KVM Contracts in Scotland

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring KVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited KVM over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 157 171
Rank change year-on-year +55 +14 -
Contract jobs citing KVM 13 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.61% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 4.56% 1.69% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - £250 -
25th Percentile £313 £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £400 £130
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +207.69% -
75th Percentile - £438 -
90th Percentile - £460 -
UK median daily rate £525 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.50% -9.09%
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
Scotland

KVM falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 285 414 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.30% 15.49% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 288 317
10th Percentile £193 £209 £160
25th Percentile £296 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £538
90th Percentile £613 £613 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 12
10th Percentile £18.19 £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £42.22 £29.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -39.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.57 £50.57
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for KVM in Scotland

KVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for KVM in Scotland

KVM
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KVM in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KVM in Scotland

KVM
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh +32 6 £340 +0.74% 2
Glasgow +21 6 £325 -18.75%
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
KVM
UK

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (46.15%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) IaaS
1 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
1 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Support Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Linux Support
3 6 (46.15%) Linux Support Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Server Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Server Support
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Clustering
2 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) CentOS
2 6 (46.15%) Debian
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Solaris
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Compliance Management
1 6 (46.15%) Customer Service
1 6 (46.15%) High Availability
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
2 1 (7.69%) Network Design
2 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) MCSA
2 6 (46.15%) MCSE
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (46.15%) RHCE
2 6 (46.15%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Nagios
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
1 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
1 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Red Hat
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 6 (46.15%) Citrix