Terraform Job Trends in Scotland

Terraform
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Terraform skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 72 67
Rank change year-on-year +34 -5 +13
Permanent jobs citing Terraform 135 77 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.96% 2.86% 5.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 59.47% 32.35% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13 38 98
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,500 £47,142
25th Percentile £60,500 £53,750 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £69,308 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -1.80% +8.58%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £96,539
90th Percentile - £85,000 £137,913
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -6.25%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 227 238 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.34% 8.82% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 55 130 248
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,298 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -9.26% +12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,266 £93,778 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in Scotland

Terraform
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Terraform.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Terraform

Terraform
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Terraform in Scotland

Terraform
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +24 134 £71,940 +3.80% 8
Glasgow 0 1 £35,000 -46.15% 8
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 17 (12.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (11.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) CICS
3 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 37 (27.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (97.04%) Azure
2 90 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (51.11%) GitHub
4 46 (34.07%) Entra ID
5 37 (27.41%) OCI
6 32 (23.70%) AWS
7 28 (20.74%) dbt
7 28 (20.74%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (19.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (19.26%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (17.78%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (17.04%) Snowflake
11 19 (14.07%) Azure Key Vault
12 17 (12.59%) GitHub Copilot
12 17 (12.59%) Power Platform
13 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (11.11%) Datadog
15 14 (10.37%) Azure Event Grid
15 14 (10.37%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (10.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.67%) Firewall
2 6 (4.44%) DNS
3 5 (3.70%) LAN
3 5 (3.70%) VPN
3 5 (3.70%) WAN
4 4 (2.96%) BGP
4 4 (2.96%) MPLS
4 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.96%) Wireless
5 3 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.48%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) Power BI
1 17 (12.59%) Tableau
2 12 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.96%) Redis
4 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.74%) DB2
Development Applications
1 37 (27.41%) Jenkins
1 37 (27.41%) Oracle Forms
2 21 (15.56%) JIRA
3 17 (12.59%) Git
4 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.74%) JMeter
4 1 (0.74%) Locust
General
1 120 (88.89%) Finance
2 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 2 (1.48%) Health Technology
3 2 (1.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (46.67%) Senior
2 43 (31.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 37 (27.41%) Applications Engineer
4 25 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (17.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) Development Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Senior Development Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.22%) Network Engineer
12 3 (2.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 2 (1.48%) Automation Engineer
13 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (37.78%) RESTful
2 42 (31.11%) OAuth
3 34 (25.19%) JSON
4 31 (22.96%) OAuth2
5 20 (14.81%) SOAP
5 20 (14.81%) XML
6 17 (12.59%) SAML
7 15 (11.11%) .NET
8 14 (10.37%) ADO
9 11 (8.15%) GraphQL
9 11 (8.15%) OpenAPI
9 11 (8.15%) Swagger
10 8 (5.93%) YAML
11 4 (2.96%) Django
12 1 (0.74%) Gherkin
12 1 (0.74%) Node.js
12 1 (0.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 45 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 45 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 39 (28.89%) Cloud Native
3 14 (10.37%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.93%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.96%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Unix
2 4 (2.96%) VMS
3 2 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (94.07%) DevOps
2 120 (88.89%) Asset Management
2 120 (88.89%) Coaching
3 108 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 79 (58.52%) Agile
5 74 (54.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (44.44%) Observability
7 54 (40.00%) Test Automation
8 49 (36.30%) Analytics
9 43 (31.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (29.63%) AI
11 39 (28.89%) Mentoring
11 39 (28.89%) RBAC
12 37 (27.41%) API Integration
12 37 (27.41%) ERP
13 35 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (25.19%) Root Cause Analysis
15 31 (22.96%) Event-Driven
15 31 (22.96%) Roadmaps
16 30 (22.22%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 96 (71.11%) Python
2 66 (48.89%) SQL
3 50 (37.04%) PowerShell
4 38 (28.15%) Java
5 37 (27.41%) PL/SQL
5 37 (27.41%) Shell Script
6 19 (14.07%) Bicep
7 18 (13.33%) Bash
8 14 (10.37%) JavaScript
9 11 (8.15%) C#
10 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) QA
2 14 (10.37%) GDPR
3 13 (9.63%) Accessibility
4 8 (5.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.26%) Docker
2 22 (16.30%) Active Directory
3 18 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.74%) RACF
Systems Management
1 37 (27.41%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (17.04%) Kubernetes
3 20 (14.81%) Grafana
4 18 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.67%) Ansible
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 50 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 37 (27.41%) Oracle
3 20 (14.81%) Okta
4 14 (10.37%) Ab Initio
5 5 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.70%) Splunk
6 4 (2.96%) F5
6 4 (2.96%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.96%) Google
6 4 (2.96%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.74%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.74%) IBM