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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 -17
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 747 757 914
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.97% 4.61% 4.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.56% 20.20% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 482 331 615
10th Percentile £50,546 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,801 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.62% -1.60% -

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 4,512 3,747 6,535
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.92% 22.82% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,277 2,434 4,399
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 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £120,000
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 16 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 26 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.95%) Apache
4 16 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.94%) Confluence
5 7 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.67%) Camunda
7 4 (0.54%) nginx
8 3 (0.40%) IIS
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 487 (65.19%) AWS
2 378 (50.60%) Azure
3 242 (32.40%) GCP
4 150 (20.08%) SaaS
5 132 (17.67%) GitHub
6 124 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
8 101 (13.52%) Serverless
9 88 (11.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 76 (10.17%) PaaS
11 74 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (8.30%) Amazon S3
13 58 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
14 57 (7.63%) IaaS
15 52 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (6.96%) Azure AKS
15 52 (6.96%) Entra ID
16 41 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
17 35 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.37%) VPN
2 57 (7.63%) Firewall
3 56 (7.50%) TCP/IP
4 38 (5.09%) DNS
5 25 (3.35%) BGP
6 22 (2.95%) DHCP
7 20 (2.68%) WAN
8 19 (2.54%) Network Security
9 18 (2.41%) VLAN
10 13 (1.74%) AMQP
10 13 (1.74%) LAN
10 13 (1.74%) SMS
11 8 (1.07%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.94%) Wireless
13 6 (0.80%) OSPF
14 5 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.67%) HTTP
14 5 (0.67%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (14.99%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (4.15%) Metadata
5 24 (3.21%) DynamoDB
6 23 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 22 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 21 (2.81%) Delta Lake
9 19 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (2.41%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.14%) Data Vault
11 16 (2.14%) Power BI
12 14 (1.87%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.87%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.74%) Relational Database
14 12 (1.61%) Big Data
15 9 (1.20%) MySQL
16 8 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (13.52%) TeamCity
2 66 (8.84%) Git
3 61 (8.17%) GitLab
4 56 (7.50%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.47%) JIRA
6 7 (0.94%) JUnit
6 7 (0.94%) Selenium
6 7 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.67%) Mockito
7 5 (0.67%) Poetry
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) Snyk
8 4 (0.54%) Maven
8 4 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.54%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 3 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 207 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 202 (27.04%) Finance
3 134 (17.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (17.54%) Law
5 127 (17.00%) Banking
6 115 (15.39%) Retail
7 102 (13.65%) Public Sector
8 81 (10.84%) Back Office
9 78 (10.44%) Financial Institution
10 48 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.74%) Health Technology
11 13 (1.74%) Tech for Good
12 12 (1.61%) Marketing
13 10 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.07%) Legal
14 8 (1.07%) Police
15 7 (0.94%) Local Government
16 5 (0.67%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.54%) Games
17 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (32.80%) Senior
2 129 (17.27%) Software Engineer
3 109 (14.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 103 (13.79%) Lead
5 100 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
7 66 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
8 56 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 51 (6.83%) Developer
10 48 (6.43%) Architect
11 47 (6.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 45 (6.02%) Data Engineer
13 40 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
14 38 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
15 37 (4.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 36 (4.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 31 (4.15%) Python Engineer
18 30 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 29 (3.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 29 (3.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (9.64%) React
2 51 (6.83%) Node.js
3 45 (6.02%) REST
4 36 (4.82%) Spring
5 34 (4.55%) PySpark
6 33 (4.42%) .NET
6 33 (4.42%) OAuth
6 33 (4.42%) Spring Boot
7 30 (4.02%) OAuth2
7 30 (4.02%) OpenID
8 29 (3.88%) ARM Templates
9 27 (3.61%) Kafka
10 24 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 23 (3.08%) RESTful
12 19 (2.54%) YAML
13 17 (2.28%) AWS CDK
14 16 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (2.01%) NestJS
15 15 (2.01%) Next.js
15 15 (2.01%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 233 (31.19%) Cloud Native
2 79 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.36%) Blog
4 54 (7.23%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (4.15%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.75%) Data Centre
7 26 (3.48%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.68%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (2.14%) Replication
12 14 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.61%) Podcast
14 11 (1.47%) PKI
15 10 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
16 9 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.20%) Life Science
16 9 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (15.80%) Linux
2 71 (9.50%) Windows
3 28 (3.75%) Unix
4 27 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.74%) VMS
6 5 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.40%) Debian
9 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.27%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (73.76%) CI/CD
2 479 (64.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 395 (52.88%) DevOps
4 234 (31.33%) Mentoring
5 209 (27.98%) Software Engineering
6 206 (27.58%) Observability
7 186 (24.90%) AI
8 172 (23.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (21.95%) Agile
10 153 (20.48%) Platform Engineering
11 152 (20.35%) Microservices
12 151 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
13 147 (19.68%) Clean Code
14 144 (19.28%) Test Automation
15 136 (18.21%) Containerisation
16 128 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
17 115 (15.39%) Coaching
18 113 (15.13%) Analytics
19 111 (14.86%) Deployment Automation
19 111 (14.86%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 299 (40.03%) Python
2 199 (26.64%) Java
3 153 (20.48%) SQL
4 138 (18.47%) PowerShell
5 124 (16.60%) Bicep
6 102 (13.65%) Bash
7 57 (7.63%) Go
8 54 (7.23%) TypeScript
9 42 (5.62%) C#
10 41 (5.49%) JavaScript
11 27 (3.61%) Scala
12 13 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.94%) Groovy
14 7 (0.94%) PHP
14 7 (0.94%) Ruby
15 4 (0.54%) Rust
16 3 (0.40%) C
17 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
18 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.80%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.84%) Azure Certification
4 37 (4.95%) Degree
5 35 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.28%) SnowPro
8 16 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.47%) CISSP
9 11 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.20%) CISM
12 8 (1.07%) CCSP
12 8 (1.07%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.80%) CCNP
15 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.54%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.88%) PCI DSS
2 29 (3.88%) QA
3 28 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (3.35%) NIST
5 21 (2.81%) SOC 2
6 14 (1.87%) GDPR
7 11 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.07%) SLA
9 6 (0.80%) NCSC
10 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 206 (27.58%) Docker
2 56 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.28%) vSphere
7 9 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) LXC
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.13%) QEMU
10 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 318 (42.57%) Kubernetes
2 163 (21.82%) Grafana
3 133 (17.80%) Ansible
4 52 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.15%) Argo
6 21 (2.81%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.74%) Packer
9 12 (1.61%) Istio
10 11 (1.47%) Cilium
11 8 (1.07%) Puppet
12 5 (0.67%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.54%) linkerd
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.40%) Kibana
14 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 166 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.64%) Google
3 38 (5.09%) VMware
4 33 (4.42%) Databricks
5 24 (3.21%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.68%) Cisco
7 17 (2.28%) Oracle
8 16 (2.14%) Informatica
8 16 (2.14%) Okta
9 15 (2.01%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.61%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.34%) Splunk
12 9 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.07%) YouTube
14 7 (0.94%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.67%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.67%) New Relic
16 4 (0.54%) NetApp