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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 110 120
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 +38
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.12% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 2.70% 1.22% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £277 - £264
25th Percentile £340 £608 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £615 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.94% +44.71% -29.17%
75th Percentile £441 £623 £643
90th Percentile £469 - £665
Central London median daily rate £406 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -32.29% +33.33% -25.00%

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 148 164 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.37% 9.77% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 112 182
10th Percentile £219 £222 £254
25th Percentile £410 £363 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +7.85% -13.04%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £674
90th Percentile £681 £700 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £488
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £36.05 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £57.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £98.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.40% +146.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £41.72 £146.13 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £170.95 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £24.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.03% -38.81% +6.67%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the City of London

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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Support
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) BYOD
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SUSE
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Line Management
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (25.00%) Server Management
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCA
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft