KVM Job Trends in Cheshire

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring KVM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.27% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.20% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 - -
75th Percentile £89,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £86,000 - £70,000

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 167 126 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 22.54% 11.08% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 34 91 69
10th Percentile - £25,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% +13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £50,000 £52,250
90th Percentile £76,375 £59,000 £72,433
North West median annual salary £52,500 £43,742 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.02% -20.47% +20.05%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in Cheshire

KVM
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing KVM

KVM
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 2 £86,000 - 1
KVM
North West

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) DPDK
1 2 (100.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SaltStack