KVM Job Trends in the City of London

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.19% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.34% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 - -
75th Percentile £37,438 - -
90th Percentile £51,725 - -
Central London median annual salary £29,000 - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - -39.29%

All System Software Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 171 374 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.06% 13.86% 19.63%
Number of salaries quoted 132 264 525
10th Percentile £31,275 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,625 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,625 £110,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -3.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

KVM job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing KVM

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for KVM in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VoIP
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
1 3 (75.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Support
1 3 (75.00%) Network Support Technician
1 3 (75.00%) Network Technician
1 3 (75.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) VMware