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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 59 55
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.72% 0.88% 1.71%
As % of the System Software category 7.08% 8.57% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £411 - £313
25th Percentile £416 £275 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £475
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -36.84% -26.36%
75th Percentile £513 £325 £530
90th Percentile £535 - -
England median daily rate £468 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +15.79% +5.56%

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 113 70 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.22% 10.31% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 47 81
10th Percentile £131 £194 £145
25th Percentile £190 £295 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £415 £363
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +14.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £495
90th Percentile £656 £550 £565
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £12.76 - -
25th Percentile £15.52 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.09 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +390.39% -68.93% +136.88%
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.03% +28.89% -55.00%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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
Derbyshire +1 5 - - 2
Nottinghamshire -24 1 £415 - 2
Leicestershire - 1 £550 - 4
Northamptonshire - 1 £450 - 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Fire and Rescue
1 5 (62.50%) Local Government
1 5 (62.50%) Police
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Help Desk Technician
1 5 (62.50%) ICT Technician
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Business Continuity
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Data Protection
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) ITSM
1 5 (62.50%) Mathematics
1 5 (62.50%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Energy Management
3 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Server Building
3 1 (12.50%) Server Migrations
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) NVQ Level 3
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Intel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft