eBPF Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

eBPF
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring eBPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited eBPF over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 350 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Contract jobs citing eBPF 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.014% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.073% 0.054% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 -
UK median daily rate £600 £600 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,724 3,706 5,964
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.91% 25.31% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,950 2,609 4,438
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £418 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £754
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 93 76
10th Percentile £25.25 £28.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £49.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +20.48%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

eBPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

eBPF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

eBPF
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (100.00%) Anycast
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Arista
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Wind River