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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 318 324
Rank change year-on-year -36 +6 +98
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 37 38 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 2.17% 2.69% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 29 46
10th Percentile £188 £161 £225
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -18.37% -3.21%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £605 £688
England median daily rate £475 £510 £419
% change year-on-year -6.86% +21.79% -6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.15
75th Percentile - - £22.23
90th Percentile - - £22.27
England median hourly rate £53.27 £200.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -73.37% +797.87% -41.76%

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 1,703 1,413 1,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.62% 10.82% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 969 1,286
10th Percentile £313 £263 £208
25th Percentile £425 £425 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £738 £813 £719
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.43
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +27.58% -18.18%
75th Percentile £42.94 £80.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £112.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.57% +36.67% -37.93%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 5 £200 +14.29% 3
West London -19 2 - - 1
Central London -20 2 £406 -32.29% 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:

Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (13.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure Stack
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
4 5 (13.51%) IaaS
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.51%) PaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) DHCP
1 10 (27.03%) DNS
2 8 (21.62%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (16.22%) Firewall
3 6 (16.22%) VPN
4 5 (13.51%) Internet
4 5 (13.51%) NetScaler
4 5 (13.51%) SMTP
5 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.41%) WAN
6 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.70%) LAN
6 1 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (16.22%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Local Government
4 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (13.51%) Citrix Support
3 5 (13.51%) IT Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) IT Support
3 5 (13.51%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) NetApp Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Technologist
4 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Principal Technologist
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Clustering
1 6 (16.22%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (13.51%) Client/Server
2 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (13.51%) PKI
2 5 (13.51%) Public Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 6 (16.22%) Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (21.62%) Agile
2 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (21.62%) RBAC
3 6 (16.22%) Change Management
3 6 (16.22%) Migration
4 5 (13.51%) Incident Management
4 5 (13.51%) Technology Transformation
4 5 (13.51%) Validation
5 4 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (10.81%) Runbook
6 3 (8.11%) DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) IT Strategy
6 3 (8.11%) Security Operations
6 3 (8.11%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (5.41%) Converged Infrastructure
7 2 (5.41%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 2 (5.41%) SDLC
7 2 (5.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) CCA
3 5 (13.51%) Citrix Certification
3 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 5 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) CBAP
5 1 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
2 10 (27.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.51%) BitLocker
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (13.51%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (13.51%) XenApp
3 5 (13.51%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) SCCM
3 5 (13.51%) Ansible
3 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.51%) Puppet
3 5 (13.51%) SCVMM
3 5 (13.51%) vCenter Server
3 5 (13.51%) vMotion
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.41%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) VMware
2 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
3 10 (27.03%) Citrix
4 6 (16.22%) Oracle
5 5 (13.51%) NetApp
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco
7 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.70%) Juniper
7 1 (2.70%) Meraki
7 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.70%) Zscaler