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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 24 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 68 77 13
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.68% 10.28% 1.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.15% 28.52% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 57 8
10th Percentile £370 £361 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -14.41%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £500
90th Percentile £588 £729 £530
Scotland median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -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 307 270 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.63% 36.05% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 150 106
10th Percentile £308 £352 £350
25th Percentile £333 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +10.47% -15.69%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £513
90th Percentile £625 £650 £619
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £469
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.61% -3.79%
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 3 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 (4.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 39 (57.35%) AWS
2 31 (45.59%) GCP
3 23 (33.82%) Azure
4 18 (26.47%) GitHub
5 11 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (13.24%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
7 8 (11.76%) Kong
8 6 (8.82%) Apigee
9 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (4.41%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (4.41%) Serverless
10 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.94%) dbt
11 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) BigQuery
1 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.94%) Flink
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.47%) MySQL
3 1 (1.47%) Redis
3 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Git
2 11 (16.18%) Claude Code
3 9 (13.24%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) Gradle
5 1 (1.47%) Maven
5 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (22.06%) Banking
3 6 (8.82%) Investment Banking
4 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.35%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) International Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
6 6 (8.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Provisioning Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Architect
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior
9 3 (4.41%) Site Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) GCP Developer
10 2 (2.94%) GCP DevOps
10 2 (2.94%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) RESTful
2 12 (17.65%) OpenAPI
2 12 (17.65%) Swagger
3 9 (13.24%) OAuth
3 9 (13.24%) OAuth2
4 7 (10.29%) JWT
4 7 (10.29%) OpenID
4 7 (10.29%) REST
5 5 (7.35%) Spring
5 5 (7.35%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.88%) Kafka
7 2 (2.94%) .NET
7 2 (2.94%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.94%) LDAP
7 2 (2.94%) Middleware
7 2 (2.94%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (1.47%) CSS
8 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.47%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.65%) Enterprise Cloud
2 12 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.29%) Private Cloud
4 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.94%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) PKI
6 2 (2.94%) Replication
6 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.47%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Unix
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) CI/CD
1 47 (69.12%) DevOps
2 39 (57.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (36.76%) Containerisation
4 23 (33.82%) Platform Engineering
5 20 (29.41%) AI
6 18 (26.47%) Observability
7 13 (19.12%) Validation
8 11 (16.18%) Code Quality
9 10 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (13.24%) Inventory Management
11 8 (11.76%) Cloud Security
11 8 (11.76%) Configuration Management
12 7 (10.29%) API Management
12 7 (10.29%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (10.29%) Microservices
12 7 (10.29%) Operational Stability
12 7 (10.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (60.29%) Python
2 19 (27.94%) Go
3 17 (25.00%) Java
3 17 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 14 (20.59%) Bash
5 7 (10.29%) Lua
6 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.41%) SQL
8 2 (2.94%) Perl
9 1 (1.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.47%) Dart
9 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) Degree
2 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.47%) HL7
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) zsh
3 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 56 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Ansible
3 5 (7.35%) Grafana
4 4 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) Argo
5 1 (1.47%) Istio
5 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.47%) Puppet
5 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Google
2 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.82%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.94%) Databricks
4 2 (2.94%) ForgeRock
4 2 (2.94%) Okta
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (1.47%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.47%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.47%) Splunk