KVM Job Trends in Reading

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 1 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.17% - 1.02%
As % of the System Software category 3.13% - 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 11
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £26,000
Berkshire median annual salary - - £26,000

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 32 132 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 5.54% 18.08% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6 69 174
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,688 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,125 £92,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £68,750 £112,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £33,500 £70,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -52.14% +23.84% -1.70%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Reading

KVM
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing KVM

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware