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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 25 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 +25 +8
Contract jobs citing Terraform 73 72 15
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.35% 9.69% 2.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.52% 25.99% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 54 10
10th Percentile £371 £352 £440
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £538 £460
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +16.85% -8.00%
75th Percentile £539 £622 £500
90th Percentile £594 £731 £510
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

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 286 277 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.89% 37.28% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 161 107
10th Percentile £311 £313 £356
25th Percentile £325 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £642 £635 £648
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -3.53%

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 11 September 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 (4.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) AWS
2 35 (47.95%) GCP
3 26 (35.62%) Azure
4 17 (23.29%) GitHub
5 14 (19.18%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (10.96%) Amazon MSK
7 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (10.96%) Kong
8 6 (8.22%) Apigee
9 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.85%) Google App Engine
10 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.11%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (4.11%) Serverless
10 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.74%) dbt
11 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) BigQuery
1 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.74%) Flink
2 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) Redis
3 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) Git
2 11 (15.07%) Claude Code
3 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) GitLab
5 1 (1.37%) JIRA
5 1 (1.37%) Postman
5 1 (1.37%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (43.84%) Finance
2 12 (16.44%) Banking
3 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.85%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.48%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.37%) International Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Cloud Engineer
2 19 (26.03%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Lead
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Provisioning Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior
8 3 (4.11%) Site Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) AWS Database Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) GCP Developer
9 2 (2.74%) GCP DevOps
9 2 (2.74%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) RESTful
2 10 (13.70%) OpenAPI
2 10 (13.70%) Swagger
3 7 (9.59%) Spring
3 7 (9.59%) Spring Boot
4 6 (8.22%) OAuth
4 6 (8.22%) OAuth2
5 4 (5.48%) JWT
5 4 (5.48%) Kafka
5 4 (5.48%) OpenID
5 4 (5.48%) REST
6 3 (4.11%) .NET
7 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.74%) Middleware
8 1 (1.37%) CSS
8 1 (1.37%) CSS3
8 1 (1.37%) HTML5
8 1 (1.37%) Sass
8 1 (1.37%) Web Services
8 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.51%) Cloud Native
2 14 (19.18%) Enterprise Cloud
3 12 (16.44%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.85%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.85%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.37%) PKI
7 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.07%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Unix
2 3 (4.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (65.75%) DevOps
2 47 (64.38%) CI/CD
3 40 (54.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (41.10%) Platform Engineering
5 24 (32.88%) Containerisation
6 17 (23.29%) AI
7 16 (21.92%) Observability
8 12 (16.44%) Code Quality
9 11 (15.07%) Mentoring
10 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (12.33%) Configuration Management
11 9 (12.33%) Inventory Management
12 8 (10.96%) Cloud Security
12 8 (10.96%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (10.96%) Validation
13 7 (9.59%) API Management
13 7 (9.59%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (9.59%) GitOps
13 7 (9.59%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.16%) Python
2 15 (20.55%) Go
2 15 (20.55%) Shell Script
3 14 (19.18%) Java
4 13 (17.81%) Bash
5 7 (9.59%) Lua
6 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.74%) SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.37%) Perl
8 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.37%) GDPR
1 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) zsh
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (73.97%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) Grafana
3 4 (5.48%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) Istio
3 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.74%) Argo
5 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (42.47%) Google
2 18 (24.66%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.22%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.11%) Databricks
5 2 (2.74%) Okta
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.37%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) VMware