pfSense Job Trends in England

pfSense
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring pfSense skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 696 686
Rank change year-on-year +89 -10 +325
Permanent jobs citing pfSense 5 32 4
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.055% 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.12% 0.46% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 2 30 4
10th Percentile - £45,875 -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +33.33% -60.87%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +33.33% -60.87%

All System Software Skills
England

pfSense falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,029 6,947 7,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.56% 11.96% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,012 4,147 6,560
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £31,375 £40,000 £36,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,762 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.33% +1.39% -

pfSense
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

pfSense job vacancy trend in England

pfSense
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing pfSense.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing pfSense

pfSense
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing pfSense within the England region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. 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
London +48 4 £70,000 +16.67%
South East +36 1 - -
pfSense
UK

pfSense
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Mimecast
1 2 (40.00%) Rubrik
1 2 (40.00%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) ICT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scorecard
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Squid
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (40.00%) VxRail
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Dell
3 2 (40.00%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (40.00%) Okta
3 2 (40.00%) Sophos
3 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (40.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper