Red Hat libvirt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring libvirt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited libvirt over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 727 - 956
Rank change year-on-year - - +254
Permanent jobs citing libvirt 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% - 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.021% - 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £75,000

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

libvirt falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,594 21,098 29,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 21.14% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,249 15,750 18,482
10th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £40,758
25th Percentile £50,750 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing libvirt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for libvirt in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing libvirt.

Salary trend for libvirt in the UK

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Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing libvirt within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England - 2 £75,000 -
Work from Home - 1 £75,000 -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
London - 1 £75,000 -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (50.00%) RTP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GDB
1 1 (50.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (50.00%) WinDbg
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) CodeQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Corosync
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Kamailio
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Icinga
1 1 (50.00%) Pacemaker
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP