DPDK Job Trends in Knutsford

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring DPDK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DPDK 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Knutsford 4.41% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.64% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £73,100 - -
25th Percentile £74,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £88,250 - -
90th Percentile £88,700 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Knutsford

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Knutsford 32.35% 8.33% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £54,250 £67,975 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,813 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £85,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +7.19% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,563 £93,813 £100,000
90th Percentile £89,150 £95,725 -
Cheshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -26.92% +30.00%

DPDK
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DPDK relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

DPDK job vacancy trend in Knutsford

DPDK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) eBPF
2 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
2 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) NVMe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) KVM
1 3 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SaltStack