Linux Kernel Development Contracts

Linux Kernel Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Linux Kernel Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Kernel Development over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 - 858
Rank change year-on-year - - -155
Contract jobs citing Linux Kernel Development 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £387
25th Percentile £325 - £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £405
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.83%
75th Percentile £375 - £413
90th Percentile - - £414
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £405

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Linux Kernel Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Linux Kernel Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Kernel Development in the UK

Linux Kernel Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Kernel Development in the UK

Linux Kernel Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Kernel Development in the UK

Linux Kernel Development
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Kernel Development within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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 - 1 £350 - 3
England - 1 £350 - 4
Work from Home - 1 £350 - 3

Linux Kernel Development
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) RTSP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver Development
1 1 (100.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware