KVM Job Trends in England

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > England

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 646 691
Rank change year-on-year +37 +45 +256
Permanent jobs citing KVM 19 9 59
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.033% 0.020% 0.090%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% 0.15% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 54
10th Percentile - £44,625 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,500 £49,688 £24,807
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,603 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +125.39% -64.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,815 £51,000
90th Percentile £86,600 £63,932 £69,375
UK median annual salary £56,250 £58,603 £26,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% +125.39% -62.86%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,877 5,933 9,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.66% 13.26% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,803 3,616 8,374
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,403
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +18.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

KVM job vacancy trend in England

KVM
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing KVM

KVM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM in England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for KVM in England

KVM
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the England region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
London - 8 £29,000 -
South East +17 7 £55,000 +29.41% 2
North of England -12 4 £82,500 +32.63% 4
North West +20 3 £82,500 +32.63% 2
Yorkshire -26 1 - - 2
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
1 10 (52.63%) GCP
2 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) Google Workspace
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) LAN
2 5 (26.32%) Network Security
2 5 (26.32%) VPN
2 5 (26.32%) WAN
3 4 (21.05%) DNS
3 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (15.79%) VoIP
4 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (15.79%) Wireless
4 3 (15.79%) WLAN
5 2 (10.53%) DHCP
5 2 (10.53%) HTTP
5 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (10.53%) IPv4
5 2 (10.53%) IPv6
5 2 (10.53%) SSL
5 2 (10.53%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Network Support
2 3 (15.79%) Network Support Technician
2 3 (15.79%) Network Technician
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Support Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Design Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Network Design Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Design Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) DPDK
1 3 (15.79%) eBPF
2 1 (5.26%) NETCONF
2 1 (5.26%) RESTCONF
2 1 (5.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Client/Server
1 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.26%) NVMe
5 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) CentOS
2 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Collaborative Culture
3 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (36.84%) Zero Trust
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Code Quality
5 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
5 5 (26.32%) System Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
7 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.79%) High Availability
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) C++
3 5 (26.32%) C
3 5 (26.32%) Rust
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) Google Apps Script
4 2 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 3 (15.79%) DBS Check
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) CCNA
5 2 (10.53%) CCNP
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (10.53%) JNCIA
5 2 (10.53%) JNCIS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) QEMU
4 2 (10.53%) Docker
4 2 (10.53%) RHEV
4 2 (10.53%) Xen
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Ansible
3 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.53%) Grafana
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (10.53%) Nagios
4 2 (10.53%) Proxmox
5 1 (5.26%) PowerCLI
5 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) VMware
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) SaltStack
3 3 (15.79%) Zscaler
4 2 (10.53%) F5
4 2 (10.53%) Juniper
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds