Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 672 769
Rank change year-on-year +130 +97 -118
Contract jobs citing KVM 45 34 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.059% 0.070%
As % of the System Software category 0.98% 0.45% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 43
10th Percentile £313 £409 £366
25th Percentile £316 £416 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £461 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.29% -19.78% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £625
90th Percentile £738 £569 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -24.44% -2.70% -15.91%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £46.32

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,582 7,566 11,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.12% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,148 5,388 8,489
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.31%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 261 312
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.26
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.38 £66.00 £41.11
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.75 £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £40.00 £17.88
% change year-on-year -52.05% +123.74% -2.15%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM.

Daily rate trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in the UK

KVM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KVM.

Hourly rate trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +122 34 £600 +26.65% 21
UK excluding London +68 25 £340 -24.44% 16
London +90 17 £700 +40.00% 8
Scotland +42 11 £325 -18.75% 8
Work from Home +106 8 £600 +29.73% 13
North of England +28 6 £339 -39.78%
Yorkshire +26 6 £339 -51.61%
South East +24 4 - - 3
South West +7 2 £600 +37.46% 5
Midlands +21 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 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 6 (13.33%) IIS
2 4 (8.89%) IBM Domino
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) Nutanix
3 5 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.22%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) DHCP
1 7 (15.56%) SAN
2 6 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (13.33%) DNS
2 6 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (11.11%) NAS
4 4 (8.89%) VSAN
5 3 (6.67%) InfiniBand
6 2 (4.44%) Firewall
6 2 (4.44%) SNMP
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (2.22%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.22%) LAN
7 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.22%) VLAN
7 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (2.22%) Vagrant
General
1 22 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Architect
2 12 (26.67%) Data Centre Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Oracle Architect
4 7 (15.56%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (13.33%) Support Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) IT Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Linux Support
7 4 (8.89%) Linux Support Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Data Centre Technician
8 3 (6.67%) Data Technician
8 3 (6.67%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) LAMP
1 1 (2.22%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (2.22%) LDAP
1 1 (2.22%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 23 (51.11%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.33%) Clustering
3 4 (8.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (82.22%) Linux
2 15 (33.33%) Windows
3 14 (31.11%) Solaris
4 10 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
4 10 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (22.22%) VMS
5 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 8 (17.78%) CentOS
7 6 (13.33%) Debian
7 6 (13.33%) Windows 10
7 6 (13.33%) Windows 7
7 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.44%) Unix
9 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (37.78%) Migration
3 11 (24.44%) Computer Science
4 10 (22.22%) Database Migration
5 8 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (17.78%) Validation
6 7 (15.56%) High Availability
7 6 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (13.33%) Runbook
7 6 (13.33%) Security Testing
8 5 (11.11%) Compliance Management
9 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
9 4 (8.89%) Customer Service
9 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (8.89%) Product Management
10 3 (6.67%) Facilities Management
11 2 (4.44%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (4.44%) Configuration Management
11 2 (4.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) Bash
3 1 (2.22%) Groovy
3 1 (2.22%) Korn
3 1 (2.22%) Perl
3 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.22%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Degree
2 11 (24.44%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (24.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
4 7 (15.56%) CCNP
5 6 (13.33%) MCSA
5 6 (13.33%) MCSE
5 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (13.33%) RHCE
5 6 (13.33%) RHCT
5 6 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (8.89%) A+ Certification
6 4 (8.89%) CCNA
6 4 (8.89%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CCIE
7 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.22%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.22%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (2.22%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) SLA
2 4 (8.89%) QA
System Software
1 36 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (46.67%) Hyper-V
3 14 (31.11%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
5 7 (15.56%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (13.33%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (13.33%) vSphere
7 4 (8.89%) VMware NSX
8 3 (6.67%) Docker
9 1 (2.22%) Ceph
9 1 (2.22%) iptables
9 1 (2.22%) Lustre
9 1 (2.22%) NFS
9 1 (2.22%) Samba
9 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) vCenter Server
2 6 (13.33%) Ansible
3 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.67%) Terraform
5 2 (4.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.22%) Nagios
6 1 (2.22%) Packer
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) SELinux
6 1 (2.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (80.00%) VMware
2 17 (37.78%) Red Hat
3 11 (24.44%) Oracle
4 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (15.56%) Cisco
6 6 (13.33%) Citrix
7 3 (6.67%) Dell
7 3 (6.67%) HP
7 3 (6.67%) NetApp
8 2 (4.44%) Google
8 2 (4.44%) NVIDIA
9 1 (2.22%) F5
9 1 (2.22%) Juniper
9 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.22%) Sybase