Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Hyper-V
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 115 136
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +45
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 3 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 1.74% 2.80% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile - £423 £398
25th Percentile - £438 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -1.54%
75th Percentile £563 £506 £588
90th Percentile £600 £518 £641
Central London median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -1.54%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 172 250 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.58% 11.66% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 159 235
10th Percentile £277 £348 £261
25th Percentile £413 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -8.70%
75th Percentile £641 £657 £675
90th Percentile £688 £730 £808
Central London median daily rate £539 £560 £513
% change year-on-year -3.71% +9.27% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £84.40 £23.88
25th Percentile £26.75 £94.75 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +76.83%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +76.83%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the City of London

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Subject Matter Expert
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto