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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 549 579
Rank change year-on-year -107 +30 -
Contract jobs citing OpenTofu 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.015% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.094% 0.060% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile - £565 -
25th Percentile £275 £607 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £630 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +7.23% -
75th Percentile £537 - £594
90th Percentile £560 - -
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 11,695 8,332 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.44% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,628 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.26 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.63 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

OpenTofu
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenTofu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenTofu job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenTofu
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenTofu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenTofu

OpenTofu
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenTofu over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenTofu in the UK

OpenTofu
Top 6 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 1 September 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 -111 10 £492 -18.34% 23
London -75 5 £539 -10.62% 10
UK excluding London - 5 £300 - 13
South East - 4 £300 - 5
Work from Home - 3 £516 - 17
South West - 1 £500 - 2

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 (36.36%) Confluence
1 4 (36.36%) nginx
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (9.09%) n8n
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) OpenVPN
1 4 (36.36%) SSH
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (9.09%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Marketing
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) C Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Linux Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior C Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Software Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) boto
2 4 (36.36%) LDAP
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Secrets Management
2 4 (36.36%) Data Management
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
5 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) GitOps
5 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (9.09%) Observability
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) RBAC
5 1 (9.09%) Video Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) iptables
2 1 (9.09%) KVM
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (27.27%) SELinux
4 1 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Packer
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) VMware