KVM Jobs in England

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring KVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited KVM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 749 913
Rank change year-on-year +108 +164 +132
Permanent jobs citing KVM 7 73 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.086% 0.041%
As % of the System Software category 0.14% 0.67% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4 64 30
10th Percentile £44,625 £24,240 £47,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £24,665 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,603 £26,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +125.39% -56.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £71,757 £50,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £85,703 £63,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £25,420 £60,000
% change year-on-year +106.53% -57.63% -14.29%

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 5,002 10,968 14,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.86% 12.87% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,633 8,894 9,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £79,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -2.35%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in England

KVM
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KVM in England.

Salary trend for KVM in England

KVM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North of England +82 5 £58,603 +136.20% 2
North West +28 3 £58,603 +136.20% 2
Yorkshire +77 2 - -
London +98 1 £90,000 +16.13% 13
South East +92 1 £42,500 +63.46% 3
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) NAS
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (28.57%) FCoE
3 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) FTP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTPS
3 2 (28.57%) Multicast
3 2 (28.57%) SSH
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) EDI
1 2 (28.57%) LAMP
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) Loki
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
3 2 (28.57%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Life Science
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (28.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) AIX
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Unix
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Server Virtualisation
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Supplier Management
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) AWK
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Korn
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) PHP
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) NFS
3 2 (28.57%) Postfix
3 2 (28.57%) Sendmail
3 2 (28.57%) SRDF
3 2 (28.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (28.57%) Xen
4 1 (14.29%) Docker
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Nessus
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) EMC
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Google
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) NetApp
4 2 (28.57%) SAP
4 2 (28.57%) Tenable
5 1 (14.29%) Broadcom
5 1 (14.29%) Dell