Kernel Tuning Contracts in Central London

Kernel Tuning
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Kernel Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kernel Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kernel Tuning 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - -
London median daily rate £628 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Kernel Tuning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Kernel Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Kernel Tuning in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kernel Tuning in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Kernel Tuning in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kernel Tuning within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 2 £670 -
Kernel Tuning
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas File System
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Netcool
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware