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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 90 97
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 14 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.08% 0.39% 0.87%
As % of the System Software category 8.05% 4.55% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £290 £530 £320
25th Percentile £364 £538 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £435
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +26.44% +2.35%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £473
90th Percentile £538 £595 £478
England median daily rate £450 £520 £425
% change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% +1.19%

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 174 132 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.42% 8.63% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 62 192
10th Percentile £198 £182 £163
25th Percentile £229 £220 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £343 £464
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -26.15% +9.12%
75th Percentile £575 £497 £675
90th Percentile £601 £598 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 38
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 - £18.65
Median hourly rate £66.50 £14.16 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +369.63% -79.02% +365.52%
75th Percentile £88.56 £63.75 £74.69
90th Percentile £91.50 £73.93 £84.36
England median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £47.90
% change year-on-year +53.06% -48.85% +117.70%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 7 £479 - 4
Hertfordshire +3 6 £463 -15.91% 10
Essex - 1 £200 - 3
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Cohesity
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
5 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 6 (42.86%) SAN
3 5 (35.71%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
4 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 3 (21.43%) DHCP
5 3 (21.43%) VLAN
6 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (14.29%) Network Security
6 2 (14.29%) VPN
7 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (7.14%) LAN
7 1 (7.14%) NAS
7 1 (7.14%) Skype
7 1 (7.14%) WAN
7 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
1 5 (35.71%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Administrator
3 4 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior IT Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (7.14%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (14.29%) CCTV
4 1 (7.14%) NHS
4 1 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.14%) Smartcard
4 1 (7.14%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) CentOS
3 5 (35.71%) Ubuntu
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) VMS
5 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (42.86%) ITSM
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (14.29%) Data Science
5 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Salt
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) Tenable
5 1 (7.14%) Veeam
5 1 (7.14%) Veritas