Kernel Tuning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Kernel Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 298 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kernel Tuning 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £730 - -
25th Percentile £738 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile £820 - -
UK median daily rate £750 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +6.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Kernel Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kernel Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kernel Tuning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kernel Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kernel Tuning.

Kernel Tuning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kernel Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Slack
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (100.00%) Swagger
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Batch
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) API Design
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 6 (100.00%) OWASP
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Coaching
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Application Security
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes