Kernel Tuning Contract Job Trends in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Kernel Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 451 -
Rank change year-on-year -102 - -
Contract jobs citing Kernel Tuning 5 38 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 0
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile £513 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £710 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% - -
75th Percentile £538 £806 -
90th Percentile - £825 -
UK median daily rate £525 £710 -
% change year-on-year -26.06% - -

All Process & 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 29,013 23,773 32,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.84% 89.46% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,550 14,553 22,087
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 760 1,867
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.61
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.61% +10.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kernel Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Kernel Tuning job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kernel Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kernel Tuning

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kernel Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kernel Tuning

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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 30 January 2026. 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 -49 4 £525 -10.26% 1
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
1 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) CUDA
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Rocky
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) API Integration
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Data Security
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cryptanalysis
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) RHCE
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) NFS
1 3 (60.00%) Veritas File System
1 3 (60.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) GPFS
2 1 (20.00%) Lustre
2 1 (20.00%) Postfix
2 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) QRadar
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (20.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (60.00%) Qualys
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (60.00%) SaltStack
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) NVIDIA