Hybrid/Remote OpenBSD Job Trends

OpenBSD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring OpenBSD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 - 524
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenBSD 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.006% - 0.007%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.070% - 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53,000
25th Percentile £43,000 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - £57,500
75th Percentile £49,000 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - £62,000
UK median annual salary £46,000 £37,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.67% -34.78% -

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

OpenBSD 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 1,422 2,253 4,012
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.65% 14.51% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,433 3,434
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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%

OpenBSD
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

OpenBSD job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OpenBSD
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

OpenBSD
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%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
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