Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Hyper-V
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.34% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 - -
75th Percentile £467 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £313 £365
% change year-on-year +12.00% -14.38% +4.29%

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 168 56 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.20% 20.90% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 43 60
10th Percentile £317 £220 £187
25th Percentile £413 £464 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +22.09% -21.82%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £588
90th Percentile £608 £650 £631
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £441 £405
% change year-on-year +7.65% +8.95% -4.71%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Sheffield - 1 £482 - 2
Hyper-V
Yorkshire

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) KVM
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft