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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 71 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 718 779 971
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 4.76% 4.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.84% 20.19% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 481 359 652
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,600 £47,625
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 £99,000 £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 4,534 3,858 6,766
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.40% 23.59% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,347 2,551 4,689
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -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 24 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 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.92%) Apache
4 16 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.25%) Confluence
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.56%) Camunda
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.42%) IIS
8 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.42%) WordPress
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
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
1 456 (63.51%) AWS
2 385 (53.62%) Azure
3 219 (30.50%) GCP
4 130 (18.11%) SaaS
5 120 (16.71%) GitHub
6 119 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (14.07%) Amazon EKS
8 99 (13.79%) Serverless
9 90 (12.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (9.75%) PaaS
11 67 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (7.94%) Amazon S3
13 55 (7.66%) Azure AKS
14 54 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
15 51 (7.10%) IaaS
16 50 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
17 48 (6.69%) Entra ID
18 37 (5.15%) Azure Key Vault
19 35 (4.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 35 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.38%) VPN
2 50 (6.96%) Firewall
3 47 (6.55%) TCP/IP
4 40 (5.57%) DNS
5 28 (3.90%) DHCP
6 21 (2.92%) WAN
7 15 (2.09%) LAN
8 12 (1.67%) BGP
9 11 (1.53%) Network Security
10 10 (1.39%) AMQP
10 10 (1.39%) SMS
10 10 (1.39%) VLAN
11 9 (1.25%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.97%) OSPF
12 7 (0.97%) Wireless
13 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.70%) HTTP
13 5 (0.70%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (12.81%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.32%) Metadata
4 29 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (3.34%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.92%) Delta Lake
9 17 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.37%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.23%) Data Vault
10 16 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 15 (2.09%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.95%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.95%) Power BI
13 13 (1.81%) Big Data
14 9 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.25%) MySQL
14 9 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (10.86%) TeamCity
2 74 (10.31%) Git
3 58 (8.08%) GitLab
4 52 (7.24%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.95%) JIRA
6 8 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (0.97%) Selenium
8 6 (0.84%) JUnit
9 5 (0.70%) Maven
9 5 (0.70%) Poetry
9 5 (0.70%) Postman
9 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
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
1 201 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 192 (26.74%) Finance
3 123 (17.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (16.57%) Law
5 118 (16.43%) Banking
6 104 (14.48%) Retail
7 94 (13.09%) Public Sector
8 67 (9.33%) Back Office
9 64 (8.91%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.67%) Marketing
12 11 (1.53%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.39%) Tech for Good
13 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.25%) Legal
15 7 (0.97%) Local Government
16 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.70%) Billing
17 5 (0.70%) Police
18 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (31.06%) Senior
2 116 (16.16%) Software Engineer
3 108 (15.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 108 (15.04%) Lead
4 88 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
6 71 (9.89%) Platform Engineer
7 50 (6.96%) Developer
8 47 (6.55%) Architect
9 46 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.13%) Data Engineer
11 41 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 37 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
13 35 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (4.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 31 (4.32%) Python Engineer
15 31 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.18%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.61%) React
2 51 (7.10%) Node.js
3 47 (6.55%) REST
4 35 (4.87%) Spring
5 31 (4.32%) Kafka
5 31 (4.32%) OAuth
5 31 (4.32%) PySpark
6 30 (4.18%) Spring Boot
7 29 (4.04%) ARM Templates
8 27 (3.76%) OAuth2
8 27 (3.76%) OpenID
9 25 (3.48%) .NET
10 19 (2.65%) YAML
11 18 (2.51%) AWS CDK
11 18 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (2.37%) AngularJS
12 17 (2.37%) RESTful
13 15 (2.09%) NestJS
13 15 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (2.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 206 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (5.15%) Blog
6 29 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 28 (3.90%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.20%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.09%) Replication
10 14 (1.95%) PKI
11 13 (1.81%) Podcast
12 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.25%) Life Science
13 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.16%) Linux
2 80 (11.14%) Windows
3 33 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.18%) Unix
5 13 (1.81%) 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
1 512 (71.31%) CI/CD
2 464 (64.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 382 (53.20%) DevOps
4 229 (31.89%) Mentoring
5 193 (26.88%) Observability
6 191 (26.60%) Software Engineering
7 170 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 169 (23.54%) Agile
9 168 (23.40%) AI
10 146 (20.33%) Platform Engineering
11 143 (19.92%) Microservices
12 136 (18.94%) Clean Code
13 134 (18.66%) Test Automation
14 131 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
15 127 (17.69%) Containerisation
16 114 (15.88%) Analytics
17 111 (15.46%) Coaching
18 110 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
19 100 (13.93%) Deployment Automation
20 88 (12.26%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 278 (38.72%) Python
2 174 (24.23%) Java
3 135 (18.80%) PowerShell
4 132 (18.38%) SQL
5 116 (16.16%) Bicep
6 89 (12.40%) Bash
7 49 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.85%) Go
9 38 (5.29%) JavaScript
10 35 (4.87%) C#
11 26 (3.62%) Scala
12 14 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.11%) Groovy
13 8 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.97%) Ruby
15 6 (0.84%) PHP
16 5 (0.70%) Rust
17 3 (0.42%) C
17 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 123 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 108 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.14%) Azure Certification
4 35 (4.87%) Degree
5 34 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.51%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.37%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.97%) CCNP
12 6 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.56%) CCNA
14 4 (0.56%) CISSP
15 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.55%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.76%) QA
3 16 (2.23%) NIST
4 15 (2.09%) GDPR
5 14 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.25%) SLA
8 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.84%) NCSC
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%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 187 (26.04%) Docker
2 66 (9.19%) Active Directory
3 38 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.37%) vSphere
6 9 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.28%) Firmware
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 299 (41.64%) Kubernetes
2 140 (19.50%) Grafana
3 135 (18.80%) Ansible
4 43 (5.99%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.04%) Argo
6 21 (2.92%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.81%) Packer
9 12 (1.67%) Istio
10 9 (1.25%) Puppet
10 9 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.70%) 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%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 164 (22.84%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.82%) Google
3 41 (5.71%) VMware
4 32 (4.46%) Databricks
5 22 (3.06%) Cisco
5 22 (3.06%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.79%) Okta
7 18 (2.51%) Oracle
8 16 (2.23%) Informatica
9 15 (2.09%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.67%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (1.25%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.11%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.11%) Splunk
13 7 (0.97%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.84%) Citrix
14 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.70%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.70%) IBM