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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 25 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 +5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 68 70 15
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.17% 9.55% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.11% 25.83% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 53 10
10th Percentile £408 £352 £440
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +14.13% -18.58%
75th Percentile £546 £625 £500
90th Percentile £597 £732 £510
Scotland median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 282 271 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.57% 36.97% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 157 114
10th Percentile £311 £313 £352
25th Percentile £323 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.05% -10.49%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £635 £625 £627
Scotland median daily rate £450 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.79% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +80.65%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +3.03%

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 28 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 (4.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) AWS
2 32 (47.06%) GCP
3 27 (39.71%) Azure
4 15 (22.06%) GitHub
5 13 (19.12%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.82%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (7.35%) Google App Engine
9 5 (7.35%) Kong
10 4 (5.88%) Apigee
10 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.41%) Serverless
11 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.94%) dbt
12 2 (2.94%) Slack
12 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.94%) Flink
2 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.47%) MySQL
3 1 (1.47%) Redis
3 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Git
2 11 (16.18%) Claude Code
3 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 2 (2.94%) JIRA
4 2 (2.94%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.47%) Postman
5 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (42.65%) Finance
2 11 (16.18%) Banking
3 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.35%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) International Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (26.47%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (14.71%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Provisioning Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Architect
9 3 (4.41%) Senior
9 3 (4.41%) Site Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Database Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) RESTful
2 7 (10.29%) Spring
2 7 (10.29%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.82%) OpenAPI
3 6 (8.82%) Swagger
4 4 (5.88%) Kafka
4 4 (5.88%) OAuth
4 4 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.41%) .NET
6 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.94%) JWT
6 2 (2.94%) Middleware
6 2 (2.94%) OpenID
6 2 (2.94%) REST
7 1 (1.47%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.47%) boto
7 1 (1.47%) HTML5
7 1 (1.47%) PySpark
7 1 (1.47%) pytest
7 1 (1.47%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 13 (19.12%) Enterprise Cloud
3 12 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.35%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.35%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.94%) Clustering
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.47%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Unix
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (64.71%) CI/CD
1 44 (64.71%) DevOps
2 38 (55.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (44.12%) Platform Engineering
4 22 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 16 (23.53%) AI
6 15 (22.06%) Observability
7 12 (17.65%) Code Quality
7 12 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (13.24%) Inventory Management
9 8 (11.76%) Configuration Management
9 8 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (10.29%) Cloud Security
10 7 (10.29%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (10.29%) GitOps
11 6 (8.82%) Agile
11 6 (8.82%) Migration
11 6 (8.82%) Validation
12 5 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (57.35%) Python
2 15 (22.06%) Shell Script
3 13 (19.12%) Java
4 12 (17.65%) Bash
5 8 (11.76%) Go
6 5 (7.35%) Lua
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.94%) SQL
9 1 (1.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.47%) C#
9 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.47%) GDPR
1 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) zsh
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (69.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) Grafana
2 5 (7.35%) Istio
3 4 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.41%) Ansible
4 3 (4.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (42.65%) Google
2 19 (27.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.41%) Databricks
5 2 (2.94%) Okta
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (1.47%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.47%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.47%) Splunk
6 1 (1.47%) VMware