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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 309 316
Rank change year-on-year -52 +7 +93
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 41 36 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 2.38% 2.55% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 42
10th Percentile £188 £160 £250
25th Percentile £391 £342 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £465
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -13.98% -11.43%
75th Percentile £631 £538 £569
90th Percentile £669 £600 £675
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -5.56%
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 £73.77 £200.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -63.12% +797.87% +11.38%

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 1,722 1,413 1,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.37% 11.15% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 990 1,267
10th Percentile £309 £274 £210
25th Percentile £425 £429 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £621
90th Percentile £738 £813 £717
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 36
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.48 £16.43
25th Percentile £21.91 £23.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.11 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +16.54% -18.55%
75th Percentile £54.56 £34.44 £35.31
90th Percentile £67.70 £89.08 £55.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +62.07% +30.93% -44.63%

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 24 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 24 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 0 5 £200 +14.29% 1
Central London -16 2 £406 -32.29% 3
West London -18 2 - - 4
North London - 1 £225 - 2
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 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (12.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) Azure Stack
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
4 6 (14.63%) IaaS
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (14.63%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (31.71%) DHCP
1 13 (31.71%) DNS
2 10 (24.39%) Firewall
3 9 (21.95%) VPN
4 8 (19.51%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (17.07%) SMTP
6 5 (12.20%) Internet
6 5 (12.20%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.44%) SAN
7 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.44%) VLAN
7 1 (2.44%) VoIP
7 1 (2.44%) WAN
7 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (14.63%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Local Government
3 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) IT Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) NetApp Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (12.20%) Citrix Support
5 5 (12.20%) IT Support
5 5 (12.20%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Technologist
6 4 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead
7 3 (7.32%) Principal Technologist
8 2 (4.88%) Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.44%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Clustering
2 7 (17.07%) PKI
3 6 (14.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (14.63%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (12.20%) Client/Server
4 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
4 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 12 (29.27%) Windows Server
3 9 (21.95%) Linux
4 6 (14.63%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (12.20%) Windows 10
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (19.51%) RBAC
4 7 (17.07%) Agile
4 7 (17.07%) Change Management
4 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
5 5 (12.20%) Migration
5 5 (12.20%) Runbook
5 5 (12.20%) Technology Transformation
6 4 (9.76%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (9.76%) DevOps
6 4 (9.76%) Validation
7 3 (7.32%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (7.32%) IT Strategy
7 3 (7.32%) Security Operations
7 3 (7.32%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Security
8 2 (4.88%) Design Patterns
8 2 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.88%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.20%) Bicep
2 5 (12.20%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) Bash
3 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (58.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) DV Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) Degree
5 5 (12.20%) CCA
5 5 (12.20%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.44%) CCNP
7 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.44%) NIST
1 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (36.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (19.51%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (17.07%) BitLocker
4 7 (17.07%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (14.63%) Docker
6 5 (12.20%) XenApp
6 5 (12.20%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.44%) Firmware
7 1 (2.44%) Terminal Services
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Terraform
2 8 (19.51%) Ansible
3 7 (17.07%) vCenter Server
3 7 (17.07%) vMotion
4 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
4 6 (14.63%) Puppet
4 6 (14.63%) SCCM
5 5 (12.20%) SCVMM
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (4.88%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.44%) Grafana
8 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
1 19 (46.34%) VMware
2 12 (29.27%) Citrix
3 7 (17.07%) NetApp
4 6 (14.63%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) Dell
5 2 (4.88%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco
6 1 (2.44%) Draytek
6 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) Juniper
6 1 (2.44%) Meraki
6 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.44%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.44%) Symantec
6 1 (2.44%) WatchGuard
6 1 (2.44%) Zscaler