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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 113 125
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +47
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 2 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 1.19% 2.62% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £508 £423 £386
25th Percentile £519 £438 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -1.04% -1.54%
75th Percentile £594 £506 £533
90th Percentile £613 £518 £604
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -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 168 229 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.14% 11.12% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 143 207
10th Percentile £278 £315 £262
25th Percentile £408 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% +13.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £631
90th Percentile £690 £729 £788
Central London median daily rate £534 £565 £490
% change year-on-year -5.53% +15.31% -14.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £84.40 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £94.75 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% - -
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 -
% change year-on-year -77.26% - -

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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Subject Matter Expert
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto