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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 315 365
Rank change year-on-year -34 +50 +134
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 24 62 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.38% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 1.62% 3.55% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 71
10th Percentile - £261 £313
25th Percentile £425 £350 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £623 £566 £659
90th Percentile £775 £641 £745
England median daily rate £450 £520 £425
% change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £23.80 £43.75
% change year-on-year +34.45% -45.60% +170.40%

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 1,485 1,747 2,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 10.71% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,208 1,844
10th Percentile £300 £262 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £675
90th Percentile £705 £732 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 31
10th Percentile £22.45 £20.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.98 £40.41
Median hourly rate £25.58 £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -60.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.39 £68.80
90th Percentile £41.13 £60.00 £83.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £47.86
% change year-on-year +50.00% -47.77% +117.56%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 -5 4 £550 +22.22% 4
West London -7 3 - -
South London -3 2 - -
North London - 1 £550 - 2
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 11 (45.83%) DHCP
2 11 (45.83%) DNS
3 4 (16.67%) SAN
4 3 (12.50%) LAN
4 3 (12.50%) NAS
4 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 3 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (8.33%) BGP
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (8.33%) OSPF
5 2 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (8.33%) SMTP
5 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.33%) VXLAN
5 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.17%) FabricPath
6 1 (4.17%) Multicast
6 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) Big Data
1 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Banking
2 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Front Office
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.17%) Local Government
2 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Server Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Support Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) CMDB
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.17%) HP Storage
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 17 (70.83%) Windows Server
3 10 (41.67%) Linux
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (8.33%) CentOS
6 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (20.83%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) High Availability
4 4 (16.67%) ITSM
5 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.50%) Zero Trust
6 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) B2B
6 2 (8.33%) Benchmarking
6 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.33%) ETL
6 2 (8.33%) Runbook
6 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) CCNP
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) CCIE
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.17%) MCSA
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) BitLocker
3 2 (8.33%) KVM
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (8.33%) Terminal Services
3 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.33%) SCCM
4 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (8.33%) vMotion
5 1 (4.17%) Nagios
5 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) VMware
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (29.17%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Dell
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.50%) Citrix
5 3 (12.50%) HP
6 2 (8.33%) Arista
6 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.17%) Apple
7 1 (4.17%) EMC
7 1 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.17%) Mitel
7 1 (4.17%) NetApp
7 1 (4.17%) NVIDIA
7 1 (4.17%) Qualys
7 1 (4.17%) Symantec
7 1 (4.17%) Veeam
7 1 (4.17%) Veritas