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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -21 -10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 702 777 987
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.93% 4.77% 4.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.72% 20.01% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 478 364 678
10th Percentile £52,125 £50,900 £49,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £88,600 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,625 £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 4,467 3,884 6,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.66% 23.85% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,296 2,591 4,913
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,250 £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 £87,313 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £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 13 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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.85%) Apache
3 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.28%) Confluence
5 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.57%) IIS
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.43%) Camunda
7 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
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%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 446 (63.53%) AWS
2 390 (55.56%) Azure
3 208 (29.63%) GCP
4 113 (16.10%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (15.81%) GitHub
6 109 (15.53%) SaaS
7 94 (13.39%) Amazon EKS
8 92 (13.11%) Serverless
9 90 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (9.26%) PaaS
11 63 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (8.26%) Amazon S3
13 53 (7.55%) Azure AKS
14 50 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
15 48 (6.84%) IaaS
16 39 (5.56%) Entra ID
17 34 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 34 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.98%) Firewall
2 46 (6.55%) TCP/IP
2 46 (6.55%) VPN
3 40 (5.70%) DNS
4 28 (3.99%) DHCP
5 23 (3.28%) WAN
6 19 (2.71%) LAN
7 11 (1.57%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.42%) BGP
8 10 (1.42%) Network Security
9 9 (1.28%) AMQP
9 9 (1.28%) SMS
9 9 (1.28%) VLAN
10 8 (1.14%) OSPF
10 8 (1.14%) Wireless
11 7 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.85%) HTTP
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.71%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.13%) Metadata
3 28 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (3.28%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (2.99%) Delta Lake
10 17 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (2.42%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.28%) Data Vault
11 16 (2.28%) Relational Database
12 15 (2.14%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.85%) Big Data
14 12 (1.71%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.71%) Power BI
15 10 (1.42%) MySQL
16 9 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (10.97%) Git
2 63 (8.97%) TeamCity
3 56 (7.98%) GitLab
4 50 (7.12%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.71%) JIRA
6 9 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.14%) Selenium
7 8 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.71%) JMeter
8 5 (0.71%) JUnit
8 5 (0.71%) Maven
8 5 (0.71%) Poetry
8 5 (0.71%) Postman
9 4 (0.57%) Snyk
9 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.43%) MLflow
10 3 (0.43%) Mockito
10 3 (0.43%) NUnit
10 3 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 186 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 181 (25.78%) Finance
3 109 (15.53%) Banking
4 108 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (14.81%) Law
6 87 (12.39%) Retail
7 86 (12.25%) Public Sector
8 54 (7.69%) Back Office
9 51 (7.26%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.85%) Marketing
11 13 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.71%) Legal
13 10 (1.42%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 7 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.00%) Local Government
16 5 (0.71%) Billing
16 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (30.06%) Senior
2 110 (15.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 107 (15.24%) Lead
3 107 (15.24%) Software Engineer
4 93 (13.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (12.25%) Azure Engineer
6 71 (10.11%) Platform Engineer
7 49 (6.98%) Developer
8 47 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.27%) Data Engineer
11 43 (6.13%) Architect
12 42 (5.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 40 (5.70%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (5.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 34 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 31 (4.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (4.27%) Python Engineer
17 30 (4.27%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.26%) React
2 52 (7.41%) Node.js
3 45 (6.41%) REST
4 37 (5.27%) Kafka
5 33 (4.70%) Spring
6 31 (4.42%) ARM Templates
6 31 (4.42%) PySpark
7 28 (3.99%) OAuth
7 28 (3.99%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.70%) .NET
9 25 (3.56%) OAuth2
9 25 (3.56%) OpenID
10 20 (2.85%) YAML
11 19 (2.71%) AWS CDK
12 17 (2.42%) RESTful
13 15 (2.14%) AngularJS
13 15 (2.14%) NestJS
14 14 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (1.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 193 (27.49%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (7.26%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (4.70%) Public Cloud
6 30 (4.27%) Blog
7 29 (4.13%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.85%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.28%) Podcast
10 14 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.85%) PKI
11 13 (1.85%) Replication
12 11 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.42%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.28%) Life Science
14 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 118 (16.81%) Linux
2 83 (11.82%) Windows
3 37 (5.27%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.99%) Unix
5 13 (1.85%) VMS
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.43%) 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%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (69.94%) CI/CD
2 453 (64.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 375 (53.42%) DevOps
4 223 (31.77%) Mentoring
5 184 (26.21%) Observability
6 180 (25.64%) Software Engineering
7 166 (23.65%) Agile
8 164 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 156 (22.22%) AI
10 148 (21.08%) Platform Engineering
11 132 (18.80%) Containerisation
12 130 (18.52%) Microservices
13 127 (18.09%) Clean Code
14 126 (17.95%) Test Automation
15 124 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
16 114 (16.24%) Technical Leadership
17 106 (15.10%) Analytics
18 102 (14.53%) Coaching
19 86 (12.25%) Deployment Automation
19 86 (12.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 277 (39.46%) Python
2 149 (21.23%) Java
3 132 (18.80%) PowerShell
4 120 (17.09%) SQL
5 110 (15.67%) Bicep
6 83 (11.82%) Bash
7 47 (6.70%) TypeScript
8 43 (6.13%) Go
9 36 (5.13%) JavaScript
10 33 (4.70%) C#
11 23 (3.28%) Scala
12 13 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.00%) Groovy
13 7 (1.00%) Ruby
14 6 (0.85%) PHP
15 5 (0.71%) Rust
15 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 99 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.25%) Azure Certification
4 41 (5.84%) Degree
5 34 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.42%) SnowPro
8 13 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.57%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.42%) CCNP
12 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.71%) CCIE
14 5 (0.71%) CCNA
14 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.70%) QA
3 14 (1.99%) NIST
4 13 (1.85%) GDPR
5 9 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.28%) SLA
6 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.00%) NCSC
8 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 188 (26.78%) Docker
2 67 (9.54%) Active Directory
3 42 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (2.71%) vSphere
7 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.57%) Firmware
8 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
9 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 288 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 140 (19.94%) Ansible
3 117 (16.67%) Grafana
4 37 (5.27%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.13%) Argo
6 19 (2.71%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.56%) Istio
8 16 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.85%) Packer
10 12 (1.71%) Puppet
11 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.57%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
12 4 (0.57%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.43%) Cilium
13 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 157 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.41%) VMware
3 43 (6.13%) Google
4 31 (4.42%) Databricks
5 30 (4.27%) Cisco
6 20 (2.85%) Okta
7 17 (2.42%) Oracle
8 16 (2.28%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.28%) Informatica
9 15 (2.14%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.85%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.71%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.85%) Citrix
15 6 (0.85%) EMC
15 6 (0.85%) F5
15 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.85%) Splunk