eBPF Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

eBPF
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring eBPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing eBPF 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.097% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile £552 - -
UK median daily rate £425 - £600

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,112 2,518 3,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.85% 18.69% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,726 1,737 2,207
10th Percentile £350 £320 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £556 £600
90th Percentile £685 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 96 242
10th Percentile £35.00 £33.91 £22.88
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -11.43%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.51 £74.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

eBPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

eBPF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

eBPF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing eBPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for eBPF in the UK excluding London

eBPF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
East of England - 4 £550 - 3
eBPF
UK

eBPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AIOps
1 4 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 4 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk