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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 131 133
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +28
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.27% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 3.13% 2.22% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £321 - £303
25th Percentile £420 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £475
90th Percentile - £624 £642
London median daily rate £488 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -18.18%

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 224 180 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.62% 8.76% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 130 200
10th Percentile £205 £248 £262
25th Percentile £412 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -8.70%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £688
90th Percentile £676 £688 £763
London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -8.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £22.18 £23.34 £43.75
25th Percentile £26.56 £25.34 £49.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.48 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -56.04% +150.00%
75th Percentile £41.18 £69.56 £79.38
90th Percentile £52.31 £140.33 £87.25
London median hourly rate £48.75 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +9.24% -60.33%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Central London over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Central London

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 30 July 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 -12 7 £550 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) IaaS
1 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
1 3 (42.86%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) SMTP
4 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) PKI
3 1 (14.29%) BYOD
3 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 1 (14.29%) Fat Client
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (14.29%) Thin Client
3 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (14.29%) SUSE
5 1 (14.29%) VMS
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Software Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Line Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Server Management
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 1 (14.29%) CCA
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (42.86%) BitLocker
3 3 (42.86%) Docker
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (42.86%) Terminal Services
4 1 (14.29%) Firmware
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (14.29%) XenApp
4 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Nagios
2 3 (42.86%) Puppet
2 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) vMotion
3 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) SCVMM
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Citrix
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 3 (42.86%) Google
4 3 (42.86%) HP
4 3 (42.86%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) Dell