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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 71 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 727 772 946
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 4.60% 4.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.07% 20.38% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 481 341 629
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,250
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 £88,750 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 4,523 3,788 6,672
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.14% 22.59% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,329 2,473 4,549
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £49,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
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 30 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 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.89%) Apache
4 16 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.96%) Confluence
6 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.69%) Camunda
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.41%) IIS
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.41%) 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
1 470 (64.65%) AWS
2 383 (52.68%) Azure
3 225 (30.95%) GCP
4 132 (18.16%) SaaS
5 122 (16.78%) GitHub
6 121 (16.64%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
8 100 (13.76%) Serverless
9 92 (12.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (9.63%) PaaS
11 69 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (8.12%) Amazon S3
13 56 (7.70%) Azure AKS
14 55 (7.57%) Azure Monitor
15 51 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (7.02%) IaaS
16 48 (6.60%) Entra ID
17 38 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
18 35 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (7.70%) VPN
2 49 (6.74%) Firewall
3 48 (6.60%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.36%) DNS
5 27 (3.71%) DHCP
6 20 (2.75%) WAN
7 14 (1.93%) LAN
8 13 (1.79%) BGP
9 12 (1.65%) Network Security
10 11 (1.51%) AMQP
10 11 (1.51%) SMS
11 9 (1.24%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.24%) VLAN
12 7 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.96%) OSPF
12 7 (0.96%) Wireless
13 5 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.69%) HTTP
13 5 (0.69%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.55%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (13.34%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (4.26%) Metadata
4 27 (3.71%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (3.44%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 21 (2.89%) Delta Lake
8 18 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.20%) Data Vault
10 15 (2.06%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.93%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.93%) Power BI
11 14 (1.93%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.79%) Big Data
13 10 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.24%) MySQL
14 9 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (11.55%) TeamCity
2 67 (9.22%) Git
3 62 (8.53%) GitLab
4 56 (7.70%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.65%) JIRA
6 7 (0.96%) JUnit
6 7 (0.96%) Selenium
6 7 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.69%) Mockito
7 5 (0.69%) Poetry
7 5 (0.69%) Postman
8 4 (0.55%) Maven
8 4 (0.55%) Snyk
8 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.55%) Vagrant
8 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.41%) JMeter
10 2 (0.28%) NUnit
General
1 202 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 189 (26.00%) Finance
3 126 (17.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 123 (16.92%) Law
5 121 (16.64%) Banking
6 107 (14.72%) Retail
7 97 (13.34%) Public Sector
8 68 (9.35%) Back Office
9 65 (8.94%) Financial Institution
10 45 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.65%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.51%) Marketing
12 11 (1.51%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.24%) Legal
13 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.96%) Local Government
15 6 (0.83%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.69%) Police
17 4 (0.55%) Games
17 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (31.91%) Senior
2 122 (16.78%) Software Engineer
3 109 (14.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 103 (14.17%) Lead
5 95 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 82 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
7 70 (9.63%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (6.88%) Developer
8 50 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (6.46%) Architect
10 44 (6.05%) Data Engineer
11 40 (5.50%) Senior DevOps
12 39 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
12 39 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 39 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
13 37 (5.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 32 (4.40%) Python Engineer
15 31 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (4.13%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (9.63%) React
2 52 (7.15%) Node.js
3 46 (6.33%) REST
4 36 (4.95%) Spring
5 32 (4.40%) Kafka
5 32 (4.40%) Spring Boot
6 31 (4.26%) OAuth
6 31 (4.26%) PySpark
7 29 (3.99%) ARM Templates
8 27 (3.71%) .NET
8 27 (3.71%) OAuth2
8 27 (3.71%) OpenID
9 20 (2.75%) YAML
10 19 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 17 (2.34%) AWS CDK
11 17 (2.34%) RESTful
12 16 (2.20%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (2.06%) Next.js
13 15 (2.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (29.30%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.57%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.64%) Blog
5 36 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 24 (3.30%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.06%) Replication
10 14 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.79%) Podcast
12 12 (1.65%) PKI
13 11 (1.51%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.24%) Life Science
15 9 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 116 (15.96%) Linux
2 80 (11.00%) Windows
3 31 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.13%) Unix
5 12 (1.65%) VMS
6 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.41%) 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
1 524 (72.08%) CI/CD
2 471 (64.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 392 (53.92%) DevOps
4 235 (32.32%) Mentoring
5 197 (27.10%) Software Engineering
6 195 (26.82%) Observability
7 175 (24.07%) AI
8 173 (23.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 169 (23.25%) Agile
10 150 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
11 147 (20.22%) Microservices
12 139 (19.12%) Test Automation
13 138 (18.98%) Clean Code
13 138 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
14 128 (17.61%) Containerisation
15 118 (16.23%) Technical Leadership
16 114 (15.68%) Coaching
17 113 (15.54%) Analytics
18 106 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
19 94 (12.93%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 281 (38.65%) Python
2 182 (25.03%) Java
3 134 (18.43%) PowerShell
3 134 (18.43%) SQL
4 115 (15.82%) Bicep
5 93 (12.79%) Bash
6 52 (7.15%) TypeScript
7 46 (6.33%) Go
8 39 (5.36%) JavaScript
9 37 (5.09%) C#
10 26 (3.58%) Scala
11 14 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.10%) Groovy
12 8 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.96%) Ruby
14 6 (0.83%) PHP
15 5 (0.69%) Rust
16 4 (0.55%) C
17 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 129 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 115 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.00%) Azure Certification
4 34 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (4.54%) Degree
6 21 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.34%) SnowPro
8 11 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.96%) CCNP
13 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.69%) CISSP
14 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.55%) CCNA
16 3 (0.41%) CCIE
16 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.71%) QA
3 18 (2.48%) NIST
4 16 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.06%) GDPR
5 15 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.10%) SLA
6 8 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.83%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.28%) IFRS
8 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 193 (26.55%) Docker
2 64 (8.80%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.20%) vSphere
7 9 (1.24%) 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
1 311 (42.78%) Kubernetes
2 142 (19.53%) Grafana
3 138 (18.98%) Ansible
4 43 (5.91%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.40%) Argo
6 21 (2.89%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.65%) Istio
8 12 (1.65%) Packer
9 9 (1.24%) Puppet
10 8 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.69%) Cilium
11 5 (0.69%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.55%) linkerd
13 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.41%) Kibana
13 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 160 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.02%) Google
3 40 (5.50%) VMware
4 33 (4.54%) Databricks
5 22 (3.03%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.75%) Cisco
7 19 (2.61%) Okta
8 18 (2.48%) Oracle
9 16 (2.20%) Informatica
10 15 (2.06%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.65%) ScienceLogic
12 9 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.96%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.96%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.96%) Splunk
13 7 (0.96%) YouTube
14 6 (0.83%) Citrix
14 6 (0.83%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.83%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.69%) IBM