KVM Contract Job Trends in the South East

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring KVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 162 204
Rank change year-on-year -22 +42 +41
Contract jobs citing KVM 3 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.069% 0.27% 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 0.57% 1.77% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £452 £360 -
25th Percentile £458 £371 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £390 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% +11.43% -41.67%
75th Percentile £485 £420 -
90th Percentile £492 £429 -
England median daily rate £495 £420 £438
% change year-on-year +17.86% -4.00% -

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 526 566 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.06% 15.34% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 392 506
10th Percentile £190 £200 £161
25th Percentile £305 £350 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £644
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 57
10th Percentile £45.83 £45.75 £19.13
25th Percentile £70.25 £54.94 £27.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £59.88 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.28% -0.21% +150.00%
75th Percentile £88.72 £70.00 £71.90
90th Percentile £101.65 £73.88 £76.92
England median hourly rate £47.50 £29.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +61.02% -32.57% +75.00%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

KVM job vacancy trend in the South East

KVM
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing KVM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing KVM

KVM
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing KVM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing KVM

KVM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Hampshire -20 3 £471 +12.14%
KVM
England

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) IPv4
3 1 (33.33%) IPv6
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Design Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Network Management
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
1 2 (66.67%) RHCSA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) RHEV
3 1 (33.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds