eBPF Contract Job Trends in London

eBPF
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring eBPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 379 381
Rank change year-on-year -45 +2 -
Contract jobs citing eBPF 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.040% 0.007% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.028% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £523 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £856 - -
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £552 £600 -
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,548 3,550 4,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.59% 26.06% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,485 3,206
10th Percentile £388 £371 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £776 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 25 25
10th Percentile £25.31 £31.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £60.63 £62.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.70 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

eBPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

eBPF job vacancy trend in London

eBPF
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing eBPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing eBPF

eBPF
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing eBPF in London over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for eBPF in London

eBPF
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing eBPF within the London region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Central London - 1 £850 -
eBPF
England

eBPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) Multicast
2 2 (25.00%) OSPF
2 2 (25.00%) VLAN
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) Loki
2 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Low Latency
1 5 (62.50%) Observability
2 4 (50.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
4 2 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Network Design
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C++
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Cilium
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
4 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (25.00%) Terraform
5 1 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Arista
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto