KVM Contracts in the North of England

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 183 199 246
Rank change year-on-year +16 +47 -54
Contract jobs citing KVM 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.041% 0.055% 0.070%
As % of the System Software category 0.36% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £311 £436 -
25th Percentile £313 £472 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £563 £253
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +122.77% -
75th Percentile £353 £672 £382
90th Percentile £357 £719 £385
England median daily rate £600 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -17.39%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 550 788 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.35% 14.48% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 571 784
10th Percentile £178 £175 £158
25th Percentile £285 £286 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.76% +0.26%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 46
10th Percentile - £13.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.19 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% +1.45%
75th Percentile £18.86 £44.50 £19.88
90th Percentile £43.87 £63.75 £22.71
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the North of England

KVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KVM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for KVM in the North of England

KVM
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +15 2 £330 -52.86%
KVM
England

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (50.00%) Data Technician
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware