Hyper-V Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Hyper-V
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Hyper-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hyper-V over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 82 102
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Hyper-V 6 32 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 1.86% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 4.20% 15.46% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 12
10th Percentile £158 £409 £431
25th Percentile £199 £472 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £605 £675
Median % change year-on-year -44.21% -10.37% +3.85%
75th Percentile £350 £608 £700
90th Percentile £506 - £711
South East median daily rate £375 £550 £313
% change year-on-year -31.82% +76.00% -30.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
South East median hourly rate - £69.38 -

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

Hyper-V 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 Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 143 207 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.15% 12.06% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 128 174
10th Percentile £316 £313 £191
25th Percentile £418 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +20.94% +5.32%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £615
90th Percentile - £651 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - - £41.25
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - £58.49 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year - +7.20% -41.02%
75th Percentile - £64.09 £60.63
90th Percentile - £67.45 £61.90
South East median hourly rate £77.00 £54.88 £53.53
% change year-on-year +40.32% +2.51% +143.32%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in Berkshire

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Berkshire

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +12 2 £488 -19.42% 16
Wokingham -10 2 £350 -24.32% 3
Hyper-V
South East

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) 1st Line Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 2 (33.33%) Project Coordinator
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Coordinator
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Project Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Architect
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCVMM
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) FireEye
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) Tanium