Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 331 322
Rank change year-on-year -35 -9 +64
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 46 27 69
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.22% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 2.76% 1.99% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 23 36
10th Percentile £188 £353 £258
25th Percentile £281 £388 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -17.43%
75th Percentile £569 £581 £591
90th Percentile £638 £600 £719
England median daily rate £460 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -12.38% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £22.04
25th Percentile - - £22.08
Median hourly rate - - £22.23
75th Percentile - - £23.43
90th Percentile - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £63.14 £200.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -68.43% +788.89% +12.50%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,669 1,355 1,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.40% 10.86% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 947 1,277
10th Percentile £300 £286 £213
25th Percentile £425 £425 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £664 £615
90th Percentile £734 £788 £721
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 35
10th Percentile £21.10 £23.08 £17.23
25th Percentile £22.41 £26.45 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.88 £34.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% +51.11% -59.09%
75th Percentile £59.72 £38.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £89.75 £48.89
England median hourly rate £56.25 £28.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +99.43% +34.31% -58.00%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in London

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in London

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
East London - 5 £200 - 1
Central London -19 4 £406 -32.29% 6
North London +2 1 £225 -59.09% 1
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (10.87%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) Azure Stack
3 7 (15.22%) IaaS
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (15.22%) PaaS
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.52%) AWS
5 3 (6.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.52%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.17%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) DHCP
1 18 (39.13%) DNS
2 15 (32.61%) Firewall
2 15 (32.61%) VPN
3 8 (17.39%) SMTP
4 7 (15.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (13.04%) VSAN
6 5 (10.87%) Internet
6 5 (10.87%) NetScaler
6 5 (10.87%) VLAN
7 4 (8.70%) SAN
8 3 (6.52%) NAS
8 3 (6.52%) Network Security
9 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.35%) WAN
10 1 (2.17%) SSL
10 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
10 1 (2.17%) VoIP
10 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Legal
3 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) IT Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) IT Support
4 7 (15.22%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) NetApp Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (10.87%) Citrix Support
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) .NET
1 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.17%) HTML
1 1 (2.17%) Software Packaging
1 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Clustering
2 9 (19.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (17.39%) PKI
4 7 (15.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (10.87%) Client/Server
5 5 (10.87%) Replication
5 5 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.17%) BYOD
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
8 1 (2.17%) Fat Client
8 1 (2.17%) PACS
8 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Thin Client
8 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Windows
2 17 (36.96%) Linux
2 17 (36.96%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (13.04%) Windows 10
5 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (8.70%) SUSE
6 4 (8.70%) VMS
7 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (19.57%) Change Management
4 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
4 8 (17.39%) RBAC
4 8 (17.39%) Validation
5 7 (15.22%) Migration
6 6 (13.04%) High Availability
7 5 (10.87%) Converged Infrastructure
7 5 (10.87%) ITIL
7 5 (10.87%) Runbook
8 4 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (8.70%) Remediation Plan
9 3 (6.52%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (6.52%) Server Management
9 3 (6.52%) Storage Management
10 2 (4.35%) CI/CD
10 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security
10 2 (4.35%) Operational Stability
10 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.04%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Bicep
4 2 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 11 (23.91%) DV Cleared
4 8 (17.39%) Degree
5 5 (10.87%) CCA
5 5 (10.87%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.35%) CCNP
7 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) DICOM
2 1 (2.17%) HL7
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Active Directory
1 22 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (28.26%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (17.39%) BitLocker
3 8 (17.39%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (15.22%) Docker
4 7 (15.22%) vSphere
5 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (10.87%) XenApp
5 5 (10.87%) XenDesktop
6 4 (8.70%) Firmware
7 1 (2.17%) KVM
7 1 (2.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 11 (23.91%) Terraform
3 10 (21.74%) Ansible
4 9 (19.57%) SCCM
5 8 (17.39%) vMotion
6 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
6 7 (15.22%) Puppet
7 5 (10.87%) SCVMM
8 4 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (8.70%) VxRail
9 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (2.17%) Grafana
10 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) VMware
2 21 (45.65%) Microsoft
3 14 (30.43%) Citrix
4 9 (19.57%) NetApp
5 6 (13.04%) Dell
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco
7 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.35%) Google
7 2 (4.35%) Juniper
7 2 (4.35%) Meraki
7 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.35%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.17%) Apple
8 1 (2.17%) Draytek
8 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.17%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.17%) Symantec
8 1 (2.17%) Veritas
8 1 (2.17%) WatchGuard