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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 170 211
Rank change year-on-year -6 +41 +44
Contract jobs citing KVM 2 11 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.052% 0.26% 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.39% 1.66% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £380 £350
Median % change year-on-year +17.63% +8.57% -30.00%
England median daily rate £447 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +6.43% -16.00% +25.00%

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 508 663 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.13% 15.90% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 440 544
10th Percentile £190 £219 £170
25th Percentile £263 £360 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £595
90th Percentile £624 £672 £650
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 60
10th Percentile £35.17 £26.25 £18.61
25th Percentile £67.44 £53.41 £23.57
Median hourly rate £81.00 £60.50 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year +33.90% +6.22% +137.29%
75th Percentile £81.50 £70.00 £71.41
90th Percentile £88.97 - £76.63
England median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +86.17%

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

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 7 November 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 -12 2 £447 +14.62%
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
1 2 (100.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware