KVM Contracts in the North West

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - 155
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing KVM 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% - 0.063%
As % of the System Software category 0.72% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.33%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £440 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -23.48% +27.78% -14.29%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 277 256 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.08% 9.29% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 182 366
10th Percentile £157 £178 £200
25th Percentile £250 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £564 £670 £650
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 29
10th Percentile £33.73 - £13.99
25th Percentile £40.81 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%
75th Percentile £73.81 £26.38 £52.13
90th Percentile £82.78 £46.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM in the North West.

Daily rate trend for KVM in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cumbria - 2 - -
KVM
England

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware