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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 22 50
Rank change year-on-year -13 +28 +13
Contract jobs citing Terraform 61 70 15
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.80% 9.27% 2.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.53% 46.98% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 55 11
10th Percentile - £353 £440
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +19.57% -3.16%
75th Percentile £549 £619 £500
90th Percentile £608 £730 £600
Scotland median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +3.90%

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 167 149 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.87% 19.74% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 103 67
10th Percentile £313 £310 £200
25th Percentile £400 £415 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £623 £660 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 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 £24.18
% change year-on-year -36.36% +127.46% -57.95%

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 14 August 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 (4.92%) Apache
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 37 (60.66%) AWS
2 32 (52.46%) GCP
3 28 (45.90%) Azure
4 15 (24.59%) GitHub
5 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (8.20%) Google App Engine
8 5 (8.20%) Snowflake
9 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (3.28%) dbt
11 2 (3.28%) Serverless
11 2 (3.28%) Slack
12 1 (1.64%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.28%) Flink
2 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) Redis
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Git
2 11 (18.03%) Claude Code
3 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.64%) Postman
5 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (32.79%) Finance
2 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.20%) Banking
4 4 (6.56%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) International Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (24.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (24.59%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (16.39%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Provisioning Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Site Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Architect
10 3 (4.92%) AWS Database Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Database Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) GCP DevOps
11 2 (3.28%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Lead
11 2 (3.28%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Spring
1 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
2 4 (6.56%) Kafka
3 3 (4.92%) .NET
4 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.28%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.28%) OAuth
4 2 (3.28%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.28%) PySpark
4 2 (3.28%) REST
4 2 (3.28%) RESTful
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.64%) boto
5 1 (1.64%) CSS3
5 1 (1.64%) HTML5
5 1 (1.64%) pytest
5 1 (1.64%) RxJS
5 1 (1.64%) Sass
5 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 13 (21.31%) Enterprise Cloud
3 9 (14.75%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.92%) Clustering
5 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (63.93%) DevOps
2 38 (62.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (60.66%) CI/CD
4 26 (42.62%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (36.07%) Containerisation
6 16 (26.23%) AI
7 14 (22.95%) Observability
8 13 (21.31%) Code Quality
8 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
9 11 (18.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (14.75%) GitOps
10 9 (14.75%) Inventory Management
11 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (11.48%) Cloud Security
12 7 (11.48%) Configuration Management
13 6 (9.84%) Agile
13 6 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
13 6 (9.84%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (9.84%) Migration
14 5 (8.20%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (62.30%) Python
2 15 (24.59%) Shell Script
3 13 (21.31%) Bash
4 9 (14.75%) Java
5 3 (4.92%) SQL
5 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.28%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) Bicep
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) SLA
2 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 6 (9.84%) zsh
Systems Management
1 38 (62.30%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) Istio
3 3 (4.92%) Ansible
3 3 (4.92%) Argo
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) Google
2 19 (31.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.84%) Databricks
4 2 (3.28%) Okta
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk