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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 339 327
Rank change year-on-year -67 -12 +33
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 42 25 58
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 2.29% 1.69% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 27
10th Percentile £314 £415 £294
25th Percentile £425 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £575
90th Percentile £638 £760 £644
England median daily rate £475 £438 £520
% change year-on-year +8.57% -15.87% +22.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £34.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +150.00% +42.86% -45.60%

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 1,832 1,480 1,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.00% 11.07% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 919 1,182
10th Percentile £257 £300 £262
25th Percentile £414 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 31 16
10th Percentile £16.45 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% +4.84% -60.02%
75th Percentile £54.88 £35.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.60 £40.00 £102.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -42.50%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -16 8 £625 +13.64% 7
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) IIS
3 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (61.90%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
2 7 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (16.67%) Azure Stack
2 7 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.90%) GCP
3 5 (11.90%) GitHub
3 5 (11.90%) IaaS
4 4 (9.52%) PaaS
5 3 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (50.00%) DNS
2 20 (47.62%) DHCP
3 10 (23.81%) Firewall
3 10 (23.81%) VPN
4 6 (14.29%) SAN
4 6 (14.29%) VLAN
4 6 (14.29%) VSAN
5 4 (9.52%) NAS
5 4 (9.52%) SMTP
6 3 (7.14%) Network Security
6 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
6 3 (7.14%) WAN
7 2 (4.76%) SSL
7 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.38%) BGP
8 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
8 1 (2.38%) SSH
8 1 (2.38%) VXLAN
8 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) GitLab
1 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Migration Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Server Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) .NET
3 1 (2.38%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) Middleware
3 1 (2.38%) OAuth
3 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Clustering
2 8 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 5 (11.90%) PKI
4 5 (11.90%) Replication
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) BYOD
8 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.38%) CMDB
8 1 (2.38%) EMC VNX
8 1 (2.38%) Fat Client
8 1 (2.38%) PACS
8 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.38%) Thin Client
8 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (83.33%) Windows
2 29 (69.05%) Windows Server
3 20 (47.62%) Linux
4 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (9.52%) SUSE
5 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (7.14%) VMS
6 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
7 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.38%) CentOS
8 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (45.24%) ITIL
3 12 (28.57%) Migration
4 11 (26.19%) High Availability
5 10 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (21.43%) DevOps
6 9 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.67%) Service Management
9 6 (14.29%) Change Management
9 6 (14.29%) Security Hardening
9 6 (14.29%) Server Management
9 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.90%) Patch Management
10 5 (11.90%) Validation
11 4 (9.52%) Agile
11 4 (9.52%) AI
11 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (9.52%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.76%) Bash
2 2 (4.76%) Bicep
2 2 (4.76%) Python
2 2 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 7 (16.67%) Degree
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (7.14%) CCNP
7 2 (4.76%) CCNA
7 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.38%) LFCS
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.38%) RHCE
8 1 (2.38%) RHCSA
8 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.38%) DICOM
3 1 (2.38%) HL7
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (73.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (61.90%) Active Directory
3 13 (30.95%) vSphere
4 8 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (9.52%) BitLocker
6 4 (9.52%) Docker
6 4 (9.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (7.14%) Firmware
7 3 (7.14%) Terminal Services
8 2 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (2.38%) Ceph
9 1 (2.38%) KVM
9 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (2.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) SCCM
2 12 (28.57%) Ansible
3 8 (19.05%) vCenter Server
4 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
7 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (9.52%) Puppet
7 4 (9.52%) vMotion
7 4 (9.52%) VxRail
8 3 (7.14%) Nagios
8 3 (7.14%) SCOM
9 2 (4.76%) SCOrch
9 2 (4.76%) WSUS
10 1 (2.38%) Grafana
10 1 (2.38%) PowerCLI
10 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
10 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (2.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (83.33%) VMware
2 25 (59.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.29%) Citrix
4 5 (11.90%) Cisco
4 5 (11.90%) Dell
5 3 (7.14%) Google
5 3 (7.14%) HP
5 3 (7.14%) Symantec
6 2 (4.76%) Meraki
6 2 (4.76%) NetApp
6 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.38%) Apple
7 1 (2.38%) Brocade
7 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.38%) Varonis
7 1 (2.38%) Veritas