Hybrid/Remote OpenTofu Job Trends

OpenTofu
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work 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 458 433 508
Rank change year-on-year -25 +75 -
Permanent jobs citing OpenTofu 2 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% 0.024% 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.044% 0.097% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £58,000 -
25th Percentile - £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +47.37% -
75th Percentile - £80,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% +47.37% -

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options 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 4,498 4,141 6,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.62% 25.00% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,353 2,814 5,487
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft