KVM Contracts in Scotland

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring KVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited KVM over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 141 179
Rank change year-on-year +34 +38 -
Contract jobs citing KVM 6 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 0.24% 0.059%
As % of the System Software category 2.74% 1.70% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile - - £135
25th Percentile - - £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £500 £155
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +222.58% -
75th Percentile - £538 £168
90th Percentile - £560 £175
UK median daily rate £420 £525 £405
% change year-on-year -20.00% +29.63% -26.36%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

KVM falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 219 353 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.69% 14.36% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 220 302
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £274 £404 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £477 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £546 £530
90th Percentile £638 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £15.70 £52.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £18.55 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.23 £56.25 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% +217.44% -75.89%
75th Percentile £24.18 £73.19 £40.75
90th Percentile £49.59 £78.00 £49.04
UK median hourly rate £26.25 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.50% +127.27% +25.71%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in Scotland

KVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for KVM in Scotland

KVM
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Edinburgh +22 6 £340 -
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Linux Support
1 6 (100.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) RHCE
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat