KVM Contracts in the South East

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 197 219 238
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 -29
Contract jobs citing KVM 4 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.034% 0.27%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% 0.23% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile - £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £475 £606
90th Percentile - - £625
England median daily rate £563 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 777 852 1,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.08% 14.67% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 600 906
10th Percentile £200 £205 £163
25th Percentile £331 £357 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £647 £675 £675
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 46 57
10th Percentile £17.26 £17.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62.81 £69.38 £24.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £67.71
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for KVM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KVM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for KVM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the South East 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
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Surrey - 2 - -
Thames Valley - 2 - - 1
KVM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (50.00%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (50.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle