KVM Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 648 769
Rank change year-on-year +118 +121 -96
Contract jobs citing KVM 45 34 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.061% 0.079%
As % of the System Software category 0.96% 0.46% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 49
10th Percentile £313 £409 £384
25th Percentile £320 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £461 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -16.14% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £625
90th Percentile £738 £569 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -24.44% -10.00% -13.04%
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 4,701 7,331 11,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 13.08% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 5,173 8,348
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 248 287
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £55.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.04% +189.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.82 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -43.18% +176.57% -3.39%

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 1 June 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

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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 1 June 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 +92 32 £600 +26.65% 16
UK excluding London +41 25 £340 -24.44% 11
London +99 16 £700 +40.00% 6
Scotland +43 13 £340 -15.00% 2
Work from Home +106 9 £600 +29.73% 9
South East +14 4 - - 5
East of England - 3 £525 -
North of England +22 2 £330 -41.33%
Yorkshire +19 2 £330 -52.86%
South West +3 2 £600 +37.46% 3
Midlands +19 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 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
3 3 (6.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
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%) SAN
2 6 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (11.11%) NAS
4 4 (8.89%) VSAN
5 3 (6.67%) DHCP
5 3 (6.67%) InfiniBand
6 2 (4.44%) DNS
6 2 (4.44%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (4.44%) SNMP
6 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.22%) Firewall
7 1 (2.22%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.22%) LAN
7 1 (2.22%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (2.22%) SSH
7 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.22%) VLAN
7 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) 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 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Architect
2 11 (24.44%) Oracle Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Data Centre Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Support Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Linux Support
5 6 (13.33%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (8.89%) Consultant
7 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Exchange Specialist
9 2 (4.44%) IT Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Storage Architect
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 19 (42.22%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.78%) Clustering
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (86.67%) Linux
2 17 (37.78%) Solaris
3 12 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (24.44%) Oracle Linux
4 11 (24.44%) VMS
4 11 (24.44%) Windows
5 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 8 (17.78%) CentOS
7 6 (13.33%) Debian
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%) Windows 10
8 2 (4.44%) Windows 7
9 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.89%) Migration
3 11 (24.44%) Database Migration
4 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (20.00%) High Availability
6 8 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (15.56%) Compliance Management
8 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
8 6 (13.33%) Security Testing
8 6 (13.33%) Validation
9 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
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%) Cloud Security
11 2 (4.44%) Configuration Management
11 2 (4.44%) Network Virtualisation
11 2 (4.44%) Virtual Environments
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 15 (33.33%) Degree
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (17.78%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (17.78%) RHCE
5 6 (13.33%) CCNP
5 6 (13.33%) MCSA
5 6 (13.33%) MCSE
5 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (13.33%) RHCT
6 2 (4.44%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.44%) CCNA
6 2 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.22%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (2.22%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 35 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (42.22%) Hyper-V
3 10 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
5 6 (13.33%) vSphere
6 5 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (8.89%) VMware NSX
8 3 (6.67%) Docker
9 2 (4.44%) QEMU
9 2 (4.44%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (2.22%) Ceph
10 1 (2.22%) iptables
10 1 (2.22%) Lustre
10 1 (2.22%) NFS
10 1 (2.22%) Samba
10 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Ansible
2 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.44%) Puppet
5 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.22%) Nagios
5 1 (2.22%) Packer
5 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.22%) SELinux
5 1 (2.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (77.78%) VMware
2 19 (42.22%) Red Hat
3 12 (26.67%) Oracle
4 6 (13.33%) Cisco
4 6 (13.33%) Citrix
5 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.67%) Dell
6 3 (6.67%) HP
6 3 (6.67%) NetApp
7 2 (4.44%) Google
7 2 (4.44%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.22%) Sybase