Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 84 103
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 12 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.78% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 5.91% 2.22% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £305 - £399
25th Percentile £355 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.41%
75th Percentile £509 - £475
90th Percentile £586 - £483
England median daily rate £425 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -10.53% +10.47% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £21.50 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £46.59 £22.39
% change year-on-year -27.02% +108.10% +4.13%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 203 135 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.22% 10.47% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 51 186
10th Percentile £185 £185 £170
25th Percentile £213 £228 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £675
90th Percentile £636 £613 £775
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 19 39
10th Percentile £12.86 - £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £21.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -15.38% +302.54%
75th Percentile £77.50 £66.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £32.77 £50.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.46% +14.29% +75.00%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the East of England

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the East of England

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. 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
Hertfordshire -13 6 £475 - 14
Cambridgeshire - 4 £363 - 7
Essex -1 1 £200 - 5
Norfolk - 1 - -
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Mimecast
2 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (41.67%) DHCP
4 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (25.00%) SAN
5 3 (25.00%) VLAN
6 2 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
6 2 (16.67%) Network Security
6 2 (16.67%) VPN
7 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (8.33%) LAN
7 1 (8.33%) NAS
7 1 (8.33%) WAN
7 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior IT Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) CCTV
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (41.67%) Linux
4 2 (16.67%) CentOS
4 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (16.67%) VMS
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) Server Building
4 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (16.67%) Veeam
5 1 (8.33%) Aruba
5 1 (8.33%) Citrix
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) Veritas