Hyper-V Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 120 149
Rank change year-on-year -11 +29 +33
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 28 86 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.85% 1.52% 1.10%
As % of the System Software category 6.03% 10.24% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 54 50
10th Percentile £158 £400 £211
25th Percentile £353 £462 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +30.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £688
90th Percentile £625 £608 £717
England median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £20.00
% change year-on-year +740.34% +19.00% +38.60%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 464 840 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.09% 14.80% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 532 546
10th Percentile £207 £208 £200
25th Percentile £320 £412 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 51 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £32.77 £20.03 £20.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% +7.07% +156.25%
75th Percentile £60.13 £67.34 £63.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £31.39 £22.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +41.69% -55.70% +150.00%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in the South East

Hyper-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in the South East

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the South East over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the South East

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the South East

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Hampshire +6 14 £575 +4.55% 18
Thames Valley -11 7 £350 -42.15% 35
Kent - 7 £375 - 13
Berkshire -5 5 £350 -42.15% 10
Oxfordshire -1 1 - - 12
Buckinghamshire - 1 £450 - 13
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.86%) Confluence
3 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.57%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) GCP
2 8 (28.57%) IaaS
2 8 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 8 (28.57%) PaaS
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (71.43%) DNS
2 15 (53.57%) DHCP
2 15 (53.57%) VPN
3 14 (50.00%) Firewall
4 8 (28.57%) SMTP
4 8 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 5 (17.86%) SSL
5 5 (17.86%) VLAN
6 4 (14.29%) VSAN
7 2 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (3.57%) Internet
8 1 (3.57%) LAN
8 1 (3.57%) Modbus
8 1 (3.57%) NAS
8 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.57%) Profibus
8 1 (3.57%) SAN
8 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.57%) Skype
8 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (28.57%) Big Data
1 8 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Law
2 2 (7.14%) Legal
2 2 (7.14%) Military
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Support Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) IT Support
7 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (7.14%) Coordinator
8 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Support
8 2 (7.14%) Project Coordinator
8 2 (7.14%) Technical Project Coordinator
8 2 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Clustering
2 12 (42.86%) PKI
3 9 (32.14%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.14%) Fat Client
4 2 (7.14%) Thin Client
5 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (96.43%) Windows
2 20 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 10 (35.71%) Linux
4 9 (32.14%) Windows 10
5 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (7.14%) Solaris
8 2 (7.14%) Windows 7
9 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 8 (28.57%) Software Deployment
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.71%) ITIL
5 2 (7.14%) Budget Management
5 2 (7.14%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.14%) CRM
5 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.14%) Power Management
5 2 (7.14%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2
5 2 (7.14%) Project Management
5 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (7.14%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (3.57%) Threat Management
6 1 (3.57%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) Degree
4 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.57%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.57%) MCP
6 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) IEC 61131
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (67.86%) Active Directory
2 16 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (35.71%) Terminal Services
3 10 (35.71%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (35.71%) vSphere
4 8 (28.57%) BitLocker
4 8 (28.57%) Docker
4 8 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) vCenter Server
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Nagios
2 8 (28.57%) Puppet
2 8 (28.57%) vMotion
3 5 (17.86%) Tivoli
4 3 (10.71%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (10.71%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (10.71%) WSUS
5 2 (7.14%) SCVMM
6 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (96.43%) VMware
2 16 (57.14%) Citrix
2 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 11 (39.29%) Symantec
4 8 (28.57%) Google
4 8 (28.57%) HP
5 7 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (17.86%) Veeam
7 2 (7.14%) Intel
7 2 (7.14%) Juniper
7 2 (7.14%) NETGEAR
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle
7 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.14%) TP-LINK
8 1 (3.57%) Cisco
8 1 (3.57%) F5
8 1 (3.57%) Rockwell
8 1 (3.57%) Siemens