KVM Contracts in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 62 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing KVM 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.33% 0.21% -
As % of the System Software category 1.53% 1.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £340 -
Yorkshire median daily rate - £340 £700
% change year-on-year - -51.43% +351.61%

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 131 87 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 21.30% 18.28% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 61 37
10th Percentile £356 £225 £183
25th Percentile £400 £463 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +10.00% +7.47%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £588
90th Percentile £626 £650 £693
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% +13.87%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -33.52% +10.00%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in South Yorkshire

KVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for KVM in South Yorkshire

KVM
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Sheffield - 2 - -
KVM
Yorkshire

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) FCoE
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (50.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) SRDF
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (50.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Pure Storage