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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 97 104
Rank change year-on-year -55 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 16 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 4.40% 2.28% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile - £520 -
25th Percentile £425 £663 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £900 £225
Median % change year-on-year -47.22% +300.00% -35.71%
75th Percentile £550 - £278
90th Percentile - - £482
England median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £200.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -68.43% +740.34% +19.00%

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 364 219 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.62% 13.81% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 152 156
10th Percentile £213 £191 £175
25th Percentile £350 £344 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £544 £620 £600
90th Percentile £626 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £42.50 - £14.59
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.32 £15.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.65 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.02% +129.03% -26.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.97 £19.95
90th Percentile - - £22.23
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -54.98%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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
Warwickshire - 7 £475 -
Birmingham -23 5 £428 -5.00% 2
Herefordshire -3 3 - - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £475 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 1 (6.25%) LAN
4 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) SSL
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) VLAN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
1 13 (81.25%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) Cost Management
3 7 (43.75%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (37.50%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Cost Control
5 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
5 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Information Security
7 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
7 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (18.75%) User Experience
8 1 (6.25%) Change Management
8 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (6.25%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) MCSE
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) RHCA
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (50.00%) vSphere
4 3 (18.75%) Docker
5 1 (6.25%) KVM
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (18.75%) Podman
4 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) VMware
2 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Atlassian
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam