Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Hyper-V
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 68 84
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +39
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 2 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.96% 0.59%
As % of the System Software category 4.26% 7.77% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £328 £454
25th Percentile - £431 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -
75th Percentile - £541 -
90th Percentile - £575 -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +238.71%

All System Software Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 47 103 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.63% 12.39% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 64 85
10th Percentile £341 £200 £194
25th Percentile £461 £240 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £470
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -27.58% -1.16%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £530
90th Percentile £546 £553 £550
Scotland median daily rate £493 £408 £475
% change year-on-year +20.98% -14.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.23 -
Median % change year-on-year +237.34% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £49.38 £22.23 £55.70
% change year-on-year +122.08% -60.09% +214.33%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hyper-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys