) PaaS
11 67 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (7.98%) Amazon S3
13 55 (7.70%) Azure AKS
14 54 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
15 51 (7.14%) IaaS
16 50 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
17 48 (6.72%) Entra ID
18 37 (5.18%) Azure Key Vault
19 35 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 34 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.00%) Firewall
1 50 (7.00%) VPN
2 44 (6.16%) TCP/IP
3 40 (5.60%) DNS
4 28 (3.92%) DHCP
5 22 (3.08%) WAN
6 16 (2.24%) LAN
7 11 (1.54%) Network Security
8 10 (1.40%) AMQP
8 10 (1.40%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.40%) SMS
9 9 (1.26%) BGP
10 8 (1.12%) VLAN
10 8 (1.12%) Wireless
11 7 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.98%) OSPF
12 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.70%) HTTP
12 5 (0.70%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.34%) Metadata
4 29 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (3.22%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.94%) Delta Lake
9 17 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.24%) Data Vault
10 16 (2.24%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.96%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.96%) Power BI
12 13 (1.82%) Big Data
12 13 (1.82%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.26%) MySQL
13 9 (1.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (10.64%) Git
2 72 (10.08%) TeamCity
3 57 (7.98%) GitLab
4 51 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.96%) JIRA
6 8 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (0.98%) Selenium
7 7 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.84%) JUnit
9 5 (0.70%) Maven
9 5 (0.70%) Poetry
9 5 (0.70%) Postman
10 4 (0.56%) JMeter
10 4 (0.56%) Mockito
10 4 (0.56%) Snyk
10 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.56%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.28%) MSI
12 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 198 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 186 (26.05%) Finance
3 117 (16.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 113 (15.83%) Law
5 112 (15.69%) Banking
6 97 (13.59%) Retail
7 93 (13.03%) Public Sector
8 62 (8.68%) Back Office
9 59 (8.26%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.68%) Marketing
12 11 (1.54%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.40%) Legal
13 10 (1.40%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.98%) Local Government
15 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
16 5 (0.70%) Police
17 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (30.53%) Senior
2 113 (15.83%) Software Engineer
3 109 (15.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 108 (15.13%) Lead
5 89 (12.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 86 (12.04%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.00%) Developer
9 48 (6.72%) Architect
10 46 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.16%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (5.18%) Senior DevOps
15 34 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 34 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 31 (4.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.20%) Python Engineer
17 30 (4.20%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.66%) React
2 51 (7.14%) Node.js
3 47 (6.58%) REST
4 35 (4.90%) Spring
5 31 (4.34%) Kafka
5 31 (4.34%) OAuth
5 31 (4.34%) PySpark
6 30 (4.20%) Spring Boot
7 29 (4.06%) ARM Templates
8 27 (3.78%) OAuth2
8 27 (3.78%) OpenID
9 25 (3.50%) .NET
10 19 (2.66%) YAML
11 18 (2.52%) AWS CDK
12 17 (2.38%) AngularJS
13 15 (2.10%) NestJS
13 15 (2.10%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (2.10%) RESTful
13 15 (2.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 199 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.56%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (4.62%) Blog
6 32 (4.48%) Public Cloud
7 29 (4.06%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.96%) PKI
10 14 (1.96%) Podcast
10 14 (1.96%) Replication
11 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.40%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.26%) Life Science
12 9 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 120 (16.81%) Linux
2 84 (11.76%) Windows
3 36 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.20%) Unix
5 13 (1.82%) VMS
6 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.56%) 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%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (71.15%) CI/CD
2 462 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 385 (53.92%) DevOps
4 228 (31.93%) Mentoring
5 189 (26.47%) Observability
5 189 (26.47%) Software Engineering
6 172 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 170 (23.81%) Agile
8 164 (22.97%) AI
9 148 (20.73%) Platform Engineering
10 140 (19.61%) Microservices
11 133 (18.63%) Clean Code
11 133 (18.63%) Test Automation
12 129 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
13 126 (17.65%) Containerisation
14 113 (15.83%) Analytics
14 113 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
15 110 (15.41%) Coaching
16 100 (14.01%) Deployment Automation
17 87 (12.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 274 (38.38%) Python
2 164 (22.97%) Java
3 137 (19.19%) PowerShell
4 127 (17.79%) SQL
5 117 (16.39%) Bicep
6 86 (12.04%) Bash
7 49 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.32%) Go
8 38 (5.32%) JavaScript
9 35 (4.90%) C#
10 24 (3.36%) Scala
11 14 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.12%) Groovy
13 7 (0.98%) Ruby
14 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.70%) PHP
15 5 (0.70%) Rust
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 108 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.18%) Degree
5 35 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.38%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.26%) CCNP
12 8 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.70%) CCNA
14 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.56%) CCIE
16 3 (0.42%) CISSP
16 3 (0.42%) OCP
16 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.78%) QA
3 15 (2.10%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) NIST
5 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.26%) SLA
7 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.84%) NCSC
9 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
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%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 185 (25.91%) Docker
2 68 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 40 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.52%) vSphere
6 16 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.26%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.42%) Firmware
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 292 (40.90%) Kubernetes
2 138 (19.33%) Ansible
3 134 (18.77%) Grafana
4 40 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.06%) Argo
6 21 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.82%) Packer
9 12 (1.68%) Istio
10 10 (1.40%) Puppet
11 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.70%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.56%) linkerd
14 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.42%) Cilium
14 3 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 168 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.16%) Google
3 43 (6.02%) VMware
4 32 (4.48%) Databricks
5 26 (3.64%) Cisco
6 22 (3.08%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.80%) Okta
8 18 (2.52%) Oracle
9 16 (2.24%) Informatica
10 15 (2.10%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.68%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.40%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.26%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.98%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.84%) Citrix
15 6 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.84%) Splunk
16 5 (0.70%) F5