KVM Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 565 641
Rank change year-on-year +112 +76 +131
Permanent jobs citing KVM 5 12 20
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.028% 0.036% 0.048%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 14
10th Percentile £54,000 £41,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,813 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -10.42% -14.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,875 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £26,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +111.54% -56.67% -14.29%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

KVM falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,791 4,257 6,100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.57% 12.63% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,474 3,392 4,537
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

KVM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

KVM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing KVM.

KVM salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

KVM
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing KVM over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

KVM salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) FCoE
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) FTP
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Multicast
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (20.00%) RTP
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
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%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) EDI
1 2 (40.00%) LAMP
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
1 2 (40.00%) Loki
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (20.00%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Replication
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Life Science
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) CentOS
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) AWK
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Korn
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) NFS
1 2 (40.00%) Postfix
1 2 (40.00%) Sendmail
1 2 (40.00%) SRDF
1 2 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) Xen
2 1 (20.00%) Corosync
2 1 (20.00%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
2 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Icinga
3 1 (20.00%) Pacemaker
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) SAP
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) EMC
4 2 (40.00%) F5
4 2 (40.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) IBM
4 2 (40.00%) NetApp
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (40.00%) Tenable
4 2 (40.00%) VMware