OpenTofu Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenTofu
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenTofu skills. It covers permanent 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 646 555 671
Rank change year-on-year -91 +116 -
Permanent jobs citing OpenTofu 7 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.006% 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.096% 0.040% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +47.37% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,250 - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% +47.37% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

OpenTofu falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,264 5,044 11,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.27% 14.54% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,708 3,144 7,588
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,938 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,375 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%

OpenTofu
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTofu within the UK excluding London 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 7 £60,000 -
OpenTofu
UK

OpenTofu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (71.43%) Datadog
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) MSI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) YAML
3 3 (42.86%) Loki
3 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (28.57%) ADO
4 2 (28.57%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Debian
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Rocky
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) API Management
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
4 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Scalr
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Argo
4 2 (28.57%) FlexNet
4 2 (28.57%) Rancher
4 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat