OpenTofu
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring OpenTofu skills. It covers permanent 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 779 674 811
Rank change year-on-year -105 +137 -
Permanent jobs citing OpenTofu 19 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.010% 0.001%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.056% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 1
10th Percentile £46,500 £58,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +47.37% -
75th Percentile - £80,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £89,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +47.37% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,887 8,957 17,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.82% 17.92% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,624 5,825 11,655
10th Percentile £42,476 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%

OpenTofu
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenTofu job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenTofu
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenTofu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenTofu

OpenTofu
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for OpenTofu in the UK

OpenTofu
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -111 9 £60,000 -14.29% 22
UK excluding London -94 7 £60,000 -14.29% 12
South East - 7 £60,000 - 4
Work from Home -25 2 - - 16
London -51 2 £30,000 -58.62% 10

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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Datadog
2 15 (78.95%) AWS
3 12 (63.16%) GitHub
4 7 (36.84%) Azure
4 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
5 5 (26.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.79%) Serverless
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure API Management
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) CircleCI
2 3 (15.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) MSI
3 2 (10.53%) Snyk
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Senior
4 6 (31.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Administrator
8 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
8 1 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) Terraform
2 10 (52.63%) Pulumi
3 5 (26.32%) YAML
4 3 (15.79%) Loki
4 3 (15.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (10.53%) ADO
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
5 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (10.53%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Debian
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Rocky
2 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Observability
2 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
2 17 (89.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (73.68%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
6 9 (47.37%) DevOps
7 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (26.32%) API Management
9 4 (21.05%) Auto-Scaling
9 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
9 4 (21.05%) GitOps
9 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (21.05%) Storage Management
9 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
10 3 (15.79%) Migration
11 2 (10.53%) Agile
11 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Bash
3 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Grafana
2 7 (36.84%) Prometheus
3 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
4 4 (21.05%) Argo
5 3 (15.79%) Scalr
6 2 (10.53%) Ansible
6 2 (10.53%) FlexNet
6 2 (10.53%) Rancher
6 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) NetApp
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat