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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 85 103
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 14 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.99% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 6.93% 3.82% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £275 £555 £399
25th Percentile £375 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £465
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +23.66% +9.41%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £475
90th Percentile £550 £595 £483
England median daily rate £400 £520 £435
% change year-on-year -23.08% +19.54% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £46.59 £33.01
% change year-on-year -31.31% +41.12% +73.75%

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 202 131 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.22% 9.84% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 51 188
10th Percentile £191 £185 £170
25th Percentile £224 £225 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.66% -27.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £675
90th Percentile £622 £613 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 36
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.81 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.87 £23.86
Median hourly rate £54.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -13.46% +314.61%
75th Percentile £82.00 £67.81 £77.34
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +84.21%

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 1 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 1 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 -7 6 £463 -19.57% 5
Cambridgeshire - 6 £575 - 2
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 5 (35.71%) OpenStack
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%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Cohesity
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) 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%) VLAN
6 2 (14.29%) DHCP
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
7 1 (7.14%) Wireless
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 5 (35.71%) Administrator
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) CCTV
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Smartcard
3 1 (7.14%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) 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%) ITSM
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
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 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) 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 13 (92.86%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) 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%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) Tenable
5 1 (7.14%) Veeam
5 1 (7.14%) Veritas