pfSense Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

pfSense
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 569 656
Rank change year-on-year +143 +87 +177
Permanent jobs citing pfSense 4 16 3
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.025% 0.047% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.19% 0.37% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £58,250 - £41,750
25th Percentile £59,375 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,625 - £47,500
90th Percentile £61,750 - £48,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £42,500 £115,000
% change year-on-year +41.18% -63.04% +170.59%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

pfSense falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,093 4,335 6,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.32% 12.83% 14.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,526 3,466 4,674
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £86,625 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.20%

pfSense
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing pfSense as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

pfSense trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

pfSense
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing pfSense.

pfSense salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
2 3 (75.00%) Debian
2 3 (75.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (75.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Commvault
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware