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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 65 62
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 707 789 988
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.89% 4.85% 4.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.70% 20.44% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 476 370 674
10th Percentile £51,875 £48,750 £47,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,938 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £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 4,502 3,861 6,792
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.40% 23.73% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,325 2,562 4,814
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
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 20 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 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.83%) Apache
3 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.27%) Confluence
5 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.57%) Camunda
6 4 (0.57%) IIS
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.42%) nginx
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
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 1 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 449 (63.51%) AWS
2 388 (54.88%) Azure
3 211 (29.84%) GCP
4 118 (16.69%) SaaS
5 115 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (16.27%) GitHub
6 97 (13.72%) Amazon EKS
7 93 (13.15%) Serverless
8 91 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (9.48%) PaaS
10 58 (8.20%) Amazon S3
11 54 (7.64%) Azure AKS
12 50 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (6.93%) IaaS
14 48 (6.79%) Azure Monitor
15 42 (5.94%) Entra ID
16 35 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 48 (6.79%) Firewall
1 48 (6.79%) VPN
2 44 (6.22%) TCP/IP
3 38 (5.37%) DNS
4 27 (3.82%) DHCP
5 21 (2.97%) WAN
6 15 (2.12%) LAN
7 10 (1.41%) AMQP
7 10 (1.41%) SMS
8 9 (1.27%) BGP
8 9 (1.27%) Network Security
8 9 (1.27%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.13%) VLAN
10 7 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.99%) OSPF
10 7 (0.99%) Wireless
11 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.71%) HTTP
11 5 (0.71%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.10%) Metadata
5 25 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (3.25%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.97%) Delta Lake
9 17 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.40%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.26%) Data Vault
11 15 (2.12%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.98%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.84%) Big Data
13 13 (1.84%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.84%) Power BI
14 9 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.27%) MySQL
14 9 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (10.61%) Git
2 72 (10.18%) TeamCity
3 57 (8.06%) GitLab
4 50 (7.07%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.84%) JIRA
6 8 (1.13%) Selenium
6 8 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.85%) JUnit
8 5 (0.71%) JMeter
8 5 (0.71%) Maven
8 5 (0.71%) Poetry
8 5 (0.71%) Postman
9 4 (0.57%) Mockito
9 4 (0.57%) Snyk
9 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.42%) NUnit
10 3 (0.42%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 191 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 181 (25.60%) Finance
3 115 (16.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (15.84%) Law
5 111 (15.70%) Banking
6 96 (13.58%) Retail
7 87 (12.31%) Public Sector
8 61 (8.63%) Back Office
9 58 (8.20%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.70%) Marketing
12 11 (1.56%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.56%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.41%) Legal
13 10 (1.41%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.99%) Local Government
15 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.71%) Billing
17 4 (0.57%) Aviation
17 4 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 214 (30.27%) Senior
2 112 (15.84%) Software Engineer
3 111 (15.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 107 (15.13%) Lead
5 90 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (12.45%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (10.18%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (7.07%) Developer
9 45 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.22%) Data Engineer
11 42 (5.94%) Architect
11 42 (5.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 41 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (5.23%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.24%) Python Engineer
17 30 (4.24%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (9.48%) React
2 51 (7.21%) Node.js
3 45 (6.36%) REST
4 33 (4.67%) Spring
5 31 (4.38%) ARM Templates
5 31 (4.38%) Kafka
5 31 (4.38%) PySpark
6 29 (4.10%) OAuth
7 28 (3.96%) Spring Boot
8 27 (3.82%) .NET
9 26 (3.68%) OpenID
10 25 (3.54%) OAuth2
11 20 (2.83%) YAML
12 18 (2.55%) AWS CDK
13 17 (2.40%) AngularJS
14 16 (2.26%) RESTful
15 15 (2.12%) NestJS
15 15 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
15 15 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (1.98%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 197 (27.86%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (4.67%) Blog
6 32 (4.53%) Public Cloud
7 28 (3.96%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.83%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.98%) Podcast
11 13 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.84%) PKI
11 13 (1.84%) Replication
12 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.41%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.27%) Life Science
14 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 119 (16.83%) Linux
2 84 (11.88%) Windows
3 37 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.10%) 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%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (70.72%) CI/CD
2 455 (64.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 377 (53.32%) DevOps
4 225 (31.82%) Mentoring
5 184 (26.03%) Observability
6 182 (25.74%) Software Engineering
7 166 (23.48%) Agile
8 165 (23.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 161 (22.77%) AI
10 148 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
11 138 (19.52%) Microservices
12 133 (18.81%) Clean Code
13 131 (18.53%) Test Automation
14 127 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (17.54%) Containerisation
16 111 (15.70%) Technical Leadership
17 107 (15.13%) Analytics
17 107 (15.13%) Coaching
18 93 (13.15%) Deployment Automation
19 81 (11.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 273 (38.61%) Python
2 161 (22.77%) Java
3 136 (19.24%) PowerShell
4 125 (17.68%) SQL
5 112 (15.84%) Bicep
6 85 (12.02%) Bash
7 47 (6.65%) TypeScript
8 38 (5.37%) Go
8 38 (5.37%) JavaScript
9 36 (5.09%) C#
10 24 (3.39%) Scala
11 14 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.13%) Groovy
13 7 (0.99%) Ruby
14 6 (0.85%) PHP
14 6 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.71%) Rust
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 119 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.32%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.23%) Degree
5 36 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.40%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.27%) CCNP
12 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.71%) CCNA
14 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) CCIE
15 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.42%) OCP
16 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.82%) QA
3 15 (2.12%) GDPR
4 14 (1.98%) NIST
5 11 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) SLA
7 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.99%) NCSC
9 4 (0.57%) 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
1 183 (25.88%) Docker
2 68 (9.62%) Active Directory
3 40 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.55%) vSphere
6 15 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.27%) 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
1 288 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 139 (19.66%) Ansible
3 126 (17.82%) Grafana
4 39 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.10%) Argo
6 20 (2.83%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.70%) Istio
8 12 (1.70%) Packer
9 11 (1.56%) Puppet
10 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
13 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.42%) Cilium
13 3 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 162 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.36%) Google
3 43 (6.08%) VMware
4 32 (4.53%) Databricks
5 25 (3.54%) Cisco
6 20 (2.83%) Okta
7 17 (2.40%) Oracle
8 16 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.26%) Informatica
9 15 (2.12%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.41%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.85%) Citrix
13 6 (0.85%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.85%) Splunk
14 5 (0.71%) F5
14 5 (0.71%) Fortinet