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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 93 90
Rank change year-on-year -57 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 3 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.22% 1.03%
As % of the System Software category 1.90% 1.57% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £284 £408 £190
25th Percentile £333 £456 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £388
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +41.94% -18.42%
75th Percentile £419 £631 £525
90th Percentile £430 £673 £542
England median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.84 £200.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -66.08% +797.87% +11.38%

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 422 191 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.98% 14.13% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 137 125
10th Percentile £263 £172 £182
25th Percentile £373 £315 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +21.88% -13.98%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £575
90th Percentile £630 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £484
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.47% -7.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £15.22 £14.41
25th Percentile £42.50 £15.95 £15.21
Median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +248.23% +1.85% -16.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £29.85 £20.90
90th Percentile £73.64 £37.86 £22.61
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +81.03% +34.88% -46.25%

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 April 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 April 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
Herefordshire -14 2 - - 2
Shropshire - 2 £400 -
Birmingham - 2 £428 - 4
Coventry - 1 £265 - 1
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 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (25.00%) User Experience
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Line Management
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Bash
3 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
2 2 (25.00%) RHCA
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) Docker
4 1 (12.50%) KVM
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Podman
4 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
4 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Commvault
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam