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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 83 101
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 +20
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 10 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.63% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 5.29% 1.45% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £355 - £389
25th Percentile £356 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £426
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.29%
75th Percentile £575 - £453
90th Percentile £583 - £465
England median daily rate £414 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -11.97% +4.44% +7.14%
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 - £22.39
% change year-on-year - - +9.21%

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 189 138 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.91% 12.59% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 51 151
10th Percentile £191 £185 £175
25th Percentile £220 £237 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £700
90th Percentile £638 £625 £775
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 33
10th Percentile £12.79 - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £53.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% +233.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £84.36
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £87.87
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.71 £46.39
% change year-on-year +65.48% -38.12% +68.69%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 - 5 £475 - 1
Cambridgeshire -4 4 £363 - 3
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 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (30.00%) Mimecast
1 3 (30.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) VLAN
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) SAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Switch Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) CCTV
3 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (20.00%) VMS
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (10.00%) CentOS
5 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Server Building
5 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) Veeam
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (10.00%) Veritas