eBPF Contract Job Trends in England

eBPF
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring eBPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing eBPF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

eBPF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,934 6,732 8,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.75% 21.68% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,670 4,299 6,246
10th Percentile £350 £356 £374
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - -4.51%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £675
90th Percentile £735 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.77% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 98 183
10th Percentile £30.80 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £41.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

eBPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing eBPF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

eBPF job vacancy trend in England

eBPF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing eBPF within the England region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 1 £600 -
eBPF
UK

eBPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) Anycast
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Wind River