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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 49
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 +10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 58 69 20
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.63% 8.63% 2.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.94% 46.31% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 17
10th Percentile - £352 £437
25th Percentile £413 £441 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £453
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +15.89% -22.23%
75th Percentile £545 £612 £500
90th Percentile £610 £731 £560
Scotland median daily rate £494 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.86% +3.75% -

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 166 149 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 16.12% 18.63% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 102 75
10th Percentile £311 £305 £200
25th Percentile £395 £410 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £535
90th Percentile £616 £674 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £22.23
% change year-on-year -36.36% +147.39% -61.33%

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 29 July 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 (5.17%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 33 (56.90%) AWS
2 23 (39.66%) Azure
2 23 (39.66%) GCP
3 10 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (15.52%) GitHub
5 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
5 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (12.07%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (12.07%) Snowflake
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.62%) Google App Engine
8 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.45%) dbt
9 2 (3.45%) Serverless
9 2 (3.45%) Slack
10 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.45%) Flink
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) Redis
3 1 (1.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Git
2 6 (10.34%) Claude Code
2 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.72%) Postman
4 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) International Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) GCP Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Architect
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Database Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Database Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Provisioning Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior
9 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) Spring
1 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
2 5 (8.62%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.17%) .NET
3 3 (5.17%) Kafka
4 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.45%) OAuth
4 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.45%) PySpark
4 2 (3.45%) REST
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.72%) boto
5 1 (1.72%) CSS
5 1 (1.72%) CSS3
5 1 (1.72%) HTML5
5 1 (1.72%) pytest
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) RxJS
5 1 (1.72%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.97%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (12.07%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.17%) Clustering
5 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 35 (60.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (56.90%) DevOps
4 22 (37.93%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (29.31%) Observability
6 16 (27.59%) Containerisation
7 15 (25.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (22.41%) Mentoring
9 12 (20.69%) GitOps
10 10 (17.24%) AI
10 10 (17.24%) Code Quality
11 9 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (15.52%) Validation
12 8 (13.79%) Analytics
12 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (12.07%) Data Engineering
13 7 (12.07%) Inventory Management
13 7 (12.07%) Migration
13 7 (12.07%) Test Automation
14 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (58.62%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) Bash
3 11 (18.97%) Shell Script
4 9 (15.52%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) Bicep
6 2 (3.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.72%) C#
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 29 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Istio
3 3 (5.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Argo
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Google
2 15 (25.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.52%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) Okta
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk