KVM Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring KVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing KVM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.12% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £725 -
% change year-on-year -41.38% - -

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 133 61 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.02% 9.67% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 51 54
10th Percentile £133 £158 £188
25th Percentile £360 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +14.12%
75th Percentile £548 £689 £500
90th Percentile £618 £700 £604
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £490 £413
% change year-on-year +4.90% +18.79% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.49
25th Percentile - - £15.40
Median hourly rate - - £17.27
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.33%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -2.00% -16.38%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing KVM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

KVM job vacancy trend in Birmingham

KVM
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing KVM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing KVM

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware