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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 82 92
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 15 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.67% 1.10% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 6.73% 7.69% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £158 £260 £530
25th Percentile £359 £325 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £383 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -30.45% +27.91%
75th Percentile £475 £469 £588
90th Percentile £479 £538 £595
England median daily rate £475 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +5.56% -9.82% +17.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £84.68 - -
25th Percentile £89.46 - -
Median hourly rate £92.11 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £78.22 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +160.72% +26.05% -45.60%

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 223 182 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.91% 14.29% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 88 56
10th Percentile £163 £198 £183
25th Percentile £240 £283 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £348
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +43.88% -22.78%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £509
90th Percentile £595 £604 £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 34 21
10th Percentile £61.50 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £15.58 -
Median hourly rate £70.50 £64.75 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% +357.27% -78.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £88.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.30 £91.50 £73.25
England median hourly rate £63.48 £38.75 £24.19
% change year-on-year +63.82% +60.19% -47.41%

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 5 September 2026.

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 5 September 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
Hertfordshire -6 13 £450 - 16
Cambridgeshire -2 2 - - 5
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 5 (33.33%) IIS
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Cohesity
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) HTTP
2 5 (33.33%) Skype
3 4 (26.67%) DHCP
4 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (26.67%) Back Office
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Server Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
1 5 (33.33%) LDAP
1 5 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (33.33%) Smartcard
1 5 (33.33%) YubiKey
2 1 (6.67%) CSOC
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (33.33%) AI
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 5 (33.33%) Network Packet Capture
3 5 (33.33%) SIEM
3 5 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Red Team
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Change Management
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
6 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (46.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) NFS
2 5 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) SCCM
2 5 (33.33%) Nessus
2 5 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Tenable
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft