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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 429 444
Rank change year-on-year +62 +15 +234
Permanent jobs citing KVM 7 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.050% 0.006% 0.044%
As % of the System Software category 0.57% 0.047% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile - - £40,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £75,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £80,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -63.75% +60.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £37,438 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £51,725 - £72,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,353 £43,750
% change year-on-year -11.79% +42.52% -39.66%

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 1,226 2,149 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.76% 13.94% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 878 1,378 2,276
10th Percentile £31,675 £36,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,795 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £109,375
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 - 4 £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 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) WLAN
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Network Support
1 3 (42.86%) Network Support Technician
1 3 (42.86%) Network Technician
1 3 (42.86%) Support Technician
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Zero Trust
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Security Hardening
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Google Apps Script
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) DBS Check
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Zscaler
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft