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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 113 104
Rank change year-on-year -31 -9 -9
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 20 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.28% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 6.27% 1.92% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 0
10th Percentile £250 £459 -
25th Percentile £425 £509 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% - -
75th Percentile £534 £900 -
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +183.33% +26.05% -45.60%

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 319 261 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.23% 14.76% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 180 141
10th Percentile £210 £225 £185
25th Percentile £305 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £581 £625
90th Percentile £600 £639 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% +253.13% -28.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year +73.33% +53.06% -48.42%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 - 9 £475 -
Herefordshire +2 5 - - 2
Birmingham -8 4 £430 -4.44% 4
Staffordshire - 2 £475 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) DNS
2 11 (55.00%) DHCP
3 2 (10.00%) SAN
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
3 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) Skype
4 1 (5.00%) VLAN
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Windows
1 18 (90.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (35.00%) Cost Management
4 7 (35.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (30.00%) User Experience
6 5 (25.00%) Cost Control
6 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) Information Security
7 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (10.00%) Inventory Control
8 2 (10.00%) Inventory Management
8 2 (10.00%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) CCNA
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (20.00%) MCSE
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (20.00%) RHCA
3 4 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (35.00%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (35.00%) vSphere
4 4 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Podman
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 16 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Veeam