Hybrid/Remote OpenTofu Contract Job Trends

OpenTofu
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 368 - 331
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTofu 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.022% - 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.084% - 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £497 - -
25th Percentile £504 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 - £588
75th Percentile £528 - £594
90th Percentile £535 - -
UK median daily rate £492 £603 £588
% change year-on-year -18.34% +2.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,563 2,976 3,664
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.50% 30.02% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,327 2,065 2,580
10th Percentile £368 £355 £338
25th Percentile £438 £413 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% +0.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £839
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 64 72
10th Percentile £49.36 £31.25 £27.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +45.35% -31.20%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.50 £53.94
90th Percentile £89.00 £68.00 £71.56
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%

OpenTofu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) OpenVPN
1 3 (100.00%) SSH
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Database Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Database Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) boto
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (66.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) ServiceNow