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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 - 178
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing KVM 6 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.089% - 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.75% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - £360
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile - - £383
90th Percentile - - £423
England median daily rate £630 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +26.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 795 463 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.84% 13.10% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 327 492
10th Percentile £270 £200 £234
25th Percentile £415 £323 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £663 £651
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 12 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £28.48 £17.69
25th Percentile £43.81 £46.49 £21.14
Median hourly rate £52.50 £67.25 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +22.55% +4.52%
75th Percentile £67.47 £81.50 £69.77
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.97 £70.00
England median hourly rate £60.17 £40.73 £24.18
% change year-on-year +47.73% +68.42% -35.52%

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

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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

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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

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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 19 August 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
Hampshire - 4 £630 - 1
Middlesex - 2 - -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Broadband
1 2 (33.33%) Multicast
1 2 (33.33%) RTMP
1 2 (33.33%) TETRA
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Broadcast Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Broadcast Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Power Management
2 2 (33.33%) Security Management
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Peplink
2 2 (33.33%) Starlink