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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 54 57 38
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.50% 7.00% 4.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.60% 36.08% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 31
10th Percentile £326 £363 £433
25th Percentile £400 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £496 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% +4.42% -26.07%
75th Percentile £577 £575 £623
90th Percentile £606 £580 £660
Scotland median daily rate £525 £506 £520
% change year-on-year +3.70% -2.64% -13.33%
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 133 158 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 18.47% 19.41% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 104 88
10th Percentile £288 £350 £209
25th Percentile £352 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £464
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.86% -15.73%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £580 £642
Scotland median daily rate £475 £472 £480
% change year-on-year +0.58% -1.61% -1.84%
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 17 April 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 Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (62.96%) AWS
2 18 (33.33%) Azure
3 17 (31.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (24.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 12 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (18.52%) Serverless
7 9 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 7 (12.96%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 6 (11.11%) GCP
10 5 (9.26%) Google App Engine
11 3 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
12 2 (3.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
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 5 (9.26%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) JUnit
3 2 (3.70%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Postman
4 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (24.07%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.96%) Banking
4 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (20.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Database Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Architect
6 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Senior
7 5 (9.26%) Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Site Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) AWS Database Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) Spring
1 8 (14.81%) Spring Boot
2 7 (12.96%) Node.js
3 5 (9.26%) AWS CDK
4 4 (7.41%) React
4 4 (7.41%) RESTful
5 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.56%) Jest
5 3 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (3.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.85%) .NET
7 1 (1.85%) PySpark
7 1 (1.85%) pytest
7 1 (1.85%) REST
7 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.11%) IVR
3 6 (11.11%) NHS
4 4 (7.41%) Clustering
4 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
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 40 (74.07%) CI/CD
2 35 (64.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (48.15%) DevOps
4 15 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (24.07%) Analytics
7 12 (22.22%) Migration
7 12 (22.22%) Observability
7 12 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 11 (20.37%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (20.37%) GitOps
9 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 9 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 9 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.81%) Agile
10 8 (14.81%) High Availability
10 8 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) Python
2 18 (33.33%) 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 8 (14.81%) 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%) GDPR
1 6 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 6 (11.11%) SLA
2 5 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.56%) PMO
3 3 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (25.93%) 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 10 (18.52%) Databricks
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) Oracle
4 5 (9.26%) Avaya
4 5 (9.26%) Cisco
4 5 (9.26%) Genesys
4 5 (9.26%) Google
5 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.56%) Greenplum
6 3 (5.56%) Pega
7 2 (3.70%) Splunk
8 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software