KVM Jobs in London

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 488 599
Rank change year-on-year +100 +111 +260
Permanent jobs citing KVM 5 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.079% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.30% 0.67% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £58,000 £47,522 £66,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,813 £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -1.61% -13.89%
75th Percentile £85,625 £81,250 £82,188
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,625 £82,875
England median annual salary £66,103 £26,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +154.24% -56.67% -20.00%

All System Software Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,684 2,831 5,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.27% 11.81% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,108 2,090 3,711
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £67,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -1.92% -1.68%
75th Percentile £94,063 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in London

KVM
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for KVM in London

KVM
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for KVM in London

KVM
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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 London - 1 £70,000 -
KVM
England

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) RTP
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Avionics
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) LAMP
1 2 (40.00%) LAPP Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (20.00%) libvirt
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Service Design
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Xen
3 1 (20.00%) Corosync
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) CFEngine
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Icinga
3 1 (20.00%) Pacemaker
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) SAP