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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 45 54
Rank change year-on-year -29 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 12 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.16% 1.36% 1.55%
As % of the System Software category 9.38% 13.46% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £338 - £293
25th Percentile £406 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £300 £338
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% -11.11% -43.75%
75th Percentile £449 £325 £498
90th Percentile £505 - £539
England median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -
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 £67.84 £200.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -66.08% +797.87% +11.38%

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 128 52 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.40% 10.14% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 29 61
10th Percentile £131 £185 £145
25th Percentile £163 £250 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £338
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.52% -10.00%
75th Percentile £478 £525 £525
90th Percentile £656 £540 £577
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile £16.25 - £23.26
25th Percentile £18.54 - £26.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £15.09 £35.42
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -57.39% +87.79%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £44.86
90th Percentile - - £49.09
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +81.03% +38.10% -49.85%

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 April 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 April 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 -8 5 - -
Nottinghamshire -19 5 £415 - 1
Northamptonshire - 1 £450 - 4
Leicestershire - 1 £550 - 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Fire and Rescue
1 5 (41.67%) Local Government
1 5 (41.67%) Police
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Help Desk Technician
1 5 (41.67%) ICT Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 1 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (41.67%) Linux
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) ITSM
2 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
2 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) AI
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Energy Management
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) RBAC
5 1 (8.33%) Server Building
5 1 (8.33%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) NVQ Level 3
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Intel