Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for KVM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited KVM over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 904 1099
Rank change year-on-year +101 +195 -292
Permanent jobs citing KVM 92 48 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.049% 0.085%
As % of the System Software category 0.77% 0.31% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 82 39 43
10th Percentile - £44,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £24,240 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% -20.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £50,813 £76,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £73,625 £81,250 £105,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £24,826 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -58.62% -7.69% +36.84%

All System Software Skills
UK

KVM is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,994 15,343 30,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.58% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,423 10,001 15,538
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for KVM in the UK

KVM
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
England +135 78 £26,000 -57.55% 16
UK excluding London +50 73 £24,826 -58.62% 16
London +126 17 £76,250 -1.61% 5
South East +26 17 £26,000 -48.00% 5
East of England +24 17 £24,811 -60.30%
Scotland -47 14 £24,811 -64.56% 6
Work from Home +54 13 £53,750 -10.42% 11
Midlands +3 13 £24,811 -54.89%
East Midlands - 13 £24,811 -
North of England +34 8 £24,811 -58.65%
South West -19 8 £61,250 -15.52% 5
North West -5 7 £24,811 -58.65%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

KVM
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.35%) IIS
2 3 (3.26%) CloudStack
3 2 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.09%) AWS
2 22 (23.91%) Azure
3 10 (10.87%) GCP
4 8 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.26%) OCI
5 3 (3.26%) SaaS
6 1 (1.09%) IaaS
6 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (42.39%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (13.04%) Firewall
3 5 (5.43%) Internet
3 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.35%) DHCP
4 4 (4.35%) DNS
5 3 (3.26%) iSCSI
5 3 (3.26%) LAN
5 3 (3.26%) WAN
5 3 (3.26%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.17%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.09%) Multicast
7 1 (1.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.09%) Big Data
1 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.09%) Redis
1 1 (1.09%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Git
1 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Back Office
4 4 (4.35%) Finance
4 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.26%) Advertising
5 3 (3.26%) Banking
5 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.26%) Retail
5 3 (3.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Mobile Engineer
2 23 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Desktop Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Desktop Support
3 19 (20.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Junior
3 19 (20.65%) Junior Desktop Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Junior Desktop Support
3 19 (20.65%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Junior Support Engineer
4 16 (17.39%) Senior
5 14 (15.22%) Technical Engineer
6 12 (13.04%) Architect
7 9 (9.78%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (8.70%) Senior Architect
8 8 (8.70%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.17%) Keycloak
1 2 (2.17%) Middleware
2 1 (1.09%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (1.09%) CSS
2 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.09%) Flask
2 1 (1.09%) HTML
2 1 (1.09%) jQuery
2 1 (1.09%) Plotly
2 1 (1.09%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 39 (42.39%) Driving Licence
2 13 (14.13%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.26%) PKI
4 2 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.09%) Clustering
5 1 (1.09%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (69.57%) Windows
2 37 (40.22%) Linux
3 13 (14.13%) Windows 10
3 13 (14.13%) Windows 7
4 9 (9.78%) Ubuntu
5 7 (7.61%) CentOS
6 6 (6.52%) Debian
7 5 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (4.35%) Unix
8 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
8 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (3.26%) SUSE
9 3 (3.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (3.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (56.52%) Asset Management
2 39 (42.39%) Proactive Maintenance
3 31 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (14.13%) Customer Service
5 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.87%) DevOps
7 9 (9.78%) Agile
7 9 (9.78%) Containerisation
7 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
7 9 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (8.70%) Code Quality
8 8 (8.70%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (8.70%) Computer Science
8 8 (8.70%) Configuration Management
8 8 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.70%) Product Management
8 8 (8.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (7.61%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) C#
1 9 (9.78%) Java
1 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
1 9 (9.78%) Python
2 6 (6.52%) Perl
3 4 (4.35%) Go
4 3 (3.26%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.09%) C
6 1 (1.09%) C++
6 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 39 (42.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 21 (22.83%) SC Cleared
4 13 (14.13%) DV Cleared
5 11 (11.96%) AWS Certification
5 11 (11.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (9.78%) Degree
7 8 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (4.35%) MCSA
9 4 (4.35%) MCSE
9 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (4.35%) RHCT
10 3 (3.26%) CCNA
10 3 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (3.26%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (2.17%) DBS Check
11 2 (2.17%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (2.17%) RHCE
12 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (42.39%) PCI DSS
1 39 (42.39%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (27.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (11.96%) Hyper-V
3 9 (9.78%) Docker
4 6 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.52%) Xen
5 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
6 3 (3.26%) Ceph
6 3 (3.26%) Gluster
6 3 (3.26%) oVirt
6 3 (3.26%) QEMU
7 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.09%) LXC
8 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Ansible
2 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.87%) Puppet
3 9 (9.78%) Terraform
4 6 (6.52%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Graylog
6 3 (3.26%) Observium
6 3 (3.26%) ZABBIX
7 2 (2.17%) Grafana
7 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.09%) Juju
8 1 (1.09%) Nagios
8 1 (1.09%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.09%) Sysdig
8 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 40 (43.48%) Dell
3 29 (31.52%) VMware
4 13 (14.13%) Red Hat
5 11 (11.96%) Cisco
6 10 (10.87%) Google
7 4 (4.35%) Citrix
8 3 (3.26%) Oracle
9 2 (2.17%) SaltStack
9 2 (2.17%) Splunk
10 1 (1.09%) Brocade
10 1 (1.09%) EMC
10 1 (1.09%) HP
10 1 (1.09%) Supermicro