OpenTofu Contract Job Trends in England

OpenTofu
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenTofu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 496 -
Rank change year-on-year -117 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTofu 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.026% 0.007% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.029% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% - -
75th Percentile £539 £613 -
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK median daily rate £492 £603 £588
% change year-on-year -18.34% +2.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

OpenTofu 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,820 6,845 8,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.80% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,713 5,613
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 162 213
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.88 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.91 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%

OpenTofu
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenTofu in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenTofu in England

OpenTofu
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTofu within the England region over the 6 months to 20 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -70 6 £540 -6.09%
South East - 4 £300 -
South West - 1 £500 -
North of England - 1 £403 -
Yorkshire - 1 £403 -
OpenTofu
UK

OpenTofu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 4 (33.33%) nginx
1 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (8.33%) n8n
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) OpenVPN
1 4 (33.33%) SSH
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) IPsec
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (8.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) C Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior C Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Database Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Database Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) LDAP
3 4 (33.33%) boto
4 1 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) OpenID
4 1 (8.33%) Plotly
4 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Data Management
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (16.67%) GitOps
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) RBAC
6 1 (8.33%) Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
6 1 (8.33%) Video Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C
1 4 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) OCP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) iptables
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (25.00%) SELinux
4 2 (16.67%) Argo
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat