Kernel Tuning Contracts

Kernel Tuning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 495 - 712
Rank change year-on-year - - +134
Contract jobs citing Kernel Tuning 25 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% - 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% - 0.011%
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 excluding London median daily rate £780 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kernel Tuning in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kernel Tuning in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Kernel Tuning in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Kernel Tuning in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England - 25 £750 - 4
London - 15 £628 - 2
UK excluding London - 9 £780 - 2
North of England - 9 £780 -
Yorkshire - 7 £780 -
Work from Home - 6 £775 -
North West - 2 - -

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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 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