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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 352 321
Rank change year-on-year -33 -31 +49
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 44 19 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 2.49% 1.29% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 30
10th Percentile £188 £425 £308
25th Percentile £288 £500 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £569 £623 £536
90th Percentile £638 £805 £659
England median daily rate £475 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -0.52% +0.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.59
25th Percentile - - £23.37
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £200.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -68.43% +740.34% +19.00%

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 1,765 1,477 1,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.87% 10.80% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 969 1,282
10th Percentile £250 £281 £256
25th Percentile £415 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year - +2.84% -8.35%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £618
90th Percentile £709 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 29 24
10th Percentile £22.87 £22.40 £20.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £48.75 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +9.24% -60.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £59.25 £49.25 £52.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £21.50
% change year-on-year +54.61% +65.45% -46.25%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -9 7 £550 - 1
East London - 5 £200 - 1
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 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) Azure Stack
3 7 (15.91%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (15.91%) IaaS
3 7 (15.91%) PaaS
4 6 (13.64%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) GCP
5 5 (11.36%) Entra ID
6 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (6.82%) GitHub
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (50.00%) DHCP
1 22 (50.00%) DNS
2 15 (34.09%) Firewall
2 15 (34.09%) VPN
3 8 (18.18%) SMTP
4 6 (13.64%) VLAN
4 6 (13.64%) VSAN
5 5 (11.36%) Internet
5 5 (11.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (6.82%) NAS
6 3 (6.82%) Network Security
6 3 (6.82%) SAN
7 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.55%) WAN
8 1 (2.27%) BGP
8 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.27%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.27%) SSL
8 1 (2.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.82%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Finance
2 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) IT Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) IT Support
5 7 (15.91%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) NetApp Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.27%) .NET
2 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) REST
2 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Clustering
2 8 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (18.18%) PKI
3 6 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 6 (13.64%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (11.36%) Replication
4 5 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.27%) BYOD
6 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.27%) PACS
6 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (61.36%) Windows
2 21 (47.73%) Windows Server
3 17 (38.64%) Linux
4 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (9.09%) SUSE
6 3 (6.82%) VMS
6 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.45%) ITIL
3 9 (20.45%) Validation
4 8 (18.18%) RBAC
5 7 (15.91%) DevOps
5 7 (15.91%) High Availability
5 7 (15.91%) Migration
6 6 (13.64%) Change Management
7 5 (11.36%) Incident Management
7 5 (11.36%) Runbook
8 4 (9.09%) AI
8 4 (9.09%) Converged Infrastructure
8 4 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (9.09%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (9.09%) Server Management
8 4 (9.09%) Service Management
8 4 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 3 (6.82%) Machine Learning
9 3 (6.82%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.91%) Bicep
3 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 2 (4.55%) Python
4 2 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (15.91%) Degree
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.27%) CCA
7 1 (2.27%) CCNA
7 1 (2.27%) CCNP
7 1 (2.27%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) DICOM
3 1 (2.27%) HL7
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (59.09%) Active Directory
1 26 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (29.55%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (18.18%) BitLocker
3 8 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (18.18%) vSphere
4 7 (15.91%) Docker
5 4 (9.09%) Firmware
5 4 (9.09%) Terminal Services
5 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.27%) KVM
7 1 (2.27%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (2.27%) XenApp
7 1 (2.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Ansible
1 12 (27.27%) vCenter Server
2 11 (25.00%) Terraform
3 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 8 (18.18%) vMotion
4 7 (15.91%) Puppet
5 6 (13.64%) SCCM
6 4 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (9.09%) VxRail
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (6.82%) Nagios
8 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (2.27%) Grafana
9 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
9 1 (2.27%) SCVMM
9 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (65.91%) VMware
2 22 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (25.00%) Citrix
4 6 (13.64%) Dell
4 6 (13.64%) NetApp
5 5 (11.36%) Google
6 4 (9.09%) HP
6 4 (9.09%) Symantec
7 3 (6.82%) Cisco
8 1 (2.27%) Draytek
8 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.27%) Hitachi
8 1 (2.27%) Juniper
8 1 (2.27%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle
8 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.27%) Qualys
8 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.27%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.27%) WatchGuard