Kernel Tuning Contracts in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 460 - 647
Rank change year-on-year - - +125
Contract jobs citing Kernel Tuning 25 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% - 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £484 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.48%
75th Percentile £813 - £588
90th Percentile £825 - £700
UK median daily rate £750 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +6.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kernel Tuning in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kernel Tuning in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kernel Tuning in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kernel Tuning in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kernel Tuning in England.

Hourly rate trend for Kernel Tuning in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London - 15 £628 - 2
North of England - 9 £780 -
Yorkshire - 7 £780 -
North West - 2 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (72.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) Slack
2 15 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (32.00%) GitHub
4 6 (24.00%) Nutanix
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) HTTP
2 8 (32.00%) DNS
2 8 (32.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 17 (68.00%) MongoDB
1 17 (68.00%) MySQL
1 17 (68.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (92.00%) Git
2 19 (76.00%) JIRA
3 17 (68.00%) Cucumber
3 17 (68.00%) Jasmine
3 17 (68.00%) JUnit
4 8 (32.00%) Subversion
4 8 (32.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
1 13 (52.00%) Java Developer
2 10 (40.00%) Senior
3 9 (36.00%) Senior Developer
3 9 (36.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 8 (32.00%) Administrator
4 8 (32.00%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (28.00%) Lead
6 4 (16.00%) Lead Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (12.00%) Java Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Lead Java Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
9 1 (4.00%) JIRA Developer
9 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (68.00%) RESTful
1 17 (68.00%) Spring
1 17 (68.00%) Spring Boot
2 16 (64.00%) OpenAPI
2 16 (64.00%) Spring Batch
2 16 (64.00%) Spring Security
2 16 (64.00%) Swagger
3 8 (32.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (64.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 8 (32.00%) Clustering
3 6 (24.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (76.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (32.00%) Solaris
4 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (72.00%) High Availability
3 17 (68.00%) BDD
3 17 (68.00%) TDD
4 16 (64.00%) API Design
4 16 (64.00%) Containerisation
4 16 (64.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 16 (64.00%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (64.00%) OWASP
4 16 (64.00%) Test Automation
5 15 (60.00%) Microservices
6 12 (48.00%) Integration Testing
6 12 (48.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (32.00%) API Integration
7 8 (32.00%) DevOps
7 8 (32.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (32.00%) Operational Stability
7 8 (32.00%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (28.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Bash
2 17 (68.00%) Java
2 17 (68.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) Perl
3 8 (32.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) GDPR
1 6 (24.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (16.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Docker
2 8 (32.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (16.00%) NFS
3 4 (16.00%) Veritas File System
3 4 (16.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (32.00%) Ansible
2 8 (32.00%) QRadar
2 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (24.00%) Tivoli
4 4 (16.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (16.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Control-M
5 2 (8.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (32.00%) CyberArk
2 8 (32.00%) Qualys
2 8 (32.00%) SaltStack
2 8 (32.00%) Splunk
2 8 (32.00%) VMware
3 6 (24.00%) IBM
4 4 (16.00%) EMC
4 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.00%) BMC
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle