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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 664 651 826
Rank change year-on-year -13 +175 -132
Permanent jobs citing KVM 43 27 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.056% 0.072%
As % of the System Software category 0.62% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 42 21 27
10th Percentile - £42,500 £28,670
25th Percentile £24,240 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,811 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.89% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £50,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £57,375 £72,500 £79,500
UK median annual salary £26,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -52.73% -21.43% +40.00%

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 6,954 7,997 12,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.65% 16.61% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,246 5,183 8,566
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,769 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -34 11 £24,811 -64.56% 1
East of England +5 10 £24,240 -61.22%
South East +9 7 £45,000 -18.18% 1
South West -7 6 £53,750 +7.50% 2
Midlands -15 6 £24,240 -55.93%
East Midlands - 6 £24,240 -
North of England +3 3 £24,811 -58.65%
North West -14 2 £24,811 -58.65%
Yorkshire +58 1 - -
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 3 (6.98%) CloudStack
1 3 (6.98%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) Azure
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (6.98%) OCI
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (51.16%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (6.98%) iSCSI
3 2 (4.65%) Internet
3 2 (4.65%) LAN
3 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) WAN
4 1 (2.33%) DHCP
4 1 (2.33%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) Firewall
4 1 (2.33%) Multicast
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Back Office
2 3 (6.98%) Finance
2 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.65%) Advertising
3 2 (4.65%) Banking
3 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Mobile Engineer
2 17 (39.53%) Support Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Desktop Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Desktop Support
3 14 (32.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Junior
3 14 (32.56%) Junior Desktop Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Junior Desktop Support
3 14 (32.56%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Junior Support Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (51.16%) Driving Licence
2 8 (18.60%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.33%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 33 (76.74%) Windows
2 15 (34.88%) Linux
3 5 (11.63%) CentOS
3 5 (11.63%) Debian
3 5 (11.63%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.98%) SUSE
4 3 (6.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (6.98%) VMS
4 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.98%) Windows 7
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Asset Management
2 22 (51.16%) Proactive Maintenance
3 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
4 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (13.95%) DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
7 3 (6.98%) B2B
7 3 (6.98%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.98%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (6.98%) Resource Management
8 2 (4.65%) Business Continuity
8 2 (4.65%) CI/CD
8 2 (4.65%) Computer Science
8 2 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.65%) Open Source
8 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (4.65%) Translating Business Requirements
9 1 (2.33%) Decision-Making
9 1 (2.33%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) Perl
3 3 (6.98%) Go
4 2 (4.65%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (51.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) MCSA
3 3 (6.98%) MCSE
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.98%) RHCT
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (51.16%) PCI DSS
1 22 (51.16%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (16.28%) Docker
3 6 (13.95%) Hyper-V
4 4 (9.30%) Xen
5 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.98%) Ceph
5 3 (6.98%) Gluster
5 3 (6.98%) oVirt
5 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.65%) QEMU
7 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Ansible
2 6 (13.95%) Puppet
3 3 (6.98%) Graylog
3 3 (6.98%) Observium
3 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.98%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (2.33%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 25 (58.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (53.49%) Dell
3 12 (27.91%) VMware
4 7 (16.28%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.98%) Citrix
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle
6 2 (4.65%) Google
7 1 (2.33%) Brocade
7 1 (2.33%) EMC
7 1 (2.33%) HP
7 1 (2.33%) Supermicro