KVM Job Trends in Manchester

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.016% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.38% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £57,500 - £24,811
% change year-on-year - - -58.65%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 266 353 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.23% 14.73% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 219 212 400
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,438 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £61,250 £48,378
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% +26.61% -15.86%
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £93,778 £72,500
North West median annual salary £43,000 £55,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -21.82% +26.44% -17.14%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Manchester

KVM
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing KVM

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware