Hyper-V Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +53
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 5 10 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.32% 0.49% 1.46%
As % of the System Software category 2.33% 4.88% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 28
10th Percentile £520 - £271
25th Percentile £663 £190 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £225 £350
Median % change year-on-year +300.00% -35.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile - £278 £488
90th Percentile - £482 £576
England median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 215 205 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.92% 9.95% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 154 204
10th Percentile £190 £180 £160
25th Percentile £352 £266 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% +3.66%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £576
90th Percentile £700 £675 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £14.59 £14.42
25th Percentile £31.32 £15.65 £15.98
Median hourly rate £36.65 £16.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +129.03% -26.44% +31.82%
75th Percentile £41.97 £19.95 £28.75
90th Percentile - £22.23 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +34.53% -55.40% +150.00%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in the West Midlands

Hyper-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in the West Midlands

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the West Midlands

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the West Midlands

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Herefordshire - 3 £900 - 2
Worcestershire - 2 £900 - 2
Birmingham +8 1 £450 +125.00% 7
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Stack
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) RHCE
3 1 (20.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam