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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 25 39
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 54 59 35
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.15% 7.59% 4.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.24% 39.07% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 44 29
10th Percentile £331 £352 £439
25th Percentile £420 £418 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.26% -26.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £623
90th Percentile £597 £580 £635
Scotland median daily rate £525 £500 £516
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.15% -13.96%
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 145 151 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.21% 19.43% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 103 80
10th Percentile £306 £350 £200
25th Percentile £358 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £453
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.09% -17.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £579 £623
Scotland median daily rate £450 £471 £469
% change year-on-year -4.46% +0.48% -4.14%
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 £37.99
% change year-on-year +128.26% -39.45% -32.47%

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 May 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 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 30 (55.56%) AWS
2 18 (33.33%) Azure
3 14 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (18.52%) Snowflake
5 9 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (14.81%) GCP
7 7 (12.96%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (11.11%) Serverless
9 5 (9.26%) Google App Engine
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.85%) JUnit
4 1 (1.85%) Postman
4 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (18.52%) Finance
2 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.11%) Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Database Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) AWS Database Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Site Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Senior
10 3 (5.56%) Architect
10 3 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
11 2 (3.70%) AWS Architect
11 2 (3.70%) Developer
11 2 (3.70%) Java Developer
11 2 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) Spring
1 6 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 5 (9.26%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.56%) .NET
3 3 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (5.56%) Node.js
4 2 (3.70%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.70%) RESTful
5 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.85%) Jest
5 1 (1.85%) PySpark
5 1 (1.85%) pytest
5 1 (1.85%) React
5 1 (1.85%) REST
5 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.26%) Clustering
3 5 (9.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) IVR
5 2 (3.70%) NHS
5 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 33 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (44.44%) DevOps
4 17 (31.48%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (22.22%) GitOps
6 12 (22.22%) Observability
7 11 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (20.37%) Machine Learning
8 10 (18.52%) Data Engineering
8 10 (18.52%) Mentoring
9 9 (16.67%) AI
9 9 (16.67%) Analytics
9 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.81%) Incident Response
10 8 (14.81%) Migration
10 8 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.81%) Validation
11 7 (12.96%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Java
3 9 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.56%) 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 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) SLA
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (24.07%) Ansible
3 5 (9.26%) Istio
4 2 (3.70%) Argo
4 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.85%) Grafana
5 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Databricks
2 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.96%) Google
4 6 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (5.56%) Greenplum
6 2 (3.70%) Avaya
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco
6 2 (3.70%) Genesys
6 2 (3.70%) Splunk
7 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software