KVM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for KVM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited KVM over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 410 482
Rank change year-on-year +38 +72 -59
Contract jobs citing KVM 25 22 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.096% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.01% 0.64% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 19
10th Percentile - £405 £377
25th Percentile £313 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £358 £501 £525
90th Percentile £600 £588 £591
UK median daily rate £340 £461 £550
% change year-on-year -26.29% -16.14% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.32
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £46.32

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,468 3,453 4,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.98% 15.12% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,698 2,434 3,304
10th Percentile £181 £181 £158
25th Percentile £310 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £552
90th Percentile £650 £676 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 168 241
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.25 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.03% +176.57% -4.21%
75th Percentile £62.06 £65.00 £23.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £49.52
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £54.83 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.59% +188.58% -9.52%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for KVM in the UK excluding London

KVM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in the UK excluding London

KVM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KVM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for KVM in the UK excluding London

KVM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +44 13 £340 -15.00% 2
South East +18 4 - - 5
North of England +28 3 £338 -40.00%
Yorkshire +17 3 £338 -51.79%
South West +2 2 £600 +37.46% 4
East of England - 2 £525 -
Midlands +19 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 6 (24.00%) IIS
2 2 (8.00%) IBM Domino
3 1 (4.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) IaaS
2 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.00%) SAN
2 2 (8.00%) SNMP
2 2 (8.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 7 (28.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Linux Support
3 6 (24.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (8.00%) Data Technician
5 2 (8.00%) IT Technician
5 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (32.00%) Clustering
3 3 (12.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (76.00%) Linux
2 9 (36.00%) Windows
3 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (32.00%) Solaris
4 7 (28.00%) CentOS
5 6 (24.00%) Debian
5 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
5 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (12.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (8.00%) VMS
8 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) Compliance Management
2 7 (28.00%) High Availability
2 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Runbook
7 2 (8.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (8.00%) Database Migration
7 2 (8.00%) Inventory Management
7 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Product Management
8 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (4.00%) Containerisation
8 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning
8 1 (4.00%) Network Design
8 1 (4.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 8 (32.00%) RHCE
3 6 (24.00%) MCSA
3 6 (24.00%) MCSE
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (24.00%) RHCT
4 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (12.00%) A+ Certification
6 3 (12.00%) CCNA
6 3 (12.00%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (8.00%) CCNP
8 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (4.00%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (4.00%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) SLA
2 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (44.00%) Hyper-V
3 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (12.00%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (8.00%) Docker
6 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (8.00%) vSphere
7 1 (4.00%) QEMU
7 1 (4.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Puppet
3 1 (4.00%) Nagios
3 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) VMware
2 14 (56.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (24.00%) Citrix
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle