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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 327 340
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +154
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 23 55 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 1.48% 3.34% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 75
10th Percentile £410 £171 £313
25th Percentile £425 £292 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £624 £531 £638
90th Percentile £790 £625 £745
England median daily rate £400 £520 £440
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +4.76%
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% +73.75%

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 1,551 1,649 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.34% 10.51% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 1,101 1,711
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £655
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 29
10th Percentile £21.10 £20.10 £24.38
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.10 £31.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -52.29% +27.29%
75th Percentile £31.63 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £39.88 £110.05 £75.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £52.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year -43.13% +20.57% +86.17%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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
Central London +1 4 £550 +29.41% 5
South London -2 2 - - 1
West London -8 2 - - 1
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 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) DHCP
2 8 (34.78%) DNS
3 4 (17.39%) LAN
3 4 (17.39%) WAN
4 3 (13.04%) SAN
5 2 (8.70%) BGP
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (8.70%) NAS
5 2 (8.70%) OSPF
5 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.70%) VXLAN
5 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.35%) FabricPath
6 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.35%) Multicast
6 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Front Office
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Server Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) CMDB
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.35%) HP Storage
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) PMI
3 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Windows
2 14 (60.87%) Windows Server
3 8 (34.78%) Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
6 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
6 2 (8.70%) CentOS
6 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) High Availability
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (17.39%) ITSM
4 3 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (13.04%) Zero Trust
5 2 (8.70%) AI
5 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
5 2 (8.70%) B2B
5 2 (8.70%) Benchmarking
5 2 (8.70%) Business Continuity
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) ETL
5 2 (8.70%) Service Management
5 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (8.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) CCNP
1 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CCIE
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CBAP
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE Data Center
3 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (4.35%) MCSA
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) VCAP
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
2 14 (60.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) KVM
3 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) VMware
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Cisco
4 4 (17.39%) Dell
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.70%) Arista
5 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) Apple
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.35%) HP
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.35%) Proofpoint
6 1 (4.35%) Qualys
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow