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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 70 100
Rank change year-on-year -36 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 10 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.44% 1.56% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 5.21% 9.78% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £159 £280 £315
25th Percentile £425 £379 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £475 £470 £575
90th Percentile £496 £471 £590
England median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £200.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.57 £200.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -77.22% +740.34% +19.00%

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 192 184 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.44% 15.94% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 86 73
10th Percentile £163 £178 £194
25th Percentile £193 £236 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +15.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £563
90th Percentile £574 - £695
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 30 29
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.99 £14.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.08 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.73 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +30.96% +237.04% -77.96%
75th Percentile £71.00 £88.00 £15.76
90th Percentile £75.00 £91.60 £65.65
England median hourly rate £54.00 £31.39 £22.15
% change year-on-year +72.06% +41.69% -55.70%

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 July 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 July 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 -19 9 £450 - 6
Cambridgeshire -7 1 £575 +23.26% 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 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Cohesity
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) Skype
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Smartcard
1 6 (60.00%) YubiKey
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (10.00%) Server Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) SCCM
2 6 (60.00%) Nessus
2 6 (60.00%) WSUS
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Tenable
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) Thales