Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 102 90
Rank change year-on-year -26 -12 +24
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 7 4 22
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.25% 1.24%
As % of the System Software category 1.72% 2.34% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 17
10th Percentile £261 £408 £257
25th Percentile £263 £456 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +29.41% -8.11%
75th Percentile £400 £631 £538
90th Percentile £465 £673 £585
England median daily rate £414 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -11.97% +4.44% +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 406 171 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.90% 10.84% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 119 163
10th Percentile £223 £160 £151
25th Percentile £385 £200 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £583 £611 £541
90th Percentile £675 £688 £685
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £15.22 £17.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -16.38%
75th Percentile £58.25 - £19.38
90th Percentile - £27.50 £22.23
England median hourly rate £41.94 £28.71 £47.70
% change year-on-year +46.11% -39.82% +58.99%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the West Midlands

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 11 January 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
Coventry - 3 £275 - 2
Shropshire - 2 £400 - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £550 -
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall Support
2 2 (28.57%) Server Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Server Support
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) vSphere
4 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Commvault
4 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam