Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 49 55
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.89% 1.07% 1.24%
As % of the System Software category 8.00% 12.24% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £305 £197 £273
25th Percentile £405 £223 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £265 £350
Median % change year-on-year +56.46% -24.21% -6.67%
75th Percentile £423 £308 £359
90th Percentile £454 £333 £416
England median daily rate £414 £470 £445
% change year-on-year -11.97% +5.62% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 - £22.39
% change year-on-year - - +9.21%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 100 49 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.12% 8.75% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 28 70
10th Percentile £132 £172 £163
25th Percentile £189 £187 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £353 £369
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -4.27% -7.81%
75th Percentile £478 £430 £529
90th Percentile £538 £501 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.65 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.39 £19.40 £16.99
Median hourly rate £23.71 £21.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% +19.98% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.60 £21.24
90th Percentile £25.58 £24.62 £22.73
England median hourly rate £41.94 £26.96 £50.00
% change year-on-year +55.59% -46.09% +86.92%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the East Midlands

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Nottinghamshire -12 4 £413 - 3
Derbyshire 0 3 - - 2
Northamptonshire - 1 £450 - 1
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (25.00%) Local Government
2 2 (25.00%) Police
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Help Desk Technician
2 2 (25.00%) ICT Technician
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) ITSM
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft