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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 348 415
Rank change year-on-year -17 +67 +55
Contract jobs citing KVM 8 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.12% 0.054%
As % of the System Software category 0.42% 0.99% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 9
10th Percentile £481 £332 £323
25th Percentile £489 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £360 £450
Median % change year-on-year +39.58% -20.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £575
90th Percentile £569 £600 £640
UK median daily rate £503 £393 £500
% change year-on-year +28.03% -21.50% +21.95%

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 1,912 2,328 3,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.50% 12.58% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,604 2,252
10th Percentile £200 £197 £175
25th Percentile £313 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £576
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 127 177
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.48 £16.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 £24.18 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.07% -10.44% +35.00%
75th Percentile £86.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £72.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £23.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.87% -52.40% +132.56%

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

KVM
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
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 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
Scotland -8 5 £501 +47.43% 7
Yorkshire -6 2 - -
North of England -8 2 - -
East of England +2 1 £550 +4.76% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) FCoE
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Multicast
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) InfluxDB
3 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (50.00%) Unix
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Solaris
5 2 (25.00%) zOS
6 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (12.50%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
3 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (12.50%) High Availability
6 1 (12.50%) Memory Management
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Perl
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Xen
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (12.50%) QEMU
3 1 (12.50%) SRDF
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (62.50%) Grafana
3 5 (62.50%) Terraform
4 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (37.50%) HAProxy
5 3 (37.50%) Nagios
6 2 (25.00%) Fluentd
7 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Commvault
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (37.50%) NetApp
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) EMC
4 2 (25.00%) F5
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 1 (12.50%) Google
5 1 (12.50%) IBM
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (12.50%) Pure Storage