KVM Job Trends in Berkshire

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 1 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.051% - 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 0.93% - 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £26,000
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £58,850
South East median annual salary £55,000 - £26,000
% change year-on-year - - -28.77%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

KVM falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 107 295 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.47% 17.79% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48 188 378
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £29,925
25th Percentile £31,375 £52,500 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £70,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +23.84% -1.70%
75th Percentile £51,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £95,000 £93,250
South East median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Berkshire

KVM
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing KVM

KVM
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 1 - -
KVM
South East

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware