DPDK Job Trends in the North of England

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DPDK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DPDK 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.032% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% - -
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 - -
England median annual salary £86,000 £55,000 £117,500
% change year-on-year +56.36% -53.19% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,541 2,110 2,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.22% 16.91% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 782 1,258 1,641
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

DPDK
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DPDK job vacancy trend in the North of England

DPDK
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DPDK within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 3 £82,500 - 1
DPDK
England

DPDK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 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