Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Hyper-V
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 54 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.54% 0.19% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 3.85% 1.28% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £275 - -
25th Percentile £371 £425 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £200
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +125.00% -53.49%
75th Percentile £468 £475 £210
90th Percentile £529 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £900 £225
% change year-on-year -47.22% +300.00% -37.93%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 130 78 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.04% 14.69% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 53 36
10th Percentile £198 £110 £150
25th Percentile £281 £275 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £438
90th Percentile £600 £700 £628
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.31
25th Percentile £65.00 - £14.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £17.98
90th Percentile - - £19.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £36.65 £16.00
% change year-on-year +91.02% +129.03% -26.44%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hyper-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Birmingham

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam