Hyper-V Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Hyper-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hyper-V over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 105 92
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +61
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 9 28 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 1.02% 2.24%
As % of the System Software category 3.81% 11.20% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 64
10th Percentile £295 £190 £304
25th Percentile £325 £291 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £338 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -35.71% +69.35%
75th Percentile £563 £526 £675
90th Percentile £645 £547 £712
England median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £200.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +788.89% +12.50% +38.60%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 236 250 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.33% 9.07% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 182 338
10th Percentile £165 £150 £158
25th Percentile £250 £201 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £369 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% -18.06% +20.00%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £569
90th Percentile £700 £638 £690
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 26
10th Percentile £15.16 £14.59 £12.60
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.65 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.16 £19.95 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +3.64% +13.24%
75th Percentile £18.13 £23.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £30.05 £40.64 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in the Midlands

Hyper-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in the Midlands

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the Midlands

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the Midlands

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands +6 6 £300 -11.11% 27
West Midlands -1 3 £550 +57.14% 14
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (11.11%) Rocky
6 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (11.11%) Security Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) RHCE
3 2 (22.22%) RHCSA
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) SELinux
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) Google