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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 72 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 708 773 960
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.86% 4.67% 4.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.81% 20.34% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 473 343 638
10th Percentile £51,500 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,750 £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 £107,000 £98,500 £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 4,479 3,801 6,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.10% 22.95% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 2,486 4,636
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £49,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -1.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,188
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 28 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 25 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.97%) Apache
4 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.85%) Confluence
5 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.71%) 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
1 456 (64.41%) AWS
2 377 (53.25%) Azure
3 217 (30.65%) GCP
4 129 (18.22%) SaaS
5 119 (16.81%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (16.67%) GitHub
7 104 (14.69%) Amazon EKS
8 98 (13.84%) Serverless
9 90 (12.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (9.60%) PaaS
11 66 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.19%) Amazon S3
13 55 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
14 54 (7.63%) Azure AKS
15 50 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
15 50 (7.06%) IaaS
16 48 (6.78%) Entra ID
17 37 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
18 34 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.49%) VPN
2 48 (6.78%) Firewall
3 47 (6.64%) TCP/IP
4 38 (5.37%) DNS
5 27 (3.81%) DHCP
6 20 (2.82%) WAN
7 14 (1.98%) LAN
8 12 (1.69%) BGP
9 11 (1.55%) Network Security
10 10 (1.41%) AMQP
10 10 (1.41%) SMS
11 9 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.27%) VLAN
12 7 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.99%) OSPF
12 7 (0.99%) Wireless
13 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.71%) HTTP
13 5 (0.71%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.38%) Metadata
4 28 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.81%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (3.25%) DynamoDB
9 21 (2.97%) Delta Lake
10 17 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (2.40%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.26%) Data Vault
12 15 (2.12%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.98%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.98%) Power BI
13 14 (1.98%) Relational Database
14 13 (1.84%) Big Data
15 9 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.27%) MySQL
15 9 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (11.02%) TeamCity
2 67 (9.46%) Git
3 59 (8.33%) GitLab
4 52 (7.34%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.55%) JIRA
6 7 (0.99%) JUnit
6 7 (0.99%) Selenium
6 7 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.71%) Mockito
7 5 (0.71%) Poetry
7 5 (0.71%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) Maven
8 4 (0.56%) Snyk
8 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.56%) Vagrant
8 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.42%) JMeter
10 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 197 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 186 (26.27%) Finance
3 122 (17.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (16.81%) Law
5 117 (16.53%) Banking
6 103 (14.55%) Retail
7 95 (13.42%) Public Sector
8 67 (9.46%) Back Office
9 64 (9.04%) Financial Institution
10 40 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.55%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.55%) Marketing
12 10 (1.41%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.27%) Legal
13 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.99%) Local Government
15 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.71%) Police
17 4 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (31.64%) Senior
2 118 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 108 (15.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 103 (14.55%) Lead
5 89 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (11.44%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (9.60%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (6.78%) Developer
9 47 (6.64%) Architect
10 46 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (6.07%) Data Engineer
12 39 (5.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 38 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (5.37%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
15 31 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.24%) Python Engineer
16 30 (4.24%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.60%) React
2 51 (7.20%) Node.js
3 45 (6.36%) REST
4 35 (4.94%) Spring
5 31 (4.38%) Kafka
5 31 (4.38%) PySpark
5 31 (4.38%) Spring Boot
6 30 (4.24%) OAuth
7 29 (4.10%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.67%) OAuth2
8 26 (3.67%) OpenID
9 25 (3.53%) .NET
10 19 (2.68%) YAML
11 18 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (2.40%) AWS CDK
12 17 (2.40%) RESTful
13 16 (2.26%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.12%) NestJS
14 15 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (2.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 204 (28.81%) Cloud Native
2 64 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.63%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.23%) Blog
5 36 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.98%) Replication
10 13 (1.84%) Podcast
11 12 (1.69%) PKI
12 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.27%) Life Science
13 9 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.96%) Linux
2 79 (11.16%) Windows
3 31 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.24%) Unix
5 12 (1.69%) VMS
6 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) Debian
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.28%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (71.89%) CI/CD
2 459 (64.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 382 (53.95%) DevOps
4 227 (32.06%) Mentoring
5 191 (26.98%) Observability
5 191 (26.98%) Software Engineering
6 168 (23.73%) AI
7 167 (23.59%) Agile
8 166 (23.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (20.34%) Microservices
10 143 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
11 134 (18.93%) Clean Code
11 134 (18.93%) Test Automation
12 130 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (17.94%) Containerisation
14 112 (15.82%) Analytics
15 111 (15.68%) Coaching
15 111 (15.68%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (14.27%) Deployment Automation
17 88 (12.43%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 273 (38.56%) Python
2 173 (24.44%) Java
3 133 (18.79%) PowerShell
4 131 (18.50%) SQL
5 115 (16.24%) Bicep
6 90 (12.71%) Bash
7 49 (6.92%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.93%) Go
9 37 (5.23%) JavaScript
10 35 (4.94%) C#
11 26 (3.67%) Scala
12 14 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.99%) Groovy
14 7 (0.99%) Ruby
15 6 (0.85%) PHP
16 5 (0.71%) Rust
17 3 (0.42%) C
17 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.16%) Azure Certification
4 34 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (4.52%) Degree
6 20 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.40%) SnowPro
8 10 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.99%) CCNP
12 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.56%) CCNA
14 4 (0.56%) CISSP
15 3 (0.42%) CCIE
15 3 (0.42%) OCP
15 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.67%) QA
3 16 (2.26%) NIST
4 15 (2.12%) GDPR
4 15 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.84%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.13%) SLA
7 7 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.85%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 187 (26.41%) Docker
2 63 (8.90%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.26%) vSphere
7 9 (1.27%) 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
1 300 (42.37%) Kubernetes
2 138 (19.49%) Grafana
3 132 (18.64%) Ansible
4 42 (5.93%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.24%) Argo
6 20 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.69%) Istio
8 12 (1.69%) Packer
9 9 (1.27%) Puppet
10 8 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.56%) Cilium
12 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.56%) linkerd
13 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 158 (22.32%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.92%) Google
3 39 (5.51%) VMware
4 32 (4.52%) Databricks
5 22 (3.11%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.82%) Cisco
7 19 (2.68%) Okta
8 18 (2.54%) Oracle
9 16 (2.26%) Informatica
10 15 (2.12%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
12 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.99%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.99%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.99%) Splunk
14 6 (0.85%) Citrix
14 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.71%) IBM
15 5 (0.71%) YouTube