Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 407 337
Rank change year-on-year +3 -70 -38
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 231 110 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.40% 0.63%
As % of the System Software category 4.98% 3.28% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 82 121
10th Percentile £250 £182 £338
25th Percentile £356 £284 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -11.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £569 £584 £575
90th Percentile £638 £612 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 4
10th Percentile £26.00 - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £32.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +165.63% +34.45% -45.60%
75th Percentile £92.11 £35.00 £35.27
90th Percentile £98.94 - £55.92
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £32.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +165.63% +34.45% -45.60%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,637 3,354 3,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 12.09% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,026 2,160 2,589
10th Percentile £213 £219 £220
25th Percentile £393 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £610
90th Percentile £683 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 95 105
10th Percentile £17.67 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +88.41% +42.68% -49.48%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £92.34 £90.90 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.77 £24.18
% change year-on-year +90.72% +35.53% -51.64%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in England

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in England

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hyper-V in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Hyper-V in England

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
North of England -27 50 £325 -3.70% 29
South West -4 48 £575 -1.08% 26
South East -56 44 £488 +36.84% 60
London -70 43 £500 - 59
Midlands -30 24 £463 +2.78% 25
North West -37 23 £318 -2.31% 12
West Midlands -31 22 £475 -5.00% 15
East of England -17 18 £450 - 27
Yorkshire -28 15 £460 +28.98% 8
North East - 12 £288 - 9
East Midlands -18 2 £375 - 10
Hyper-V
UK

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 35 (15.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.93%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.90%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.87%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 105 (45.45%) Azure
2 50 (21.65%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (20.35%) Entra ID
4 39 (16.88%) AWS
5 18 (7.79%) OpenShift
6 16 (6.93%) GCP
7 11 (4.76%) GitHub
8 10 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (4.33%) Azure Stack
9 8 (3.46%) IaaS
10 6 (2.60%) Rubrik
11 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.16%) Cohesity
11 5 (2.16%) PaaS
12 3 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.30%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.87%) Azure Storage
13 2 (0.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 110 (47.62%) DNS
2 97 (41.99%) DHCP
3 61 (26.41%) Firewall
4 40 (17.32%) TCP/IP
5 29 (12.55%) VPN
6 25 (10.82%) SAN
7 20 (8.66%) VLAN
7 20 (8.66%) VSAN
8 13 (5.63%) NAS
9 11 (4.76%) NetScaler
9 11 (4.76%) Network Security
10 10 (4.33%) WAN
11 9 (3.90%) Skype
11 9 (3.90%) SSL
12 8 (3.46%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (3.46%) Wireless
13 7 (3.03%) HTTP
13 7 (3.03%) LAN
14 6 (2.60%) SD-WAN
15 5 (2.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.73%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.30%) Big Data
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Git
General
1 43 (18.61%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.93%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.06%) Finance
5 10 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.90%) Legal
7 8 (3.46%) Law
8 7 (3.03%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.60%) Back Office
10 5 (2.16%) Police
11 4 (1.73%) Games
11 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.30%) Military
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Local Government
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.43%) Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 91 (39.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (12.55%) Senior
3 20 (8.66%) Support Engineer
4 19 (8.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (7.79%) Systems Engineer
6 17 (7.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (6.06%) Architect
8 13 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.63%) IT Engineer
9 12 (5.19%) 3rd Line Support
9 12 (5.19%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (5.19%) Administrator
9 12 (5.19%) Windows Engineer
10 11 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (4.33%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (3.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.90%) Consultant
13 8 (3.46%) IT Support
13 8 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.35%) Terraform
2 9 (3.90%) LDAP
3 7 (3.03%) JSON
3 7 (3.03%) Regular Expression
4 5 (2.16%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.16%) REST
5 2 (0.87%) Middleware
6 1 (0.43%) .NET
6 1 (0.43%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.43%) HTML
6 1 (0.43%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.43%) OAuth
6 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.12%) PKI
2 27 (11.69%) Data Centre
3 26 (11.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (10.39%) Clustering
5 10 (4.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (4.33%) Replication
6 9 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.46%) Smartcard
8 7 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (3.03%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.16%) Fat Client
9 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.16%) Thin Client
9 5 (2.16%) YubiKey
10 4 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.73%) Animation
10 4 (1.73%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 193 (83.55%) Windows
2 149 (64.50%) Windows Server
3 77 (33.33%) Linux
4 13 (5.63%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.16%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (2.16%) SUSE
9 4 (1.73%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.73%) VMS
9 4 (1.73%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.30%) CentOS
11 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.43%) Rocky
12 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (47.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (27.71%) ITIL
3 62 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (18.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 42 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 35 (15.15%) Migration
8 32 (13.85%) High Availability
9 31 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
10 30 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (10.82%) Service Management
12 24 (10.39%) Patch Management
12 24 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (9.09%) DevOps
14 20 (8.66%) Containerisation
14 20 (8.66%) SIEM
14 20 (8.66%) Systems Engineering
15 19 (8.23%) CI/CD
15 19 (8.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 18 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 84 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 46 (19.91%) Python
3 38 (16.45%) Bash
4 14 (6.06%) SQL
5 7 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 123 (53.25%) Security Cleared
2 70 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 61 (26.41%) DV Cleared
4 21 (9.09%) Degree
5 13 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.46%) CCNA
7 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (3.03%) VCAP
9 5 (2.16%) MCSE
10 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.73%) RHCA
11 3 (1.30%) CCNP
11 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.87%) CISSP
12 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.76%) SLA
3 9 (3.90%) NIST
4 5 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.16%) NCSC
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) DICOM
6 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 173 (74.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 147 (63.64%) Active Directory
3 40 (17.32%) vSphere
4 30 (12.99%) Docker
5 28 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (11.69%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (5.19%) VMware NSX
8 11 (4.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 10 (4.33%) NFS
9 10 (4.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (3.46%) KVM
11 7 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (3.03%) XenApp
12 6 (2.60%) XenDesktop
13 5 (2.16%) BitLocker
13 5 (2.16%) Firmware
13 5 (2.16%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (1.73%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (1.30%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 52 (22.51%) Ansible
2 39 (16.88%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.55%) SCCM
4 27 (11.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (7.36%) Failover Clustering
6 16 (6.93%) VxRail
7 14 (6.06%) vCenter Server
8 11 (4.76%) WSUS
9 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (3.03%) Grafana
10 7 (3.03%) Prometheus
10 7 (3.03%) SysTrack
11 6 (2.60%) SCOM
11 6 (2.60%) vMotion
12 5 (2.16%) Istio
12 5 (2.16%) Nessus
12 5 (2.16%) Puppet
13 4 (1.73%) Nagios
13 4 (1.73%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.73%) Podman
Vendors
1 187 (80.95%) VMware
2 122 (52.81%) Microsoft
3 31 (13.42%) Cisco
3 31 (13.42%) Citrix
4 10 (4.33%) CyberArk
4 10 (4.33%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.90%) Dell
5 9 (3.90%) NetApp
6 7 (3.03%) Nexthink
6 7 (3.03%) Veeam
7 6 (2.60%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.60%) Meraki
7 6 (2.60%) Okta
7 6 (2.60%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.16%) McAfee
8 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.16%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.16%) Tenable
9 4 (1.73%) HP
9 4 (1.73%) Perforce