Hyper-V Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 112 111 140
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.94% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 2.89% 10.16% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 13
10th Percentile £180 £208 £113
25th Percentile £256 £210 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £313
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £350 £438 £394
90th Percentile - £569 £495
England median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +11.76%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 277 256 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.08% 9.29% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 182 366
10th Percentile £157 £178 £200
25th Percentile £250 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £564 £670 £650
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 29
10th Percentile £33.73 - £13.99
25th Percentile £40.81 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%
75th Percentile £73.81 £26.38 £52.13
90th Percentile £82.78 £46.18 £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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in the North West

Hyper-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in the North West

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the North West

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the North West

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire 0 6 £350 - 3
Merseyside +4 1 £158 -16.00% 4
Cumbria - 1 £200 - 5
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (37.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DHCP
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Patch Management
1 6 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
3 2 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) NetApp OnCommand
2 3 (37.50%) vMotion
2 3 (37.50%) WSUS
3 1 (12.50%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (12.50%) Apple