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 citing Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	420	351	321
Rank change year-on-year	-69	-30	+27
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V	39	23	53
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.19%	0.17%	0.34%
As % of the System Software category	2.07%	1.52%	3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted	26	15	22
10^th Percentile	£243	£410	£229
25^th Percentile	£403	£425	£350
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£500	£450
Median % change year-on-year	-5.00%	+11.11%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£575	£624	£534
90^th Percentile	£638	£790	£625
England median daily rate	£468	£400	£520
% change year-on-year	+16.88%	-23.08%	+18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£87.50	-	-
Median hourly rate	£90.00	-	£23.80
75^th Percentile	£92.50	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	£85.00	£32.00	£46.59
% change year-on-year	+165.63%	-31.31%	+41.12%

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 citing system software skills in London.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	1,887	1,514	1,637
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	9.25%	11.28%	10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,303	940	1,095
10^th Percentile	£263	£300	£263
25^th Percentile	£418	£419	£409
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-2.95%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£650
90^th Percentile	£729	£701	£750
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£513
% change year-on-year	-	-2.44%	+2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	15	32	11
10^th Percentile	£17.68	£21.10	£20.00
25^th Percentile	£24.03	£22.50	-
Median hourly rate	£30.00	£24.00	£23.80
Median % change year-on-year	+25.00%	+0.84%	-52.29%
75^th Percentile	£45.63	£35.75	£77.50
90^th Percentile	£55.00	£50.13	£112.00
England median hourly rate	£63.31	£30.00	£50.00
% change year-on-year	+111.03%	-40.00%	+14.17%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 27 October 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.

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 27 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-21	7	£625	+13.64%	2
Hyper-V England

Hyper-V Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Hyper-V also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Hyper-V.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Windows	87.2%	34
2	VMware	82.1%	32
3	Windows Server	79.5%	31
4	Active Directory	74.4%	29
4	Microsoft	74.4%	29
6	VMware Infrastructure	71.8%	28
7	Azure	66.7%	26
8	PowerShell	64.1%	25
9	DNS	61.5%	24
9	Infrastructure Engineering	61.5%	24
11	DHCP	59.0%	23
12	ITIL	46.2%	18
12	Security Cleared	46.2%	18
14	Linux	38.5%	15
15	SCCM	33.3%	13
15	Vulnerability Remediation	33.3%	13
17	SC Cleared	30.8%	12
18	Ansible	28.2%	11
18	Infrastructure as Code	28.2%	11
18	Root Cause Analysis	28.2%	11
18	vSphere	28.2%	11
22	Entra ID	25.6%	10
22	Microsoft Intune	25.6%	10
22	Migration	25.6%	10
22	Security Hardening	25.6%	10
26	DevOps	20.5%	8
26	Patch Management	20.5%	8
26	Problem-Solving	20.5%	8
29	AWS	17.9%	7
29	Change Management	17.9%	7

Hyper-V Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	74.4%	29
2	VMware Infrastructure	71.8%	28
3	vSphere	28.2%	11
4	Virtual Servers	12.8%	5
5	VMware ESXi	10.3%	4
6	BitLocker	7.7%	3
6	Docker	7.7%	3
6	Microsoft App-V	7.7%	3
6	Terminal Services	7.7%	3
6	Virtual Desktop	7.7%	3
11	Microsoft Virtual Server	5.1%	2
11	Virtual Machines	5.1%	2
13	Ceph	2.6%	1
13	KVM	2.6%	1
13	NFS	2.6%	1
13	Samba	2.6%	1
13	VMware Workstation	2.6%	1