KVM Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 174 - 186
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Permanent jobs citing KVM 1 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.025% - 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 0.40% - 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £26,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.77%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £58,850
South East median annual salary £55,000 - £26,000
% change year-on-year - - -28.77%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 251 502 728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.26% 14.68% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 160 317 544
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £28,800
25th Percentile £32,531 £45,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +10.09% +21.11%
75th Percentile £59,375 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

KVM job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

KVM
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing KVM

KVM
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 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
Berkshire - 1 - -
KVM
South East

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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