KVM Contracts

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 547 655
Rank change year-on-year +26 +108 +130
Contract jobs citing KVM 9 40 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.092% 0.056%
As % of the System Software category 0.24% 0.83% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 17
10th Percentile £363 £313 £388
25th Percentile £440 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £580 £738 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £340 £450
% change year-on-year +38.24% -24.44% +60.71%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,750 4,799 7,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.09% 11.06% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 3,308 5,066
10th Percentile £225 £206 £200
25th Percentile £381 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £607 £638
90th Percentile £690 £688 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £479
% change year-on-year - -0.84% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 220 255
10th Percentile £14.49 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.39 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -55.03% +166.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.20 £66.75
90th Percentile £89.85 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £24.34 £31.00
% change year-on-year +125.45% -21.48% +67.57%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for KVM in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KVM.

Hourly rate trend for KVM in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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
England +38 8 £445 -25.83% 140
London +31 5 £450 -35.71% 54
UK excluding London +26 4 £470 +38.24% 100
South East +51 2 £440 +22.22% 21
Work from Home +32 2 £525 -6.67% 97
East of England +19 1 £550 +4.76% 17
Scotland -6 1 £500 +47.06% 11

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
1 3 (33.33%) Skype
1 3 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (22.22%) Ethernet
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Voice Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Server Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) PCIe
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Co-Creation
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Kanban
4 1 (11.11%) Memory Management
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (11.11%) ISO 14001
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (11.11%) Firmware
3 1 (11.11%) QEMU
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Nagios
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Commvault
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto