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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

terraform

2,692 live US technical postings name terraform in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 2,692 postings naming terraform that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer41.5%
  2. 2Software Engineer36.7%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.4%
  4. 4Data Engineer5.2%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer3.5%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.7%
  8. 8AI Engineer1.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where terraform is named
n = 1,592
10th
$133k
25th
$159k
Median
$187k
75th
$215k
90th
$247k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote16.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.8%
  3. 3New York, NY9.5%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.3%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.6%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.3%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.