Which roles ask for Terraform at tech companies · 268 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
268 roles counted that list Terraform, one per company, title and level; 554 postings in the window.
In short
Terraform: listed in 268 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 187 and preferred in 81. The largest group is software engineer roles: 69 of 268 (26%).
- Required
- 187 of 268 (70%)
- Of the roles that list Terraform
- Preferred
- 81 of 268 (30%)
- Of the roles that list Terraform
- Largest group
- 69 of 268 (26%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Terraform
Roles listing Terraform, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 69 | 69 of 719 (10%) |
| DevOps engineer | 43 | 43 of 58 (74%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 43 | 43 of 70 (61%) |
| Platform engineer | 39 | 39 of 57 (68%) |
| Security engineer | 33 | 33 of 126 (26%) |
| Data engineer | 15 | 15 of 99 (15%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 11 | 11 of 63 (17%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 5 | 5 of 79 (6%) |
| AI engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
| QA engineer | 3 | 3 of 63 (5%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Okta9 roles
- Crusoe6 roles
- Cloudflare5 roles
- Peraton5 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions5 roles
- Akamai Technologies4 roles
- Illumio4 roles
- Scale AI4 roles
- Zscaler4 roles
- IRIUM Portugal3 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 268 Terraform roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 162 of 268 (60%) |
| AWS | 155 of 268 (58%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 145 of 268 (54%) |
| CI/CD | 136 of 268 (51%) |
| Kubernetes | 129 of 268 (48%) |
| GCP | 97 of 268 (36%) |
| Azure | 89 of 268 (33%) |
| Go | 89 of 268 (33%) |
| Docker | 88 of 268 (33%) |
| Observability | 68 of 268 (25%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure as Code | 49 of 268 (18%) |
| Kubernetes | 31 of 268 (12%) |
| CI/CD | 30 of 268 (11%) |
| Open Source | 29 of 268 (11%) |
| AWS | 28 of 268 (10%) |
| Cybersecurity | 26 of 268 (10%) |
| SOC 2 | 24 of 268 (9%) |
| Docker | 23 of 268 (9%) |
| AI | 22 of 268 (8%) |
| Observability | 21 of 268 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 149 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 149 of 149 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 146 of 149 (98%)
- 3+ years
- 140 of 149 (94%)
- 5+ years
- 110 of 149 (74%)
- 8+ years
- 30 of 149 (20%)
- 10+ years
- 8 of 149 (5%)
Degree
Of the 196 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 13 of 196 (7%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 40 of 196 (20%)
- Preferred
- 7 of 196 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 136 of 196 (69%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 268 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $175k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 114 of 268 (43%)
- Remote roles
- 184 of 268 (69%)
How we count: 268 roles from 182 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology