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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 313 304
Rank change year-on-year -42 -9 +143
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 29 48 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 1.72% 3.36% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 61
10th Percentile £401 £175 £253
25th Percentile £411 £327 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £638 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £618 £700
England median daily rate £415 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -14.87% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.08
75th Percentile - - £22.24
90th Percentile - - £22.28
England median hourly rate £34.00 - £22.30
% change year-on-year - - +3.72%

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 1,685 1,429 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 10.28% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 940 1,381
10th Percentile £325 £255 £210
25th Percentile £428 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +9.89% -12.96%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £630
90th Percentile £750 £810 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 32
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £16.95
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.59 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -25.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £40.07 £35.75 £52.69
90th Percentile £67.70 £101.80 £64.75
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +44.62% -33.71% +13.64%

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 29 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 29 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 - -
Central London -22 1 £400 -27.27% 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:

Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) IaaS
4 3 (10.34%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Stack
5 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 4 (13.79%) NetScaler
2 4 (13.79%) VPN
3 3 (10.34%) DHCP
3 3 (10.34%) DNS
3 3 (10.34%) SMTP
3 3 (10.34%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (6.90%) BGP
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (6.90%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (6.90%) OSPF
4 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
4 2 (6.90%) VXLAN
4 2 (6.90%) WAN
5 1 (3.45%) FabricPath
5 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.45%) LAN
5 1 (3.45%) Multicast
5 1 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Local Government
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Technologist
3 4 (13.79%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (13.79%) Citrix Support
4 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) NetApp Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Principal Technologist
4 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (17.24%) Public Cloud
3 4 (13.79%) Client/Server
3 4 (13.79%) Clustering
4 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
4 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (10.34%) PKI
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.45%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.79%) Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) Migration
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.24%) Change Management
5 5 (17.24%) DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
6 3 (10.34%) IT Strategy
6 3 (10.34%) Security Operations
6 3 (10.34%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (10.34%) Zero Trust
7 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 2 (6.90%) Low Latency
7 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.90%) RBAC
7 2 (6.90%) SDLC
7 2 (6.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) CCA
3 4 (13.79%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) CCNP
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.45%) CBAP
6 1 (3.45%) CCIE
6 1 (3.45%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) XenApp
3 4 (13.79%) XenDesktop
4 3 (10.34%) BitLocker
4 3 (10.34%) Docker
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.90%) KVM
5 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) SCCM
3 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (13.79%) SCVMM
5 3 (10.34%) Puppet
5 3 (10.34%) vCenter Server
5 3 (10.34%) vMotion
6 2 (6.90%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (3.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) VMware
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (24.14%) Citrix
4 6 (20.69%) Oracle
5 5 (17.24%) Cisco
6 3 (10.34%) Dell
6 3 (10.34%) NetApp
7 2 (6.90%) Arista
7 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.45%) Juniper
8 1 (3.45%) Meraki
8 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
8 1 (3.45%) Proofpoint
8 1 (3.45%) Qualys
8 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.45%) Zscaler