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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 55 60
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +37
Contract jobs citing Terraform 39 15 28
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.52% 2.28% 2.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.88% 14.56% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 16
10th Percentile £444 £460 £373
25th Percentile £469 £496 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £555 £536 £591
90th Percentile £625 £563 £619
Scotland median daily rate £510 £500 £555
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.91% -7.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Edinburgh

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 85 103 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.21% 15.63% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 56 92
10th Percentile £447 £149 £373
25th Percentile £475 £236 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £468 £495
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -5.45% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £550
90th Percentile £625 £538 £624
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £508
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.42% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £58.20
% change year-on-year +128.26% -60.48% +228.44%

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 9 December 2025.

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 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (71.79%) AWS
2 21 (53.85%) Azure
3 13 (33.33%) GCP
4 9 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
7 6 (15.38%) Serverless
7 6 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (10.26%) GitHub
8 4 (10.26%) OCI
8 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (5.13%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) InfluxDB
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (43.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) JIRA
3 5 (12.82%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Liquibase
5 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) Maven
6 1 (2.56%) Snyk
6 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Banking
3 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 6 (15.38%) Retail Banking
5 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Legal
6 4 (10.26%) Retail
7 2 (5.13%) Back Office
8 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Implementation Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Site Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Implementation Project Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Project Implementation Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) RESTful
3 3 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.69%) Node.js
3 3 (7.69%) Spring
3 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) CSS
4 2 (5.13%) Express.js
4 2 (5.13%) HTML
4 2 (5.13%) React
5 1 (2.56%) Jest
5 1 (2.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) Next.js
5 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.56%) Playwright
5 1 (2.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Unix
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Windows
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
2 27 (69.23%) Agile
3 25 (64.10%) DevOps
4 21 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (20.51%) Migration
5 8 (20.51%) Observability
5 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
6 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
7 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
8 5 (12.82%) Microservices
8 5 (12.82%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) Bash
2 8 (20.51%) Shell Script
3 5 (12.82%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Go
4 4 (10.26%) Perl
4 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) SQL
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) COBIT
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (38.46%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (56.41%) Ansible
2 18 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 14 (35.90%) Grafana
4 8 (20.51%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.13%) Fluentd
6 2 (5.13%) HAProxy
6 2 (5.13%) Nagios
7 1 (2.56%) Argo
7 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.56%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.56%) linkerd
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.26%) Dell
3 4 (10.26%) F5
3 4 (10.26%) HP
3 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.26%) Splunk
4 3 (7.69%) Commvault
4 3 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Apple
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity