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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 71 63
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 -18
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 717 776 954
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.88% 4.60% 4.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.08% 20.46% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 475 339 633
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
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 £88,750 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £106,500 £97,500 £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 4,458 3,792 6,704
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.92% 22.50% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 2,466 4,566
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -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 4 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 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.93%) Apache
4 16 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.98%) Confluence
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.70%) Camunda
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.42%) IIS
8 3 (0.42%) nginx
8 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.42%) WordPress
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
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 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
1 457 (63.74%) AWS
2 383 (53.42%) Azure
3 220 (30.68%) GCP
4 132 (18.41%) SaaS
5 123 (17.15%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (16.74%) GitHub
7 103 (14.37%) Amazon EKS
8 97 (13.53%) Serverless
9 93 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (10.32%) PaaS
11 67 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (7.95%) Amazon S3
13 55 (7.67%) Azure AKS
13 55 (7.67%) Azure Monitor
13 55 (7.67%) IaaS
14 50 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (6.83%) Entra ID
16 38 (5.30%) Azure Key Vault
17 34 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 59 (8.23%) VPN
2 51 (7.11%) Firewall
3 48 (6.69%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.44%) DNS
5 25 (3.49%) DHCP
6 20 (2.79%) WAN
7 14 (1.95%) BGP
8 13 (1.81%) LAN
8 13 (1.81%) Network Security
9 11 (1.53%) AMQP
9 11 (1.53%) SMS
10 10 (1.39%) VLAN
11 8 (1.12%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.98%) Wireless
13 6 (0.84%) OSPF
14 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.70%) VXLAN
15 4 (0.56%) EIGRP
15 4 (0.56%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.32%) Metadata
4 25 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.35%) DynamoDB
5 24 (3.35%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.93%) Delta Lake
8 18 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (2.51%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.23%) Data Vault
10 14 (1.95%) Power BI
11 13 (1.81%) Big Data
11 13 (1.81%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.81%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.67%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.26%) MySQL
13 9 (1.26%) Redis
14 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 85 (11.85%) TeamCity
2 61 (8.51%) Git
3 59 (8.23%) GitLab
4 53 (7.39%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.67%) JIRA
6 7 (0.98%) JUnit
6 7 (0.98%) Selenium
6 7 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.70%) Mockito
7 5 (0.70%) Poetry
7 5 (0.70%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) Maven
8 4 (0.56%) Snyk
8 4 (0.56%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.42%) JMeter
9 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 198 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 189 (26.36%) Finance
3 123 (17.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 120 (16.74%) Law
5 118 (16.46%) Banking
6 104 (14.50%) Retail
7 94 (13.11%) Public Sector
8 69 (9.62%) Back Office
9 66 (9.21%) Financial Institution
10 45 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.67%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.53%) Marketing
12 11 (1.53%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.12%) Legal
15 7 (0.98%) Local Government
16 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.70%) Police
18 4 (0.56%) Games
18 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (32.22%) Senior
2 121 (16.88%) Software Engineer
3 108 (15.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 102 (14.23%) Lead
5 95 (13.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 84 (11.72%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (9.48%) Platform Engineer
8 51 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 49 (6.83%) Developer
10 47 (6.56%) Architect
11 41 (5.72%) Data Engineer
12 40 (5.58%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (5.44%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (5.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 37 (5.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 31 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.18%) Python Engineer
16 30 (4.18%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.91%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.48%) React
2 53 (7.39%) Node.js
3 43 (6.00%) REST
4 33 (4.60%) Spring
5 31 (4.32%) PySpark
6 30 (4.18%) ARM Templates
6 30 (4.18%) Kafka
6 30 (4.18%) OAuth
6 30 (4.18%) Spring Boot
7 27 (3.77%) .NET
7 27 (3.77%) OAuth2
7 27 (3.77%) OpenID
8 20 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
9 19 (2.65%) YAML
10 17 (2.37%) AWS CDK
10 17 (2.37%) RESTful
11 15 (2.09%) NestJS
11 15 (2.09%) Next.js
11 15 (2.09%) SAML
12 14 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 212 (29.57%) Cloud Native
2 67 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.72%) Blog
5 34 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (3.77%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.77%) Public Cloud
7 24 (3.35%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.09%) Replication
10 14 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.67%) Podcast
12 11 (1.53%) PKI
13 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.26%) Life Science
14 9 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.76%) Linux
2 77 (10.74%) Windows
3 30 (4.18%) Unix
4 29 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.67%) VMS
6 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) 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
1 520 (72.52%) CI/CD
2 461 (64.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 389 (54.25%) DevOps
4 236 (32.91%) Mentoring
5 194 (27.06%) Software Engineering
6 193 (26.92%) Observability
7 175 (24.41%) AI
8 170 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 162 (22.59%) Agile
10 148 (20.64%) Platform Engineering
11 145 (20.22%) Microservices
12 141 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (18.97%) Test Automation
14 135 (18.83%) Clean Code
15 127 (17.71%) Containerisation
16 117 (16.32%) Technical Leadership
17 113 (15.76%) Analytics
17 113 (15.76%) Coaching
18 105 (14.64%) Deployment Automation
19 96 (13.39%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 277 (38.63%) Python
2 180 (25.10%) Java
3 135 (18.83%) PowerShell
4 131 (18.27%) SQL
5 117 (16.32%) Bicep
6 93 (12.97%) Bash
7 52 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 46 (6.42%) Go
9 39 (5.44%) JavaScript
10 37 (5.16%) C#
11 26 (3.63%) Scala
12 14 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.98%) Groovy
13 7 (0.98%) Ruby
13 7 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.84%) PHP
15 5 (0.70%) Rust
16 4 (0.56%) C
17 2 (0.28%) C++
17 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 125 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.02%) Azure Certification
4 35 (4.88%) Degree
5 34 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.37%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.98%) CCNP
12 6 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.84%) CISSP
13 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.56%) CCNA
14 4 (0.56%) CISM
15 3 (0.42%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.77%) QA
3 21 (2.93%) NIST
4 19 (2.65%) PCI DSS
5 18 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.09%) GDPR
7 9 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.12%) SLA
9 6 (0.84%) NCSC
10 3 (0.42%) 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
1 193 (26.92%) Docker
2 61 (8.51%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.23%) vSphere
7 9 (1.26%) 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
1 302 (42.12%) Kubernetes
2 143 (19.94%) Grafana
3 130 (18.13%) Ansible
4 44 (6.14%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.32%) Argo
6 20 (2.79%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.67%) Istio
8 12 (1.67%) Packer
9 9 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.12%) Puppet
11 6 (0.84%) Cilium
12 5 (0.70%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.56%) linkerd
14 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 162 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.53%) Google
3 39 (5.44%) VMware
4 33 (4.60%) Databricks
5 22 (3.07%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.65%) Cisco
7 18 (2.51%) Okta
8 17 (2.37%) Oracle
9 16 (2.23%) Informatica
10 15 (2.09%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.67%) ScienceLogic
12 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.98%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.98%) Splunk
13 7 (0.98%) YouTube
14 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.70%) Citrix
16 4 (0.56%) IBM