KVM Job Trends in the North of England

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 280 277
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +141
Permanent jobs citing KVM 3 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.029% 0.054% 0.051%
As % of the System Software category 0.44% 0.57% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £73,100 £54,080 -
25th Percentile £74,750 £56,450 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,205 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% +38.23% -43.75%
75th Percentile £88,250 £63,880 -
90th Percentile £88,700 £63,958 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,353 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.79% +46.71% -41.38%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 685 878 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.52% 9.45% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 512 540 1,063
10th Percentile £26,525 £27,725 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -1.04%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,813 £62,833
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

KVM job vacancy trend in the North of England

KVM
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing KVM

KVM
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West +27 3 £82,500 +32.63%
KVM
England

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) DPDK
1 3 (100.00%) eBPF
2 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
2 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) NVMe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SaltStack