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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 47 47
Rank change year-on-year +29 0 -26
Contract jobs citing Terraform 69 30 33
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.06% 4.11% 3.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.40% 20.27% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 24
10th Percentile £358 £385 £458
25th Percentile £401 £433 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £615
Median % change year-on-year - -18.70% -2.77%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £700
90th Percentile £734 £580 £706
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -1.03%
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 159 148 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.18% 20.27% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 87 75
10th Percentile £287 £349 £408
25th Percentile £381 £369 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -18.18% +7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £644
90th Percentile £675 £625 £722
Scotland median daily rate £500 £463 £516
% change year-on-year +8.11% -10.41% +5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.79 - -
90th Percentile £59.47 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.00 £58.20
% change year-on-year +139.13% -60.48% +228.44%

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 6 January 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 9 (13.04%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.45%) Mule
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (75.36%) AWS
2 31 (44.93%) Azure
3 22 (31.88%) Serverless
4 17 (24.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (21.74%) GitHub
6 13 (18.84%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (17.39%) Snowflake
8 11 (15.94%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (13.04%) GCP
11 8 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (11.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
13 5 (7.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudTrail
15 3 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.45%) AMQP
2 1 (1.45%) DSL
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.14%) Oracle Database
5 6 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (8.70%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (4.35%) MSDE
8 2 (2.90%) NewSQL
8 2 (2.90%) OLTP
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.04%) CircleCI
3 8 (11.59%) Git
4 7 (10.14%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (8.70%) Cypress.io
5 6 (8.70%) JUnit
6 5 (7.25%) Bitbucket
6 5 (7.25%) JIRA
7 4 (5.80%) IntelliJ
7 4 (5.80%) PyCharm
7 4 (5.80%) Visual Studio
7 4 (5.80%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (4.35%) GitLab
8 3 (4.35%) MLflow
9 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (36.23%) Finance
2 16 (23.19%) Banking
3 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Architect
2 10 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Technical Architect
3 9 (13.04%) Database Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Data Architect
4 8 (11.59%) Lead
4 8 (11.59%) Lead Architect
4 8 (11.59%) Technical Leader
5 7 (10.14%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Senior
6 6 (8.70%) AWS Architect
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Site Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Snowflake Architect
7 5 (7.25%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) Node.js
2 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
3 9 (13.04%) Spring
4 8 (11.59%) RESTful
5 7 (10.14%) React
6 6 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 6 (8.70%) Jest
7 4 (5.80%) OAuth
8 3 (4.35%) OpenID
8 3 (4.35%) SAML
8 3 (4.35%) scikit-learn
8 3 (4.35%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.90%) Torch
10 1 (1.45%) .NET
10 1 (1.45%) Apache Camel
10 1 (1.45%) Kafka
10 1 (1.45%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (1.45%) SOAP
10 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.94%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (10.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (8.70%) IVR
5 6 (8.70%) NHS
6 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.45%) Clustering
8 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Windows
3 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (79.71%) CI/CD
2 47 (68.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (60.87%) DevOps
4 21 (30.43%) Containerisation
5 20 (28.99%) Agile
6 18 (26.09%) Migration
7 16 (23.19%) High Availability
7 16 (23.19%) Roadmaps
8 13 (18.84%) Observability
9 12 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (17.39%) Machine Learning
9 12 (17.39%) Microservices
9 12 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (17.39%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (14.49%) Cloud Security
10 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (14.49%) TDD
11 9 (13.04%) Design Patterns
11 9 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 46 (66.67%) Python
2 21 (30.43%) Java
3 14 (20.29%) TypeScript
4 9 (13.04%) Bash
5 5 (7.25%) C#
5 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.25%) SQL
6 2 (2.90%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (2.90%) Go
6 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) DataWeave
7 1 (1.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) Accessibility
2 7 (10.14%) GDPR
3 6 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 6 (8.70%) QA
4 3 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.35%) PMO
5 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (46.38%) Kubernetes
2 27 (39.13%) Ansible
3 9 (13.04%) Grafana
3 9 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Greenplum
2 9 (13.04%) Oracle
3 8 (11.59%) Google
4 5 (7.25%) Avaya
4 5 (7.25%) Cisco
4 5 (7.25%) Genesys
5 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.35%) Pega
6 3 (4.35%) Splunk
7 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft