Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Microsoft Hyper-V
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 2.83% - -
As % of the System Software category 26.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £295 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £310 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £310 £413 £550
% change year-on-year -24.85% -25.00% +37.50%

All System Software Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 49 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 10.65% 8.02% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 7 4
10th Percentile £233 £146 £431
25th Percentile £295 £161 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -23.81% -15.66%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £578
90th Percentile £678 £700 £607
North West median daily rate £448 £435 £500
% change year-on-year +2.99% -13.00% +13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £50.13 - £19.89
25th Percentile £54.65 - £20.95
Median hourly rate £65.31 £41.94 £23.34
Median % change year-on-year +55.72% +79.69% -45.85%
75th Percentile £79.09 - £26.36
90th Percentile £85.49 - £27.79
North West median hourly rate £77.00 £18.31 £22.09
% change year-on-year +320.54% -17.11% +19.41%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Lancashire over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Lancashire

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Preston - 10 £310 - 3
Hyper-V
North West

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

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) NetScaler
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix Engineer
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (69.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
2 11 (84.62%) Customer Service
2 11 (84.62%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (84.62%) User Experience
3 7 (53.85%) Service Management
4 6 (46.15%) Defect Management
5 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Analytics
6 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (30.77%) Proactive Management
7 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (53.85%) XenApp
2 7 (53.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (61.54%) Nexthink
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft