KVM Contracts in Edinburgh

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 66 90
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +43
Contract jobs citing KVM 5 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.77% 0.73% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 9.26% 4.80% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £479 - £234
25th Percentile £485 - £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £340 £338
Median % change year-on-year +47.43% +0.74% +87.50%
75th Percentile £534 - £416
90th Percentile £550 - £451
Scotland median daily rate £501 £340 £475
% change year-on-year +47.43% -28.42% +206.45%

All System Software Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 54 125 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.32% 15.19% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 77 116
10th Percentile £267 £200 £219
25th Percentile £434 £240 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £474
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -7.50% -0.32%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £536
90th Percentile £577 £639 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £425 £479
% change year-on-year +11.76% -11.27% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £20.29 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £20.29 £53.75
% change year-on-year - -62.26% +20.79%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in Edinburgh

KVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for KVM in Edinburgh

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (60.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Kanban
3 3 (60.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
5 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (60.00%) HAProxy
3 3 (60.00%) Nagios
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
4 2 (40.00%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Commvault
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto