there is nothing that serves devops/sys admin space.. It would be interesting to see if companies would buy into a market for it.

We are a riskier bunch to hand over root access to random contractors on the Internet.

It's a good point - maybe this is a gap in the market?

There are posts re freelance sysadmins on the big sites like Freelancer.com and Guru but not much else I can find.

I would like to know this too