Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Hyper-V
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 115 121
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +52
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 3 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.13% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 1.63% 4.47% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £381 £435 £263
25th Percentile £391 £478 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £456 - £469
90th Percentile £475 - £565
London median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 246 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.97% 12.48% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 168 212
10th Percentile £212 £233 £213
25th Percentile £408 £397 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +12.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £709
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.29 -
25th Percentile - £23.85 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £106.98 -
90th Percentile £46.02 £155.29 £46.15
London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £22.23
% change year-on-year -3.71% +19.01% -19.18%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Central London

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
City of London -15 3 £413 -17.50% 3
Hyper-V
London

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Support
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) SUSE
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCA
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) SCVMM
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware