KVM Contracts in London

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for KVM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited KVM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 487 594
Rank change year-on-year +111 +107 -162
Contract jobs citing KVM 18 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.052% 0.026%
As % of the System Software category 1.02% 0.44% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 9
10th Percentile £540 £391 £465
25th Percentile £553 £397 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £438 £610
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -28.28% +16.19%
75th Percentile £738 £472 £638
90th Percentile £750 £474 £650
England median daily rate £563 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
London

KVM is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,771 3,152 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.00% 11.66% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 2,302 3,829
10th Percentile £213 £250 £325
25th Percentile £363 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £675
90th Percentile £723 £775 £750
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 42 46
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.73 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.85 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +83.67% -45.86%
75th Percentile £25.00 £73.63 £43.94
90th Percentile £48.89 £85.00 £73.13
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in London

KVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM in London.

Daily rate trend for KVM in London

KVM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in London

KVM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KVM in London.

Hourly rate trend for KVM in London

KVM
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Central London - 4 £575 - 3
KVM
England

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) IBM Domino
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Nutanix
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) NAS
1 5 (27.78%) SAN
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (16.67%) InfiniBand
4 2 (11.11%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) VSAN
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (5.56%) DNS
5 1 (5.56%) IOS XR
5 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (5.56%) SSH
5 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Exchange Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Network Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Storage Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) LAMP
1 1 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
1 1 (5.56%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Solaris
2 5 (27.78%) VMS
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Windows
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (11.11%) Unix
6 1 (5.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
4 5 (27.78%) Database Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Security Testing
4 5 (27.78%) Validation
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) Facilities Management
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.11%) High Availability
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Product Management
7 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
8 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) Korn
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) CCNP
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (27.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) CCIE
3 1 (5.56%) JNCIP
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 15 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (38.89%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (22.22%) vSphere
5 2 (11.11%) Docker
5 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (5.56%) Ceph
6 1 (5.56%) iptables
6 1 (5.56%) Lustre
6 1 (5.56%) NFS
6 1 (5.56%) Samba
6 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Check_MK
3 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.56%) Packer
3 1 (5.56%) Salt
3 1 (5.56%) SELinux
3 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle
3 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
4 3 (16.67%) Dell
4 3 (16.67%) HP
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) NetApp
5 2 (11.11%) Google
5 2 (11.11%) NVIDIA
6 1 (5.56%) F5
6 1 (5.56%) Juniper
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.56%) Sybase