Hyper-V Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 338 319
Rank change year-on-year -99 -19 +80
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 177 198 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 3.71% 5.21% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 120 191
10th Percentile £249 £250 £225
25th Percentile £355 £352 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £510 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +16.57% +2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £550
90th Percentile £641 £675 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £535 £400
% change year-on-year -25.23% +33.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £28.00 - £21.33
25th Percentile £33.00 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +51.11% +0.45% +4.19%
75th Percentile £76.27 £23.75 £48.91
90th Percentile £82.40 - £59.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.77 £22.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +227.87% -48.57% +103.49%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,772 3,798 5,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 12.26% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,251 2,473 3,485
10th Percentile £205 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +7.81% -8.57%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 89 249
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.46 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £38.47 £29.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.66% -33.71% +11.46%
75th Percentile £72.97 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £88.70 £75.00 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £37.07 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.13% -19.72% +92.10%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the UK

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England -57 160 £438 -12.50% 166
UK excluding London -80 118 £400 -25.23% 154
Work from Home +2 61 £415 +3.75% 57
London -27 39 £550 +37.50% 29
South East -14 38 £400 -16.88% 62
North of England -48 25 £350 - 37
South West -39 22 £525 -12.50% 18
Midlands -44 20 £405 +1.25% 19
North West -28 13 £333 -5.00% 21
East Midlands -24 12 £415 +18.57% 4
Yorkshire -54 12 £360 +15.20% 13
East of England -16 11 £475 +1.82% 13
West Midlands -43 8 £360 -34.55% 15
Scotland -28 2 £525 -6.67% 3
Wales -8 1 £550 +137.84% 4

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.82%) IIS
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 100 (56.50%) Azure
2 56 (31.64%) AWS
3 30 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.47%) GCP
5 12 (6.78%) Entra ID
6 11 (6.21%) IaaS
6 11 (6.21%) PaaS
7 8 (4.52%) Azure Stack
7 8 (4.52%) Nutanix
8 7 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.69%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.69%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.13%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (34.46%) DNS
2 49 (27.68%) DHCP
3 39 (22.03%) Firewall
4 30 (16.95%) VPN
5 24 (13.56%) TCP/IP
6 20 (11.30%) VLAN
7 18 (10.17%) Software-Defined Networking
8 12 (6.78%) SAN
9 10 (5.65%) Network Security
10 9 (5.08%) WAN
11 7 (3.95%) LAN
12 5 (2.82%) NAS
12 5 (2.82%) NetScaler
13 4 (2.26%) OSPF
13 4 (2.26%) SD-WAN
13 4 (2.26%) SMTP
13 4 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (1.69%) BGP
14 3 (1.69%) Ethernet VPN
14 3 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.69%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.13%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.56%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 34 (19.21%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.91%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.78%) Finance
6 11 (6.21%) Local Government
7 5 (2.82%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (2.82%) Military
7 5 (2.82%) Police
8 4 (2.26%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.26%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Electronics
10 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (38.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (10.73%) Support Engineer
3 14 (7.91%) Senior
4 13 (7.34%) Architect
5 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Support
5 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 11 (6.21%) Network Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) 3rd Line Support
7 10 (5.65%) Infrastructure Architect
7 10 (5.65%) Server Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Azure Consultant
9 8 (4.52%) Consultant
9 8 (4.52%) Hyper-V Consultant
9 8 (4.52%) PowerShell Consultant
9 8 (4.52%) VMware Consultant
10 7 (3.95%) Analyst
10 7 (3.95%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.26%) Keycloak
2 3 (1.69%) Middleware
3 1 (0.56%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.56%) LDAP
3 1 (0.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 13 (7.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (7.34%) Clustering
3 13 (7.34%) PKI
4 12 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (5.08%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (4.52%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.82%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.82%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.26%) NHS
10 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.13%) CCTV
11 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.13%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 111 (62.71%) Windows
2 66 (37.29%) Windows Server
3 53 (29.94%) Linux
4 14 (7.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (5.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (5.08%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.95%) VMS
8 6 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.82%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.69%) AIX
10 3 (1.69%) Unix
11 1 (0.56%) CentOS
11 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (40.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (24.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (24.29%) ITIL
4 24 (13.56%) High Availability
5 23 (12.99%) Agile
6 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (11.86%) Change Management
8 19 (10.73%) Business Continuity
9 17 (9.60%) Migration
10 15 (8.47%) Service Management
10 15 (8.47%) SIEM
11 14 (7.91%) Project Delivery
12 13 (7.34%) Runbook
12 13 (7.34%) Zero Trust
13 12 (6.78%) Capacity Planning
13 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (6.21%) DevOps
14 11 (6.21%) Preventative Maintenance
14 11 (6.21%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 64 (36.16%) PowerShell
2 29 (16.38%) Python
3 15 (8.47%) Bash
4 12 (6.78%) SQL
5 9 (5.08%) Bicep
5 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 51 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.30%) Azure Certification
3 20 (11.30%) Degree
3 20 (11.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (7.34%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (6.21%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (6.21%) Server+ Certification
6 9 (5.08%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.82%) CCA
7 5 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.82%) Citrix Certification
7 5 (2.82%) NVQ Level 3
8 4 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.26%) CCNP
8 4 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.13%) CCIE
9 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.26%) SLA
2 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.69%) NIST
3 2 (1.13%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 104 (58.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 71 (40.11%) Active Directory
3 16 (9.04%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (7.91%) KVM
5 10 (5.65%) Docker
5 10 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.82%) XenApp
6 5 (2.82%) XenDesktop
7 4 (2.26%) BitLocker
7 4 (2.26%) Firmware
7 4 (2.26%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (2.26%) vSphere
8 2 (1.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (19.21%) Terraform
2 30 (16.95%) Ansible
3 18 (10.17%) SCCM
4 14 (7.91%) Kubernetes
5 12 (6.78%) Failover Clustering
6 11 (6.21%) vCenter Server
7 10 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (5.08%) vRealize
9 6 (3.39%) Nagios
9 6 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.39%) vMotion
10 5 (2.82%) Puppet
10 5 (2.82%) SCVMM
11 4 (2.26%) VxRail
12 3 (1.69%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.69%) IBM BigFix
12 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 3 (1.69%) WSUS
13 2 (1.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 134 (75.71%) VMware
2 81 (45.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.47%) Cisco
4 13 (7.34%) SolarWinds
5 11 (6.21%) Citrix
6 10 (5.65%) Oracle
7 9 (5.08%) Dell
7 9 (5.08%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.95%) NetApp
8 7 (3.95%) Veeam
9 6 (3.39%) HP
10 5 (2.82%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.26%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (2.26%) Thales
12 3 (1.69%) Arista
12 3 (1.69%) Google
12 3 (1.69%) IBM
12 3 (1.69%) Juniper
13 2 (1.13%) Brocade
13 2 (1.13%) Fortinet