Hyper-V Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 105 149
Rank change year-on-year -6 +44 +16
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 9 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.52% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the System Software category 5.88% 6.57% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 15
10th Percentile £224 £288 £382
25th Percentile £325 £397 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £539
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -16.46% +30.58%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £563
90th Percentile £600 £618 £585
UK median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% +5.88%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 153 274 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.88% 13.57% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 193 287
10th Percentile £204 £200 £225
25th Percentile £400 £324 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -8.84% +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £546
90th Percentile £589 £630 £629
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £16.69 £24.34
25th Percentile - £19.28 £29.66
Median hourly rate - £42.34 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year - +4.08% -8.58%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £50.80
90th Percentile - - £55.57
UK median hourly rate £33.64 £23.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +45.29% -53.70% +132.56%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in Scotland

Hyper-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in Scotland

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Scotland

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in Scotland

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Edinburgh 0 5 £550 +22.22% 3
Glasgow -17 3 £600 +84.62% 2
Banffshire - 1 £190 - 2
Hyper-V
UK

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (11.11%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) IMAP
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) ICT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) LDAP
1 3 (33.33%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Email Filtering
2 4 (44.44%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
2 4 (44.44%) Security Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
3 3 (33.33%) Line Management
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Commvault
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Pegasus
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Sage
2 1 (11.11%) SonicWALL
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Xero