OpenTofu Contract Job Trends

OpenTofu
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 654 549 562
Rank change year-on-year -105 +13 -
Contract jobs citing OpenTofu 13 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.036% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile - £547 -
25th Percentile £275 £561 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £603 £588
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% +2.55% -
75th Percentile £539 £626 £594
90th Percentile £638 £628 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,739 8,318 9,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.94% 25.33% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,720 5,624 6,459
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £651
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 181 231
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £45.94 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

OpenTofu
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenTofu in the UK

OpenTofu
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTofu within the UK 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
England -117 12 £492 -14.43%
London -70 6 £540 -6.09%
UK excluding London - 6 £300 -
South East - 4 £300 -
Work from Home - 3 £516 -
North of England - 1 £403 -
Yorkshire - 1 £403 -
South West - 1 £500 -

OpenTofu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (30.77%) Confluence
1 4 (30.77%) nginx
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.69%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) OpenVPN
1 4 (30.77%) SSH
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) IPsec
3 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.69%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) C Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Linux Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior C Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Software Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Database Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) LDAP
3 4 (30.77%) boto
4 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (7.69%) OpenID
4 1 (7.69%) Plotly
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
3 2 (15.38%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Secrets Management
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Data Management
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) GitOps
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) RBAC
6 1 (7.69%) AI
6 1 (7.69%) Capacity Management
6 1 (7.69%) Process Management
6 1 (7.69%) Video Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) OCP
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) iptables
3 1 (7.69%) KVM
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (23.08%) SELinux
4 2 (15.38%) Argo
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
5 1 (7.69%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware