KVM Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring KVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited KVM over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 698 681
Rank change year-on-year +128 -17 +152
Permanent jobs citing KVM 5 69 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.084% 0.057%
As % of the System Software category 0.12% 0.77% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3 68 26
10th Percentile £42,500 - £43,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £24,240 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £24,811 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +101.52% -58.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £50,063 £67,500
90th Percentile - £58,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £25,420 £55,000
% change year-on-year +116.37% -53.78% -21.43%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,294 9,008 8,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.75% 11.01% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,436 6,921 5,495
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £72,500 £79,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the UK excluding London

KVM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for KVM in the UK excluding London

KVM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 2025. 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
Scotland +99 2 £50,000 +101.52% 8
Yorkshire +64 2 - -
North of England +54 2 - - 6
South East +76 1 £42,500 +63.46% 12
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) FCoE
2 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Multicast
2 2 (40.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Fintech
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
1 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (40.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Presales
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) NFS
3 2 (40.00%) SRDF
3 2 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) OpenNebula
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (20.00%) Dell