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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 21 56
Rank change year-on-year -17 +35 +2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 69 79 13
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.68% 10.62% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.97% 29.59% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 58 8
10th Percentile £363 £361 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -21.81%
75th Percentile £516 £604 £500
90th Percentile £588 £728 -
Scotland median daily rate £458 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.50% - -4.76%

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 314 267 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.84% 35.89% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 150 103
10th Percentile £311 £352 £348
25th Percentile £339 £413 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -16.67%
75th Percentile £496 £575 £506
90th Percentile £603 £650 £619
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £464
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.82% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -4.70%

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 14 October 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 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 40 (57.97%) AWS
2 34 (49.28%) GCP
3 23 (33.33%) Azure
4 18 (26.09%) GitHub
5 10 (14.49%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (11.59%) Amazon MSK
7 8 (11.59%) Kong
8 6 (8.70%) Apigee
9 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.80%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (4.35%) Serverless
10 3 (4.35%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.90%) dbt
11 2 (2.90%) Firebase
11 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) BigQuery
1 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.90%) Flink
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.45%) MySQL
4 1 (1.45%) Redis
4 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (26.09%) Git
2 11 (15.94%) Claude Code
3 9 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) Gradle
5 1 (1.45%) Maven
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (49.28%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Banking
3 6 (8.70%) Investment Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) International Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (15.94%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Lead
6 6 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Provisioning Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Architect
8 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior
9 3 (4.35%) Site Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) GCP Developer
10 2 (2.90%) GCP DevOps
10 2 (2.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) RESTful
2 12 (17.39%) OpenAPI
2 12 (17.39%) Swagger
3 9 (13.04%) OAuth
3 9 (13.04%) OAuth2
4 7 (10.14%) JWT
4 7 (10.14%) OpenID
4 7 (10.14%) REST
5 4 (5.80%) Kafka
5 4 (5.80%) Spring
5 4 (5.80%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.90%) .NET
6 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.90%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.90%) FHIR
6 2 (2.90%) LDAP
6 2 (2.90%) Middleware
6 2 (2.90%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (2.90%) Node.js
6 2 (2.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.23%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.39%) Enterprise Cloud
2 12 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (10.14%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.14%) Private Cloud
4 6 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) PKI
5 2 (2.90%) Replication
5 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Unix
3 3 (4.35%) Windows
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 45 (65.22%) DevOps
3 41 (59.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (39.13%) Containerisation
5 23 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (30.43%) AI
7 19 (27.54%) Observability
8 13 (18.84%) Validation
9 11 (15.94%) Code Quality
10 10 (14.49%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (14.49%) Inventory Management
11 9 (13.04%) Configuration Management
11 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (11.59%) Cloud Security
12 8 (11.59%) Data Protection
13 7 (10.14%) API Management
13 7 (10.14%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (10.14%) Microservices
13 7 (10.14%) Operational Stability
13 7 (10.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (63.77%) Python
2 20 (28.99%) Go
3 18 (26.09%) Shell Script
4 16 (23.19%) Java
5 14 (20.29%) Bash
6 7 (10.14%) Lua
7 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.80%) SQL
9 2 (2.90%) Dart
9 2 (2.90%) Perl
10 1 (1.45%) Bicep
10 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.90%) Degree
3 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) HL7
2 2 (2.90%) WCAG
3 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Docker
2 6 (8.70%) zsh
3 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.70%) Ansible
3 5 (7.25%) Grafana
4 4 (5.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) Argo
5 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.45%) Puppet
5 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (43.48%) Google
2 14 (20.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.90%) Databricks
4 2 (2.90%) ForgeRock
4 2 (2.90%) Okta
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.90%) VMware
5 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.45%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk