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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 33 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Terraform 59 51 34
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 8.30% 6.13% 3.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.33% 30.72% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 27
10th Percentile £353 £375 £426
25th Percentile £400 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -6.19% -18.76%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £658
90th Percentile £606 £578 £703
Scotland median daily rate £513 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% -10.16%
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 150 166 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.10% 19.95% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 100 85
10th Percentile £278 £340 £257
25th Percentile £358 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £468 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -7.61% -8.00%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £623
90th Percentile £651 £581 £705
Scotland median daily rate £450 £468 £506
% change year-on-year -3.74% -7.61% +5.47%
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% -30.94%

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 24 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 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (71.19%) AWS
2 23 (38.98%) Azure
3 21 (35.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (30.51%) Serverless
5 15 (25.42%) Snowflake
6 13 (22.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (20.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
10 6 (10.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (10.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (10.17%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.47%) GCP
12 4 (6.78%) Google App Engine
13 3 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudTrail
14 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
15 1 (1.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.17%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.78%) JUnit
3 3 (5.08%) GitLab
3 3 (5.08%) MLflow
4 2 (3.39%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (25.42%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Banking
3 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) Architect
2 11 (18.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Database Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) AWS Database Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Data Architect
7 5 (8.47%) Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Senior
7 5 (8.47%) Site Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Architect
8 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Snowflake Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) Node.js
2 7 (11.86%) Spring
2 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
3 6 (10.17%) RESTful
4 5 (8.47%) AWS CDK
4 5 (8.47%) React
5 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.78%) Jest
6 3 (5.08%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.08%) scikit-learn
6 3 (5.08%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.39%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.39%) Torch
8 1 (1.69%) .NET
8 1 (1.69%) jQuery
8 1 (1.69%) PySpark
8 1 (1.69%) pytest
8 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.17%) IVR
3 6 (10.17%) NHS
4 5 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.78%) Clustering
5 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.08%) Algorithms
6 3 (5.08%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
2 44 (74.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (45.76%) DevOps
4 17 (28.81%) Migration
5 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (25.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (25.42%) Machine Learning
6 13 (22.03%) Analytics
6 13 (22.03%) Observability
7 12 (20.34%) Containerisation
7 12 (20.34%) High Availability
7 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
8 11 (18.64%) AI
8 11 (18.64%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
11 8 (13.56%) GitOps
11 8 (13.56%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 39 (66.10%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) Java
3 9 (15.25%) Bash
4 4 (6.78%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.69%) Bicep
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) Go
6 1 (1.69%) Perl
6 1 (1.69%) Ruby
6 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) GDPR
1 6 (10.17%) PCI DSS
1 6 (10.17%) SLA
2 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.78%) QA
4 3 (5.08%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.08%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Ansible
2 16 (27.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.39%) Istio
3 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.69%) Argo
4 1 (1.69%) Grafana
4 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Databricks
2 8 (13.56%) Greenplum
3 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.17%) Oracle
4 5 (8.47%) Avaya
4 5 (8.47%) Cisco
4 5 (8.47%) Genesys
5 4 (6.78%) Google
5 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.08%) Pega
7 2 (3.39%) Splunk
8 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.69%) TOWER Software