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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 311 310
Rank change year-on-year -41 -1 +143
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 28 47 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 1.70% 3.30% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 62
10th Percentile £406 £161 £268
25th Percentile £425 £250 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £597
90th Percentile £675 £625 £741
England median daily rate £415 £475 £445
% change year-on-year -12.63% +6.74% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 - £22.39
% change year-on-year - - +9.21%

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 1,646 1,423 1,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.46% 10.13% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 934 1,368
10th Percentile £327 £260 £210
25th Percentile £431 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +6.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £810 £725
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 22
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.50 £23.59 £22.74
Median hourly rate £25.31 £23.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -26.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £44.94 £35.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £101.80 £71.75
England median hourly rate £41.94 £28.41 £50.00
% change year-on-year +47.62% -43.18% +47.06%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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
West London -19 2 - - 1
Central London -15 1 £500 -9.09% 5
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 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) IaaS
4 3 (10.71%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) NetScaler
2 4 (14.29%) VPN
3 3 (10.71%) DHCP
3 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 3 (10.71%) SMTP
3 3 (10.71%) WAN
4 2 (7.14%) BGP
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (7.14%) LAN
4 2 (7.14%) OSPF
4 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.14%) VXLAN
5 1 (3.57%) FabricPath
5 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.57%) Multicast
5 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (17.86%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.71%) Local Government
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Technologist
3 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (14.29%) Citrix Support
4 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) NetApp Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal Technologist
4 3 (10.71%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
3 4 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 4 (14.29%) Clustering
3 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (10.71%) PKI
5 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
6 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.57%) PMI
6 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) Linux
4 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.00%) Migration
3 5 (17.86%) Change Management
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Technology Transformation
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
5 3 (10.71%) IT Strategy
5 3 (10.71%) Security Operations
5 3 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (10.71%) Zero Trust
6 2 (7.14%) AI
6 2 (7.14%) Business Continuity
6 2 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.14%) ITIL
6 2 (7.14%) Low Latency
6 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
6 2 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) CCA
3 4 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (10.71%) CCNP
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.57%) CBAP
6 1 (3.57%) CCIE
6 1 (3.57%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.29%) XenApp
3 4 (14.29%) XenDesktop
4 3 (10.71%) BitLocker
4 3 (10.71%) Docker
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (7.14%) KVM
5 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) SCCM
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) SCVMM
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (10.71%) Puppet
4 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
4 3 (10.71%) vMotion
5 2 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (3.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) VMware
2 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (28.57%) Citrix
4 6 (21.43%) Cisco
4 6 (21.43%) Oracle
5 3 (10.71%) Dell
5 3 (10.71%) NetApp
5 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.14%) Arista
7 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.57%) Juniper
7 1 (3.57%) Meraki
7 1 (3.57%) NVIDIA
7 1 (3.57%) Proofpoint
7 1 (3.57%) Qualys
7 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.57%) Zscaler