KVM Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring KVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing KVM 10 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.50% - 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 3.06% - 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £333 - £313
25th Percentile £355 - £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - £339
75th Percentile £425 - £363
90th Percentile £469 - £367
England median daily rate £465 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +5.57% -12.00% +8.40%

All System Software Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 327 156 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.39% 16.65% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 103 238
10th Percentile £193 £201 £178
25th Percentile £338 £269 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £529
90th Percentile £575 £625 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £17.85
90th Percentile £31.55 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.24% -27.50% +3.90%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

KVM
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing KVM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing KVM

KVM
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in Yorkshire

KVM
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
South Yorkshire - 8 £425 - 1
West Yorkshire - 1 £360 - 1
KVM
England

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
1 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Technician
1 2 (20.00%) Data Technician
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (50.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) RHCE
1 1 (10.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Virtual Machines
1 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) Docker
3 3 (30.00%) Firmware
3 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (10.00%) Ceph
5 1 (10.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) PowerCLI
2 3 (30.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat