FreeBSD Job Trends in the UK excluding London

FreeBSD
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FreeBSD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 - 647
Rank change year-on-year - - +127
Permanent jobs citing FreeBSD 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% - 0.008%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.028% - 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47,750
25th Percentile £43,000 - £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - £56,500
75th Percentile £49,000 - £63,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £46,000 - £56,500
% change year-on-year - - -13.08%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

FreeBSD falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,509 5,032 8,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.31% 15.63% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,560 2,628 6,747
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

FreeBSD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FreeBSD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

FreeBSD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FreeBSD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FreeBSD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FreeBSD

FreeBSD
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 FreeBSD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 February 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 - 1 £46,000 - 1
FreeBSD
UK

FreeBSD
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware