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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Terraform 54 48 35
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.66% 5.83% 3.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.73% 28.40% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 28
10th Percentile £358 £402 £428
25th Percentile £400 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £485 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.42% -10.19% -16.44%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £656
90th Percentile £606 £579 £702
Scotland median daily rate £505 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +1.00% -11.50% -11.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 147 169 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.85% 20.51% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 101 82
10th Percentile £287 £350 £324
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -8.72% -14.26%
75th Percentile £543 £550 £623
90th Percentile £648 £582 £707
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £503
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.54% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £39.50 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £56.40 - -
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +128.26% -59.22% +47.12%

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 8 March 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 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (81.48%) AWS
2 23 (42.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 22 (40.74%) Azure
3 22 (40.74%) Serverless
4 17 (31.48%) Snowflake
5 14 (25.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (24.07%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (22.22%) Amazon S3
8 10 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (3.70%) GCP
12 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
13 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Git
1 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) Cypress.io
2 4 (7.41%) JUnit
3 3 (5.56%) MLflow
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (25.93%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Banking
3 10 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Architect
1 14 (25.93%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (20.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Database Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Data Architect
5 6 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 6 (11.11%) Site Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior
6 5 (9.26%) Snowflake Architect
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Database Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) Node.js
2 6 (11.11%) RESTful
2 6 (11.11%) Spring
2 6 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 5 (9.26%) AWS CDK
3 5 (9.26%) React
4 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.41%) Jest
5 3 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (5.56%) scikit-learn
5 3 (5.56%) TensorFlow
6 2 (3.70%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.70%) Torch
7 1 (1.85%) .NET
7 1 (1.85%) jQuery
7 1 (1.85%) PySpark
7 1 (1.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (12.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (11.11%) IVR
4 6 (11.11%) NHS
5 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.56%) Clustering
5 3 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 41 (75.93%) CI/CD
3 25 (46.30%) DevOps
4 20 (37.04%) Migration
5 17 (31.48%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (31.48%) Machine Learning
6 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
6 14 (25.93%) High Availability
6 14 (25.93%) Observability
6 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (24.07%) AI
7 13 (24.07%) Analytics
7 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
10 10 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (16.67%) Agile
11 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
11 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 9 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 41 (75.93%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Java
3 9 (16.67%) Bash
4 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Bicep
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (1.85%) Perl
5 1 (1.85%) Ruby
5 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) GDPR
2 6 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 6 (11.11%) SLA
3 4 (7.41%) QA
4 3 (5.56%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (40.74%) Ansible
2 15 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.85%) Argo
4 1 (1.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Greenplum
2 9 (16.67%) Databricks
3 6 (11.11%) Oracle
4 5 (9.26%) Avaya
4 5 (9.26%) Cisco
4 5 (9.26%) Genesys
5 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.56%) Pega
6 3 (5.56%) Splunk
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.85%) Google
8 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software