KVM Job Trends in Cheltenham

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.11% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.04% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -31.25%

All System Software Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 49 16 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 5.51% 11.43% 19.43%
Number of salaries quoted 40 15 37
10th Percentile £48,600 £51,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £54,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% +31.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £93,438 £95,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £106,250 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £62,500 £55,445 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.72% +0.81% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware