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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 115 118
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +24
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.36% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 4.42% 2.78% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £372 - £289
25th Percentile £533 £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 £667 £624 £645
Central London median daily rate £625 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +13.64% +22.22% -8.44%

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 181 144 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.12% 8.34% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 100 168
10th Percentile £235 £282 £346
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -0.22% +1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £678
90th Percentile £679 £688 £741
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £12.78 £22.48 £84.40
25th Percentile £16.94 £23.19 £94.75
Median hourly rate £21.75 £25.25 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -77.46% +208.97%
75th Percentile £25.75 £28.19 -
90th Percentile £28.90 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £26.45 £112.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% -76.38% +208.97%

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 22 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) SMTP
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Clustering
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) BYOD
3 1 (12.50%) CMDB
3 1 (12.50%) Fat Client
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Thin Client
3 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (62.50%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (12.50%) CentOS
5 1 (12.50%) SUSE
5 1 (12.50%) VMS
5 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Software Deployment
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Line Management
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
4 1 (12.50%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Server Hardening
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (37.50%) BitLocker
4 3 (37.50%) Docker
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (37.50%) Terminal Services
5 1 (12.50%) Firmware
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Nagios
3 3 (37.50%) Puppet
3 3 (37.50%) SCCM
3 3 (37.50%) vMotion
4 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (12.50%) SCOM
4 1 (12.50%) SCOrch
4 1 (12.50%) VxRail
4 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
4 3 (37.50%) Google
4 3 (37.50%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) Symantec
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (12.50%) Dell
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow