KVM Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 546 643
Rank change year-on-year -92 +97 -69
Permanent jobs citing KVM 21 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.012% 0.034%
As % of the System Software category 0.48% 0.096% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 14
10th Percentile £56,250 £43,125 £30,468
25th Percentile £56,563 £45,938 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,875 £57,188
90th Percentile £68,750 £69,750 £74,625
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% +5.00%

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 4,358 4,156 5,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.40% 12.15% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,271 2,351 3,807
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £30,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.37% -3.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% -5.41%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

KVM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

KVM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing KVM

KVM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram 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 4 September 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
South East -28 17 £62,500 +13.64% 5
South West -72 2 £63,750 -8.93% 4
Scotland +6 1 £46,000 -0.54% 4
North of England - 1 £57,500 - 3
North West - 1 £57,500 - 3
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Azure Sentinel
2 8 (38.10%) Cloudflare
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
2 9 (42.86%) VPN
3 4 (19.05%) Network Security
3 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
4 3 (14.29%) NAS
4 3 (14.29%) SAN
5 2 (9.52%) DHCP
5 2 (9.52%) DNS
5 2 (9.52%) LAN
5 2 (9.52%) WAN
6 1 (4.76%) ATM
6 1 (4.76%) BGP
6 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
6 1 (4.76%) Internet
6 1 (4.76%) MPLS
6 1 (4.76%) OSPF
6 1 (4.76%) tcpdump
6 1 (4.76%) VLAN
6 1 (4.76%) Wireless
6 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Aerospace
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Platform Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Development Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) ModSecurity
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) PKI
2 5 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (19.05%) Client/Server
3 4 (19.05%) Social Media
4 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
5 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
2 10 (47.62%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) CentOS
4 1 (4.76%) Debian
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Solaris
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Vulnerability Management
2 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) ITIL
3 8 (38.10%) SIEM
3 8 (38.10%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 8 (38.10%) Zero Trust
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
5 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
6 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (19.05%) High Availability
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) System Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) Bash
3 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
4 5 (23.81%) C
4 5 (23.81%) Rust
5 4 (19.05%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (4.76%) RHCE
4 1 (4.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 20 (95.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (80.95%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) Docker
4 1 (4.76%) QEMU
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Proxmox
1 9 (42.86%) ZABBIX
2 8 (38.10%) Graylog
3 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (19.05%) Ansible
5 3 (14.29%) Puppet
6 1 (4.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) VMware
2 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 8 (38.10%) Veeam
4 4 (19.05%) IBM
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.76%) Arista
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.76%) Juniper
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds