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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 30 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 56 51 33
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 8.01% 6.24% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.72% 31.48% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 26
10th Percentile £344 £375 £424
25th Percentile £400 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -6.19% -18.76%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £649
90th Percentile £606 £578 £700
Scotland median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -14.06%
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 141 162 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.17% 19.83% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 97 87
10th Percentile £298 £323 £208
25th Percentile £358 £408 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -6.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £618
90th Percentile £675 £577 £700
Scotland median daily rate £458 £469 £506
% change year-on-year -2.45% -7.26% +5.53%
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 27 March 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 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (66.07%) AWS
2 23 (41.07%) Azure
3 17 (30.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (26.79%) Snowflake
5 14 (25.00%) Serverless
6 13 (23.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (10.71%) GCP
10 5 (8.93%) Google App Engine
11 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (5.36%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (3.57%) GitHub
12 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
1 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.71%) DynamoDB
3 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.36%) GitLab
2 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.36%) JUnit
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) Postman
4 1 (1.79%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.50%) Banking
3 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Architect
3 10 (17.86%) Database Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Database Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Site Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Snowflake Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Node.js
2 6 (10.71%) Spring
2 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.93%) AWS CDK
3 5 (8.93%) RESTful
4 4 (7.14%) React
5 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.36%) Jest
5 3 (5.36%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (3.57%) .NET
6 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.79%) jQuery
7 1 (1.79%) PySpark
7 1 (1.79%) pytest
7 1 (1.79%) REST
7 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 11 (19.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.71%) IVR
3 6 (10.71%) NHS
4 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.14%) Clustering
5 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 41 (73.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (46.43%) DevOps
4 16 (28.57%) Migration
5 15 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (26.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (23.21%) Analytics
6 13 (23.21%) Machine Learning
7 12 (21.43%) High Availability
7 12 (21.43%) Observability
7 12 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 11 (19.64%) AI
9 9 (16.07%) Data Engineering
9 9 (16.07%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 8 (14.29%) GitOps
10 8 (14.29%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 36 (64.29%) Python
2 15 (26.79%) Java
3 9 (16.07%) Bash
4 4 (7.14%) SQL
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) Bicep
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) Perl
7 1 (1.79%) Ruby
7 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) GDPR
1 6 (10.71%) PCI DSS
1 6 (10.71%) SLA
2 5 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.36%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.36%) PMO
3 3 (5.36%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (35.71%) Ansible
2 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.57%) Istio
3 2 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.79%) Argo
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Databricks
2 8 (14.29%) Greenplum
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Oracle
4 5 (8.93%) Avaya
4 5 (8.93%) Cisco
4 5 (8.93%) Genesys
4 5 (8.93%) Google
5 4 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.36%) Pega
7 2 (3.57%) Splunk
8 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.79%) TOWER Software