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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 68 84
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 70 56 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.22% 2.63% 2.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.26% 22.31% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 47 46
10th Percentile £352 £413 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £673
90th Percentile £579 £640 £688
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -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 217 251 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.10% 11.78% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 184 346
10th Percentile £200 £200 £237
25th Percentile £395 £370 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% -7.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £550
90th Percentile £576 £630 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.36% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £16.00 £19.49
25th Percentile - £17.37 £21.36
Median hourly rate - £20.08 £39.59
Median % change year-on-year - -49.29% -11.04%
75th Percentile - £22.35 £58.75
90th Percentile - £23.45 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% -47.83% +162.68%

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

Terraform
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

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Scotland

Terraform
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 31 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 +6 49 £485 +3.74% 6
Edinburgh +4 18 £525 -12.50% 15
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 48 (68.57%) AWS
2 13 (18.57%) Azure
3 12 (17.14%) GitHub
4 11 (15.71%) Serverless
5 9 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.43%) OpenShift
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (5.71%) PaaS
8 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (4.29%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.29%) SaaS
9 3 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) SSL
2 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) MySQL
2 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.14%) MariaDB
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.29%) Power Query
5 3 (4.29%) Redis
5 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Bitbucket
2 14 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (18.57%) JIRA
4 12 (17.14%) Git
5 4 (5.71%) GitLab
6 3 (4.29%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.29%) IntelliJ
6 3 (4.29%) Newman
6 3 (4.29%) PyCharm
6 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio
6 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.86%) Gradle
7 2 (2.86%) Maven
8 1 (1.43%) Gatling
8 1 (1.43%) JMeter
8 1 (1.43%) Snyk
8 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (25.71%) Finance
2 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Back Office
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Applications Support
7 5 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Applications Support Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Lead
8 4 (5.71%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Support Specialist
9 3 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Linux Specialist
9 3 (4.29%) Linux Support
9 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) Spring
1 14 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (11.43%) Loki
3 4 (5.71%) Middleware
3 4 (5.71%) Node.js
4 3 (4.29%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.29%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
4 3 (4.29%) Express.js
4 3 (4.29%) HTML
4 3 (4.29%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (4.29%) Jest
4 3 (4.29%) JSON
4 3 (4.29%) Nunjucks
4 3 (4.29%) Prisma
4 3 (4.29%) YAML
5 2 (2.86%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.86%) pytest
5 2 (2.86%) React
5 2 (2.86%) REST
5 2 (2.86%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.29%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) Life Science
5 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (34.29%) Linux
2 11 (15.71%) Windows
3 8 (11.43%) Unix
4 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.43%) CentOS
6 1 (1.43%) VMS
6 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (61.43%) CI/CD
2 34 (48.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (40.00%) DevOps
4 21 (30.00%) Agile
5 14 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (17.14%) Process Improvement
7 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (15.71%) Project Delivery
7 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
8 10 (14.29%) SDLC
9 9 (12.86%) ITIL
9 9 (12.86%) Operational Stability
10 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 8 (11.43%) Observability
11 7 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.00%) Mathematics
11 7 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (8.57%) Problem Management
12 6 (8.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Python
2 25 (35.71%) Java
3 11 (15.71%) TypeScript
4 9 (12.86%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.00%) Bash
6 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.71%) C#
8 4 (5.71%) Go
8 4 (5.71%) SQL
9 3 (4.29%) Bicep
9 3 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) AWS Certification
2 7 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) NCSC
2 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (24.29%) Docker
2 8 (11.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (34.29%) Ansible
2 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.14%) Grafana
3 12 (17.14%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.29%) Podman
4 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.86%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.43%) Argo
6 1 (1.43%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.43%) Istio
6 1 (1.43%) linkerd
6 1 (1.43%) Packer
6 1 (1.43%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.43%) Puppet
6 1 (1.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Splunk
2 11 (15.71%) VMware
3 8 (11.43%) Veritas
4 7 (10.00%) Oracle
5 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.71%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (4.29%) Netskope
7 3 (4.29%) Proofpoint
7 3 (4.29%) Symantec
8 2 (2.86%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.43%) Citrix
9 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.43%) Genesys
9 1 (1.43%) Google
9 1 (1.43%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.43%) OpenAI