oVirt Contract Job Trends

Red Hat oVirt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring oVirt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing oVirt 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £925 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All System Software Skills
UK

oVirt 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 5,326 3,841 4,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 11.72% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,517 2,439 3,039
10th Percentile £220 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 110 144
10th Percentile £15.79 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £23.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +75.24% +29.80% -49.75%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.68 £58.98
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £72.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £63.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -5.51% +144.23% +5.61%

oVirt
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing oVirt relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

oVirt job vacancy trend in the UK

oVirt
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing oVirt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing oVirt

oVirt
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing oVirt within the UK over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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 - 2 £850 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
London - 1 £850 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

oVirt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) RHEV
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat