KVM Contracts in England

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 623 745
Rank change year-on-year +114 +122 -168
Contract jobs citing KVM 33 30 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.059% 0.053%
As % of the System Software category 0.82% 0.45% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 23
10th Percentile £319 £413 £366
25th Percentile £345 £416 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £719 £488 £620
90th Percentile £745 £540 £636
UK median daily rate £370 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -17.78% -21.74% +12.20%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,031 6,595 9,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.84% 13.07% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 4,778 7,164
10th Percentile £190 £204 £193
25th Percentile £325 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £635
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 243 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in England

KVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for KVM in England

KVM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in England

KVM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for KVM in England

KVM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +106 17 £700 +60.00% 9
North of England +39 7 £340 -39.56% 2
Yorkshire +33 7 £340 -51.43%
South East +17 4 - - 2
Midlands +30 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (12.12%) IBM Domino
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
1 6 (18.18%) Nutanix
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) DHCP
2 7 (21.21%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (21.21%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (15.15%) NAS
4 5 (15.15%) SAN
5 4 (12.12%) VSAN
6 3 (9.09%) InfiniBand
7 2 (6.06%) Firewall
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (3.03%) IOS XR
8 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
8 1 (3.03%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (3.03%) SSH
8 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (3.03%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Architect
2 10 (30.30%) Data Centre Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Network Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) IT Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) IT Technician
5 3 (9.09%) Data Centre Technician
5 3 (9.09%) Data Technician
5 3 (9.09%) Exchange Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) IT Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Network Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Storage Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) LAMP
1 1 (3.03%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (3.03%) LDAP
1 1 (3.03%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 16 (48.48%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.03%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (78.79%) Linux
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle Linux
2 10 (30.30%) Solaris
2 10 (30.30%) VMS
2 10 (30.30%) Windows
3 7 (21.21%) Windows 10
3 7 (21.21%) Windows 7
4 6 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 2 (6.06%) CentOS
6 2 (6.06%) Unix
7 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (54.55%) Migration
3 11 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 10 (30.30%) Database Migration
5 9 (27.27%) Validation
6 8 (24.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (21.21%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (21.21%) Runbook
8 6 (18.18%) Security Testing
9 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Product Management
10 3 (9.09%) Facilities Management
10 3 (9.09%) High Availability
10 3 (9.09%) Project Management
10 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 2 (6.06%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (6.06%) Configuration Management
11 2 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) Groovy
3 1 (3.03%) Korn
3 1 (3.03%) Perl
3 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Degree
2 11 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (21.21%) CCNP
3 7 (21.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (12.12%) A+ Certification
4 4 (12.12%) CCNA
4 4 (12.12%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (6.06%) RHCE
6 1 (3.03%) CCIE
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) JNCIP
6 1 (3.03%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (3.03%) LPIC
6 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (45.45%) Hyper-V
2 15 (45.45%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (21.21%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (21.21%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (18.18%) vSphere
5 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
6 2 (6.06%) Docker
7 1 (3.03%) Ceph
7 1 (3.03%) iptables
7 1 (3.03%) Lustre
7 1 (3.03%) NFS
7 1 (3.03%) Samba
7 1 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) vCenter Server
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.03%) Packer
5 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) SELinux
Vendors
1 30 (90.91%) VMware
2 11 (33.33%) Oracle
3 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
4 7 (21.21%) Cisco
4 7 (21.21%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.09%) Dell
5 3 (9.09%) HP
5 3 (9.09%) NetApp
6 2 (6.06%) Google
6 2 (6.06%) NVIDIA
7 1 (3.03%) F5
7 1 (3.03%) Juniper
7 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.03%) Sybase