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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 337 341
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +154
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 31 54 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 1.90% 3.28% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 73
10th Percentile £423 £157 £315
25th Percentile £425 £272 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £531 £663
90th Percentile £805 £625 £745
England median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.18% +12.82%
England median hourly rate £32.00 £46.59 £33.01
% change year-on-year -31.31% +41.12% +69.29%

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 1,630 1,647 2,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.58% 10.47% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,095 1,671
10th Percentile £300 £266 £220
25th Percentile £425 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £765 £750
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.20 £23.78
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.59 £31.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -52.40% +100.00%
75th Percentile £27.00 £62.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £49.70 £108.10 £75.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.05% +80.78%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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
West London -8 4 - - 2
Central London +1 3 £500 +11.11% 22
South London -2 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 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.45%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Firewall
2 8 (25.81%) DHCP
2 8 (25.81%) DNS
3 4 (12.90%) LAN
3 4 (12.90%) WAN
4 2 (6.45%) BGP
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (6.45%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (6.45%) NAS
4 2 (6.45%) OSPF
4 2 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (6.45%) SAN
4 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.45%) VXLAN
4 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.23%) FabricPath
5 1 (3.23%) Multicast
5 1 (3.23%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
1 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Local Government
4 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Technologist
3 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Principal Technologist
3 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Server Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
1 6 (19.35%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (16.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) CMDB
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.23%) PMI
4 1 (3.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Windows
2 13 (41.94%) Windows Server
3 7 (22.58%) Linux
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.68%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
6 2 (6.45%) CentOS
6 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
6 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Migration
2 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) ITIL
4 5 (16.13%) Technology Transformation
5 4 (12.90%) High Availability
5 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (12.90%) ITSM
6 3 (9.68%) Customer Service
6 3 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (9.68%) IT Strategy
6 3 (9.68%) Security Operations
6 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (9.68%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (9.68%) Zero Trust
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 2 (6.45%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.45%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.68%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) CCNP
2 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) CCIE
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) CBAP
4 1 (3.23%) CCA
4 1 (3.23%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (3.23%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.23%) MCSA
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.23%) VCAP
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (48.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) KVM
3 2 (6.45%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.23%) XenApp
4 1 (3.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.68%) SCCM
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.23%) SCVMM
5 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (77.42%) VMware
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco
3 6 (19.35%) Oracle
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.68%) Dell
6 2 (6.45%) Arista
6 2 (6.45%) Citrix
6 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.23%) Apple
7 1 (3.23%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.23%) NVIDIA
7 1 (3.23%) Proofpoint
7 1 (3.23%) Qualys
7 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow