Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 104 128
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 -18
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 4 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.42% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 1.53% 4.74% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 12
10th Percentile £198 £292 £171
25th Percentile £272 £350 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £369
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +22.03% +3.51%
75th Percentile £384 £575 £428
90th Percentile £469 £668 £438
England median daily rate £450 £520 £425
% change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% +1.19%
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 £32.00 £23.80 £43.75
% change year-on-year +34.45% -45.60% +175.85%

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 262 211 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.19% 8.85% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 135 298
10th Percentile £206 £213 £190
25th Percentile £350 £350 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £514 £581 £550
90th Percentile £625 £673 £638
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 35
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.45 £15.73
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.18 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +3.68% +5.71%
75th Percentile £43.06 £32.50 £35.43
90th Percentile £75.85 £84.00 £47.45
England median hourly rate £36.00 £24.18 £47.86
% change year-on-year +48.88% -49.48% +117.56%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the North West

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 14 September 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 -18 2 £325 - 2
Manchester -3 1 £500 +8.11% 12
Merseyside - 1 £158 - 4
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 2 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (50.00%) vMotion
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe
3 1 (25.00%) Apple