Terraform Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Terraform
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 35 60
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 29 34 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.94% 5.35% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.35% 20.12% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 9
10th Percentile £389 £446 £485
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.70%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £600
90th Percentile £594 £539 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 158 169 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.47% 26.61% 25.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 103 128
10th Percentile £402 £418 £380
25th Percentile £419 £456 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.68% +3.53%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £566
90th Percentile £629 £600 £685
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -3.53%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Terraform job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Edinburgh

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) IIS
1 2 (6.90%) nginx
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
1 2 (6.90%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
3 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
3 4 (13.79%) GitHub
3 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (10.34%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 2 (6.90%) Apigee
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) Power Query
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
General
1 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Finance
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) DBA
1 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
2 4 (13.79%) SQL DBA
3 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) JSON
2 3 (10.34%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.90%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (6.90%) Node.js
3 2 (6.90%) OAuth
3 2 (6.90%) OpenID
3 2 (6.90%) SAML
4 1 (3.45%) ADO
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) LangGraph
4 1 (3.45%) LDAP
4 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.45%) vLLM
4 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) DevOps
3 18 (62.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 10 (34.48%) AI
6 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (27.59%) Observability
8 5 (17.24%) Agile
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
8 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (13.79%) Migration
9 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security
10 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
10 3 (10.34%) Event-Driven
10 3 (10.34%) GitOps
10 3 (10.34%) LLM
10 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
3 8 (27.59%) Bash
4 7 (24.14%) SQL
5 5 (17.24%) Java
6 4 (13.79%) Bicep
7 3 (10.34%) Go
7 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
1 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) RHCE
4 1 (3.45%) RHCSA
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (24.14%) Ansible
3 5 (17.24%) Grafana
3 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.90%) Argo
4 2 (6.90%) linkerd
5 1 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.45%) Istio
5 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.45%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) IBM
2 3 (10.34%) Okta
2 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.34%) RedGate
2 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI