Terraform Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Terraform
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 47
Rank change year-on-year -11 +22 +11
Contract jobs citing Terraform 63 66 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.95% 8.93% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.25% 24.54% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 52 10
10th Percentile - £358 £440
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +19.57% -13.62%
75th Percentile £549 £628 £500
90th Percentile £606 £733 £510
Scotland median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.75% +5.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 271 269 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.61% 36.40% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 159 113
10th Percentile £310 £313 £351
25th Percentile £322 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.86% -11.18%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £639 £638 £619
Scotland median daily rate £450 £491 £475
% change year-on-year -8.35% +3.37% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +80.65%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +3.03%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Glasgow over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Glasgow

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 38 (60.32%) AWS
2 32 (50.79%) GCP
3 27 (42.86%) Azure
4 15 (23.81%) GitHub
5 9 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.94%) Google App Engine
7 5 (7.94%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (3.17%) Apigee
10 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.17%) dbt
10 2 (3.17%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.17%) Flink
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) Redis
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Git
2 11 (17.46%) Claude Code
3 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.17%) GitLab
4 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 2 (3.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.59%) Postman
5 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (38.10%) Finance
2 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.11%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.59%) International Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (25.40%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (19.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (19.05%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Provisioning Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Lead
10 2 (3.17%) AWS Database Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Database Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Java Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Spring
1 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 4 (6.35%) Kafka
2 4 (6.35%) RESTful
3 3 (4.76%) .NET
4 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.17%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.17%) OAuth
4 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.17%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.17%) REST
4 2 (3.17%) Swagger
5 1 (1.59%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.59%) boto
5 1 (1.59%) CSS3
5 1 (1.59%) HTML5
5 1 (1.59%) PySpark
5 1 (1.59%) pytest
5 1 (1.59%) RxJS
5 1 (1.59%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.63%) Enterprise Cloud
3 11 (17.46%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.17%) Clustering
7 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
4 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (63.49%) DevOps
2 39 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 38 (60.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (34.92%) Containerisation
6 16 (25.40%) AI
6 16 (25.40%) Observability
7 12 (19.05%) Code Quality
7 12 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 10 (15.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (14.29%) GitOps
9 9 (14.29%) Inventory Management
10 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (11.11%) Cloud Security
11 7 (11.11%) Configuration Management
12 6 (9.52%) Agile
12 6 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (9.52%) Migration
13 5 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (60.32%) Python
2 15 (23.81%) Shell Script
3 13 (20.63%) Bash
4 11 (17.46%) Java
5 4 (6.35%) Go
6 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.17%) Lua
7 2 (3.17%) SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Bicep
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) SLA
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 6 (9.52%) zsh
Systems Management
1 41 (65.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) Istio
3 4 (6.35%) Grafana
4 3 (4.76%) Argo
4 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.17%) Ansible
6 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (46.03%) Google
2 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.17%) Okta
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk