KVM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 377 425
Rank change year-on-year +45 +48 +55
Contract jobs citing KVM 7 22 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.11% 0.092%
As % of the System Software category 0.39% 0.89% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 15
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile - £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £331 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.83% -26.39% +3.75%
75th Percentile £500 £359 £501
90th Percentile £545 £367 £588
UK median daily rate £445 £370 £450
% change year-on-year +20.27% -17.78% -21.74%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,809 2,459 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.14% 11.85% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,646 2,641
10th Percentile £190 £175 £180
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -3.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 194 187
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -45.00% +120.81%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £79.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +22.22% -58.14% +168.75%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for KVM in the UK excluding London

KVM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for KVM in the UK excluding London

KVM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +45 3 £440 - 3
North of England +18 2 - - 2
North West - 2 - - 2
East of England +29 1 £550 - 10
Scotland +5 1 £500 +53.85% 2
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Ethernet
2 3 (42.86%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Server Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) AIX
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) HPUX
2 2 (28.57%) Solaris
2 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Memory Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) QEMU
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Commvault
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto