Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 121 103
Rank change year-on-year -17 -18 +46
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 10 13 41
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.37% 0.48% 1.40%
As % of the System Software category 2.62% 4.28% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 35
10th Percentile £263 £282 £242
25th Percentile £344 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +42.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £731 £530 £475
90th Percentile £900 - £600
England median daily rate £400 £520 £438
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.86% +4.17%

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 381 304 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.04% 11.32% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 202 306
10th Percentile £170 £160 £160
25th Percentile £315 £268 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% +11.50%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £538
90th Percentile £653 £660 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 18
10th Percentile - £16.43 £14.14
25th Percentile £54.75 £17.08 £17.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £18.32 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +208.41% -0.97% +5.71%
75th Percentile £58.25 £21.89 £26.00
90th Percentile - £23.94 £28.75
England median hourly rate £34.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.00% -37.74% +105.24%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hyper-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the Midlands

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Hyper-V

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 3 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
West Midlands -3 7 £500 - 17
East Midlands -14 3 £450 -9.64% 12
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) NAS
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) Broadband
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall Support
2 2 (20.00%) Server Support
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Coaching
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) vSphere
4 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam