eBPF Job Trends

eBPF
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring eBPF skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing eBPF 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 - -
75th Percentile £89,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £86,000 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

eBPF 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,932 15,369 17,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.00% 19.63% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,042 9,965 13,929
10th Percentile £38,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.63% +1.62%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

eBPF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing eBPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for eBPF in the UK

eBPF
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing eBPF within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 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 - 2 £86,000 -
England - 2 £86,000 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £86,000 -
North of England - 2 £86,000 -

eBPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
1 2 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SaltStack