Terraform Contracts in Scotland

Terraform
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 64 88
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 -25
Contract jobs citing Terraform 71 67 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.37% 3.02% 2.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.21% 24.10% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 49
10th Percentile £362 £411 £410
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £632 £675
90th Percentile £580 £658 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 278 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.46% 12.54% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 194 406
10th Percentile £198 £246 £260
25th Percentile £399 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £576 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £21.18 £19.59 £21.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%
75th Percentile £24.00 £49.21 £58.75
90th Percentile £24.11 £55.68 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +16 58 £491 +3.26% 23
Edinburgh -8 13 £526 -12.29% 17
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (14.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 47 (66.20%) AWS
2 15 (21.13%) Azure
3 12 (16.90%) Serverless
4 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (9.86%) GitHub
5 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
6 6 (8.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (8.45%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.82%) PaaS
9 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) DNS
1 1 (1.41%) Firewall
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
1 1 (1.41%) SSL
1 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) MySQL
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.04%) MariaDB
4 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.82%) Power Query
6 2 (2.82%) Redis
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.41%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.41%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Bitbucket
2 13 (18.31%) JIRA
3 12 (16.90%) Git
4 10 (14.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.23%) GitLab
6 1 (1.41%) Gatling
6 1 (1.41%) Gradle
6 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.41%) JMeter
6 1 (1.41%) Maven
6 1 (1.41%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (22.54%) Finance
2 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.90%) Banking
4 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.63%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Back Office
8 2 (2.82%) Legal
9 1 (1.41%) Automotive
9 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (40.85%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) Java Developer
3 10 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Lead
4 7 (9.86%) Python Developer
5 6 (8.45%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.63%) Applications Specialist
6 4 (5.63%) Applications Support Specialist
6 4 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 4 (5.63%) Support Specialist
7 3 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Linux Specialist
7 3 (4.23%) Linux Support
7 3 (4.23%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) Spring
1 22 (30.99%) Spring Boot
2 8 (11.27%) Loki
3 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.63%) CSS
3 4 (5.63%) Express.js
3 4 (5.63%) HTML
3 4 (5.63%) Middleware
3 4 (5.63%) Node.js
3 4 (5.63%) REST
4 3 (4.23%) React
5 2 (2.82%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.82%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.82%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (2.82%) JSON
5 2 (2.82%) pytest
5 2 (2.82%) YAML
6 1 (1.41%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.82%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.21%) Linux
2 9 (12.68%) Windows
3 8 (11.27%) Unix
4 2 (2.82%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.41%) CentOS
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.41%) VMS
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) CI/CD
2 29 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (30.99%) DevOps
4 19 (26.76%) Agile
5 15 (21.13%) Process Improvement
5 15 (21.13%) Project Delivery
6 14 (19.72%) Containerisation
7 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (14.08%) Continuous Delivery
8 10 (14.08%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.08%) Operational Stability
9 9 (12.68%) ITIL
10 8 (11.27%) Computer Science
10 8 (11.27%) Mathematics
10 8 (11.27%) Microservices
10 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
10 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
11 7 (9.86%) SDLC
11 7 (9.86%) TDD
11 7 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) Python
2 30 (42.25%) Java
3 16 (22.54%) TypeScript
4 13 (18.31%) Shell Script
5 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.04%) Bash
6 5 (7.04%) C#
7 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.23%) SQL
9 2 (2.82%) Bicep
9 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (15.49%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.27%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (11.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Docker
2 8 (11.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.41%) Firmware
5 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (32.39%) Ansible
2 20 (28.17%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.90%) Grafana
3 12 (16.90%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.82%) Podman
5 2 (2.82%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.41%) linkerd
6 1 (1.41%) Packer
6 1 (1.41%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.41%) Puppet
6 1 (1.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) Splunk
2 11 (15.49%) VMware
3 8 (11.27%) Oracle
3 8 (11.27%) Veritas
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.23%) Netskope
5 3 (4.23%) Proofpoint
5 3 (4.23%) Symantec
6 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.41%) Citrix
7 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.41%) OpenAI