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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 342 329
Rank change year-on-year -64 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 39 25 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 2.15% 1.68% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 28
10th Percentile £250 £413 £298
25th Percentile £410 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £575
90th Percentile £638 £775 £643
England median daily rate £475 £400 £520
% change year-on-year +18.75% -23.08% +21.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £34.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +150.00% +42.86% -45.60%

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 1,812 1,492 1,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.96% 11.09% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 928 1,184
10th Percentile £250 £300 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £631
90th Percentile £725 £704 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £16.45 £22.40 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £22.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% +0.04% -60.02%
75th Percentile £54.88 £35.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.60 £42.25 £102.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -40.45%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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
Central London -17 7 £625 +13.64% 6
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 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
3 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Entra ID
3 7 (17.95%) AWS
4 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) IaaS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.26%) PaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Stack
6 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.56%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (56.41%) DNS
2 21 (53.85%) DHCP
3 8 (20.51%) VPN
4 7 (17.95%) Firewall
5 6 (15.38%) SAN
6 4 (10.26%) NAS
6 4 (10.26%) SMTP
7 3 (7.69%) SD-WAN
7 3 (7.69%) WAN
8 2 (5.13%) SSL
8 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
8 2 (5.13%) VLAN
8 2 (5.13%) VSAN
9 1 (2.56%) BGP
9 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.56%) HTTPS
9 1 (2.56%) SSH
9 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
9 1 (2.56%) Wireless
9 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Legal
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Server Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.13%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) HTML
3 1 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (17.95%) Clustering
3 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 5 (12.82%) PKI
5 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) BYOD
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.56%) CMDB
7 1 (2.56%) EMC VNX
7 1 (2.56%) Fat Client
7 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.56%) PACS
7 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) Replication
7 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.56%) Thin Client
7 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (84.62%) Windows
2 30 (76.92%) Windows Server
3 16 (41.03%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.56%) CentOS
7 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (48.72%) ITIL
3 10 (25.64%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (23.08%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (20.51%) Migration
5 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) High Availability
6 7 (17.95%) Service Management
7 6 (15.38%) Change Management
7 6 (15.38%) Security Hardening
7 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (12.82%) Patch Management
9 4 (10.26%) Agile
9 4 (10.26%) AI
9 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.26%) Server Patching
9 4 (10.26%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) Bash
2 2 (5.13%) Bicep
2 2 (5.13%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
4 7 (17.95%) Degree
5 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (7.69%) CCNP
7 2 (5.13%) CCNA
7 2 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.56%) LFCS
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.56%) RHCE
8 1 (2.56%) RHCSA
8 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) SLA
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.56%) DICOM
3 1 (2.56%) HL7
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (74.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (69.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (23.08%) vSphere
4 4 (10.26%) BitLocker
4 4 (10.26%) Docker
4 4 (10.26%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (10.26%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (7.69%) Terminal Services
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.56%) Ceph
7 1 (2.56%) KVM
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.56%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) SCCM
2 12 (30.77%) Ansible
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
5 4 (10.26%) Puppet
5 4 (10.26%) vCenter Server
5 4 (10.26%) vMotion
6 3 (7.69%) Nagios
6 3 (7.69%) SCOM
7 2 (5.13%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (5.13%) SCOrch
7 2 (5.13%) WSUS
8 1 (2.56%) Grafana
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.56%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 32 (82.05%) VMware
2 26 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.38%) Citrix
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco
5 3 (7.69%) Google
5 3 (7.69%) HP
5 3 (7.69%) Symantec
6 2 (5.13%) Meraki
6 2 (5.13%) NetApp
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.13%) Veeam
6 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.56%) Apple
7 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.56%) Juniper
7 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.56%) Splunk
7 1 (2.56%) Varonis
7 1 (2.56%) Veritas