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 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 128 164 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.11% -
As % of the System Software category 0.47% 0.80% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £32,566 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,055 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,620 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £97,935 -
90th Percentile - £112,674 -
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £69,620 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.41% +63.81% -

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 214 374 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 12.29% 13.14% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 172 257 593
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,500 £106,000
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -3.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for KVM 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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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) VMware