Kernel Tuning Contract Job Trends in London

Kernel Tuning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Kernel Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 359 408
Rank change year-on-year -18 +49 +153
Contract jobs citing Kernel Tuning 4 18 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.028% 0.12% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.13% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £800 -
England median daily rate - £800 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Kernel Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Kernel Tuning job vacancy trend in London

Kernel Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Kernel Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Integration
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Security
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) NFS
1 4 (100.00%) Veritas File System
1 4 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) QRadar
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 4 (100.00%) Qualys
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) SaltStack
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
1 4 (100.00%) VMware