pfSense
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for pfSense skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited pfSense over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 737 1064 1095
Rank change year-on-year +327 +31 -350
Permanent jobs citing pfSense 4 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.010% 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.045% 0.064% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile - £46,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £115,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +109.09% +83.33%
75th Percentile £52,500 £127,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £61,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -20.83% +100.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

pfSense is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,918 18,819 22,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 15.18% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,089 12,537 15,927
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +5.26% +5.56%

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

pfSense
Top 6 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 4 December 2023. 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 +325 4 £45,000 -60.87% 6
London +260 2 £50,000 -56.52% 1
Work from Home +250 2 £40,000 -15.79%
UK excluding London +242 2 £40,000 -15.79% 5
North of England - 2 £40,000 - 1
North East - 2 £40,000 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (50.00%) ISDN
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) PBX
2 2 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) DataFlex
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Ceph
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Proxmox
2 2 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) MikroTik
2 2 (50.00%) Mitel
2 2 (50.00%) QNAP
2 2 (50.00%) Ubiquiti
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam