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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 +8
Contract jobs citing Terraform 62 67 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.92% 8.95% 2.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.13% 46.53% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 53 10
10th Percentile - £359 £440
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +19.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £549 £625 £500
90th Percentile £608 £732 £510
Scotland median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +1.27%

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 167 144 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.94% 19.23% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 99 66
10th Percentile £313 £340 £206
25th Percentile £400 £424 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £457
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +9.53% -13.05%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £612 £665 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -8.63%
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 18 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 (4.84%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 37 (59.68%) AWS
2 32 (51.61%) GCP
3 27 (43.55%) Azure
4 15 (24.19%) GitHub
5 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (11.29%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (8.06%) Google App Engine
8 5 (8.06%) Snowflake
9 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.23%) dbt
11 2 (3.23%) Serverless
11 2 (3.23%) Slack
12 1 (1.61%) Azure Event Grid
12 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.23%) Flink
2 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.61%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) Redis
3 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Git
2 11 (17.74%) Claude Code
3 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (3.23%) JIRA
4 2 (3.23%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.61%) Postman
5 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (35.48%) Finance
2 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.29%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.61%) International Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (37.10%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (25.81%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (24.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (14.52%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (14.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 6 (9.68%) Provisioning Engineer
9 5 (8.06%) Site Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Architect
10 3 (4.84%) AWS Database Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Database Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) GCP DevOps
11 2 (3.23%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Senior
11 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Spring
1 7 (11.29%) Spring Boot
2 4 (6.45%) Kafka
3 3 (4.84%) .NET
4 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.23%) OAuth
4 2 (3.23%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.23%) REST
4 2 (3.23%) RESTful
5 1 (1.61%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.61%) boto
5 1 (1.61%) CSS
5 1 (1.61%) CSS3
5 1 (1.61%) HTML5
5 1 (1.61%) PySpark
5 1 (1.61%) pytest
5 1 (1.61%) RxJS
5 1 (1.61%) Sass
5 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.97%) Enterprise Cloud
3 11 (17.74%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.84%) Clustering
6 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (62.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 38 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 38 (61.29%) DevOps
3 27 (43.55%) Platform Engineering
4 22 (35.48%) Containerisation
5 16 (25.81%) AI
5 16 (25.81%) Observability
6 12 (19.35%) Code Quality
6 12 (19.35%) Mentoring
7 11 (17.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (14.52%) GitOps
8 9 (14.52%) Inventory Management
9 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (11.29%) Cloud Security
10 7 (11.29%) Configuration Management
11 6 (9.68%) Agile
11 6 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (9.68%) Migration
12 5 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (62.90%) Python
2 15 (24.19%) Shell Script
3 13 (20.97%) Bash
4 11 (17.74%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.23%) Go
6 2 (3.23%) SQL
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
7 1 (1.61%) C#
7 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) SLA
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 6 (9.68%) zsh
Systems Management
1 40 (64.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.06%) Istio
3 4 (6.45%) Grafana
4 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Argo
4 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (46.77%) Google
2 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.06%) Databricks
4 2 (3.23%) Okta
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.61%) Splunk