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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 660 799
Rank change year-on-year +125 +139 -151
Contract jobs citing KVM 44 34 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.059% 0.072%
As % of the System Software category 0.96% 0.45% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 44
10th Percentile £313 £409 £368
25th Percentile £316 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £461 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.29% -19.78% +12.20%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £625
90th Percentile £738 £569 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £450 £481
% change year-on-year -24.44% -6.49% -14.44%
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 4,589 7,502 11,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 13.10% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 5,326 8,485
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
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 229 260 309
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.24 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +184.21% -11.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.77 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £43.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year -56.16% +150.00% -4.21%

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 20 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 20 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 +121 32 £600 +26.65% 23
UK excluding London +53 23 £340 -24.44% 16
London +107 17 £700 +40.00% 9
Scotland +46 12 £333 -16.88% 5
Work from Home +105 8 £600 +29.73% 13
South East +24 4 - - 6
North of England +30 3 £338 -40.00%
Yorkshire +21 3 £338 -51.79%
South West +6 2 £600 +37.46% 5
Midlands +14 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 (13.64%) IIS
2 4 (9.09%) IBM Domino
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.27%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) Nutanix
3 5 (11.36%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
5 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) SAN
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (11.36%) NAS
4 4 (9.09%) DHCP
4 4 (9.09%) VSAN
5 3 (6.82%) DNS
5 3 (6.82%) InfiniBand
5 3 (6.82%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (4.55%) Firewall
6 2 (4.55%) SNMP
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.27%) LAN
7 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.27%) VLAN
7 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.55%) MySQL
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (2.27%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Architect
2 11 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Data Centre Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (15.91%) Support Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Linux Support
6 5 (11.36%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Exchange Specialist
7 3 (6.82%) IT Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) IT Technician
8 2 (4.55%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) LAMP
1 1 (2.27%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (2.27%) LDAP
1 1 (2.27%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 20 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.91%) Clustering
3 3 (6.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (88.64%) Linux
2 16 (36.36%) Solaris
3 12 (27.27%) Windows
4 11 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
4 11 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (25.00%) VMS
5 9 (20.45%) Windows Server
6 8 (18.18%) CentOS
7 6 (13.64%) Debian
7 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
8 3 (6.82%) Windows 7
9 2 (4.55%) Unix
10 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.09%) Migration
3 11 (25.00%) Database Migration
4 10 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (18.18%) High Availability
7 6 (13.64%) Compliance Management
7 6 (13.64%) Security Testing
7 6 (13.64%) Validation
8 5 (11.36%) Customer Service
9 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
9 4 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (9.09%) Product Management
10 3 (6.82%) Facilities Management
10 3 (6.82%) Network Monitoring
10 3 (6.82%) Runbook
11 2 (4.55%) Decision-Making
11 2 (4.55%) DevOps
11 2 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) Python
2 8 (18.18%) Bash
3 1 (2.27%) Groovy
3 1 (2.27%) Korn
3 1 (2.27%) Perl
3 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.27%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Degree
2 10 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
4 7 (15.91%) CCNP
4 7 (15.91%) RHCE
5 6 (13.64%) MCSA
5 6 (13.64%) MCSE
5 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (13.64%) RHCT
6 3 (6.82%) A+ Certification
6 3 (6.82%) CCNA
6 3 (6.82%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (6.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.27%) CCIE
7 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.27%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.27%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (2.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) SLA
2 3 (6.82%) QA
System Software
1 34 (77.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (45.45%) Hyper-V
3 11 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (20.45%) Active Directory
5 6 (13.64%) vSphere
6 4 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (9.09%) VMware NSX
7 3 (6.82%) Docker
7 3 (6.82%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (2.27%) Ceph
8 1 (2.27%) iptables
8 1 (2.27%) Lustre
8 1 (2.27%) NFS
8 1 (2.27%) Samba
8 1 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (2.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Ansible
2 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 3 (6.82%) Terraform
5 2 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.27%) Nagios
6 1 (2.27%) Packer
6 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.27%) SELinux
6 1 (2.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (77.27%) VMware
2 18 (40.91%) Red Hat
3 12 (27.27%) Oracle
4 7 (15.91%) Cisco
5 6 (13.64%) Citrix
5 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.82%) Dell
6 3 (6.82%) HP
6 3 (6.82%) NetApp
7 2 (4.55%) Google
7 2 (4.55%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.27%) F5
8 1 (2.27%) Juniper
8 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.27%) Sybase