Hyper-V Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 219 218
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 105 176 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.86% 1.09%
As % of the System Software category 5.83% 7.32% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 116 205
10th Percentile £243 £225 £283
25th Percentile £350 £313 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £600
90th Percentile £624 £608 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - £32.88 £16.93
25th Percentile - £50.31 £17.94
Median hourly rate £200.00 £65.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +207.69% +233.33% +22.95%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £29.38
90th Percentile - £78.50 £46.25
UK median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £20.00
% change year-on-year +740.34% +19.00% +23.08%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,801 2,406 3,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.09% 11.81% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 1,626 2,564
10th Percentile £190 £178 £181
25th Percentile £313 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.76% +6.79%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £657 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 191 184
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.16 £16.50
Median hourly rate £32.32 £19.18 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year +68.52% -51.81% +122.63%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.48 £78.00 £72.63
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.40 £54.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -58.52% +170.00%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in the UK excluding London

Hyper-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in the UK excluding London

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the UK excluding London

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the UK excluding London

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South West +64 35 £594 +18.75% 31
South East +7 23 £563 +7.66% 88
North of England -4 14 £325 -7.14% 72
East of England +33 12 £450 -7.69% 54
Midlands 0 10 £400 +18.52% 59
North West -3 9 £325 -3.70% 42
Scotland -14 8 £575 +76.92% 14
East Midlands +1 6 £300 -11.11% 30
Yorkshire +6 5 £351 -3.31% 20
Wales +4 5 £225 +2.27% 6
West Midlands +3 4 £550 +100.00% 26
Hyper-V
UK

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (18.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.52%) IIS
3 9 (8.57%) SharePoint
4 6 (5.71%) Skype for Business
5 4 (3.81%) Confluence
6 2 (1.90%) Apache
6 2 (1.90%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.95%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.00%) Azure
2 33 (31.43%) AWS
3 23 (21.90%) OpenShift
4 18 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (8.57%) GCP
5 9 (8.57%) IaaS
5 9 (8.57%) PaaS
6 4 (3.81%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.81%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.90%) Cohesity
9 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.95%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (50.48%) DNS
2 42 (40.00%) DHCP
3 24 (22.86%) Firewall
4 19 (18.10%) TCP/IP
5 18 (17.14%) VPN
6 16 (15.24%) HTTP
7 9 (8.57%) Skype
8 8 (7.62%) SMTP
9 7 (6.67%) SAN
10 6 (5.71%) Unified Communications
11 5 (4.76%) LAN
11 5 (4.76%) SSL
11 5 (4.76%) WAN
12 4 (3.81%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (3.81%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (3.81%) NAS
12 4 (3.81%) Network Security
12 4 (3.81%) VLAN
13 3 (2.86%) IPsec
13 3 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (7.62%) Big Data
1 8 (7.62%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.95%) MySQL
4 1 (0.95%) Power BI
4 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) JIRA
2 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.90%) GitLab
3 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (20.95%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.81%) Military
5 3 (2.86%) Legal
6 2 (1.90%) Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Finance
6 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (12.38%) Administrator
3 12 (11.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) VMWare Administrator
6 8 (7.62%) Wintel Administrator
7 7 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) IT Support
8 5 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (3.81%) Analyst
9 4 (3.81%) Architect
10 3 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (2.86%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) LDAP
2 3 (2.86%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.95%) SOAP
3 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.95%) PKI
2 18 (17.14%) Clustering
3 13 (12.38%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.81%) Replication
5 3 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Smartcard
6 2 (1.90%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.90%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.95%) CESG
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 90 (85.71%) Windows
2 76 (72.38%) Windows Server
3 36 (34.29%) Linux
4 23 (21.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (20.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (18.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (16.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (15.24%) Windows 10
9 5 (4.76%) Mac OS
9 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (2.86%) Solaris
10 3 (2.86%) Unix
11 2 (1.90%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.95%) Android
12 1 (0.95%) CentOS
12 1 (0.95%) Rocky
12 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.95%) VMS
12 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (43.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (19.05%) ITIL
4 18 (17.14%) Containerisation
5 16 (15.24%) Service Management
6 13 (12.38%) DevOps
7 12 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 11 (10.48%) Patch Management
9 10 (9.52%) Agile
9 10 (9.52%) Software Deployment
10 9 (8.57%) Customer Service
10 9 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (8.57%) High Availability
10 9 (8.57%) Incident Management
11 8 (7.62%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (7.62%) Machine Learning
12 6 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (5.71%) Information Security
12 6 (5.71%) Migration
12 6 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.90%) PowerShell
2 19 (18.10%) Python
3 17 (16.19%) Java
4 16 (15.24%) Bash
5 14 (13.33%) SQL
6 10 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 38 (36.19%) DV Cleared
3 31 (29.52%) SC Cleared
4 19 (18.10%) Degree
5 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.71%) DBS Check
7 5 (4.76%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.86%) MCSE
9 2 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.90%) RHCE
9 2 (1.90%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.95%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.95%) CISSP
10 1 (0.95%) MCP
10 1 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) SLA
2 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.90%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.95%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (59.05%) Active Directory
2 61 (58.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (30.48%) Docker
4 18 (17.14%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (8.57%) Terminal Services
6 8 (7.62%) BitLocker
6 8 (7.62%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (7.62%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (7.62%) vSphere
7 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (3.81%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.95%) Firmware
10 1 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.95%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (27.62%) Ansible
2 26 (24.76%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.86%) Puppet
4 20 (19.05%) vCenter Server
5 17 (16.19%) SCCM
5 17 (16.19%) Terraform
6 15 (14.29%) WSUS
7 13 (12.38%) vMotion
8 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (7.62%) Nagios
9 7 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (4.76%) NetApp OnCommand
11 5 (4.76%) Podman
12 3 (2.86%) Norton AntiVirus
13 2 (1.90%) Nessus
13 2 (1.90%) SCVMM
13 2 (1.90%) SELinux
14 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.95%) Salt
Vendors
1 75 (71.43%) VMware
2 44 (41.90%) Microsoft
3 21 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 12 (11.43%) Cisco
5 11 (10.48%) HP
5 11 (10.48%) Symantec
6 10 (9.52%) Citrix
6 10 (9.52%) Veeam
7 9 (8.57%) Google
8 5 (4.76%) Oracle
9 4 (3.81%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (3.81%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.86%) Meraki
11 2 (1.90%) Dell
11 2 (1.90%) Juniper
11 2 (1.90%) NETGEAR
11 2 (1.90%) Remedy
11 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.90%) Tenable