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 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 753 760 1123
Rank change year-on-year +7 +363 -34
Permanent jobs citing pfSense 31 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.007% 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.40% 0.041% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 29 4 3
10th Percentile £47,250 - £48,000
25th Percentile - £37,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.79% +2.70%

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 7,729 9,643 21,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 16.89% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 7,425 13,273
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for pfSense in the UK

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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 8 November 2024.

Salary histogram for pfSense in the UK

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Top 5 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 8 November 2024. 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
Work from Home +53 31 £60,000 +50.00% 2
England -14 31 £60,000 +33.33% 3
UK excluding London -28 16 £60,000 +50.00% 2
South East - 16 £60,000 - 1
London +26 15 £60,000 +20.00% 1

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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 14 (45.16%) CloudStack
1 14 (45.16%) OpenStack
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) Cloudflare
3 4 (12.90%) Mimecast
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) iSCSI
3 4 (12.90%) BGP
3 4 (12.90%) NetScaler
3 4 (12.90%) OSPF
3 4 (12.90%) RIP
4 3 (9.68%) DHCP
4 3 (9.68%) DNS
4 3 (9.68%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (9.68%) NAS
4 3 (9.68%) SAN
4 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
4 3 (9.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MariaDB
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.68%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 31 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (77.42%) IT Engineer
2 24 (77.42%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Junior
4 3 (9.68%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 28 (90.32%) Linux
1 28 (90.32%) Windows
2 27 (87.10%) Ubuntu
3 23 (74.19%) CentOS
4 13 (41.94%) Debian
5 9 (29.03%) Mac OS
6 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (48.39%) Project Management
3 3 (9.68%) Business Continuity
3 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (9.68%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) CISM
1 3 (9.68%) CISSP
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) Docker
3 4 (12.90%) Firmware
3 4 (12.90%) NFS
3 4 (12.90%) vSphere
4 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.68%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Kubernetes
2 14 (45.16%) Terraform
3 4 (12.90%) SCCM
4 3 (9.68%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Red Hat
2 7 (22.58%) CheckPoint
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) VMware
3 4 (12.90%) Aruba
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco
3 4 (12.90%) Citrix
3 4 (12.90%) NetApp
3 4 (12.90%) QNAP
3 4 (12.90%) Synology
3 4 (12.90%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (9.68%) Dell
4 3 (9.68%) HP
4 3 (9.68%) WatchGuard