KVM Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring KVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing KVM 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.31% - -
As % of the System Software category 7.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £446 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 - -
75th Percentile £496 - -
90th Percentile £497 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 - £340

All System Software Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 195 85 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.21% 22.02% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 55 51
10th Percentile £366 £352 £235
25th Percentile £450 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £622
90th Percentile £619 £650 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.80
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Sheffield

KVM
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing KVM

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 8 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 3 (21.43%) Nutanix
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) BGP
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Applications Tester
1 4 (28.57%) Tester
1 4 (28.57%) Web Applications Tester
1 4 (28.57%) Web Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
1 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
1 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 2 (14.29%) Storage Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (7.14%) API Development
5 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.14%) Change Control
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Security Hardening
5 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.14%) RHCE
2 1 (7.14%) RHCSA
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) Hyper-V
3 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (35.71%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (28.57%) vSphere
5 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) PowerCLI
2 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft