Hyper-V Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 283 313
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 +100
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 41 59 145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.40% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 3.57% 4.10% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 109
10th Percentile £350 £319 £325
25th Percentile £364 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £676 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £472 £450
% change year-on-year +11.23% +4.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £20.00
% change year-on-year +740.34% +19.00% +23.61%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,148 1,439 2,930
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.42% 9.80% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 1,060 2,052
10th Percentile £330 £290 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -2.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 115
10th Percentile £28.58 £14.38 £17.11
25th Percentile £53.63 £15.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £29.28 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -53.16% +123.57%
75th Percentile £92.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £53.35
% change year-on-year +17.65% -55.39% +166.75%

Hyper-V
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hyper-V trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hyper-V.

Hyper-V daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hyper-V daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hyper-V.

Hyper-V hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.76%) Confluence
2 3 (7.32%) IIS
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.32%) Skype for Business
3 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.44%) Apache
4 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) Entra ID
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.76%) AWS
4 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.44%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.44%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) DHCP
1 17 (41.46%) DNS
2 10 (24.39%) Firewall
2 10 (24.39%) VPN
3 6 (14.63%) Network Security
4 5 (12.20%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
5 4 (9.76%) SSL
5 4 (9.76%) VLAN
6 3 (7.32%) SAN
7 2 (4.88%) Skype
7 2 (4.88%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.44%) LAN
8 1 (2.44%) VSAN
8 1 (2.44%) WAN
8 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) JIRA
General
1 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Law
4 1 (2.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Legal
4 1 (2.44%) Military
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Technical Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Administrator
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Wintel Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) Senior
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Coordinator
7 2 (4.88%) VMWare Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) LDAP
1 3 (7.32%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (14.63%) Data Centre
1 6 (14.63%) PKI
2 5 (12.20%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
4 1 (2.44%) SCADA
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (68.29%) Windows
2 21 (51.22%) Windows Server
3 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (17.07%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (14.63%) Linux
5 6 (14.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (9.76%) Mac OS
6 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (7.32%) Unix
8 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.44%) Solaris
8 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Migration
2 11 (26.83%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (21.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (14.63%) Patch Management
4 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.20%) High Availability
5 5 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (9.76%) Information Security
6 4 (9.76%) ITIL
6 4 (9.76%) Network Architecture
6 4 (9.76%) Project Management
6 4 (9.76%) Task Automation
7 3 (7.32%) Business Continuity
7 3 (7.32%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (7.32%) DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) Line Management
7 3 (7.32%) Server Virtualisation
7 3 (7.32%) Storage Management
8 2 (4.88%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.20%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.44%) C
4 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (48.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.44%) MCSA
5 1 (2.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
2 20 (48.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (21.95%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (19.51%) vSphere
5 7 (17.07%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (12.20%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (7.32%) Docker
8 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (2.44%) Terminal Services
9 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
9 1 (2.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) vCenter Server
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.76%) SCCM
2 4 (9.76%) Tivoli
3 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) SCOM
3 2 (4.88%) WSUS
4 1 (2.44%) Backup Exec
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (63.41%) VMware
2 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (19.51%) Veeam
4 5 (12.20%) Citrix
4 5 (12.20%) Fortinet
4 5 (12.20%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
5 2 (4.88%) Intel
5 2 (4.88%) NetApp
6 1 (2.44%) Commvault
6 1 (2.44%) Dell
6 1 (2.44%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) IBM
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) SonicWALL