KVM Jobs in England

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for KVM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited KVM over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 767 889 1041
Rank change year-on-year +122 +152 -277
Permanent jobs citing KVM 75 40 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.043% 0.071%
As % of the System Software category 0.69% 0.28% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 66 31 34
10th Percentile £24,240 £47,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £24,807 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% -17.24% +45.00%
75th Percentile £50,750 £76,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £106,175
UK median annual salary £26,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -56.67% -14.29% +40.00%

All System Software Skills
England

KVM is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,930 14,251 23,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.82% 15.42% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,855 9,655 13,959
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,844
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.51% +1.53%

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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
South East +38 18 £26,000 -48.00% 2
East of England +31 17 £24,811 -60.30%
London +131 15 £77,500 - 7
Midlands +20 13 £24,811 -54.89% 1
East Midlands - 13 £24,811 - 1
North of England +38 8 £24,811 -58.65% 2
North West -2 7 £24,811 -58.65% 2
South West -30 7 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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 3 (4.00%) CloudStack
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) AWS
2 18 (24.00%) Azure
3 9 (12.00%) GCP
4 8 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.33%) OCI
6 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.67%) SaaS
8 1 (1.33%) IaaS
8 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (16.00%) Firewall
3 4 (5.33%) Internet
4 3 (4.00%) DHCP
4 3 (4.00%) DNS
4 3 (4.00%) iSCSI
4 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.67%) LAN
5 2 (2.67%) WAN
5 2 (2.67%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.33%) Multicast
6 1 (1.33%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Big Data
1 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.33%) Organisational Skills
3 15 (20.00%) Back Office
4 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.00%) Advertising
5 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.67%) Finance
7 1 (1.33%) Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
2 15 (20.00%) Senior
3 13 (17.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Desktop Support
3 13 (17.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Junior
3 13 (17.33%) Junior Desktop Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Junior Desktop Support
3 13 (17.33%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Junior Support Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Support Engineer
4 12 (16.00%) Technical Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Architect
6 9 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (10.67%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Architect
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (1.33%) Middleware
1 1 (1.33%) Redfish
1 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (9.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.00%) PKI
4 1 (1.33%) Clustering
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (70.67%) Windows
2 29 (38.67%) Linux
3 15 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 15 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 6 (8.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.33%) Unix
6 4 (5.33%) VMS
7 3 (4.00%) SUSE
7 3 (4.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (2.67%) CentOS
8 2 (2.67%) Debian
9 1 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) Asset Management
2 31 (41.33%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 15 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (12.00%) Agile
6 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
6 9 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (10.67%) Code Quality
7 8 (10.67%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
7 8 (10.67%) Product Management
7 8 (10.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 8 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) DevOps
8 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.00%) Containerisation
10 5 (6.67%) CI/CD
10 5 (6.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.67%) C#
1 8 (10.67%) Java
1 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (9.33%) Python
3 5 (6.67%) Perl
4 4 (5.33%) Go
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (70.67%) Security Cleared
2 30 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (30.67%) SC Cleared
4 15 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 11 (14.67%) AWS Certification
5 11 (14.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (10.67%) Degree
7 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.00%) CCNA
8 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.33%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (1.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (40.00%) PCI DSS
1 30 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (29.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.67%) Docker
3 5 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.00%) Ceph
5 3 (4.00%) Gluster
5 3 (4.00%) oVirt
5 3 (4.00%) Xen
6 2 (2.67%) QEMU
6 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.33%) LXC
7 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Ansible
2 9 (12.00%) Puppet
2 9 (12.00%) Terraform
3 8 (10.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.00%) Graylog
6 3 (4.00%) Observium
6 3 (4.00%) ZABBIX
7 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.33%) Grafana
8 1 (1.33%) Juju
8 1 (1.33%) Nagios
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.33%) Sysdig
8 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (41.33%) Dell
3 22 (29.33%) VMware
4 11 (14.67%) Cisco
5 9 (12.00%) Google
6 8 (10.67%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.33%) Oracle
8 1 (1.33%) HP
8 1 (1.33%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.33%) Supermicro