Hyper-V Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Hyper-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hyper-V over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 318 420
Rank change year-on-year +29 +102 -94
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 52 151 204
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.60% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 3.62% 4.84% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 114 174
10th Percentile £319 £320 £283
25th Percentile £372 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £531
90th Percentile £620 £704 £629
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £15.52
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £57.50 £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year +19.00% +21.21% +27.12%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Hyper-V 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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,438 3,118 5,423
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.54% 12.43% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 2,232 4,034
10th Percentile £273 £300 £322
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £688 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 101 103
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.88 £47.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £54.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.91
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Hyper-V
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hyper-V trend for jobs with a WFH option

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hyper-V.

Hyper-V daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hyper-V daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hyper-V.

Hyper-V hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.77%) IIS
3 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.92%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.92%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) Azure
2 21 (40.38%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (19.23%) AWS
4 7 (13.46%) Entra ID
5 6 (11.54%) PaaS
6 4 (7.69%) GCP
7 3 (5.77%) IaaS
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.85%) Nutanix
8 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.85%) SaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) Firewall
2 9 (17.31%) DHCP
3 8 (15.38%) DNS
4 6 (11.54%) SAN
5 5 (9.62%) WAN
6 4 (7.69%) LAN
6 4 (7.69%) NAS
6 4 (7.69%) VPN
7 3 (5.77%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (3.85%) Network Security
8 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.85%) VLAN
8 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) GitLab
1 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.85%) Snyk
1 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Billing
6 2 (3.85%) Front Office
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Electronics
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Consultant
4 7 (13.46%) Senior
5 6 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) IT Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Server Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Windows Server Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (3.85%) ADSI
2 2 (3.85%) Web Services
3 1 (1.92%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Clustering
1 3 (5.77%) NHS
1 3 (5.77%) PKI
2 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 30 (57.69%) Windows
2 15 (28.85%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.38%) Linux
4 5 (9.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.77%) Unix
7 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.85%) VMS
7 2 (3.85%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.92%) Android
8 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.92%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (23.08%) Migration
3 9 (17.31%) Cost Optimisation
3 9 (17.31%) DevSecOps
4 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (13.46%) ITIL
6 5 (9.62%) Customer Service
6 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (7.69%) High Availability
7 4 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (5.77%) Data Migration
8 3 (5.77%) DevOps
8 3 (5.77%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (5.77%) Process Improvement
8 3 (5.77%) Resource Management
8 3 (5.77%) Security Hardening
8 3 (5.77%) Service Delivery
8 3 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.85%) Bicep
2 2 (3.85%) C++
2 2 (3.85%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.92%) C#
3 1 (1.92%) Java
3 1 (1.92%) PHP
3 1 (1.92%) Python
3 1 (1.92%) Ruby
3 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 6 (11.54%) Degree
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.92%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CCNA
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.92%) MCSE
7 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) SLA
2 3 (5.77%) PMO
3 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.85%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (48.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (17.31%) Docker
4 7 (13.46%) vSphere
5 6 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (7.69%) VMware NSX
7 3 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (3.85%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.92%) KVM
9 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.92%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.92%) vCloud
9 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.15%) Terraform
3 8 (15.38%) SCCM
4 2 (3.85%) Argo
4 2 (3.85%) SCOM
4 2 (3.85%) SCVMM
4 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.85%) WSUS
5 1 (1.92%) Ansible
5 1 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) Nagios
5 1 (1.92%) Nessus
5 1 (1.92%) SCOrch
5 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (80.77%) VMware
2 33 (63.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.46%) Citrix
3 7 (13.46%) Veeam
4 5 (9.62%) Cisco
5 3 (5.77%) Dell
6 2 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (3.85%) Google
6 2 (3.85%) HP
6 2 (3.85%) Meraki
7 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.92%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.92%) Qualys
7 1 (1.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.92%) Supermicro
7 1 (1.92%) Varonis