Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 178 152 152
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 -31
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 7 15 46
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.36% 0.90%
As % of the System Software category 1.25% 3.13% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 37
10th Percentile - £254 £284
25th Percentile £313 £331 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £463 £380
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +21.71% +8.57%
75th Percentile £438 £597 £425
90th Percentile £490 £666 £480
England median daily rate £400 £520 £438
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.86% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £23.80 £43.75
% change year-on-year +42.86% -45.60% +130.26%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 561 479 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.83% 11.61% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 311 503
10th Percentile £200 £200 £186
25th Percentile £340 £356 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +7.95% -2.22%
75th Percentile £534 £576 £564
90th Percentile £610 £650 £649
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 46
10th Percentile - £14.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.31 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +10.53% -5.61%
75th Percentile £19.25 £25.32 £29.38
90th Percentile £39.75 £58.03 £47.35
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 North of England

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the North of England

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the North of England

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire -20 4 £388 -13.89% 14
North West -18 3 £325 -31.58% 17
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (28.57%) CICS
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) FCoE
3 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) Multicast
3 1 (14.29%) NAS
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Wintel Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Solaris
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (28.57%) zOS
5 1 (14.29%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (28.57%) KVM
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) NFS
4 1 (14.29%) SRDF
4 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 2 (28.57%) vMotion
2 2 (28.57%) WSUS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage