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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 329 330
Rank change year-on-year -44 +1 +45
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 51 23 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.19% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 2.97% 1.74% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 21 36
10th Percentile £188 £363 £258
25th Percentile £375 £400 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -17.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £556
90th Percentile £638 £600 £719
England median daily rate £475 £513 £487
% change year-on-year -7.32% +5.34% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £22.08
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate - - £23.05
75th Percentile - - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.57 £200.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -77.22% +740.34% +25.26%

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 1,719 1,320 1,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.26% 10.87% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 893 1,306
10th Percentile £277 £268 £250
25th Percentile £425 £424 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
England median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 35
10th Percentile £21.38 £22.50 £17.23
25th Percentile £23.78 £24.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% +28.89% -62.50%
75th Percentile £57.36 £35.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £86.25 £48.89
England median hourly rate £55.00 £28.46 £22.15
% change year-on-year +93.29% +28.47% -57.51%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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
Central London -17 6 £444 -26.04% 7
East London - 5 £200 - 1
North London -1 1 £225 -59.09% 3
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 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) IIS
2 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) Azure Stack
3 9 (17.65%) IaaS
3 9 (17.65%) PaaS
4 7 (13.73%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (9.80%) AWS
6 5 (9.80%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.80%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.96%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (43.14%) DHCP
1 22 (43.14%) DNS
2 18 (35.29%) Firewall
2 18 (35.29%) VPN
3 10 (19.61%) SMTP
4 7 (13.73%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (11.76%) VLAN
5 6 (11.76%) VSAN
6 5 (9.80%) Internet
7 4 (7.84%) NetScaler
7 4 (7.84%) SAN
8 3 (5.88%) NAS
8 3 (5.88%) Network Security
8 3 (5.88%) SD-WAN
8 3 (5.88%) WAN
9 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.96%) BGP
10 1 (1.96%) SSL
10 1 (1.96%) VoIP
10 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.92%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 4 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Finance
3 2 (3.92%) Legal
3 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Support Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) IT Engineer
6 7 (13.73%) IT Support
6 7 (13.73%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (13.73%) NetApp Engineer
6 7 (13.73%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (7.84%) Citrix Support
8 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
9 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Desktop Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.96%) .NET
2 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.96%) HTML
2 1 (1.96%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Clustering
2 10 (19.61%) PKI
3 9 (17.65%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (15.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
5 5 (9.80%) Replication
5 5 (9.80%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (7.84%) Client/Server
6 4 (7.84%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.96%) BYOD
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.96%) PACS
7 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (62.75%) Windows
2 22 (43.14%) Windows Server
3 19 (37.25%) Linux
4 8 (15.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (11.76%) Windows 10
6 5 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (7.84%) SUSE
7 4 (7.84%) VMS
7 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (19.61%) Change Management
3 10 (19.61%) RBAC
4 9 (17.65%) Validation
5 8 (15.69%) Incident Management
5 8 (15.69%) ITIL
6 7 (13.73%) High Availability
6 7 (13.73%) Migration
7 5 (9.80%) Converged Infrastructure
7 5 (9.80%) Runbook
8 4 (7.84%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (7.84%) DevOps
8 4 (7.84%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (7.84%) Server Management
9 3 (5.88%) Analytics
9 3 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (5.88%) Storage Management
9 3 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.98%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.73%) Bicep
3 5 (9.80%) SQL
4 3 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (3.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (56.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (31.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (25.49%) DV Cleared
4 9 (17.65%) Degree
5 4 (7.84%) CCA
5 4 (7.84%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.92%) CCNP
8 1 (1.96%) CCNA
8 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.96%) DICOM
3 1 (1.96%) HL7
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (54.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (52.94%) Active Directory
3 15 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (19.61%) BitLocker
4 10 (19.61%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (17.65%) Docker
6 7 (13.73%) vSphere
7 5 (9.80%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (7.84%) Firmware
8 4 (7.84%) XenApp
8 4 (7.84%) XenDesktop
9 3 (5.88%) Terminal Services
10 2 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.96%) KVM
11 1 (1.96%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) vCenter Server
2 12 (23.53%) Ansible
3 11 (21.57%) Terraform
4 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
4 10 (19.61%) vMotion
5 9 (17.65%) Puppet
6 8 (15.69%) SCCM
7 4 (7.84%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (7.84%) SCVMM
7 4 (7.84%) VxRail
8 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (3.92%) Nagios
10 1 (1.96%) Grafana
10 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (58.82%) VMware
2 25 (49.02%) Microsoft
3 16 (31.37%) Citrix
4 9 (17.65%) NetApp
5 6 (11.76%) Dell
6 4 (7.84%) Cisco
6 4 (7.84%) Google
7 3 (5.88%) HP
7 3 (5.88%) Symantec
8 2 (3.92%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.92%) Juniper
8 2 (3.92%) Meraki
8 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.92%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.96%) Apple
9 1 (1.96%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.96%) Oracle
9 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.96%) Veritas