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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 122 122
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +27
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.29% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 3.08% 2.26% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £419 - £289
25th Percentile £605 £500 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +22.22% -8.44%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £602
90th Percentile £674 £624 £645
London median daily rate £517 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +3.40% +11.11% -10.54%

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 227 177 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.35% 9.21% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 127 186
10th Percentile £190 £275 £317
25th Percentile £408 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £684
90th Percentile £675 £688 £771
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £13.70 £22.48 £84.40
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.19 £94.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -77.46% +208.97%
75th Percentile £31.00 £28.19 -
90th Percentile £33.40 £29.43 -
London median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +32.25% +3.26% -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -18 7 £625 +13.64% 6
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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) SMTP
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
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
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
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%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) PKI
3 1 (14.29%) BYOD
3 1 (14.29%) CMDB
3 1 (14.29%) Fat Client
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Thin Client
3 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) CentOS
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Software Deployment
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 1 (14.29%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) BitLocker
2 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (42.86%) Terminal Services
2 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Nagios
2 3 (42.86%) Puppet
2 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) vCenter Server
2 3 (42.86%) vMotion
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (14.29%) SCOM
3 1 (14.29%) SCOrch
3 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Citrix
4 3 (42.86%) Google
4 3 (42.86%) HP
4 3 (42.86%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow