Hyper-V Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Hyper-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hyper-V over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 107 96
Rank change year-on-year +35 -11 +4
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 10 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.07% 0.26% 1.31%
As % of the System Software category 6.90% 3.07% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 17
10th Percentile £347 £283 £346
25th Percentile £414 £331 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £470 £506 £438
90th Percentile £471 £548 £531
England median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +788.89% - -
England median hourly rate £200.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +788.89% +12.50% +38.60%

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 145 163 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.54% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 244
10th Percentile £178 £175 £165
25th Percentile £243 £225 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £570 £556 £587
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 41
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%
75th Percentile £65.63 £18.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £81.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the East of England.

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

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 1 May 2025.

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

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the East of England

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 1 May 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 - 5 £467 - 5
Hertfordshire +26 2 £450 -7.69% 6
Essex +13 2 - - 11
Suffolk - 1 £300 -
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 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Cohesity
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (20.00%) Skype
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Switch Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Smartcard
2 2 (20.00%) YubiKey
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Capacity Management
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 4 (40.00%) Proactive Management
3 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Server Building
4 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (40.00%) Docker
3 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) Podman
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Nessus
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (20.00%) Tenable
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds