pfSense
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring pfSense skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited pfSense over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 682 868 977
Rank change year-on-year +186 +109 +228
Permanent jobs citing pfSense 10 28 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.028% 0.012%
As % of the System Software category 0.19% 0.23% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 11
10th Percentile £41,250 £23,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £25,438 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -63.04% +187.50%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £127,500
90th Percentile £60,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £31,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +82.54% -25.88% +6.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,377 12,284 15,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 12.47% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,926 9,745 10,521
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,977
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -2.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

pfSense
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing pfSense as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for pfSense in the UK

pfSense
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing pfSense.

Salary trend for pfSense in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing pfSense over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for pfSense in the UK

pfSense
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing pfSense within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +159 10 £60,000 +4.35%
Work from Home +186 7 £60,000 - 2
UK excluding London +188 6 £57,500 +82.54% 1
London +113 4 £60,000 +12.15%
South East +95 2 £60,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £57,500 -
North of England - 2 £57,500 -
East of England - 2 £42,500 -

pfSense
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Converged Networks
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) LLU
2 2 (20.00%) PBX
2 2 (20.00%) VLAN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (20.00%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) IT Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) CentOS
2 6 (60.00%) Debian
2 6 (60.00%) Mac OS
2 6 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) VMS
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) ITSM
2 2 (20.00%) Runbook
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) cPanel
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Draytek
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Commvault
2 1 (10.00%) Veeam