Hybrid/Remote FreeBSD Job Trends

FreeBSD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work 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 380 - 546
Rank change year-on-year - - +159
Permanent jobs citing FreeBSD 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.006% - 0.004%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.071% - 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - -
75th Percentile £49,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £46,000 - £56,500
% change year-on-year - - -13.08%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

FreeBSD falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,407 2,276 4,051
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.64% 14.65% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 989 1,418 3,470
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £38,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

FreeBSD
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FreeBSD and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

FreeBSD job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

FreeBSD
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FreeBSD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FreeBSD

FreeBSD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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