KVM Job Trends in Yorkshire

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring KVM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 145 199
Rank change year-on-year -29 +54 -
Permanent jobs citing KVM 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.025% 0.081% 0.045%
As % of the System Software category 0.30% 0.74% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £45,000
England median annual salary £56,250 £58,603 £26,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% +125.39% -64.14%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 338 272 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.54% 11.00% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 239 184 593
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +14.12% -10.53%
75th Percentile £63,125 £69,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,190 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,836 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.55% +15.67% -9.09%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

KVM job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

KVM
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing KVM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing KVM

KVM
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 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 Yorkshire -13 1 - - 3
KVM
England

KVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware