KVM Job Trends in London

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 - 477
Rank change year-on-year - - +182
Permanent jobs citing KVM 9 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.053% - 0.041%
As % of the System Software category 0.70% - 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £28,500 - £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 - £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £39,313 - £81,250
90th Percentile £56,975 - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £58,603 £26,000
% change year-on-year +6.65% +125.39% -61.48%

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 1,291 1,860 2,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.56% 13.92% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 888 1,315 2,431
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

KVM job vacancy trend in London

KVM
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing KVM

KVM
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM in London over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 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
Central London - 3 £29,000 -
KVM
England

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) VoIP
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (33.33%) Wireless
2 3 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Network Support
1 3 (33.33%) Network Support Technician
1 3 (33.33%) Network Technician
1 3 (33.33%) Support Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) CentOS
2 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Culture
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (55.56%) Zero Trust
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 3 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Security Hardening
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) C++
2 3 (33.33%) Google Apps Script
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (33.33%) DBS Check
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (11.11%) RHCE
4 1 (11.11%) RHCSA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (11.11%) Nagios
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
4 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat