KVM Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring KVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing KVM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.45% - -
As % of the System Software category 3.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
South West median daily rate £565 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 54 79 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.03% 25.40% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 68 56
10th Percentile £190 £225 £460
25th Percentile £340 £348 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -3.30% +3.41%
75th Percentile £572 £677 £638
90th Percentile £648 £750 £734
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

KVM
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing KVM

KVM
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 1 - - 3
KVM
South West

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Technician
1 1 (50.00%) IT Technician
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware